Arts/Sciences

KINGSVILLE (April 25, 2025) — The Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK) Opera Workshop will present the world premiere of Postlude: An Operatic Pastiche. The original story was written by Drs. Melinda Brou and Michael Carlson. Brou is professor of voice and opera and director of the Opera Workshop at TAMUK while Carlson is lecturer of musicology, also at TAMUK. Postlude will hit the stage at The Little Theatre, 903 W. Engineering Ave., at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 2,...

KINGSVILLE (April 23, 2025) — The Performance Hall at the Music Education Complex at Texas A&M University-Kingsville will be jumping to the sounds of the United States Air Force Band of the West Brass quintet. The Sunday, April 27, concert is free and open to the public. Beginning at 7 p.m. the Band of the West Brass quintet will perform a concert of quintet standards and Americana. They will give a brief presentation about their jobs as full-time musicians with the...

KINGSVILLE (April 10, 2025) — Are you in the mood for some hot jazz on a warm night? Then, join all of the jazz ensembles in Texas A&M University-Kingsville’s School of Music jazz program for a toe-tapping good time at the 15th Annual Jazz Blast, from 5:30 to 10 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, in the courtyard of the Memorial Student Union Building. The event is free and open to the public. “The Jazz Blast serves as our final jazz concert of the year...

KINGSVILLE (March 5, 2025) — Senior Michael Vara has received the Presser Award for the School of Music at Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK). The award comes from the Presser Foundation, an organization that supports schools of music across the country. Each year the School of Music faculty selects one graduating senior to receive the award that includes a financial gift and the opportunity to be known as a Presser Scholar. “When I found out...

KINGSVILLE (December 12, 2024) — The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents has designated 18 faculty members and 13 agency service, extension, or research professionals within the A&M System as Regents Professors and Regents Fellows for their exemplary performance during the 2023-2024 fiscal year. Chosen as Regents Professor from Texas A&M University-Kingsville is Dr. Jieming Chen, sociology professor in the psychology/sociology department....

KINGSVILLE (October 24, 2024) — The legend of La Llorona or the Weeping Woman has been passed on from generation to generation. There have been movies made of the story and she is even on some versions of Loteria. Texas A&M University-Kingsville senior Anjelica M. Cantu has brought La Llorona into the present as she chose to study the tale as her research topic as a McNair Scholar. Cantu, from Corpus Christi, is looking at the Artistic Impact of La Llorona on South...

KINGSVILLE (June 26, 2024) —The Flute Ensemble from the School of Music at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, has been invited to perform in a Showcase Recital at the National Flute Association Conference Aug. 1-4 in San Antonio. The 20-member ensemble will perform from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on the first day of the conference. The ensemble that includes undergraduate and graduate students will perform the program Media Vita: In the Midst of Life, Reflections on 2020,...

KINGSVILLE (June 21, 2024) — Jazz Band I from the School of Music at Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK) has been invited to perform at the Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) Convention Feb. 12-15, 2025, at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio. “Jazz Band I is the only college jazz band from South Texas to have ever been invited to perform at TMEA,” said Dr. Scott Jones, director of the School of Music and...

KINGSVILLE (June 6, 2024) — Dr. Ravi P. Agarwal, who recently retired from his mathematics professor position at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, has been ranked by the international Research.com as one of the 2024 Best Mathematics Scientists in the World. Agarwal was ranked 36th in the world and 26th in the United States. He is listed as having 53,173 citations for his 2,024 publications. In addition, Research.com gave him the Mathematics United States...

KINGSVILLE (May 22, 2024) — Dr. Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay, associate professor of English in the Department of Language and Literature at Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK) has received the Distinguished Achievement Award for Outstanding Service from the South Asian Literary Association (SALA). Mukhopadhyay serves SALA as vice president and web manager of the organization's website southasianliteraryassociation.org. His research interests include...

KINGSVILLE (May 10, 2024) — Graduates from Texas A&M University-Kingsville walked the stage Friday, May 10, in three commencement ceremonies held in the Steinke Physical Education Center. Prospective undergraduates from the College of Business Administration, the College of Education and Human Performance and the Frank H. Dotterweich College of Engineering crossed the stage at 10 a.m. Students with the Dick and Mary Lewis Kleberg College of Agriculture and...

KINGSVILLE (May 9, 2024) — A little over two years ago, two prospective students came to campus for a visit to see if they wanted to continue their social work education. The campus was Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK) and the students were Erica Esquivel and her daughter, Abigail Alexis Hernandez-Meza, both from San Benito. Both graduate from TAMUK at 1:30 p.m. Friday, May 10, with bachelor’s degrees in social work. “During one of...

KINGSVILLE (April 16, 2024) — Run don’t walk to Jones Auditorium at Texas A&M University-Kingsville for two performances of Super Flute!, a parody of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Take a leap back to the 1980s when Mario and Luigi were masters of the double jump and enjoy Super Flute! as performed by members of the Opera and Musical Theater Workshop in the School of Music. Super Flute! will be presented at two performances, at 7:30 p.m....

KINGSVILLE (April 16, 2024) — The School of Music at Texas A&M University-Kingsville will host Flute Day, Saturday, April 20. Registration opens at 9:30 a.m. with the event running from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. “The event is open to flutists from beginner to advanced, so we welcome middle school students, high school students, college students and adult amateurs,” said Dr. Elizabeth Janzen, professor of flute. “Our events are all...

KINGSVILLE (March 14, 2024) — Middle School and High School jazz bands from around the state will descend on Texas A&M University-Kingsville for the 56th Annual Jazz Festival Friday and Saturday, March 22-23, hosted by the School of Music. The competition will begin at 3:30 p.m. Friday in both the Performance Hall in the Music Education Complex and Jones Auditorium. The festival will conclude with a concert Saturday at 7 p.m. in the Performance Hall featuring...

KINGSVILLE (March 1, 2024) — The School of Music at Texas A&M University-Kingsville will host the National Trumpet Competition Friday, March 8, through Monday, March 11. This is the largest competition of its kind in the United States and it will bring to campus between 800 and 1,000 trumpet players from middle school through graduate students. “Events like this are important for the School of Music because it allows us an opportunity to show case,...

KINGSVILLE (February 28, 2024) — John-Ryan Lawrence is a junior electrical engineering major at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. He recently was selected to represent the university and the Student Ambassador Program at the American Physical Society (APS) Annual Leadership Meeting. The Student Ambassador Program is a group of about 80 top physics and engineering students from over 20 countries who serve as leaders in their universities, countries or...

KINGSVILLE (February 16, 2024) — For the first time, three separate clarinet proposals by two individuals and one ensemble from the School of Music at Texas A&M University-Kingsville have been selected for inclusion at Clarinetfest 2024 to be held this year July 31-Aug. 4 in Dublin, Ireland. Dr. Andrea Vos-Rochefort, assistant professor of clarinet, was accepted to perform in a 25-minute recital slot featuring Brace Yourselves for an Impact! for solo clarinet...

KINGSVILLE (February 5, 2024) — Lino Placencio, an alumnus of Texas A&M University-Kingsville and now a comic book creator and writer, has received an invitation to be the first guest speaker for the Social Psychology of Comic Book Media lecture this spring. The event is scheduled from 6 to 8:50 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 6, and can be accessed via Zoom. Initially, the idea of creating a comic book seemed surreal to Placencio, but after five years of following his...

KINGSVILLE (December 13, 2023) — Two members of the trombone studio at Texas A&M University-Kingsville’s School of Music have qualified for the finals of the prestigious Big 12 Trombone competition to be held next month at Texas Tech University. Two members of Javelina Nation are finalists in the bass trombone category. They are Joshua Gentile, a graduate music performance major from Eagle, Idaho; and Matthew Gomez, an undergraduate music...