Every summer, incoming Aggie freshmen report to Reed Arena for Fish Camp with stuffed luggage bags and vague expectations of the week ahead. By the time they find a parking spot in Lot 100, most of those expectations have already vanished. Up and down the sidewalk and throughout the lot, camp counselors clad head-to-toe in […]
If the success of the Lead by Example campaign has sent one message, it is this: Texas A&M University is ready to take its next big step forward. With its resources, leadership and famously loyal network of former students, there is little reason for Texas A&M to aim for any standard less than that of the greatest public […]
COLLEGE STATION — While traveling with Texas A&M University students in Italy nearly 20 years ago, Carolyn Adair ’69 discovered an overgrown olive tree grove badly in need of nurturing. Through a bit of coaxing and a labor of love, she and her husband Tom ’57 bought and transformed the grove into Amici Italian Imports, […]
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 […]
COLLEGE STATION — Houston businessman George P. Mitchell, a 1940 distinguished petroleum engineering graduate of Texas A&M University, legendary oil and gas pioneer and real estate developer, and all-time most generous donor in Texas A&M history, has passed away at the age of 94. Memorial service arrangements are pending for Mitchell, who died Friday (July […]
COLLEGE STATION — A decade after making his first million-dollar gift intended to help transform Texas A&M University into a world leader in fundamental physics and astronomy, Houston businessman George P. Mitchell has come full circle in that commitment with a $20 million legacy gift to benefit the namesake institute where it all began. Mitchell, […]
COLLEGE STATION — As hundreds of students take in another day’s lecture inside the main lecture hall of the George P. Mitchell ’40 Physics Building at Texas A&M University, the beauty of nature is quietly and unceremoniously unfolding above their heads. Within the vast foliage of the near-10,000-square-foot Cynthia Woods Mitchell Garden, the campus’ first […]
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 — The George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of a major theoretical discovery in physics, the “ADM formalism,” with a conference in honor of the three scientists who invented the theory in 1959. “ADM-50: A Celebration of Current […]
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. 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 […]
AUSTIN — The 81st Legislature of the State of Texas today (Feb. 24) will honor the state’s two flagship universities with a joint resolution, recognizing their cutting-edge research and outreach efforts in astronomy in celebration of 2009 as the official International Year of Astronomy. The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University will […]
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 — 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 — Family and friends of Matthew P. Hodges, a 2000 graduate of Texas A&M University who died unexpectedly last May, are honoring his memory with an endowed scholarship in physics in the Texas A&M College of Science. The Matthew P. Hodges ’00 Memorial Scholarship, established through the Texas A&M Foundation by Hodges’ widow, […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University President Robert M. Gates and longtime donor George P. Mitchell ’40, along with other university and Texas A&M System officials, broke ground yesterday on two new physics buildings on campus, made possible by a $35 million gift from Mitchell and his wife, Cynthia. The groundbreaking ceremonies for the George […]
COLLEGE STATION — Design plans for two new physics buildings have been approved by the Board of Regents and construction will begin on the buildings as early as May. Their construction is part of a $35 million donation to Texas A&M by George P. Mitchell, Class of 1940, with the intention of helping the University […]
HOUSTON — George P. Mitchell of Houston is spearheading the development of a new science initiative at Texas A&M University with a $35 million gift to support an effort to propel the institution into the front ranks of fundamental physics and astronomy. This donation by the oil, gas and land development entrepreneur and his wife, […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University and The University of Texas at Austin are joining the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) Consortium to explore the frontiers of our universe as the result of a $1.25 million gift to Texas A&M from George P. Mitchell of Houston and matching funds from The University of Texas at Austin. […]
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