Consider these towns for their healthy economies, strong schools, low crime rates, abundance of parks and more.

College Station is the only place in Texas that made the list!
ttp://www.kiplinger.com/features/archives/10-great-cities-for-raising-families.html

http://www.theeagle.com/am/One-great-leap

The 132,500-square-foot, four-story Health Professions building consists of lecture and seminar rooms, capabilities for video conferences, an outdoor courtyard, dining space, student services, an information technology help center, a teaching and learning resource ... More +

http://news.tamhsc.edu/2010/07/22/health-science-center-dedicates-bryan-campus/

COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The Texas A&M Institute for Genomic Medicine (TIGM), a leading global source for genetic discoveries, has been selected by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to identify and develop new drug targets for certain toxins, viruses and bacterial pathogens.  ... More +

The Research Valley Partnership and Wallonia Export and Foreign Investment Agency (AWEX) signed an agreement earlier this summer to collaborate in their efforts to promote economic development here in the Brazos Valley and abroad.

Todd McDaniel, president and chief executive of the Research Valley Partnership, said, “There are unique opportunities to connect our technology and use our unique infrastructure to ... More +

Some of the area's most successful business owners and their employees joined community leaders Wednesday at the College Station Hilton Hotel and Conference Center to honor 10 of the fastest-growing local companies during the Bryan Rotary Club Newman 10 Awards.

The awards were established in 1994 to recognize small businesses with a positive economic impact in the community.

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Move over, T. Boone Pickens.

The Texas A&M System and a Spanish wind-power company plan to build what they are billing as the nation's largest wind turbine.

Gamesa Technology Corp.'s G10X, a 4.5 megawatt, 420-foot-tall turbine, will be built at a West Texas A&M University research facility in Canyon, officials announced this week.

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Bryan-College Station has an opportunity to attract biomedical and biopharmaceutical facilities to the area but must be prepared to accommodate them, officials said.

Leaders from Bryan, College Station, Texas A&M and Brazos County met Thursday at the Texas Institute of Preclinical Studies to discuss how to meet companies' needs and explore the possibility of creating a mixed-use development area along ... More +

HOUSTON – Gov. Rick Perry spoke at the announcement of a major joint cancer research initiative between the A&M System’s National Center for Therapeutic ... More +

Researchers at two of the nation’s most prominent university systems team up to advance development of new cancer therapiesMore +

Brett Giroir on KERA “Think” [podcast requires Windows Media Player]

Pushing Biotech & Health Research Frontiers
[2010-05-05 12:00:00] What is the future of biotech and what role are Texas institutions playing in healthcare innovation? We’ll spend this hour with Dr. Brett Giroir, Vice Chancellor for ... More +

As the Texas A&M Health Science Center gets ready to open its first phase next month, infrastructure for the project is beginning to take shape.More +

The economic impact of Texas A&M University and other members of The Texas A&M University System based locally expanded by almost $250 million in 2009 and is now ... More +

Local officials optimistically are moving forward on a planned industrial park in Bryan after receiving a $1.5 million grant from the federal government and hearing from multiple companies expressing varying levels of interest in relocating or expanding in the region.

Bryan and Brazos County leaders on Monday directed staff members to begin preparing a schematic layout and an operations budget for the ... More +

A press conference is scheduled at 9:30 a.m. Monday, May 3 to celebrate the $1.5 million grant recently awarded to develop the Next Generation Industrial Park.

The gathering will be at the Brazos Valley Council of ... More +

Texas A&M University is one of the nation’s most environmentally responsible colleges, according to The Princeton Review, which included the institution in its new guide for prospective students.

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"A report Monday afternoon from the Governor's office shows the growing impact of the Bio-Tech industry in Texas.  And Bryan-College Station, it's economic development partners like the Research Valley and Texas A&M are all working on a plan that would take a big slice of that Bio-Tech pie."

KBTX Reporter: Mike George

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BALTIMORE, MD, April 16, 2010 – The recently opened building housing the Texas A&M Institute for Preclinical Studies (TIPS) was named “Facility of the Year” at the 2010 TurnKey Conference, which is widely considered the top gathering of professionals involved in the building or renovation of structures housing specialized laboratories. The award showcases ... More +

A $1.5 million federal grant awarded Monday to Bryan, Brazos County and the Research Valley Partnership is expected to help develop a light-industrial and manufacturing park in the city, officials said.

U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards said the grant given by the U.S. Economic Development Administration will help grow the economic base for the area by aiding in kick-starting Next Generation Industrial Park, which ... More +

COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The Mary Crowley Cancer Research Centers and The Texas A&M University System today announced plans to establish a major new research and treatment center on the 200-acre campus of the Texas A&M Health Science Center in the Research Valley’s emerging biomedical corridor.  Working in ... More +

In early February, Melissa Dauvalt noticed that her St. Bernard, Juno, had a lump on one of his front legs that was causing him to limp. Tests confirmed that the dog had developed osteosarcoma, an ... More +

The well-being of Texas A&M and the Bryan-College Station community are intertwined, the university's president, R. Bowen Loftin, said Thursday.

"We're in this together," Loftin told roughly 200 people gathered for the Chamber of Commerce's Inner Circle luncheon at the Bush Library. "There's no way to separate Texas A&M from Bryan-College Station. This place is full of Aggies."

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When they could have caught up on sleep or on studying, almost 13,000 students volunteered Saturday morning to give back to the Bryan-College Station community and residents through Big Event.

The Big Event, which is the largest one-day, student-run service project in the nation, set records in participation this year.

“Close to 13,000 students have signed up to say ‘Thank You’ to over ... More +

Bryan city officials gathered Friday to unveil renovations to the LaSalle Hotel.

City Manager David Watkins said he's amazed at how downtown has matured and said the renovations to the historic Main Street hotel help make downtown a gem for the entire state.

"This is great for Bryan. This is great for the hotel. This is great for the community and a great day for ... More +

Ryan Crocker celebrated his 21st birthday in Amsterdam -- he's astute enough to not divulge details other than to say that the city has "always had its attractions" -- and started hitchhiking the next day to Calcutta.

"I thought I'd see the world," said Crocker, the superstar diplomat and former Iraq ambassador now settling in as dean of Texas A&M's Bush School of Government and Public Service. "After ... More +

Some researchers at the Texas Transportation Institute are about to have their schedules adjusted.

"We primarily have been nocturnal researchers for the last decade," said Paul Carlson, head of the institute's operations and design division. He chuckled before adding, "That's not true. We just haven't really slept much."

Carlson was on hand Friday for the grand opening of the ... More +

COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents today voted to begin construction on the flexible-by-design National Center for Therapeutics Manufacturing, a revolutionary bio-pharmaceutical research, development, training and production facility. When completed, it will provide rapid, cost-effective and scalable manufacturing and enable an array of new products to enter clinical trials.

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COLLEGE STATION – Efforts to protect the nation from potentially catastrophic animal diseases – some of which are transmissible to humans – will continue with a $21 million package from ... More +

When the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) formally opens its new state headquarters Friday, those familiar with the agency will not be surprised to discover that a large part of the first floor is devoted to a working research lab.

The TTI State Headquarters and Research Building not only provides the first official state headquarters in the agency's 60-year history, but also houses a state-of-the-art ... More +

Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking returns to Aggieland next month to present a rare public lecture, and officials in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University encourage Brazos Valley residents and members of the campus community to take advantage of a major opportunity to experience one of the most brilliant scientific minds of all time.

Hawking, the world-renowned Cambridge ... More +

The Texas A&M System could be a global leader in wind energy research, proponents of a new endeavor say.

The A&M System Board of Regents will consider creating the Wind Energy Center during a regularly scheduled meeting Thursday and Friday in College Station.

A key focus of the research would be overcoming technical barriers and creating lighter, stronger, taller structures ... More +

The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) today (Tuesday, March 23) presented a check totaling more than $1.1 million to The Texas A&M University System to provide support for cancer-related research by two professors.

The funds, part of CPRIT’s $61 million inaugural grants, will support research projects under the ... More +

College Station could become ground zero in the nation's rapid response to the next pandemic threat as well as the state's missing link in turning discoveries in university labs to marketable ... More +

COLLEGE STATION -  Using green algae to produce hydrocarbon oil for biofuel production is nothing new; nature has been doing so for hundreds of millions of years, according a More +

The Research Valley Partnership and Texas A&M University System hope the stretch of highway between the emerging Texas A&M University Health Science Center campus and the Institute for Innovative Therapeutics will ... More +

Texas researchers are planning to use a combination of tobacco plants and pod-like laboratories to speed the production of ... More +

A public-private partnership between the federal government, the Texas A&M University System, and G-Con means a mass production facility for vaccines, including influenza, is coming to the Brazos Valley.  More +

Here's an idea: Rehabilitate the tobacco plant by using it to make flu vaccine. (This may sound like a double-whammy nightmare for anyone who believes that vaccines are killing us all ... More +

Almost $40 million in federal research grants have cleared the way for the Texas A&M University System and a private company to begin construction on a vaccine manufacturing ... More +

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Officials with Research Valley Partnership(RVP) announced today an Economic Development Agreement with G-Con, LLC (G-Con) to develop and operate a state-of-the-art biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility utilizing new technologies for ... More +

The Texas A&M University System and a Texas company have been awarded a $40 million U.S. Department of Defense grant to develop vaccines made from tobacco, a hoped-for improvement on the antiquated ... More +

COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Leaders of the Texas Plant-Expressed Vaccine Consortium today announced a biotherapeutic manufacturing initiative designed to show proof of concept for a landmark new technology that could dramatically increase the nation’s capability to produce vaccines for infectious diseases, ... More +

BRYAN - A bio-pharmaceutical company is ready to build a major facility in near Highway 47 in Bryan.More +

Dr. Stephen A. Holditch, head of the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University and holder of the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation ... More +

Kelsey-Seybold Clinic is consolidating multiple Houston data centers into a single facility hosted by Bryan-based Fibertown.

Link to Texas Monthly's article below:
http://www.texasmonthly.com/promotions/2010bestcompanies

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