Category: College of Science

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).

For the 20th consecutive year, nearly 1,000 middle and high school students from across the state will visit the Texas A&M University campus this weekend for a Texas-sized science and engineering competition, the 2022 Texas Science Olympiad.

Texas A&M Science Ph.D. students Priyanga Ganesan '22 and Asim Maity '18 are among 18 selected university-wide to receive 2022 Distinguished Graduate Student Awards recognizing exemplary achievement in teaching or research.

The Trotter Prize and Endowed Lecture Series, set this year for Wednesday, Apr. 6, in Rudder Theatre, seeks to illuminate connections between science and religion, often viewed in academia as non-overlapping if not rival world views.

On April 1, Texas A&M Science will celebrate some of its best and brightest -- three classes of inductees into its Academy of Distinguished Former Students, more than 200 current scholarship recipients, and the many generous donors who make each gift possible.

Two Texas A&M Science graduate programs along with four specialty programs are listed among the nation's top 10 for public institutions in the U.S. News & World Report's "2023 Best Graduate Schools" report, the publication's first national survey of graduate programs in the sciences since 2019.

Three College of Science faculty are among the university's 24 recipients of the 2022 Distinguished Achievement Award recognizing exemplary efforts in teaching, research, student relations, graduate mentoring, administration, staff, and extension/outreach/continuing education/professional development.

Chemist James Pennington and mathematician Oksana Shatalov are among 10 campus faculty unveiled February 28 as Texas A&M University's third cohort of Provost Academic Professional Track Faculty Teaching Excellence Award recipients honored for exceptional classroom teaching that fosters meaningful learning experiences.

Join Texas A&M University in celebrating 30 years of the annual Women In Science and Engineering Conference and learning from some of the best in the STEM professions and Aggieland as part of this year's upcoming virtual event, "Beyond the Screen: Reconnecting With STEM," set for Saturday, February 26, via Zoom.

Biologist Deborah Bell-Pedersen and statistician Valen Johnson are among seven Texas A&M University faculty members recognized as 2021 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for their efforts to advance science or its applications.

Dr. Ya Wang, holder of the Leland T. Jordan Career Development Professorship in Texas A&M's J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering, will present the 2021-2022 Ethel Ashworth-Tsutsui Memorial Lecture, set for 4:10 p.m. Wednesday, January 26, in Room 440 of the Zachry Engineering Education Complex.

Texas A&M Science celebrated 16 faculty, staff and student award recipients, not to mention another year of overall achievements and progress as part of the college's annual Faculty & Staff Meeting and Awards Presentation, held October 27 in the Stephen W. Hawking Auditorium.

Four of the eight Hagler Institute for Advanced Study Fellows for 2021-22 will be hosted by or affiliated with Texas A&M Science, including three members of the National Academies and one who also is a recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Texas A&M astronomer and Associate Dean for Undergraduate and International Programs Lucas Macri is one of four emerging faculty leaders across the campus selected as Southeastern Conference Academic Leadership Development Program Fellows for 2021-2022.

Two Bryan-College Station teachers are among a dozen nationwide who have been selected by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and its chief scientific agency, the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), through the Texas A&M Center for Mathematics and Science Education (CMSE) to receive stipends in recognition of their work with the USDA Future Scientists Program, a 27-year collaboration between the USDA/ARS and the CMSE.