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The quad at the heart of Texas A&M University at Galveston’s campus had large tents, banners, knights, lords, ladies and plenty of curious students.

Ali Kontominas’s parents used to bury the wheels of her walker in the sand and put a rod in her hands.

Energy and enthusiasm; two traits that make a person stand out in life. Most people need a gallon of coffee in the morning to scrape together some of either.

A doctoral student in the Shark Biology & Fisheries Science Lab at Texas A&M University at Galveston is studying the movement and habitat patterns of bull sharks in Galveston Bay with support from Texas Sea Grant's Grants-In-Aid of Graduate Research Program.

Hailing from Bastrop, Texas, a seven-year-old Russell Cole visited the Sea Turtle Rescue Center at South Padre Island with his family, where he learned how plastics were proving deadly for sea turtles and other marine life.

Forty-five scientists from France, the United States and western Africa held a two day workshop at Texas A&M Galveston to discuss Sargassum (seaweed) and the problems it has created in the past with no warnings of its landings and inundations on the beaches of the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico.

When the warm air from the gulf rises over a cold front from the north, Texans know this often means an ice storm could be coming.

Texas A&M Galveston graduate, Andrea Stromeyer, of Webster, TX was recognized as the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary Volunteer of the Year.

In addition to being a proud Aggie graduate of Texas A&M University at Galveston, Ann Marie Reigrut has achieved a whole lot more.

When Texas A&M University at Galveston student Savannah Mapes was growing up in the small Texas town of Midlothian, she, like all kids, was often asked what they wanted to be when they grew up.