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February 6, 2008

Texas A&M Physics Graduate Remembered with Scholarship

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, […]

January 31, 2008

HISTORICAL HORIZONS: International Team Establishes Observatory in Antarctica, Astronomy’s New Playground

DOME ARGUS, Antartica — DOME ARGUS, Antarctica — A team of scientists representing six international institutions, including Texas A&M University, has succeeded in reaching the summit of Antarctica, not to mention that of ground-based astronomy, to establish a new astronomical observatory at Dome Argus on the highest point of the Antarctic Plateau. Two weeks after […]

December 7, 2007

Belyanin Honored for Research Excellence

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 […]

Giant Magellan Telescope reflecting the Chilean sunset.

December 3, 2007

HEAVENS ABOVE: Giant Telescope Will Unravel Universe’s Secrets, Profs Say

COLLEGE STATION — Nestled high in the Andes Mountains of northern Chile, a rocky plot of ground will be the site for the world’s largest telescope — one so powerful that it is expected to give perhaps the first definitive answer of whether or not there is life beyond Earth. Everything about the telescope is […]

November 27, 2007

Researchers Examine Einstein’s Theories

COLLEGE STATION — Einstein’s self-proclaimed “biggest blunder” — his postulation of a cosmological constant (a force that opposes gravity and keeps the Universe from collapsing) — may not be such a blunder after all, according to the research of an international team of scientists that includes two Texas A&M University researchers. The team is working […]

November 1, 2007

ELEMENTARY! Holmes Comet Erupts to Shock of Curious World

COLLEGE STATION — Just as he has for most of the last 30 years, Texas A&M University astronomer Dr. Nicholas B. Suntzeff spent the past week watching the night sky. His obsession in this particular case was a comet — particular, more precisely, because he didn’t need a telescope. In likely the biggest surprise in […]

October 23, 2007

Texas A&M Physicists Receive Inaugural Hyer Research Award

COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University physicists Dmitry S. Pestov and Dr. Alexei V. Sokolov have been selected as the inaugural recipients of the Robert S. Hyer Research Award of the Texas Section of the American Physical Society (TSAPS). The award, presented Friday (Oct. 19) during a lunch ceremony as part of the two-day Texas […]

October 17, 2007

Physics to Host Texas Professional Groups and Two-Day Conference

COLLEGE STATION — Local science enthusiasts and physics professionals throughout the Lone Star State are in for a Texas-sized treat this weekend as Texas A&M University plays host to the Texas sections of three major professional groups and a two-day showcase of international excellence in physics. Texas Physics 2007 is scheduled for Friday-Saturday, Oct. 19-20, […]

October 4, 2007

Site Selected for Construction of Giant Magellan Telescope

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A site in northern Chile has been selected as the new home for the future of astronomy, the $500 million Giant Magellan Telescope. Officials with the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) Consortium, which includes Texas A&M University and eight other partner institutions, announced earlier this week that the GMT will be constructed at […]

Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy (CARS)

October 1, 2007

Scully Selected for Eminent Harvard Lectureship

COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University Distinguished Professor of Physics Dr. Marlan O. Scully has been selected as a 2007 Morris Loeb Lecturer in Physics at Harvard University. Scully, a world-renowned pioneer in quantum and laser physics, is the latest in a staggering line of internationally eminent scientists and mathematicians to receive the highly coveted […]

July 17, 2007

Texas A&M Physicist Shares in $500,000 Gruber Cosmology Prize

NEW YORK — Dr. Nicholas B. Suntzeff, professor of physics at Texas A&M University and a world-renowned expert in supernovae and cosmology, is one of 52 international researchers who will share in the 2007 Gruber Cosmology Prize for their work toward the discovery that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating. The prestigious prize, valued […]

June 14, 2007

Wellington to Head 2008 Student Research Week Committee

COLLEGE STATION — Tracey Wellington, a doctoral student in the Department of Physics at Texas A&M University, has been named director of the 2008 Student Research Week (SRW) Committee. By virtue of this appointment, Wellington is responsible for the coordination of all logistics for the 2008 SRW Competition, including judges, volunteers, recruiting, awards and advertisement. […]

May 10, 2007

Physics to Host PPC 2007, Two Lectures by Nobel Prize Winners

COLLEGE STATION — Two Nobel Prize-winning physicists will visit Texas A&M University next week to deliver public lectures on two of the hottest topics in science — particle physics and cosmology. Dr. George F. Smoot, an astrophysicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and professor of physics at the University of California-Berkeley, shared in the 2006 […]

April 12, 2007

Stephen Hawking Draws Crowds, Spotlight to Texas A&M Physics

COLLEGE STATION — As Texas A&M University finalizes preparations for Parents’ Weekend, one of its biggest and busiest annual events, science is proving to be one hot ticket across the campus and beyond. Days after announcement of University of Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking’s April 15 public lecture at Texas A&M — his second appearance in […]

April 1, 2007

Stephen Hawking to Headline Physics Festival 2007

COLLEGE STATION — The Department of Physics at Texas A&M University invites science enthusiasts across the Brazos Valley and beyond to participate later this month in Physics Festival 2007, an entertaining and informative scientific extravaganza for all ages featuring a hands-on science exhibition and two public lectures by renowned physicists. Public events will kick off […]

November 30, 2006

ASYMMETRIC ASHES: Astronomers Study Shape of Stellar Candles

COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University astrophysicist Dr. Lifan Wang and colleagues Drs. Dietrich Baade and Ferdinando Patat from the renowned European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Munich, Germany, are reporting remarkable new findings that help shed light on a decade-long debate about one kind of supernova, the explosion that marks a star’s final demise: Does […]

October 17, 2006

Nanopoulos Honored with Onassis International Prize

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 […]

June 9, 2006

Pope Named Distinguished Professor of Physics

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 […]

June 7, 2006

Preeminent Astronomy Expert Tapped to Head New A&M Program

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 […]

May 25, 2006

Physics Breaks Ground on Mitchell Buildings

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 […]