TAMUK in the News, 12-15-06

The Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education is featuring Texas A&M University-Kingsville as its Institution of the Month. The university logo with link to our web page is prominently featured beginning today through Jan. 15, 2007, on the TACHE web site at www.tache.org.

Scene in SA Monthly magazine profiles the top professors in San Antonio, including the Texas A&M-Kingsville System Center’s Dr. James Jurica, Dr. Cheng-Hsien Lin, Dr. Kathleen Voges and Dr. Rosa Maria Abreo. The article is not available online but is the cover story of the December 2006 issue of the magazine.

The San Antonio Express-News posts a story announcing that Mariachi Javelina members Cesar Galaviz and Marisa Christina Salinas placed second and third respectively in the Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza vocal competition in San Antonio on Dec. 2nd. The story is at http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/
metro/stories/MYSA120306.06B.MariachiVargas.3171b26.html.
Dr. Cecilia Rhoades, assistant professor of anthropology, sociology and southwest borderland studies, comments on the 475th anniversary of the miracle of Our Lady of Guadalupe in a Caller-Times article at http://www.caller.com/ccct/
local_news/article/0,1641,CCCT_811_5207974,00.html.

The successful inaugural semester of the Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy is profiled in two Caller-Times stories at http://www.caller.com/ccct/
local_news/article/0,1641,CCCT_811_5204390,00.html and http://www.caller.com/ccct/
local_news/article/0,1641,CCCT_811_5204392,00.html.

The College of Pharmacy’s public health fair is also profiled in a Caller-Times story at http://www.caller.com/ccct/
local_news/article/0,1641,CCCT_811_5210532,00.html.

Senior offensive tackle John Cook has been named a first team All-America selection by the American Football Coaches Association – marking the 42nd consecutive year that the Javelinas have had at least one first team All-America pick. The streak began with quarterback Randy Johnson in 1965. KRIS-TV has the details at http://www.kristv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5808454&nav=Bsmj.