COLLEGE STATION — M. Suhail Zubairy, professor of physics at Texas A&M University, has been recognized as one of three faculty recipients of 2011 Bush Excellence Awards for international teaching, international research and public service. Zubairy, who was honored for his excellence in international research, received the award along with co-recipients Julian E. Gaspar (international […]
COLLEGE STATION — Dr. George W. Kattawar, professor of physics and astronomy at Texas A&M University, has been selected by the Texas Academy of Science (TAS) as the Distinguished Texas Scientist of the Year for 2011, announced Cathy Early, TAS Vice President and Awards Committee Chairperson. Each year the TAS honors a Texas scientist for […]
COLLEGE STATION — Dr. Jairo Sinova, professor of physics at Texas A&M University, has been elected a 2010 Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). 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 Program, which was created to recognize advances […]
COLLEGE STATION — Ricardo Eusebi, Teruki Kamon, Alexei Safonov, David Toback and other physicists at Texas A&M University are part of a worldwide effort, using some of the most powerful high-energy physics equipment ever built, to help understand the fundamental construction of the physical world. They are on the trail of almost unimaginably small fundamental […]
COLLEGE STATION — Dr. Nicholas B. Suntzeff, professor of physics and astronomy and director of the astronomy program at Texas A&M University, has been named one of 12 Jefferson Science Fellows for 2010-2011 by the United States Department of State. As a Jefferson Science Fellow, Suntzeff will advise the U.S. State Department on scientific issues […]
COLLEGE STATION — One of the first lessons students enrolled in Dr. Kevin Krisciunas‘s introductory astronomy course at Texas A&M University learn is to expect the unexpected. On any given day, for instance, it’s nothing out of the ordinary for the unconventional and extroverted instructor to show up to class dressed as a Renaissance-era minstrel […]
COLLEGE STATION — Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, a Texas A&M University-led team of astronomers has uncovered what may very well be the earliest, most distant cluster of galaxies ever detected. The group of roughly 60 galaxies, called CLG J02182-05102, is nearly 10 billion years old — born just 4 billion years after the Big […]
COLLEGE STATION — Dr. Marlan O. Scully, a distinguished professor of physics at Texas A&M University, has received the Distinguished Scientist Award for 2010 from the Texas A&M chapter of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. Scully, a world-renowned pioneer of quantum optics and laser physics, was honored for his contributions to both fields as […]
COLLEGE STATION — At the same time most Texas A&M University students, faculty and staff will be leaving Aggieland next week for spring break, many of the world’s foremost experts in string theory and M-theory will be gathering on the Texas A&M campus to participate in the 2010 Strings Conference, hosted March 15-19 by the […]
COLLEGE STATION — Nearly two months after unveiling their detection of two events with characteristics matching those of the particles physicists believe make up dark matter, scientists from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) experiment — including physicists from Texas A&M University — celebrated another milestone Thursday (Feb. 11): publication in the prestigious journal Science. […]
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, […]
COLLEGE STATION — “T-rays” may make X-rays obsolete as a means of detecting bombs on terrorists or illegal drugs on traffickers, among other uses, contends a Texas A&M University physicist who is helping lay the theoretic groundwork to make the concept a reality. In addition to being more revealing than X-rays in some situations, T-rays […]
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 — 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 […]
BROWNSVILLE — As part of a statewide celebration of astronomy in commemoration of 2009 as the official International Year of Astronomy, the Department of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Texas at Brownsville will host an evening under the stars Sunday (Nov. 15) featuring a free public lecture by Texas A&M University astronomer Dr. […]
COLLEGE STATION — Does your laptop sometimes get so hot that it can almost be used to fry eggs? New technology may help cool it and give information technology a unique twist, says Dr. Jairo Sinova, a Texas A&M University physics professor. Sinova and colleagues from Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory, Institute of Physics ASCR, University of […]
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 […]
LUBBOCK — As part of a statewide celebration of astronomy in commemoration of 2009 as the official International Year of Astronomy, the Department of Physics at Texas Tech University will host an evening of astronomy Thursday (Sept. 24) featuring a free public lecture by Texas A&M University astronomer Dr. Nicholas B. Suntzeff. Suntzeff, director of […]
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 […]
DALLAS — As part of a statewide celebration of astronomy in commemoration of 2009 as the official International Year of Astronomy, the Dallas Museum of Nature & Science and members of the Texas Astronomical Society in Dallas will host an evening of astronomy Saturday (May 2) featuring a free public lecture by Texas A&M University […]
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