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David Work, visiting assistant professor of history, released his latest work, "Lincoln's Political Generals," published by University of Illinois Press. In this book, Work examines the policy of appointing political generals to build a national coalition to fight and win the Civil War. Work follows the careers of sixteen generals through the war to assess their contributions and to ascertain how…

Texas A&M has hired a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, the fifth recipient of the prestigious international award to join the university's faculty. David Lee, who shared the award with two colleagues in 1996, will move his research program and laboratory from Cornell University to Texas A&M University.For the full story, visit

In support of continuing its expansion of research activities and implementation of its graduate programs, Texas A&M University at Qatar announces the appointment of Professor Eyad Masad as Assistant Dean for Research and Graduate Studies.Dr. Masad holds a joint appointment as Halliburton Professor of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M's home campus and is a member of the mechanical…

Dr. Srinath Iyengar, postdoctoral research associate, has been accepted to and awarded a full scholarship to the 2009-2010 Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program."I consider that it is essential to promote academia and industrial interactions and the commercialization of research ideas," Iyengar said. "I keenly look forward to hone and apply my entrepreneurial skills…

Dr. Tim Jacobs, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Texas A&M University, will present this week seminars on combustion.The first seminar, "Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition Combustion: An Ultra Efficient and Clean Method to Produce Power," will take place on 1 Oct. Jacobs will provide an overview of HCCI combustion and describe the fundamental mechanisms…

Dr. Said Hadd, post doctoral research associate, and Abdelaziz Rhandi, have co-authored a paper ranked among the top five most downloaded articles from the IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, published by the Oxford Journals. The paper titled "Feedback theory for time-varying regular linear systems with input and state delays," focuses on the class of regular time-varying systems…

University offices will be closed 20-22 Sept. and classes will not meet during 20-24 Sept. in observance of the Eid Al-Fitr holiday. University offices will reopen 23 Sept., with classes resuming 27 Sept.

Dr. Nesrin Ozalp, senior assistant professor for mechanical engineering, is serving as the technical program co-chair for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2010 4th International Conference on Energy Sustainability.The conference has an expected participation of over 5,000 scientists and researchers covering a wide range of topics in the field of energy. Topics…

Dr. Mohamed Nounou, senior associate professor of chemical engineering, and Dr. Hazem Nounou, senior associate professor of electrical engineering, have co-authored a paper ranked first in the top five most downloaded articles from the IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, published by the Oxford Journals. The paper titled "