Chamber Audience Hears About Impact of A&M Research Projects

There should be just as much excitement about research at Texas A&M University as there is about Aggie football.

That was among the first things told to local business leaders Wednesday by Jeff Seeman is the chief research officer for the flagship campus and the A&M System.

Seeman told the Chamber of Commerce audience the university received $689 million dollars in research money last year, generating more than 23,000 jobs and close to $4 billion dollars of economic impact in the Brazos Valley.

Seeman says A&M is third nationwide among universities without a medical school in the amount of research money, trailing MIT and California-Berkeley.

Seeman cited a variety of ongoing projects, as large as 60 million dollars this year going into underwater oil drilling to cancer research of humans and dogs, to digital entertainment.

Comments from Chamber of Commerce board chairman-elect Ken Fogle, JIm Jett of Aggieland Business Park, and Jeff Seeman

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Posted by Bill Oliver on Feb 22 2012. Filed under Featured Stories, News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry