Students

Ideas Challenge showcases creativity from across campus

By • May 11th, 2012 • Category: Centers, Students

The competition to create the “next big thing” is over, and the participants in the Ideas Challenge have finished presenting their innovative business ideas to about 80 judges.



Project Mays provides Bryan youngsters with books

By • May 8th, 2012 • Category: Students

Project Mays 2012 recently put books into the hands of 450 prekindergartners in Bryan.



Moody ’11 wins inaugural University Currency Trading Contest

By • May 7th, 2012 • Category: Students

FXCM Inc. and Texas A&M Univerity partnered to bring the 1st Annual University Currency Trading Contest. Joining students from the Mays Business School at Texas A&M were West Texas A&M University and Baruch College.



Mays advertising team places 1st among 10 institutions, advances to nationals

By • April 18th, 2012 • Category: Departments, Students

12m Advertising, a team of students from Texas A&M University’s Mays Business School, returned from Shreveport, LA last week with the top prize at the district-level round of the American Advertising Association’s National Student Advertising Competition.



Claybrook ’13 soon to take reins as Student Body President

By • April 16th, 2012 • Category: Students, Texas A&M

The February Silver Taps of his freshman year was when finance major and 2012-2013 Student Body President-elect John Claybrook ’13 says he truly recognized the meaning of the “Aggie family.”



Business Student Council members visit the Windy City

By • March 7th, 2012 • Category: Former Students, Students

Forty members of Mays Business Student Council traveled recently to Chicago. They toured several companies, including marketing agency commonground, and visited company co-founder and managing partner Sherman Wright ’92, a 2010 Aggie 100 recipient.



MBA students impress judges in 10th annual Venture Challenge

By • February 24th, 2012 • Category: Programs, Students

The 10th annual MBA Venture Challenge, hosted by the Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship (CNVE), highlights the business aptitudes Texas A&M University’s Full-Time MBA program strives to teach—strategic thinking, diligent research, effective communication skills and professional networking.



Kupfer scholarship awarded to finance major Shillings ’12

By • February 24th, 2012 • Category: Students

“What are Texas A&M’s six core values?” Dean Jerry Strawser opened at the recent 2012 Kupfer Scholarship Luncheon. “Excellence, integrity, leadership, loyalty, respect, selfless service… you just helped me introduce Gerald Ray and Donald Zale.”



Somber remembrance highlights study abroad

By • January 30th, 2012 • Category: Students

One stop during a four-week excursion through eight Western European countries turned into a makeshift memorial at the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial outside Munich, Germany.



Accounting student receives 2011 TVMDL Director’s Excellence Award

By • December 19th, 2011 • Category: Students

Senior accounting major Laura Beer, a student worker at the Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory (TVMDL), has received the 2011 TVMDL Director’s Excellence Award in the student category.