554 Islanders celebrated years of diligence and hard work as they joined the ranks of nearly 50,000 Islander alumni during the Island University Summer 2019 Commencement ceremony on Saturday, Aug. 10. The ceremony was held at American Bank Center for all six academic colleges.

Jamiu Opoola, an international student from Nigeria, will earn a Master of Accountancy degree during Summer Commencement on Aug. 10, 2019. Opoola has been named an Outstanding Graduate for his academic accomplishments as well as his involvement in student organizations and activities across campus.

554 Islanders celebrated years of diligence and hard work as they joined the ranks of nearly 50,000 Islander alumni during the Island University Summer 2019 Commencement ceremony on Saturday, Aug. 10. The ceremony was held at American Bank Center for all six academic colleges.

Dr. Lon Seiger, Kinesiology Professor at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, is conducting a study on the invasiveness of sea glass in Corpus Christi Bay and recycling the glass to create art.

An American hero, medical doctor, civil rights activist, and distinguished humanitarian, Dr. Hector P. Garcia (1914-1996) ranks among the most prolific figures in Mexican American history. To celebrate and remember his life, the Mary and Jeff Bell Library Special Collections and Archives at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, along with support from the Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Foundation, created the inaugural Dr. Hector P. Garcia Fellowship.

554 Islanders celebrated years of diligence and hard work as they joined the ranks of nearly 50,000 Islander alumni during the Island University Summer 2019 Commencement ceremony on Saturday, Aug. 10. The ceremony was held at American Bank Center for all six academic colleges.

Following the 100th anniversary of the 1919 Hurricane and as part of Hispanic Heritage Month at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, the largest volume of the Windward Review features Hurricane Harvey narratives created by Islander history graduate students and four of Dr. Octavio Quintanilla's frontextos, a blend of poetry and visual media that celebrates frontera Spanish and resists anti-immigrant rhetoric and practices.

Hispanic Heritage Month at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi is a time to reflect and celebrate the contributions and accomplishments of Hispanics with the wider Corpus Christi community. The 2019 Celebration runs Sept. 12 through Oct.19 at the Island University.

A team from the Canadian Alliance of Nurse Educators Using Simulation, aka CAN-Sim, trained Island University nursing faculty in the creation and utilization of simulation technologies in nursing education.

The Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi chapter of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing inducted 40 new members on Aug. 8.

Nine Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi students explored Mayan ruins, hiked through dense jungle, swam with nurse sharks, and examined via snorkel mask the effects of coral disease and bleaching as part of the Belize Coral Reef Study Abroad Program in June 2019.

In a whirlwind of intense activity, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi researchers, students, and an army of volunteers set out to catch everything living in our coastal waters. The effort, known as the summer 2019 Bioblitz, was part of a collaboration with the Smithsonian’s Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO), the University of Texas Marine Science Institute (UTMSI), and six other institutions with the goal of understanding the causes and consequences of rapidly changing marine ecosystems.

As the annual shorebird nesting season heads into its final weeks, volunteers with the Conrad Blucher Institute, the Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program, and Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi say the season has been an especially successful one to date at University Beach, across from the Island University.

During the month of June 2019, the Conrad Blucher Institute at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi acted as home base for a group of students from Colorado State University as they completed a four-week immersion program called the Ethnographic Field School for Risk and Disaster. The program marks the first collaboration between the Blucher Institute and Colorado State and is the first field school of its kind in the U.S., program officials say.

The Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Lone Star UAS Center of Excellence & Innovation and NASA, who have worked together for nearly five years, are entering the final stages of testing for their Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management (UTM) project for the purposes of safely integrating UAS into the National Airspace System.

The Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Lone Star UAS Center of Excellence & Innovation will conduct a test demonstration of its NASA Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) project, commencing Monday, Aug. 12, 2019 with an expected completion date of Friday, Aug. 23.

Scientists with the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi spent 14 days at sea aboard the R/V Pelican surveying dozens of offshore artificial and natural reef sites in search of a controversial and iconic sportfish species. The August research cruise was a critical component of the Center for Sportfish Science and Conservation’s Great Red Snapper Count, an independent effort to estimate the number of red snapper in the U.S. waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

An American hero, medical doctor, civil rights activist, and distinguished humanitarian, Dr. Hector P. Garcia (1914-1996) ranks among the most prolific figures in Mexican American history. To celebrate and remember his life, the Mary and Jeff Bell Library Special Collections and Archives at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, along with support from the Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Foundation, created the inaugural Dr. Hector P. Garcia Fellowship.

Following the 100th anniversary of the 1919 Hurricane and as part of Hispanic Heritage Month at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, the largest volume of the Windward Review features Hurricane Harvey narratives created by Islander history graduate students and four of Dr. Octavio Quintanilla's frontextos, a blend of poetry and visual media that celebrates frontera Spanish and resists anti-immigrant rhetoric and practices.

Hispanic Heritage Month at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi is a time to reflect and celebrate the contributions and accomplishments of Hispanics with the wider Corpus Christi community. The 2019 Celebration runs Sept. 12 through Oct.19 at the Island University.

To commemorate the 1919 storm, which played a large influence in the city's current civil engineering, the Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Historical Forum and the Mary and Jeff Bell Library will host "100 Years After the Storm," on Friday, Sept. 13, from 1-3 p.m. outside of Special Collections and Archives.

Best College Reviews’ 2019 National University Rankings listed Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi as No. 1 in the country for marine education and research, proximity to the water, and access to recreational water sports.