Gov. Rick Perry has announced the appointment of Dr. G. Kemble Bennett, vice chancellor and dean of engineering, to the Texas Board of Professional Engineers.

Temperatures are on the rise, and so are energy costs -- but not for some universities in The Texas A&M University System. For that, thank the Energy Systems Laboratory (ESL) in the Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES).

Dr. L.S. "Skip" Fletcher, Regents Professor and Thomas A. Dietz Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M, has received the 2006 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Foundation Award for Excellence.