SAN ANTONIO — Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp recently announced the formation of a new A&M system center to address multiple water issues in and develop solutions for Texas. Texas AgriLife Research, Texas AgriLife Extension Service, Texas Engineering Experiment Station and Texas A&M University–San Antonio are collaborating on the development of the Water Conservation and Technology Center that will support high priority projects that focus on Texas’ water issues.

TEES and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University will host the inaugural BioMedOpTex Symposium on campus May 23-25.

Dr. Dimitris C. Lagoudas has been appointed interim deputy director of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), Dr. M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of Texas A&M Engineering announced recently. Lagoudas’ appointment as interim deputy director of TEES will be effective July 1, and he will assume the position of deputy director upon approval of The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents.

TEES Research Professor Jeff Froyd has been elected a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education.

TEES researchers were among those honored by the A&M System’s Office of Technology Commercialization for their innovation and technology commercialization efforts.