College of Arts & Sciences

August 28, 2015

Texas A&M to Host Statewide Astronomy Workshop in September 2015

COLLEGE STATION — Astronomers from across Texas will be visiting the Texas A&M University campus next month for a weekend workshop focused on the growth of astronomy and related scientific collaborations throughout the Lone Star State. Building Astronomy in Texas is set for September 26-27 at the George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for […]

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August 17, 2015

Dark Energy Survey Finds Eight New Dwarf Galaxy Candidates

COLLEGE STATION — Using one of the world’s most powerful digital cameras, scientists with the Dark Energy Survey have discovered eight more faint celestial objects hovering near our Milky Way galaxy, along with signs indicating that they — like the objects found by the same team earlier this year — likely are dwarf satellite galaxies, […]

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July 9, 2015

Scientists Ready to Handle Increased Data of Large Hadron Collider’s Current Run

GENEVA — Physicist Alexx Perloff, a graduate student at Texas A&M University working on the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, is using data from the first run of the Large Hadron Collider for his thesis, which he plans to complete this year. When all is said and done, it will have taken Perloff a year […]

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June 3, 2015

Giant Magellan Telescope’s International Partners Approve Start of Construction Phase

PASADENA, Calif. — The Giant Magellan Telescope Organization has announced today (Wednesday, June 3) that its 11 international partners — including Texas A&M University — have committed more than US$500 million to begin construction of the first of a new generation of extremely large telescopes. Once it is built, the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is […]

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April 29, 2015

Li Honored with Distinguished Graduate Student Award in Research

COLLEGE STATION Fuxiang Li, a former graduate student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University, is one of 14 graduate students across the campus who have been named Texas A&M Distinguished Graduate Students for 2015 in recognition of exemplary achievement in teaching and research. Each year students are nominated by their […]

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April 24, 2015

Schuessler Earns Bush Excellence Award for International Research

COLLEGE STATION — Hans A. Schuessler, professor of physics and astronomy at Texas A&M University, has been recognized as one of three faculty recipients of 2015 Bush Excellence Awards for international teaching, international research and public service. Schuessler, who was honored for his excellence in international research, received the prestigious award along with co-recipients Paul […]

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April 13, 2015

Dark Energy Survey Creates Detailed Guide to Spotting Dark Matter

BALTIMORE — Dark Energy Survey (DES) scientists, including astronomers at Texas A&M University, are celebrating the release of the first in a series of dark matter maps of the cosmos. The new map, released today (April 13) at the American Physical Society April 2015 Meeting in Baltimore, Md., was created using data captured by the […]

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April 9, 2015

Texas A&M-Led Astronomy Research Details Unprecedented Life Story of Milky Way Galaxy Evolution

COLLEGE STATION — Picture, if you will, the ultimate universal home movie if not parental keepsake and life story: our Milky Way Galaxy, starting out as but a wee collection of young stars some 12 billion years ago, continuously feeding on the gas of smaller nearby galaxies and undergoing a huge burst of star births […]

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March 23, 2015

Q&A with Graduate Student Ting Li ’16

COLLEGE STATION — In celebration of Student Research Week (March 23-27) at Texas A&M University, the College of Science will be taking five with five different people involved in various aspects and stages of research at Texas A&M and beyond. Today’s kickoff segment features Ting Li, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Physics and […]

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March 19, 2015

Physics & Engineering Festival Set for March 28

COLLEGE STATION — It ain’t easy being green, but you’ll have two chances at seeing green next week at Texas A&M University’s 2015 Physics and Engineering Festival, to be headlined by world-renowned physicist, bestselling author and science communicator Dr. Brian Greene. Experience the many wonders of science and technology as the featured attraction in the […]

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March 10, 2015

Texas A&M Astronomers Celebrate First Papers From Dark Energy Survey Data

COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University astronomers are among the hundreds of scientists worldwide celebrating the first fruits from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), a five-year global effort to map the southern sky in unprecedented detail with the ultimate goal of explaining the universe’s accelerating expansion. Earlier today (March 10), the U.S. Department of Energy-funded […]

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March 6, 2015

Texas A&M Reaffirms Support to Help Build Giant Magellan Telescope

COLLEGE STATION — The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents has authorized the execution of an amended and restated Founders’ Agreement and Commitment Agreement with the GMTO Corporation, reaffirming Texas A&M University’s support to assist in building the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) and helping to pave the way for construction to begin in Chile […]

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February 13, 2015

Physics & Engineering Festival Set for March 28

COLLEGE STATION — When it comes to sure signs that spring has arrived in Aggieland, there are budding Bradford pears, bluebonnets, Monarch butterflies and Texas A&M University’s annual Physics and Engineering Festival. Although the 2015 version of the free annual event (view promotional poster online) is still more than a month away, officials encourage the […]

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January 29, 2015

Texas A&M Selected to Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy

COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University has been selected for membership in the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc. (AURA), the prestigious international organization dedicated to the advancement of astronomy and related sciences. Texas A&M has been admitted for a three-year term through June 30, 2017 as the 40th United States member of […]

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November 25, 2014

Texas A&M Observatory Ranked Third-Best in Nation

COLLEGE STATION — In addition to a world-class astronomy program, Texas A&M University is home to one of the top three college astronomy observatories in the nation, according to the website College Rank. The Texas A&M Physics and Astronomy Teaching Observatory is ranked No. 3 in a recent survey of the 25 Best College Astronomy […]

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November 19, 2014

Texas A&M Astronomers Making Cosmic Inroads with NSF Grants

COLLEGE STATION — Three Texas A&M University astronomers have their sights set on new astrophysical insights involving the Milky Way Galaxy and beyond, thanks to the help of recent grants from the National Science Foundation. Jennifer Marshall, Casey Papovich and Kim-Vy Tran each led proposals selected for funding as part of the latest round of […]

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November 10, 2014

Suntzeff Shares in $3M Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. — Nicholas B. Suntzeff, university distinguished professor of physics and astronomy at Texas A&M University, has been named a co-recipient of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for his role in the 1998 discovery of the accelerated expansion of the universe. The prestigious award, considered the world’s most lucrative academic prize at […]

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October 29, 2014

Texas A&M Grad Student’s aTmCam Offers Cosmic Insight for Dark Energy Survey

COLLEGE STATION — As a child peering through her toy telescope, Texas A&M University graduate student Ting Li was fascinated by the Moon and constellations — not so much by their cosmic beauty, but about why they exist in the first place. “The sky always seemed so beautiful to me,” Li said. “But outer space […]

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October 17, 2014

Texas A&M to Host APS Texas 2014 Fall Meeting

COLLEGE STATION — Local science enthusiasts and physics professionals throughout the Lone Star State are in for a Texas-sized treat this weekend as Texas A&M University plays host to the Texas sections of three major professional groups and a three-day showcase of international excellence in physics. The 2014 Joint Fall Meeting of the Texas Sections […]

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October 17, 2014

Historic Comet Fly-By Over Mars to Occur Sunday

EDITOR’S NOTE: We preface the following general university news release with comments from Nicholas B. Suntzeff, distinguished professor of physics and astronomy at Texas A&M University and director of the astronomy program: “Most people have no idea what 87,000 miles really means. It is one-third the distance between the Earth and the Moon and would […]

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