COLLEGE STATION — Dr. Nicholas B. Suntzeff, professor of physics and director of the astronomy program at Texas A&M University, has been elected to a three-year term as a vice president of the American Astronomical Society, effective June 2010. Established in 1899 with a mission to enhance and share humanity’s scientific understanding of the Universe, […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Dr. Rupak Mahapatra, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Texas A&M University, has been recognized with a 2010 United States Department of Energy Early Career Research Award for his achievements and future potential in high-energy particle physics research. Mahapatra, who studies dark matter and, specifically, detection of the weakly interacting massive […]
COLLEGE STATION — Dr. Dimitri Nanopoulos, a distinguished professor of physics at Texas A&M University and one of the world’s leading researchers in high-energy physics, has been selected by the Italian Physical Society (SIF) as one of two recipients of its 2009 Enrico Fermi Prize in recognition of his pioneering international work in the field […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University will celebrate the future of physics and astronomy and the power of public-private partnerships later this week in the official dedication of two new physics buildings, located in the northeast quadrant of the main Texas A&M campus. On Friday (Dec. 4) at 2 p.m., Texas A&M and Texas A&M […]
COLLEGE STATION — Two physicists from Texas A&M University, Xingbo Zhao and Dr. Ralf Rapp, were awarded the 2009 Robert S. Hyer Research Award of the Texas Section of the American Physical Society (TSAPS). The annual award recognizes a physics student and his or her adviser for physics research that demonstrates excellence and relevance to […]
COLLEGE STATION — Dr. David M. Lee, 1996 Nobel Prize winner in Physics and James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor of the Physical Sciences Emeritus at Cornell University, will join Texas A&M University’s Department of Physics, effective November 16, 2009, announced Dr. Edward S. Fry, professor and head of physics. Lee has accepted a position as […]
COLLEGE STATION — Dr. Aaron Bergman, a postdoctoral theoretical high-energy physicist from Texas A&M University, has received a prestigious Science and Technology Policy Fellowship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Bergman is among 190 doctoral-level scientists and master’s- and doctoral-level engineers across the nation who will spend a year working in […]
PASADENIA, Calif. — The Australian government has announced that it will provide $88.4 million AUD ($72.4 million USD) to help fund the revolutionary 25-meter Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) to be sited at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile’s high-altitude Atacama Desert. Officials with the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization (GMTO) Corporation, which includes Texas A&M University, say […]
COLLEGE STATION — Dr. Robert E. Tribble, distinguished professor of physics and director of Texas A&M University’s Cyclotron Institute, has been awarded an honorary doctorate from St. Petersburg State University in St. Petersburg, Russia, in recognition of his research achievement. Tribble, an international leader in experimental nuclear physics and nuclear astrophysics, recently was presented with […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University and the Colleges of Science and Engineering will celebrate the official naming of the Charles R. ’62 and Judith G. Munnerlyn Astronomical Laboratory and Space Engineering Building Friday (Sept. 19) in a 4:30 p.m. ceremony on the Texas A&M campus. The event will be held on the second floor […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University Distinguished Professor of Physics Dr. Marlan O. Scully has been elected as a 2008 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one the country’s oldest honorary learned societies. Scully, a world-renowned pioneer in quantum and laser physics is one of eight physicists listed among the 190 new […]
COLLEGE STATION — Phuongmai “Mai” Truong, a senior double-major in mathematics and physics from Kingwood, is one of four Texas A&M University institutional nominees for the 2008 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, to be awarded in April. Truong, who maintains a 3.752 cumulative grade point average and is on track to graduate in May 2009, also […]
COLLEGE STATION — Dr. Alexey Belyanin, associate professor of physics at Texas A&M University, has been selected to receive the 2007 JoAnn Treat Research Excellence Award by the Texas A&M Research Foundation Board of Trustees. Named in honor of JoAnn Treat, who served 19 years as president of the Research Foundation before retiring in August […]
COLLEGE STATION — Dr. Dimitri Nanopoulos, a distinguished professor of physics at Texas A&M University and one of the world’s most noted researchers in high-energy physics, has been selected by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation to receive the 2006 Onassis International Prize in honor of his achievements in the natural sciences. Nanopoulos’ Onassis […]
COLLEGE STATION — Dr. Christopher N. Pope, professor of physics and director of the George P. and Cynthia W. Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University, has been appointed to the rank of distinguished professor, effective September 1, 2006. Widely respected as an international leader in the development of strings and […]
COLLEGE STATION — Internationally recognized astronomer and cosmologist Dr. Nicholas B. Suntzeff has been appointed as professor of physics and inaugural holder of the Mitchell-Heep-Munnerlyn Endowed Chair in Observational Astronomy in the Department of Physics at Texas A&M University, announced Dr. H. Joseph Newton, dean of the College of Science. Suntzeff comes to Texas A&M […]
by JOSH BAUGH COLLEGE STATION — The 2006 Mitchell Symposium on Astronomy, Cosmology and Fundamental Physics kicks off Monday at Texas A&M University, bringing together some of the subjects’ foremost experts from across the world. “This is a quality event,” said Roland Allen, a theoretical physicist at A&M. “We’ll have people here that are at […]
COLLEGE STATION — Super magnets may reveal some of the universe’s super secrets, a researcher said Monday during the first session of the 2006 Mitchell Symposium on Astronomy, Cosmology and Fundamental Physics at Texas A&M University. The annual conference brings together many of the world’s top scientists in the fields of physics, astronomy, cosmology and […]
COLLEGE STATION — While most people are taught at a young age to be careful not to break things, Saskia Mioduszewski’s fundamental research in nuclear physics depends on it. In her case, “things” are atomic nuclei, which hold the secrets to understanding what matter is made of. Mioduszewski, an assistant professor of physics at Texas […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University Professors Olga Kocharovskaya, Wayne M. Saslow, Sherry J. Yennello and M. Suhail Zubairy have been elected as 2005 Fellows of the American Physical Society. Each year, no more than one-half of one percent of the organization’s current membership is selected by their peers for inclusion in the APS Fellowship […]
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