College of Arts and Sciences faculty are working collaboratively with colleagues across the state in a Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board project to improve introductory courses for institutions and the students they serve.
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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 […]
Texas A&M University and The Association of Former Students have selected 24 outstanding members of the university’s faculty and staff to be honored with 2020 Distinguished Achievement Awards. The university-level Distinguished Achievement Awards were first presented in 1955 and have since been awarded to more than 1,000 professionals who have exhibited the highest standards of […]
Texas A&M University invites audiences across Texas, the nation and even the world to get up-close and personal with science and technology this spring at the 2020 Physics & Engineering Festival, an entertaining and informative weekend scientific extravaganza for all ages. No fees or tickets are required for the free annual event (view promotional poster […]
The Texas A&M astronomy department is paving the way in space imaging. Professor Darren DePoy says the Aggies play a huge role in the world’s largest telescope, the Giant Magellan Telescope. “Building instruments that will go on that telescope that will allow us to make the science observations to what the universe is like better.” […]
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 — From his contributions to the oil and gas industry to his visionary real estate ventures to his untiring support of scientific endeavors, George P. Mitchell ’40 personifies “energy” and illustrates the impact of Texas A&M University’s 12th Man. Raised in an immigrant neighborhood in Galveston, Mitchell joined his brother, Johnny, in the […]
COLLEGE STATION — When the Space Shuttle Endeavour takes flight Friday (April 29) for its final mission, a $1.5 billion particle physics experiment with Texas A&M University ties will be along for the ride. As part of Endeavour’s swan song, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) — a galactic endeavor in its own right involving roughly […]
COLLEGE STATION — Stephen Hawking, world-renowned Cambridge University theoretical physicist famous for his theories on black holes and his best-selling books about the universe, will present a public lecture titled “The Origin of the Universe” Sunday, April 3, at 6 p.m. in Rudder Auditorium at Texas A&M University. Tickets, which range from $15 to $35 […]
COLLEGE STATION — Overflow seating is all that remains for world-famous University of Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking’s public lecture, “The Origin of the Universe,” scheduled for Sunday, April 3, at 6 p.m. at Texas A&M University. Less than a week after tickets went on sale, all 2,500 seats in Rudder Auditorium have been claimed, as […]
COLLEGE STATION — Ricardo Eusebi, Teruki Kamon, Alexei Safonov, David Toback and other physicists at Texas A&M University are part of a worldwide effort, using some of the most powerful high-energy physics equipment ever built, to help understand the fundamental construction of the physical world. They are on the trail of almost unimaginably small fundamental […]
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University and the entire Research Valley stand to benefit from agreements The Texas A&M University System’s Office of Technology Commercialization struck this week with Belgium-based businesses, several officials involved in the partnerships announced Friday. Trade delegation representatives from the Wallonia Foreign Trade and Investment Agency (AWEX), an agency of the […]
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 […]
COLLEGE STATION — As the first beam of protons careened at near-light speed around Europe’s $9 billion, 17-mile Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland in the early-morning hours of September 10, so did the hard work and dreams of seven Texas A&M University physicists. Texas A&M experimental physicists Teruki Kamon, David Toback, Alexei Safonov […]
HOUSTON — Though known as fierce rivals in the sporting arena, Texas’ flagship universities are uniting in a goal as big as the Universe, thanks to a cosmic initiative by Houston businessman and philanthropist George P. Mitchell, founder of Mitchell Energy & Development Corp. Spurred by Mitchell’s $3.25 million gift to his alma mater of […]
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 — While most people are taught at a young age to be careful not to break things, Saskia Mioduszewski’s fundamental research in nuclear physics depends on it. In her case, “things” are atomic nuclei, which hold the secrets to understanding what matter is made of. Mioduszewski, an assistant professor of physics at Texas […]
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, […]
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