Mays Business Online

Demonstrating quick thinking and superior presentation skills, a team of MBA students from Mays Business School at Texas A&M University won second place in the regional Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute’s Investment Research Challenge (IRC) in March. The event, held in New York City, pitted Mays students against 15 competing teams from some of the world’s top MBA programs, including Boston University, Marquette University, and several schools from Canada and Brazil.

Not long after your 50th birthday, you turn on the television and realize that you can barely make out the actors’ faces. You have joined the 30 million people worldwide who suffer from age-related macular degeneration (AMD), an increasingly common disease affecting adults ages fifty and older. But don’t be alarmed—this disease won’t be a threat much longer, thanks to a new technology developed at Texas A&M University.