Howdy Farm featured in TAMU Times:

Howdy Farm Volunteers Honor The ‘Aggie’ Name:

With every fruit, flower and leafy green bursting from the soil, Aggies are fulfilling the land-grant mission of Texas A&M University at Howdy Farm, a student-run sustainable farming project on West Campus providing the community with fresh produce and education about the merits of local agriculture.  Read the complete article here.

 

Spring Internship Presentations: Mon. 4/28 @1pm

Everyone is welcome!!  Spring 2014 Horticulture Intern Presentations will be held Monday, April 28^th at 1:00pm in HFSB 203:

Presenter:                                                                          Company:

Nicole Haynes                                                                   Rent the Runway

Emberlen Binford                                                             America’s Country Store

Azita Amini                                                                        Zoo Negara Industrial Training Program

Brittany Jesson                                                                 Howdy Farm

Andrew Todd                                                                    Howdy Farm

Taylor Hansen                                                                   Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service

Graham Ebnar                                                                  TAMU Pecan Farm

Daniel Algaze                                                                    Argus Cidery

2Seeds Network: Borlaug Seminar 4/25 @ noon in AGLS 129

Click here to view details:

$1000 Scholarship Opportunity! (apply by May 1st)

Concho Valley Master Gardeners invites you to apply for a scholarship.  Hurry!  Deadline is May 1st!

Schedule an appointment with your Hort Advisor online!

Schedule your next Horticulture advising appointment online with Katie Marek or Holly Smith!

Agriculture & Life Sciences Mini-Symposia: May 13-15

TAMU recycles old electronics (e-waste) for Earth Day:

Do you have old cell phones, ink cartridges or other devices that you need to get rid of? In honor of Earth Day, Texas A&M Information Technology and the Environmental Issues Committee (EIC) have partnered to make it easy to recycle your e-waste on campus now through April 24.

Drop off items at our collection bins in the Student Computing Center, General Services Complex and the computer labs at West Campus Library, Blocker and Zachry.

For more information about the Earth Day campaign and a full list of items you can recycle, visit u.tamu.edu/earthday.

Please make sure to clear all data from any phones, flash drives, cameras or laptops before recycling.

View Parent's Weekend Photos from Hort Sciences Award Reception & More:

View the photo gallery for the 2014 Department of Horticultural Sciences Scholarship and Awards Reception, the Pi Alpha Xi initiation, and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Awards Convocation held during Parent's Weekend, April 12 and 13, 2014.

Environmental Science Lectures 4/10 & 4/11:

Former Top Government Official on Science To Speak April 10:

Neal Lane, former director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, will present “Giving Science Advice to the President – and Why It’s Getting Harder” at 4 p.m. Thursday (April 10) in Room 215 of the Animal Industries Building at Texas A&M University.  Sponsored by the Texas Center for Climate Studies and the College of Geosciences. 
 
Lane’s lecture will focus on the role of science adviser to the president and how that role is affected by societal forces. He will also discuss current challenges to the United States science and technology enterprise.

Lane is currently the Malcolm Gillis University Professor of Physics and Astronomy, and Senior Fellow in the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University.  He was appointed Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he served under President Bill Clinton from 1998 to 2001.

He previously served as director of the National Science Foundation from 1993 to 1998. Lane became an assistant professor of physics at Rice University in 1966. He left Rice in 1984 to become chancellor of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, but returned to Texas in 1986 to serve as provost of Rice until 1992.
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Renowned environmental activist McKibben to

lecture on climate change causes and solutions

Bestselling author and educator Bill McKibben, who the Boston Globe

called one of the United States' most important environmentalists, will

discuss the threat of global warming and the international movement

to end humanity's reliance on fossil fuels in two lectures:

The Science Behind Global Warming

7 p.m. Thursday, April 10 • Rudder Theatre 

Envisioning a World Powered

by Renewable Energy

10:30 a.m. Friday, April 11 • Preston Geren Auditorium 

Located in Building B of the Langford Architecture Center 

See story for details: http://tiny.cc/McKibben_Lecture

Stop and enjoy the wildflowers...

Dr. Doug Welsh talks about the wildflowers growing in the field by AGLS and the Gardens & Greenway project.

TNLA Education & Research Scholarships - Apply by May 1st!

Students studying horticulture, landscape architecture, business with an emphasis in landscape or nursery management, sustainability, irrigation, pest management, and other related disciplines are invited to apply for the TNLA E&R Foundation scholarship!  Scholarships in the amount of  $1000 or more will be awarded to pay for higher education expenses .  Students can be a high school senior or currently enrolled in college to apply.  Deadline:  May 1st, 2014