Funded by the National Science Foundation, the summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program at Texas A&M University-Commerce was a unique and rewarding research training opportunity for community college students interested in careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).††Seventeen students from community colleges in Northeastern Texas and Southwestern Arkansas were selected for the 2014 joint program in chemistry, physics and astronomy.††Each participant worked directly under a faculty mentor on a collaborative research project that matched the speci

For those interested in what ?Northeast Texas? was or could be, the Whatley Foyer of the campus of Northeast Texas Community College was again the place to be as local poets and commentators took the challenge to define the region.

How can one best answer that enduring question: where are you from? How is Northeast Texas unique?† Does where we live even matter?

These and other questions will be at stake at the Seventh Annual Northeast Texas Poetry Reading on Friday, Sept. 5 at 11 a.m. in†the foyer of the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts at Northeast Texas Community College.†The public is welcome to attend this free event.

The Reading will feature readings from the six winners of the 2014 Northeast Texas Poetry competition.

The Northeast Texas Webb Chapter, part of the collegiate student auxiliary of the Texas State Historical Association, earned special gold-red-black cords for graduation this spring.† They were the only chapter in the state that won both a Caldwell Group Award, and a Chapter Award in the last two years.

Shown from left to right are:†Matthew Jordan†(the mainstay behind the NTCC Honors/Webb Caddo Project), †Stephen Milburn†(a Texas Senator, Tom Connally in the Honors/Webb-produced Morris Sheppard Film),†Lauren Fennimore†(Pauline Patman in the Wright Patman film),†