Texas A&M University-Commerce welcomes Devin Girod as the university’s new Vice President for Philanthropy and Engagement. Mr. Girod was selected following a national search. Girod comes to A&M-Commerce from the Trust for Public Land (TPL), a U.S. non-profit organization. He began working with TPL in 2017 as the Texas Director of Philanthropy before transferring to […]

The Ken Chapman Scholarship provides a new opportunity for first-generation students from Hopkins County to pursue agriculture studies at Texas A&M University-Commerce. Starting this fall, the scholarship will be awarded annually to a student pursuing a major in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (CASNR). Priority is given to students from Hopkins County […]

Dr. Ruiliang Yan, Associate Professor of MKT, recently coauthored (with Dr. Zixia Cao, University of Colorado Denver) a paper entitled “Product nutrition, innovation, advertising, and firm’s financial gains” in the Journal of Business Research. This research studied the firm’s investment and return on product nutrition, a subject that has a significant impact on everyone’s health […]

Joe and Nancy Owens of Santa Monica, California, recently established a planned gift—a bequest intention through their will—in support of the William A. Owens Memorial Endowment at Texas A&M University-Commerce. The endowment, which the couple created in 2005, honors Joe’s uncle, William (Bill) Owens. Born in 1905, Bill was a renowned folklorist, author and professor. […]

Dr. Bo Han and coauthors recently published a paper titled “Entrepreneurial crowdfunding backer motivations: a latent Dirichlet allocation approach” in the European Journal of Innovation Management. A text mining methodology was adopted to analyze nearly 100 crowdfunding projects on KickStarter.com. This study furthers the business community’s understanding of motivations behind crowdfunding by empirically examining critical […]

Professor Emeritus Dale Funderburk created a legacy of excellence in the College of Business at Texas A&M University-Commerce during his 52-year teaching career. A new scholarship in his name will memorialize his impact. The Dr. Dale Funderburk Honorary Scholarship will provide financial assistance to undergraduate business majors at A&M-Commerce. Funderburk’s former student, Timothy Meads, contributed […]

The finance lab is a modern space with a trading room feel for College of Business (COB) students and faculty to use, learn and apply current in-demand finance and analytics tools such as python, tableau, and Bloomberg. This space was conceptualized and funded by our faculty and alumni a few years ago and is now […]

The late Georgia Mae Waters Dorrough gifted $975,000, through her estate, to the College of Science and Engineering at A&M-Commerce. The Georgia M. Dorrough Planetarium Endowment, the Georgia M. Dorrough Planetarium Maintenance Endowment, and the Georgia M. Dorrough Endowed Chair in Chemistry will significantly impact the university’s Department of Chemistry and Planetarium. According to Dr. […]

Greater Texas Foundation announced a $783,524 grant to Texas A&M University-Commerce Foundation. The funds will be used to develop two competency-based degree programs and hire additional staff to support and advise adult learners. Competency-based programs provide affordable, flexible pathways to a bachelor’s degree for students who already have college credits, certifications or work experience. The […]

The Jane Cowley Memorial Endowment honors the late Lou “Jane” Cowley, a respected A&M-Commerce alumna and committed educator. Ms. Cowley’s husband, alumnus Jessie “Harold” Cowley of Sulphur Springs, Texas, established the endowment to recognize and memorialize Jane’s impactful 35-year career in education. The endowment was initially established in 2008 to provide scholarships to secondary business […]