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Emily Pentzer, an associate professor in Texas A&M Materials Science and Engineering and Texas A&M Chemistry, has been named a finalist for the 2022 Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists in Physical Sciences & Engineering, one of three such annual awards that honor the achievements and potential of rising researchers.

Congratulations to Thomas W. Powell '62, one of 12 Aggies honored this year with the university's highest former student honor, the Distinguished Alumnus Award. Powell, an entrepreneur in electrical energy systems who served as the longtime chief executive officer and chairman of Houston-based Powell Industries Inc., received his bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1962 from Texas A&M.

Texas A&M chemist Wenshe Ray Liu has been appointed as the inaugural holder of the Harry E. Bovay, Jr. Endowed Chair in Chemistry, recently created by combining gifts from two Texas-based philanthropic organizations and 2022 Texas A&M Distinguished Alumnus Thomas W. Powell '62 to establish a $1 million endowment dedicated to advancing chemistry research at Texas A&M.

1990 Texas A&M chemistry Ph.D. graduate Carl McAfee is leading an innovative effort through his Kennedale-based company, McAfee Consulting LLC, to turn recycled rubber and scrap plastics into various composite materials poised to make a major impact across economic, environmental and national security sectors.

Texas A&M senior biology major and University Scholar Annabel Perry '22 has made the absolute most of her innate curiosity, research opportunities and faculty mentorship during her four-year undergraduate career in Aggieland that culminates Saturday in a bachelor's degree with honors en route to the Ph.D. program in human evolutionary biology at Harvard this fall.

Congratulations to Texas A&M mathematician Jennifer Whitfield, one of five faculty members who have been appointed to 2022 University Professorships in Undergraduate Teaching Excellence (UPUTE) at Texas A&M University.

Congratulations to Texas A&M University's latest National Academy of Sciences member, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chemistry Donald Darensbourg — the third Texas A&M chemist to earn the prestigious accolade since 2017.

Texas A&M astronomy Ph.D. candidate Addy Evans ’21 is one of 80 recipients nationwide of a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program Award — the third Texas A&M student and first in astronomy to earn selection thus far in the program’s eight-year history.

Be it high winds and utility outages, local flooding, or an active shooter, when disaster strikes, multiple agencies and non-government organizations respond. The cutting-edge technologies, multifaceted logistics and collaborative efforts required to ensure optimum coordination of that response will be on full display next week during the Public Safety Interoperability Institute 2022 (Interop’22), set for May 2-6 at Disaster City and hosted by the Texas A&M Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center (ITEC).

The Texas A&M Institute for Neuroscience has received a five-year, $1.25 million National Institutes of Health grant to build a comprehensive student training and research program aimed at promoting diversity efforts across the neuroscience community and broader campus by expanding on its recent success in replacing the traditional one-on-one research mentoring model with a team-based approach centered on assets and leadership.

A Texas A&M-led collaborative team of nuclear scientists has concluded in a recent study published in "Nature Communications" that the role neutrons play in the creation of carbon, considered the definitive building block of life, actually is much smaller than previously thought.

Dr. Dana Randall, ADVANCE Professor of Computing and Adjunct Professor of Mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, will visit the Texas A&M University campus next week to present two public lectures in conjunction with the Dr. Carl "C.J." Maxson Endowed Lecture Series, sponsored by the Department of Mathematics.