The Texas A&M University System history

15, 1883, with a ceremony in the unfinished west wing of the main building.

Established by the Texas Legislature in 1887 under the federal Hatch Act, Texas A&M AgriLife Research (formerly the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station) continues to represent a unique state-federal partnership in agricultural research.

The University Co-Op, which is almost as old as the university itself, began operations in 1896 in a space 10 feet by 20 feet under the stairway of the second floor of the Main Building.

Around 1900, the University's Bureau of Economic Geology began to investigate the possibility of finding oil and gas on university lands.

Texas A&M Forest Service was established in 1914, as a way to provide resources to develop and protect the forested areas of Texas.

In 1916, although most other geologists disagreed, the University's Doctor Johan A. Udden reported that oil could be found lying atop an underground fold of rock that was believed to run from the Marathon area through Pecos County and into Upton and Reagan counties.

John Tarleton Agricultural College at Stephenville (now Tarleton State University) joined an earlier form of the A&M System in 1917.

As its mission has expanded, its name has changed to reflect its wider scope. Its first name change, to Texas College of Arts and Industries, came in 1929.

However, in 1931, the legislature split the net income, with two-thirds going to the University of Texas and one-third to Texas A&M University.

After a year working for the chemical industry in Birmingham, he joined the faculty of Imperial College in 1945, first as an assistant lecturer and later as a research fellow.

The Texas A&M University System was created by the Texas Legislature in 1948 to manage the evolution of a statewide educational, research and service system.

In 1949 Barton took up a one-year visiting professorship at Harvard University that proved crucial to his intellectual and professional development.

Returning to London in 1950, Barton took up a position at Birkbeck College, University of London.

In 1958 Barton collaborated on aldosterone with the Schering Corporation at its Research Institute for Medicine and Chemistry in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

In 1963, the Texas state legislature officially renamed the school to Texas A&M University, with the "A" and "M" being a symbolic link to the school's past but no longer officially standing for "Agricultural and Mechanical."

In 1965, the United States Department of Commerce, Maritime Administration provided a training ship for Texas Maritime Academy cadets.

Barton’s work unified many of the diverse findings about the chemical and biological behaviour of steroids that had been uncovered during the first half of the 20th century, and it was for this work that Barton received the Nobel Prize in 1969.

The income was further split in 1984, when the legislature voted to include all institutions in the University of Texas System, not just the main university at Austin, and the entire Texas A&M University System.

In 1996, three other institutions joined the A&M System: Baylor College of Dentistry in Dallas and two former East Texas State University campuses, now Texas A&M University-Commerce and Texas A&M University-Texarkana.

The George Bush Presidential Library and Museum opened in 1997 on west campus, making Texas A&M one of only a few universities to host a presidential library on their campus.

Tarleton State University-Central Texas, an upper-level institution offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees, was established in Killeen in 1999.

TAMUG first appeared in the College Guide 2000 Princeton Review, of Time magazine’s top 500 colleges nationwide.

Texas A&M University at Qatar was established in 2003 to bring engineering programs and research to the Gulf Region by establishing a branch campus in an area called Education City in Doha, Qatar.

In 2009, Tarleton State University System Center-Central Texas became a standalone university, Texas A&M University-Central Texas.

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