TAMUG dedicates state-of-the-art Ocean and Coastal Studies Building

In special ceremonies on Nov. 11, TAMUG officially dedicated the largest and most sophisticated marine research facility on the U.S. Gulf Coast – the university’s new Ocean and Coastal Studies Building (OCSB) that is now anchoring the Mitchell Campus on Pelican Island.

Already, the OCSB stands among the finest facilities of its kind in the nation, providing TAMUG researchers with the platform they need to augment the university’s outstanding reputation for scientific advancement.

The facility’s dedication event celebrated a sea change in TAMUG operations. For the first time in the university’s history, all university researchers and their students are on a single campus ―to create an ideal atmosphere for nurturing interdisciplinary collaboration and for collegiality...(Full Story)

Gift of $1.5 million from the Abe and Annie Seibel Foundation helps launch construction of a new Student Services building for TAMUG

In January, Texas A&M University at Galveston conducted a ceremonial groundbreaking to mark the beginning of construction on its new 9,800 square-foot Student Services building on the university’s Mitchell Campus on Pelican Island.

At the same time it started the countdown toward completing the facility before the end of the 2011 fall semester. TAMUG also celebrated a $1.5 million gift from the Galveston-based Abe and Annie Seibel Foundation that will cover half the cost of the new $3 million building.

TAMUG Acting Vice President and CEO William J. Merrell and Texas A&M University President R. Bowen Loftin hosted the celebration and welcomed distinguished guests from the Seibel family, the TAMUG Board of Visitors, PGAL of Houston (the project’s architectural firm), Whiting-Turner (the construction contractor) and the Galveston community...(Full Story)