Senior Grace Vaughn ’23 credits Texas A&M University with cultivating her passion for selfless service, a tradition she plans to continue to honor in the professional world.…Read More→ The post Grace Vaughn ’23: A Cadet’s Mission For Selfless Service appeared first on the The College of Arts and Sciences News page.
Addy J. Evans ’21, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University, has been selected to receive a United States Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program Award in support of research addressing scientific challenges central to the agency’s mission and workforce development. Evans, who is completing […]
Although educational outreach programs sometimes get short shrift in academic circles in terms of prioritizing, funding and staffing, a new Texas A&M University study indicates they are a solid investment with benefits far beyond the institutional bottom line when it comes to physics. Physicists and learning scientists at Texas A&M and the University of Texas […]
One of the biggest challenges organizations face among the many potential hazards they encounter when sending humans and aerospace systems traveling through the endless reaches of the cosmos is the harsh radiation environment. All it takes is a single rogue particle to wreak havoc on the electronic components of a spacecraft with potentially catastrophic results. […]
Women studying physics across Texas and adjacent states will gather at Texas A&M University this weekend for the Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) as part of a broader national push to encourage and support women pursuing scientific and technical careers. The three-day conference, which starts Friday (Jan. 17) and runs through Sunday (Jan. […]
NASA peer-reviewed a total of 966 proposals that were submitted to the inaugural Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST19). Four funding divisions in the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) at NASA Headquarters: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Planetary Science, and Astrophysics conducted/provided oversight for the peer review process. NASA Astrophysics FINESST-19 had a […]
Sometimes when she’s alone in an observatory, surrounded by computer screens and terabytes of data in some remote control room, peering deep into the mysterious black cosmos, Taylor Hutchison ’22 likes to take a moment to remind herself just how fortunate she is. It’s hard to blame Hutchison, a graduate student in the Texas A&M […]
COLLEGE STATION — Roughly a decade after launching a new astronomy program and hiring one of the co-discoverers of dark energy to lead it, Texas A&M University is set to come full-academic circle this fall, offering its first master’s and doctoral degrees in astronomy. Texas A&M’s new astronomy graduate program within the Department of Physics […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University physics graduate student Daniel Nagasawa ’16 has some advice for budding astronomers: Never cease being amazed by things perceived as basic, from light to the elements. As a member of Texas A&M’s Charles R. ’62 and Judith G. Munnerlyn Astronomical Instrumentation Laboratory, Nagasawa’s passion for astronomy is steered by […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
COLLEGE STATION — Indara Suarez didn’t speak a word of English when she arrived to the U.S. from Mexico at age 12. The grades she made in high school weren’t good enough to get her into a four-year university. Now as a doctoral student at Texas A&M University working toward a Ph.D. in high-energy physics, […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University graduate Dr. William A. Robba ’51 spent the bulk of his life traveling the country as part of a pioneering career in nuclear physics, yet he never forgot his educational roots. His family didn’t either, recently paying tribute to Robba, his lifetime of achievement and the university he said […]
“My name is Alfredo Gurrola. I am a 25-year-old doctoral candidate from Texas A&M University. I have been stationed at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) for nearly a year and have had the great pleasure of working with some of the greatest physics minds in the world. “For the past 3.5 years, I […]
COLLEGE STATION — Peter Wagner, a former physics graduate student at Texas A&M University, has been selected as a co-recipient of the 2008 Universities Research Association (URA) Thesis Award honoring the top doctoral thesis in particle physics. The prestigious prize, which includes a $3,500 monetary award and a certificate, is given annually in recognition of […]
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 — Juntao Chang, a graduate of China’s Peking University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in physics, did not expect that one day he would help teach in classrooms in the United States. But Chang said despite some difficulties, he felt it was an interesting job to have. Chang, a doctoral student in […]
From 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday (April 25) the Department of Physics is having its annual open house for the purpose of recruiting graduate students. Students from other parts of The Texas A&M University System, as well as other universities both within the state and in contiguous states will meet in Rooms 205 and […]
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