College of Arts & Sciences

September 29, 2014

Aggie Graduate Establishes Second Scholarship to Benefit Texas A&M Science Undergraduates

COLLEGE STATION — As a successful chief executive officer for a major ophthalmology practice in the Boston area, Texas A&M University former student Randall C. Shepard ’71 has made the most of his Aggie education, forging an extensive business career as well as a progressive reputation in community and workforce development circles extending from the […]

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September 19, 2014

Three Ways to be Invisible

There is a common misconception that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was built only to search for the Higgs boson. It is intended to answer many different questions about subatomic particles and the nature of our universe, so the collision data are reused by thousands of scientists, each studying their own favorite questions. Usually, a […]

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August 22, 2014

Kattawar Earns Oceanography Society’s 2014 Jerlov Award

COLLEGE STATION — Dr. George W. Kattawar, professor emeritus of physics and astronomy at Texas A&M University, has been selected to receive The Oceanography Society’s 2014 Nils Gunnar Jerlov Award. The Jerlov Award, named for ocean optics research pioneer Nils Gunnar Jerlov and funded by NASA and the U.S. Office of Naval Research, is bestowed […]

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August 4, 2014

AURA’s Large Synoptic Survey Telescope to Begin Construction, Thanks to National Science Foundation Funding Support

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Science Foundation (NSF) has officially agreed to support the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) in managing the construction of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) in Chile. Texas A&M University astronomers Nicholas B. Suntzeff, Lifan Wang and Lucas Macri in the George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell […]

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July 31, 2014

“Hubble Reveals Farthest Lensing Galaxy, Yielding Clues to Early Universe”

COLLEGE STATION — An international team of astronomers led by Texas A&M University’s Kim-Vy Tran and using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has unexpectedly discovered the most distant cosmic magnifying glass yet, produced by a monster elliptical galaxy. The galaxy existed 9.6 billion years ago, beating the previous record by 200 million years. It is known […]

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July 17, 2014

Next-Generation Dark Matter Experiments Involving Texas A&M Get Go-Ahead from DOE, NSF

COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University is involved in two of the three dark matter experiments — including both of the ones searching for weakly interacting dark matter particles — selected for future funding by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. On Friday (July 11), the DOE’s Office of Science and […]

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July 3, 2014

DYNAMIC DUO: Astronomers Detect Cold, Earth-Like Planet Orbiting Dim, Sun-Like Star

COLLEGE STATION — An international team of astronomers has discovered a new exoplanet orbiting just one star in a two-star system — a dynamic duo not only strikingly similar to our Earth and Sun but also key to the continuing evolution of planetary formation science. The team’s research, published today in the July 4 edition […]

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May 23, 2014

Erukhimova Earns Sigma Xi Outstanding Science Communicator Award

COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University physicist Tatiana Erukhimova has been honored by the Texas A&M chapter of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, as the 2014 recipient of the chapter’s Outstanding Science Communicator Award in recognition of superior skill and dedication to improving science education. Erukhimova received a commemorative plaque and a $750 cash […]

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April 14, 2014

Texas A&M Junior Nicholas Mondrik ’15 Named 2014 Goldwater Scholar

COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University junior physics major Nicholas P. Mondrik ’15 has been named a 2014 Goldwater Scholar by the Goldwater Scholarship Foundation in recognition of outstanding academic achievement. Mondrik is the 40th Texas A&M student who has been recognized by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program, the nation’s […]

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April 11, 2014

David Toback Elected as New CDF Co-Spokesperson

BATAVIA, IL — The CDF collaboration at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) elected David Toback as co-spokesperson on March 17. The Texas A&M University physics professor will join fellow CDF spokesperson Costas Vellidis in leading the experiment. Toback began working with the CDF collaboration in 1991, while he was a […]

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March 26, 2014

Q&A with Texas A&M Astronomer Kim-Vy Tran

COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University astronomer Kim-Vy Tran is one of four researchers featured in the Giant Magellan Telescope’s Google+ month-long March series highlighting some of the women working on the Giant Magellan Telescope, from what sparked their interest in science to what inspires them today. A member of the Texas A&M Department of […]

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March 19, 2014

International Team of LHC, Tevatron Scientists Announces First Joint Result

CHICAGO AND GENEVA — Scientists working on the world’s leading particle collider experiments have joined forces, combined their data and produced the first joint result from Fermilab’s Tevatron and CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), past and current holders of the record for most powerful particle collider on Earth. Scientists from the four experiments involved — […]

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March 17, 2014

Physics & Engineering Festival Set for Saturday

COLLEGE STATION — Make a date for free family fun and experience the many wonders of science and technology this weekend at the 2014 Physics and Engineering Festival, scheduled for Saturday (March 22) on the Texas A&M University campus. No fees or tickets are required for the free annual event, which will run from 10 […]

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February 28, 2014

Quantum Physicist Suhail Zubairy Appointed University Distinguished Professor

COLLEGE STATION — Dr. M. Suhail Zubairy, professor of physics and astronomy and inaugural holder of the Munnerlyn-Heep Chair in Quantum Optics at Texas A&M University, has been appointed as a University Distinguished Professor, effective Sept. 1, 2014. Zubairy, a member of Texas A&M’s world-class Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering (IQSE) who is widely […]

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February 28, 2014

CDMS Result Covers New Ground in Search for Dark Matter

Scientists looking for dark matter face a serious challenge: No one knows what dark matter particles look like. So their search covers a wide range of possible traits, including different masses and different probabilities of interacting with regular matter. Today, scientists with the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment, or CDMS — which includes Texas A&M […]

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February 24, 2014

Physics & Engineering Festival Set for March 22

COLLEGE STATION — The Department of Physics and Astronomy and Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University invite audiences across Texas to get up-close and personal with science and technology next month at the 2014 Physics & Engineering Festival, an entertaining and informative weekend scientific extravaganza for all ages. No fees or tickets are […]

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February 19, 2014

Giant Magellan Telescope Poised to Enter Construction Stage

PASADENA, Calif. — The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) project, in which Texas A&M University is a founding partner, has successfully passed two major reviews, completing its detailed design phase and positioning the project to enter the construction phase. When completed, the 25-meter GMT will have more than six times the collecting area of the largest […]

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February 18, 2014

Robert Tribble Named Brookhaven Lab’s Deputy Director for Science and Technology

UPTON, NY Robert Tribble, a widely respected physicist who has played a key role in charting the future direction of nuclear science in the U.S., has been named Deputy Director for Science & Technology at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, effective February 24, 2014. Tribble is currently a Distinguished Professor of Physics […]

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January 28, 2014

Texas A&M Physicist Says Stronger Benchmarks Needed to Fully Quantify Quantum Speedup

COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University physicist Helmut G. Katzgraber’s research takes him to the crossroads of physics, computer science, quantum information theory and statistical mechanics. For more than a decade, he has been pushing the frontiers of computational physics to study hard optimization problems and disordered materials, applying his expertise to problems in the […]

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December 4, 2013

Giant Magellan Telescope’s Third Mirror Unveiled

PASADENA, Calif. The Giant Magellan Telescope’s third primary mirror will be unveiled at the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory Mirror Lab (SOML) on December 6, 2013. The combined surface area of the three mirrors created to date surpasses that of any existing telescope and will help enable astronomers to peer more deeply into space than […]

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