COLLEGE STATION — The Perkins brothers try to keep the conversation casual at family get-togethers, usually sticking to the weather, sports or life in general. But invariably, the small talk will turn into a lively debate on the race to Mars or any number of topical issues in the field of physics. The subject is […]
ATACAMA DESERT, Chile — Leading scientists, senior officials and supporters from an international consortium of universities and research institutions including Texas A&M University are gathering on a remote mountaintop high in the Chilean Andes today (Wednesday, Nov. 11) to celebrate groundbreaking for the Giant Magellan Telescope. The ceremony marks the commencement of onsite construction of […]
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 — Six Texas A&M University professors recently have been appointed to endowed chairs and professorships within the College of Science, announced Dr. H. Joseph Newton, dean of the College of Science. Wenshe Liu has been appointed as the inaugural holder of the Emile and Marta Schweikert Professorship in Chemistry, established in May 2014 […]
COLLEGE STATION — As one of 11 international partners in the Giant Magellan Telescope, Texas A&M University is part of important astrophysical history set to go down today (Friday, Sept. 18) beneath a football stadium in Tucson — the casting of the telescope’s fourth primary mirror at the University of Arizona’s Richard F. Caris Mirror […]
COLLEGE STATION — Astronomers from across Texas will be visiting the Texas A&M University campus next month for a weekend workshop focused on the growth of astronomy and related scientific collaborations throughout the Lone Star State. Building Astronomy in Texas is set for September 26-27 at the George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for […]
COLLEGE STATION — Using one of the world’s most powerful digital cameras, scientists with the Dark Energy Survey have discovered eight more faint celestial objects hovering near our Milky Way galaxy, along with signs indicating that they — like the objects found by the same team earlier this year — likely are dwarf satellite galaxies, […]
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 […]
PASADENA, Calif. — The Giant Magellan Telescope Organization has announced today (Wednesday, June 3) that its 11 international partners — including Texas A&M University — have committed more than US$500 million to begin construction of the first of a new generation of extremely large telescopes. Once it is built, the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is […]
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 — Hans A. Schuessler, professor of physics and astronomy at Texas A&M University, has been recognized as one of three faculty recipients of 2015 Bush Excellence Awards for international teaching, international research and public service. Schuessler, who was honored for his excellence in international research, received the prestigious award along with co-recipients Paul […]
BALTIMORE — Dark Energy Survey (DES) scientists, including astronomers at Texas A&M University, are celebrating the release of the first in a series of dark matter maps of the cosmos. The new map, released today (April 13) at the American Physical Society April 2015 Meeting in Baltimore, Md., was created using data captured by the […]
COLLEGE STATION — Picture, if you will, the ultimate universal home movie if not parental keepsake and life story: our Milky Way Galaxy, starting out as but a wee collection of young stars some 12 billion years ago, continuously feeding on the gas of smaller nearby galaxies and undergoing a huge burst of star births […]
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 — It ain’t easy being green, but you’ll have two chances at seeing green next week at Texas A&M University’s 2015 Physics and Engineering Festival, to be headlined by world-renowned physicist, bestselling author and science communicator Dr. Brian Greene. Experience the many wonders of science and technology as the featured attraction in the […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University astronomers are among the hundreds of scientists worldwide celebrating the first fruits from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), a five-year global effort to map the southern sky in unprecedented detail with the ultimate goal of explaining the universe’s accelerating expansion. Earlier today (March 10), the U.S. Department of Energy-funded […]
COLLEGE STATION — The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents has authorized the execution of an amended and restated Founders’ Agreement and Commitment Agreement with the GMTO Corporation, reaffirming Texas A&M University’s support to assist in building the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) and helping to pave the way for construction to begin in Chile […]
COLLEGE STATION — When it comes to sure signs that spring has arrived in Aggieland, there are budding Bradford pears, bluebonnets, Monarch butterflies and Texas A&M University’s annual Physics and Engineering Festival. Although the 2015 version of the free annual event (view promotional poster online) is still more than a month away, officials encourage the […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University has been selected for membership in the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc. (AURA), the prestigious international organization dedicated to the advancement of astronomy and related sciences. Texas A&M has been admitted for a three-year term through June 30, 2017 as the 40th United States member of […]
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