James Bond may use the fanciest, most expensive and high-tech devices to thwart would-be eavesdroppers, but in a pinch, the super-spy can use one Texas A&M engineer’s simple, low-cost scheme to keep data secure from the bad guys.

Texas A&M University-Kingsville and the Texas Engineering Experiment Station have received almost $1 million from the National Science Foundation for a major student recruitment and retention program at the university.

Dr. Daniel F. Jennings, a professor in the Industrial Distribution Program at Texas A&M University, joined an elite group when he was inducted into the National Academy of Arbitrators (NAA) at the academy’s 2005 meeting in Savannah, Ga.

President George W. Bush has appointed Dr. John W. Poston, Sr., professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University, to the Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health.

Researchers in the Brain Networks Laboratory at Texas A&M have received nearly $1 million from the National Institutes of Health for their work exploring and understanding the complexity and scaling properties of the circuit structure of the brain.

Billy L. Edge has been appointed to a committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers tasked with studying the performance of New Orleans’s hurricane protection system during Hurricane Katrina.