The Galveston Police Department has notified Texas A&M-Galveston officials that remains believed to be that of senior Texas A&M Maritime Academy Cadet Brandon Lee Perlowski have been discovered on Pelican Island near the Galveston Campus.

An unexpected discovery of human remains in the Caribbean by Texas A&M University at Galveston faculty and students is providing new information on the Lucayan people, a group who inhabited the Lucayan archipelago well before European colonization occurred in the 15th century in North America.

Lionfish, fireworms, bull sharks and salt marshes don’t seem to have much in common other than they play big roles in marine and coastal ecosystems and are the subjects of the dissertations of Texas A&M University at Galveston’s largest-ever class of doctoral students graduating August 8, 2020.