Category: Research

A team of researchers including Texas A&M astronomer Casey Papovich has identified a galaxy in recent images from the James Webb Space Telescope that they estimate is being observed as it was just 290 million years after the Big Bang, making it one of the earliest galaxies ever observed and a strong indication that galaxies started forming much earlier than many astronomers previously thought.

The Giant Magellan Telescope has secured a $205 million investment from its international consortium to accelerate its construction in Chile as the most powerful telescope ever engineered that will allow astronomers to see farther into space with more detail than any other previous optical telescope before and work in direct synergy with James Webb Space Telescope to empower new scientific discoveries.

Texas A&M astronomer Casey Papovich offers his initial perspective on the first images released by the James Webb Space Telescope, the world's premier space science observatory with unprecedented infrared vision capable of peering back more than 13.5 billion years to see the first stars and galaxies forming out of the darkness of the early universe.

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.

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.

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.

Scientists within the Collider Detector at Fermilab collaboration have achieved the most precise measurement to date of the mass of the W boson, one of nature’s force-carrying particles -- a result that shows significant tension with the value expected based on the Standard Model of particle physics.

Texas A&M junior biology major Joseph Chen ’23 has been named a 2022 Goldwater Scholar by the Goldwater Scholarship Foundation in recognition of outstanding academic achievement and research potential -- one of 54 Texas A&M students selected to date for the prestigious honor since the initial scholarship was issued in 1989.

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.

Texas A&M and its partners in the Giant Magellan Telescope have awarded renowned Spain-based engineering and architecture firm IDOM a contract to complete the final telescope enclosure design by 2024.

Texas A&M biologist Kira Delmore has been selected to receive a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, a prestigious honor intended to help kick-start the careers of rising faculty with the potential to become academic leaders in both research and education and the first-ever awarded in the Department of Biology.

Texas A&M chemist Matthew Sheldon is one of four inaugural recipients of the Early Career Award in Nanophotonics recognizing early stage researchers for their work that has advanced the world's fundamental understanding of photonics.

Texas A&M mathematician Patricia Alonso Ruiz has been selected to receive a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, a prestigious honor intended to help kick-start the careers of rising faculty with the potential to become academic leaders in both research and education.