Campus Life

This week the CAEN class students participated in the first TAMUG Trash-off on campus!

For many years, TAMUG has touted the ocean as its classroom. And, that claim is more than a bragging right. It’s fact. In addition to ocean research studies and maritime training activities across the globe, TAMUG students are accessing on-the-water education in what some might call their own ship channel.

A new president — Rear Admiral Robert Smith III — presiding over his first graduation ceremony A record breaking number of graduates — 168 The first two students in the Texas A&M University System —Michael Thomas Bell and Samuel Dorado — to receive Master ’s degrees in TAMU’s new Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Marine Biology. *

The Master of Maritime Administration and Logistics degree program, a project in the works at Texas A&M University at Galveston since 1999, will open when the 2011 fall term begins in August.

Rear Admiral Robert Smith III U.S. Navy (retired), formerly senior vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas with responsibility for Houston-based operations, was selected by the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents to serve as a vice president at Texas A&M University and president/chief executive officer at Texas A&M at Galveston on April 4

Kirby Inland Marine representatives -- Agustin Colchado, manager of Employee Development, and Ken Shaver, Canal Personnel manager -- visited TAMUG in January to present a check for $25,000 to cover special scholarships for qualifying students in the Texas Maritime Academy Cadet Battalion for the 2011-2012 academic year.

The record amount of money TAMUG’s faculty and staff contributed to the State Employees Charitable Campaign (SECC) during the 2010 fall semester –totaling of $18,049 – propelled the university to a victory over cross-town rival Galveston College – whose efforts raised $16,684.

Texas A&M University at Galveston officially dedicated its highly sophisticated, 109,000 square-foot Ocean and Coastal Studies Building (OCSB) with a special ceremony on Nov. 11.

The Texas Maritime Academy at Texas A&M University at Galveston, working in partnership with the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration, hosted the 4th Annual Women on the Water Conference at TAMUG’s Mitchell Campus on Pelican Island Nov. 4 – 6.

Many residents of the state don’t know that one of every four Texans lives along the coast, or perhaps that Texas has 16 major ports and more than 3,300 miles of bays and estuaries.