Texas Business reports:  HOUSTON—Pulmotect Inc., a Houston-based biotechnology company, received $7.1 million from the Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to advance its product, PUL-042, which offers the promise of better protecting patients receiving chemotherapy from infection, allowing for significantly higher treatment success.

Texas Business reports:  BRYAN—Construction of a facility to preserve library resources of Texas A&M University and The University of Texas System is set to begin in June near Bryan, Texas, following formal approval of a $6.3 million appropriation for the project.

Texas Business reports:  HOUSTON—Satterfield & Pontikes Construction Inc. recently completed construction of a new Park and Ride facility at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) Victory Lakes campus in League City.

Texas Business reports: STEPHENVILLE, Texas—Tarleton facilities planning officials are gearing up for a $2.4 million construction project that will transform the western edge of the Stephenville campus—the Rome Street Redevelopment project.

Texas Business reports: Two mechanical engineering professors at The University of Texas at El Paso have received a grant worth nearly $400,000 from the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR).

Texas Business reports:  Lockheed won a $14.1 million to an F-35 design contract, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A Fort Worth firm won a $237.7 million contract change to manage hardware and software changes, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  COLLEGE STATION – A Texas AgriLife Research scientist said there’s potential for a  black grain sorghum hybrid targeting the health-food market.

 The job of keeping Texas’ cattle industry healthy and vibrant just got more difficult. In the past year, ranchers and state veterinary authorities have battled the worst drought in decades only to absorb massive a cutback in state funds to fight disease and maintain livestock health.

Texas Business reports:  COLLEGE STATION—What’s surprising in early May is not that West Texas is so dry, but that the eastern half of the state is in relatively good condition, said John Nielsen-Gammon, state climatologist and regents professor at Texas A&M University.

Texas Business reports: SAN ANTONIO—The Witte Museum plans to open the Robert J. and Helen C. Kleberg South Texas Heritage Center, Memorial Day Weekend, Saturday, May 26, 2012.

Texas Business reports: PLANO—Avalon, the newest world in the expanding Wizard101 universe is now live across KingsIsle's U.S. servers. 

 The Weather Research Center’s 2012 hurricane season outlook predicts a quiet storm season for the Texas Gulf Coast — potentially good news for Galveston’s newest tourist attraction.

Texas Business reports: University of Texas at Arlington researchers have obtained a patent for a device aimed at saving babies’ lives through improved and rapid detection of breathing problems including Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

Texas Business reports: DALLAS—Patients having psychiatric emergencies wait 11.5 hours in the emergency department, and those who are older, uninsured or intoxicated wait even longer, according to a study published online yesterday in Annals of Emergency Medicine ("Patient and Practice-Related Determinants of Emergency Department Length of Stay for Patients with Psychiatric Illness. 

Texas Business reports: HOUSTON—Heart-failure patients may someday get a life-saving charge from technology developed by students at Rice University.

Texas Business reports:  IRVING—Panini America, the world's largest sports and entertainment collectibles company, reached a trading card agreement with Washington Redskins quarterback and 2011 Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III for the 2012 season. 

Texas Business reports:  SAN ANTONIO—Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. will buy, through a wholly-owned subsidiary, a 75.5% equity stake in Retama Partners  Ltd., the owner of the racing license for Retama Park Racetrack.

Texas Business reports: LEWISVILLE—Orthofix International NV reached an agreement under which Water Street Healthcare Partners, a strategic private equity firm focused on the health care industry, will acquire Orthofix's Sports Medicine Business Unit, which operates as Breg Inc. 

 Texas Business reports:  HOUSTON—More Houstonians are interacting with Houston Chronicle products, including the printed newspaper, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations' March 31, 2012 FAS-FAX report, released Tuesday, May 1. 

Texas Business reports: Despite the rapid changes in technology and media, one Waco radio station, which it claims the city of Waco is its namesake, comes up its 90th year of broadcasts this summer.

Texas Business reports:  IRVING—Panini America, the world's largest sports and entertainment collectibles company, reached a trading card agreement with Washington Redskins quarterback and 2011 Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III for the 2012 season. 

Texas Business reports: The Texas Music Office has created the Live Music Grant Program, which will fund free, live-music concerts across the state.

Texas Business reports: SAN ANTONIO—The Witte Museum plans to open the Robert J. and Helen C. Kleberg South Texas Heritage Center, Memorial Day Weekend, Saturday, May 26, 2012.

 The Weather Research Center’s 2012 hurricane season outlook predicts a quiet storm season for the Texas Gulf Coast — potentially good news for Galveston’s newest tourist attraction.

 Texas Business reports:  DFW INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT—JetBlue Airways began service to its 71st destination and the third destination served in the Lone Star State: Dallas/Fort Worth.

Texas Business reports:  AUSTIN—Dr Pepper Snapple Group and the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin have embarked on a novel program to grow one of the company's iconic brands.

Texas Business reports:  LUBBOCK—As economies struggle worldwide - including here in the United States - one Texas Tech University professor may have the answer.

Texas Business reports:  Leading Edge Aviation Services (LEAS), the largest commercial and military aircraft painting company in the world, converted the world’s last remaining Continental aircraft to the newly merged United livery. 

Texas Business Patent of the Day:  An Atascosa County, Texas, man has devised a way to reach the high ground for observation, even if you’re on low ground. Jerry Kirby of Pleasanton, Texas recently received U.S. Patent 8,151,934 for “Portable Observation Tower and System for Operation.”

Texas Business Patent of the Day:  Two Texans have devised a better way to separate oil and other contaminants from water in the hydrocarbon industry. James C. T. Chan and Shaya Movafaghian, both of Houston, recently received U.S. Patent 8,173,017 for “Single-Cell Mechanical Flotation System.”

Texas Business reports:  DALLAS—Brinker International Inc. formed a partnership with the Army Partnership for Youth Success Program (PaYS), which connects companies with young veterans looking for corporate jobs after serving their country.

Texas Business reports: Jasper’s Bar-B-Que sits unassumingly on the corner of Clifton and Elm Streets, rooted in the same location that once served Interurban Railway passengers stopping through Waco on their way to Dallas. The creaky screen door wavers slightly in the wind, keeping the flies out of the dining room while allowing smells of freshly smoked meat to waft out into the street.

 Texas Business reports:  A San Antonio firm won a $56.1 million contract to provide food for the U.S. govnerment, the U.S. Department of  Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports: If you forget your sister on her birthday, you get a disappointed phone call. If you forget your anniversary, your spouse might send you to the couch, or the doghouse, for a night or two. If you forget your mom on Mother’s Day, well, that is just something you do not want to do. 

Texas Business reports:  SAN MARCOS—Leslie's Swimming Pool Supplies (Leslie's), opened a store in San Marcos, Texas.

Texas Business reports:  EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.— Two joint ventures led by travel retailer Hudson Group won the bid process to provide both retail and food services in the newly renovated Dallas Love Field Airport. 

The Army announced that it will begin a six-month assessment May 14 of an exception to the Direct Ground Combat Assignment Rule for female Soldiers. Of the nine brigades selected for the exception to policy, three are at Fort Hood – 2nd and 3rd Brigade Combat Teams in the 1st Cavalry Division and 3rd Cavalry Regiment.

Texas Business reports:  DALLAS—Brinker International Inc. formed a partnership with the Army Partnership for Youth Success Program (PaYS), which connects companies with young veterans looking for corporate jobs after serving their country.

Texas Business reports: A Wisconsin firm won a $48.2 million contract to aircraft production labor to work in Corpus Christi.

Texas Business reports: Persistent euro-zone turmoil has kept the world economy on edge, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Doubts about the ability of many countries in the single-currency region to service their sovereign debt are rising along with the interest rates the affected nations must pay to roll over maturing obligations.

Texas Business reports:  ODESSA—The University of Texas of the Permian Basin plans to offer a $10,000 flat fee undergraduate degree, known as the Texas Science Scholar undergraduate degree program.

Texas Business reports:  Development of oil and natural gas in the Eagle Ford Shale contributed $25 billion in total economic output to the region in 2011, according to a study released by the Center for Community and Business Research at The University of Texas at San Antonio Institute for Economic Development.

Texas Business reports: HOUSTON—Apache Corporation  completed its previously announced acquisition of Cordillera Energy Partners III LLC, a privately held company with operations and acreage across the prolific Granite Wash, Tonkawa, Cleveland and Marmaton plays in western Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle.

Texas Business reports: HOUSTON—Apache Corporation completed its previously announced acquisition of Cordillera Energy Partners III  LLC, a privately held company with operations and acreage across the Granite Wash, Tonkawa, Cleveland and Marmaton plays in western Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. 

Recently, a third group has entered the marketplace, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Seeking neither to hedge risk nor to speculate on prices, these individuals invest in commodity futures as a separate asset class, not unlike someone buying stocks or bonds.

Texas Business reports: DALLAS—New York’s Standard Motor Products Inc., an automotive replacement parts manufacturer and distributor acquired CompressorWorks, a temperature control company, for approximately $37.4 million.

Texas Business reports: HOUSTON—Apache Corporation completed its previously announced acquisition of Cordillera Energy Partners III  LLC, a privately held company with operations and acreage across the Granite Wash, Tonkawa, Cleveland and Marmaton plays in western Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. 

Texas Business reports: AUSTIN—The Texas Attorney General’s office issued the following statement about the resolution of the state’s investigation into Arizona-based JAWA and its owners, and the court order requiring the defendants to pay $2 million for defrauding wireless customers in Texas.

Texas Business reports: AUSTIN—The Texas Attorney General’s office and and other state attorneys general today resolved a two-phase Medicaid fraud and deceptive marketing investigation into Abbott Laboratories. 

Texas Business reports:  The independent short film, “Book of Joe”, is hiring cast members, according to the Texas Film Commission.

Texas Business reports: ARLINGTON--A month after acquiring a new property in Texas, The Connor Group sold one of its other properties in the Lonestar State.

AUSTIN — For 30 years, community organizations in the city have fought rising land prices to maintain affordable housing in their neighborhoods, often by buying, rehabbing and renting out one house at a time.

Texas Business reports: STEPHENVILLE, Texas—Tarleton facilities planning officials are gearing up for a $2.4 million construction project that will transform the western edge of the Stephenville campus—the Rome Street Redevelopment project.

Texas Business reports: University of Texas at Arlington researchers have obtained a patent for a device aimed at saving babies’ lives through improved and rapid detection of breathing problems including Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

Texas Business reports: Two mechanical engineering professors at The University of Texas at El Paso have received a grant worth nearly $400,000 from the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR).

Texas Business reports: COLLEGE STATION—Aruba Networks Inc. announced that Texas A&M University is in the process of replacing its legacy Cisco wireless network with a campus-wide Aruba 802.11n mobile network based on the Aruba Mobile Virtual Enterprise (MOVE) architecture.

Texas Business reports:  The Texas Comptroller's office announced announced another round of grants for 11 community colleges and technical institutes totaling $3 million, which will be used to purchase equipment and train students to enter the workforce.

 Texas Business reports:  A Texas region containing four of the world's largest wind farms showed an increase in land surface temperature over nine years that researchers have connected to local meteorological effects of the turbines.

Texas Business reports:  A Houston firm won a $7.5 million contract to supply electricity to a U.S. air force base near Wichita Falls, Texas, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.

Texas Business reports: Persistent euro-zone turmoil has kept the world economy on edge, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Doubts about the ability of many countries in the single-currency region to service their sovereign debt are rising along with the interest rates the affected nations must pay to roll over maturing obligations.

Texas Business reports:  OKLAHOMA CITY & AUSTIN, Texas—Caisson Biotech LLC, a biopharmaceutical company with a patented heparosan-based drug delivery technology,  entered into a development and license agreement with Denmark's Novo Nordisk A/S, a provider of diabetes care.

Texas Business reports:  HOUSTON—Energy production technology services company Proserv expanding its subsea capabilities and specialist integrated services and increasing its workforce by more than 300 people. 

Texas Business reports:  A San Antonio firm won a $14.1 million contract for Army tech support, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  Lockheed won a $14.1 million to an F-35 design contract, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports: The nation's third Littoral Combat Ship, USS Fort Worth (LCS 3), successfully completed its U.S. Navy acceptance trials and will be delivered to the Navy this summer. 

Texas Business reports:  PLANO—Acision appointed James Israel as senior vice president and general manager, North America.

Texas Business reports: HOUSTON—Salient Partners LP, a $17 billion asset management firm, appointed J. Philip Ferguson as the newest member of Salient's board of managers.

Texas Business reports:  AUSTIN—Hire International Inc. promoted Chris Beck, its executive vice president of sales and president of Soar Consulting Inc. to be the company's new chief executive. 

 Texas Business reports:  DALLAS—SWS Group Inc. named William Nelson as president of Southwest Insurance Agency (SWIA), the firm's wholly owned subsidiary offering insurance products and services.

Texas Business reports: PLANO—J. C. Penney Company Inc. named Ken Hannah as chief financial officer.

Texas Business reports:  HOUSTON— Parker Drilling elected two new members to its board of directors, expanding the group's membership to ten.  Jonathan M. Clarkson and Richard D. Paterson bring extensive energy sector and global financial and operations expertise to Parker.

Texas Business reports: DALLAS—The Five Star Institute announced Sean Galaise joined its ranks as senior vice president of business development with a focus on the Federation of REO Certified Experts (the FORCE).

Texas Business reports: AUSTIN—Rev Worldwide, a global leader in financial services and mobile payment products for underserved markets, welcomed former GE Capital executive Mauricio Benavides as the company's chief executive officer of Latin America; former Visa Executive Daryn Griggs as the chief executive officer of the company's Asia Pacific region; and former Dell executive director David Clifton, as the company's senior vice president of global merchant services.

Texas Business reports:  AUSTIN—National Instruments promoted Jin Bains to vice president of research and development of RF products. 

Texas Business reports: DALLAS—New York’s Standard Motor Products Inc., an automotive replacement parts manufacturer and distributor acquired CompressorWorks, a temperature control company, for approximately $37.4 million.

Texas Business reports:  LONGVIEW—The Shaw Group Inc. won a contract to provide its proprietary technology and engineering services for a new Ultra Selective Conversion (USC) furnace for Eastman Chemical Company's ethylene plant in Longview.

Texas Business reports: AUSTIN, Texas—BAE Systems has completed construction of the company's new manufacturing center in Austin.