The officers of the Board of Directors are Michael S. Brown, Kay Bailey Hutchison, David E. Daniel, J. Tinsley Oden, Francisco G. Cigarroa, William "Bill" R. Brinkley, and John Mendelsohn.
The Nobel laureate members of TAMEST include Norman E. Borlaug, Michael S. Brown, Robert F. Curl, Johann Deisenhofer, Alfred G. Gilman, Joseph Goldstein, Dudley R. Herschbach, Russell A. Hulse, Ferid Murad, and Steven Weinberg.
Because of the collective scientific prestige of the organization's members, TAMEST's recommendations are closely watched by policy-makers, both in Texas and nationally.
[3][4] This report is meant as Texas' response to Rising Above the Gathering Storm, a publication of the national academies which predicts that unless the United States changes the course of its math and science education, its economic leadership will not last into the next century.
The Edith and Peter O'Donnell Awards, named for Peter O'Donnell and his wife, the former Edith Jones, are distributed annually by TAMEST to recognize outstanding achievements by young investigators in medicine, engineering, science, and technological innovation.