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exas A&M University has
largest and one of the most
owned entomology depart-
ts in the nation because of
diverse research and top-
lity faculty and students,
essors say.
ntomology, the science of
dying insects and their rela-
s, reaches into diverse ar-
, including agriculture
genetics.
ntomologists work in vari-
scientific areas including
ematics, physiology, biolog-
control and integrated pest
agement.
exas A&M’s entomology de-
tment has the largest
ps of faculty and students
he nation.
he department has 35 cur
rent undergraduate students
and 72 graduate students. The
department also has 42 faculty
in College Station and 20 facul
ty and staff throughout the
state at various experiment ex
tension services.
Dr. Pete Teel, professor and
associate department head in
entomology, said that high
quality contributes to A&M’s
success nationwide.
“Three areas that help make
the Texas A&M’s entomology
program one of the top in the na
tion are quality teaching, re
search and extension service,”
he said. “It is extremely impor
tant for academics that students
relate to real world problems
through these areas.”
Teel said the students also
play an important role in Texas
A&M’s success and recognition.
“A University is only as good
as the quality and success of the
students it puts out,” he said.
Texas A&M, Teal said, has
leading students in the entomol
ogy field from coast to coast.
Aggie entomologists can also
be found in international agen
cies, national agencies, state in
stitutions and major corporations.
Teel said the demand for
graduating students continues
to exceed the supply.
Demand for entomologists
has grown over the past few
years, he said, because of the
field’s expansion into areas such
as genetics and food production.
Dr. Ray Frisbie, head of the
Department of Entomology, said
the demand for high-quality grad
uates continues, partly because of
public need and awareness.
“The threat of crop loss or
damage is a continual demand
for entomologists,” he said.
“Also, the public is much more
concerned about health risks
from substances such as pesti
cides. Entomologists work to re
duce such impacts upon public
health and the environment.”
Dr. Horace Van Cleave, pro
fessor and undergraduate coor
dinator in entomology, said
Texas A&M encourages its stu
dents to get out and learn from
their experiences.
“The field of entomology con
tinues to become more diversi
fied,” he said. “I have found that
students want to get out, apply
their knowledge and learn about
the growth of the field.”
Teel said Texas A&M ento
mology students and faculty
lead in many research areas.
In the area of biotechnology,
students study insects at the
molecular level.
Students work to develop
viruses that will eliminate in
sect pests without risking hu
man health or the environ
ment. Insects’ cell cultures are
also used to produce pharma
ceutical materials for human
and veterinary medicine.
Students study landscape lev
el problems to deal with the
threat of cattle fever ticks, pine
bark beetles and the elimination
of weevils.
“Texas A&M students and
faculty are leaders in areas such
as these and others. Texas
A&M played a pivotal role in the
growing field of integrated pest
management, Teel said.”
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Experts in climate studies
bare information and experi-
jj aces through the Texas Center
>rClimate Studies.
The center, which is in
) I'exas A&M’s College of Geo-
slciences and Maritime Stud-
is, was founded in October
993 and currently has more
lan 20 members.
Climate study involves moni
toring and understanding cli
mate change, developing an
ability to predict changes and
determining the long-term im
plications on society.
Dr. Worth Nowlin, director
of the Texas Center for Climate
Studies, said the center can
provide great opportunities
for anyone in the climate
studies field.
“The center is used to bring
people together to share and
study the physical basis for cli
mate and to raise seed money
for climate research projects,”
he said.
Nowlin said the center pro
motes climate studies to the
general public.
Dr. Robert Duce, dean of the
Department of Geosciences and
Maritime
Studies,
said cli-
m a t e
studies
have
generally
been of
great in
terest to
the public.
“Most people want to know
more about the study of the cli
mate,” he said, “since it is a
tangible area that affects them
directly.”
This year, the center had its
first climate studies seminars
to encourage interaction and
the spread of knowledge
throughout the field.
Ken Bowman, associate pro
fessor in meteorology, said the
seminars allow all interested
people to share their experi
ences.
“The seminars allow those in
the climate studies field to edu
cate each other by exchanging
information,” he said.
Spring 1995 is also the first
semester that students in the
Departments of Oceanography
and Meteorology have the oppor
tunity to pursue a Ph.D. with an
emphasis in climate studies.
Three students have shown
interest in pursuing the climate
studies emphasis so far.
Nowlin said he is confident
that once the new climate
studies emphasis is well
known, it will attract a great
deal of attention.
ipollo 13 survivors still regretful 23 years later
Crew wonders what
ight have been if
ce craft's oxygen
nk had not exploded
space.
APE CANAVERAL, Fla.
9 — Every time Jim Lovell
ks at the moon, he feels
ated.
Fwenty-five years ago this
ek, the Apollo 13 commander
8 supposed to land there. In-
ad, he wound up zooming
'und it in a race for his life af-
an oxygen tank in the space-
ip exploded 200,000 miles
m Earth, four-fifths of the
y to the moon.
Lovell and his crew, Fred
Haise and Jack Swigert, did re
turn safely to Earth. Lovell is
grateful for that. But it was the
second time he flew to the moon
and didn’t land.
“That is my one regret,” said
Lovell, 67.
Lovell first circled the moon
in 1968 on Apollo 8, a dress re
hearsal for the first manned lu
nar landing the following year.
During Apollo 13, he should
have become the fifth man to
walk on the moon and Haise the
sixth; Swigert was going to wait
for them as they explored the
Fra Mauro highlands.
It never happened.
Many consider Apollo 13’s
safe return one of NASA’s finest
moments, right up there with
Neil Armstrong and Buzz
Aldrin’s stroll on the moon nine
months earlier on Apollo 11.
“Looking at it in retrospect, I
think it’s probably one of the
most amazing and incredible
rescues of all history,” said Gene
Kranz, its lead flight director.
The tank exploded on April 13,
1970, two days after the colossal
Saturn 5 rocket blasted off from
Kennedy Space Center.
Cursed or not, Apollo 13 re
mains NASA’s only in-space dis
aster in 99 human space flights.
The Apollo 1 spacecraft fire,
which killed three astronauts in
1967, occurred at the launch pad
during a countdown test. The
Challenger explosion, which
killed all seven aboard in 1986,
occurred 73 seconds after liftoff.
For four days in April 1970,
hundreds of flight controllers
and engineers worked feverishly
on a daring rescue plan.
With Kranz calling the
shots, Lovell, Haise and
Swigert moved into the
cramped, dark and frigid lunar
lander while rationing their
dwindling oxygen, water and
electricity. They swung around
the moon and aimed for Earth
as people around the world
waited and prayed.
On April 17, 1970, the com
mand module, minus the jetti
soned service module and lunar
lander, parachuted down into
the Pacific Ocean.
Men returned to the moon
four more times and landed. But
none of the Apollo 13 astronauts
flew in space again.
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