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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
by JOSH BAUGH COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M broke ground Wednesday for two “signature buildings” that will be the first structures built in the university’s $300 million campus construction plan. The $57 million George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy and the George P. Mitchell ’40 Physics Building will help […]
COLLEGE STATION — According to a Nobel laureate in chemistry, too many college science teachers have got it all wrong, using classroom methods that turn students off from careers in those fields. Instead, he recommends that they borrow techniques from their colleagues in the humanities to stimulate inquiry into and excitement about problems taken from […]
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