Texas A&M announced this week an increase in total research expenditures during the 2019 fiscal year.
That was among the subjects brought up the week before during the Bryan/College Station chamber of commerce economic outlook conference.
A&M associate vice president Chad Wootton brought up the relationship research funding has with the local business community.
This week, A&M announced generating $952 million dollars in research money. That’s a $30 million dollar increase from the year before.
Wootton also told the more than 500 attending the chamber conference about the importance of looking at raw enrollment numbers when comparing A&M with the University of Texas and peer institutions around the country. That included A&M had more graduates last year than all other colleges combines in the state except for U-T, and A&M took the most Texas high school graduates…11,000 out of 285,000.
Wootton also reminded the audience to get their flu shot, after stating influenza “A” and “B” has killed more than 1,500.
Wootton showed a slide indicating Texas A&M’s economic impact in the Brazos Valley was $2.2 billion dollars. And A&M’s overall economic impact was $3.1 billion and 35,504 equivalent jobs.
Another slide encouraged public participation in several ways to benefit A&M.
