By Demetra Paizanis, Enrollment Communications Coordinator – A pink piggy bank is shown against a tan background. KILLEEN, Texas — Texas A&M University-Central Texas is offering a $250 Enrollment Incentive Scholarship for newly admitted undergraduate and graduate students who enroll for the fall 2026 semester. The scholarship, offered in recognition of the nation’s 250th anniversary,…
Reading List In a world where your refrigerator can be hacked and your grandma’s cat has its own Instagram, cybersecurity is no longer the stuff of spy movies or hoodie-wearing hackers typing in dark basements. Whether you’re an everyday email user, a Fortune 500 CEO, or just someone trying to keep their Wi-Fi password a…
Reading List A fractured skull. A shattered eye socket. Nyjah Huston suffered both after a skateboarding accident in January 2026. At that scale, damage sounds final. Bone broke and blood pooled, and soon after, tissue swelled under pressure. Clotting begins and signals move between cells, calling for reinforcement and repair. Day after day, a wound…
by Demetra Paizanis, Communications Coordinator – Reading List At some point in your life, you’ve probably stared out of an airplane window at 35,000 feet and had the thought: how is this giant metal tube in the sky right now? You might be wedged between a stranger eating pretzels and someone watching three episodes of…
Reading List The eggs are gone. The shelf where they usually sit is empty except for a white price tag that still insists they cost $1.92. You stand there longer than necessary, scanning the refrigerated case as if they might have migrated somewhere less obvious. They haven’t. They’re not there. An empty grocery shelf feels…
Reading List By the time you reach theater doors, the line has already lost its shape, spilling sideways, bunching at the rope stanchions, inching forward in uneven bursts. Someone is arguing about assigned seats. Someone else apologizes for standing too close while standing too close. A couple behind you smells sharply of winter coats damp…
Reading List Education predates school. Before we had chalkboards or Chromebooks, knowledge was transmitted orally through stories, myths, rituals, and apprenticeships. From ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia to the scholarly traditions of Confucian China and the philosophical dialogues of Ancient Greece, learning was communal and often reserved for elites or specific castes. The invention of writing…
Social work is the practice of helping individuals, families, groups, and communities navigate barriers like poverty, trauma, illness, or discrimination. The work is clinical, legal, and political all at once.
Reading List You never forget your first bad boss. Maybe it was the restaurant manager who made you clock out every time you went to the bathroom, even during 10-hour shifts. Or the retail supervisor who scheduled you to work double shifts on your birthday but let his niece come in late every day because…
Reading List You know Maurice? The guy who can resurrect your laptop from the brink of death. And Shawn, the wizard who somehow makes the Wi-Fi work when everyone else has given up and resorted to hot spotting. They’re the unsung heroes of the office, the tech titans who save you from the dreaded never…
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