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Age may be great if you’re talking about wine or cheese, but in the world of professional golf, you rarely hit the green if you’re gray. That’s the conclusion of a recent study by a Texas A&M statistics professor who has charted and graphed and proved mathematically what many have suspected – the older the […]

Dathan Bennett from Coldspring High School and James Shaw from Navasota High School won first and second place senior division “Best-of-Fair” awards at the 25th annual Brazos Valley Regional Science and Engineering Fair and will compete in the 50th annual International Science and Engineering Fair in Philadelphia, Pa., May 2-8. The students also will receive […]

The Department of Biology presents a lecture series this week by Bernd Bukau, of the Institut fuer Biochemie und Molekularbiologie Universitaet Freiburg in Germany. Bukau’s first lecture, “Biological repair of proteins: heat shock, chaperones, and the unboiling of eggs,” will be at 4 p.m. today (April 5) in Room 601 Rudder. Bukau will present a […]

Three Texas A&M University students, William S. Horn, John Proctor and Kenneth Spencer, have been designated Goldwater Scholars for the 1999-2000 academic year. Announcement of their selection was made by the board of trustees of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. Horn is a senior chemistry major from Arlington. Proctor, a […]

Two Texas A&M University researchers will share a $5,000 award for a project that involves semiconductor manufacturing and environment, safety and health. John Bevan, professor of chemistry, and Christopher Hartz, a post-doctoral fellow in the Chemistry Department, will share the award scheduled to be presented tonight (March 29) during the annual conference of the Semiconductor […]

High cholesterol is a known risk factor for coronary heart disease, yet it is not the only one. About 40 percent of heart attack patients who reach an emergency room have normal cholesterol levels. Identifying other heart disease risk factors has been a challenge for a Texas A&M University research team says chemist Ronald Macfarlane, […]

Last season, baseball’s Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa both broke a home run record that had stood for 37 years. So what are the chances they can repeat such success for 1999? Simply put, says a Texas A&M University professor of statistics, the odds are against the big leaguers in a big-time way. McGwire (of […]

Dr. Alexander Pines, professor of chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley, was awarded the F.A. Cotton Medal for excellence in chemical research Wednesday (March 10) at Texas A&M University. The medal is awarded annually and is named in honor of Frank Cotton, currently a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Texas A&M. Pines, a […]

Charles Lamb shuffles his deck of playing cards and proceeds to show his audience of wide-eyed students and teachers some of his card tricks. Lamb, professor of educational curriculum and instruction at Texas A&M University, can guess which card a student picked from the deck without ever seeing the card. Although it looks like magic […]

Texas A&M University’s College of Science will host the first Ethel Ashworth-Tsutsui Memorial Lecture Series and Awards Program at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday (Jan. 27) in room 457 of the Blocker Building. The featured speaker will be Joanne Lupton, an authority in the area of dietary fiber and its effect on colon physiology and colon cancer. […]

James H. Bramble has been named a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics by The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents. Bramble joined the mathematics faculty at Texas A&M in 1994. His research interests include partial differential equations, numerical methods for partial differential equations and multigrid methods. Bramble received his Ph.D. at the University of Maryland […]

Soon, distance education at Texas A&M University will mean more to students than trying to get from Main Campus to West Campus in 20 minutes or less. This spring, several sections of Chemistry 107, General Chemistry for Engineering Majors, will be offered as a distance education telecourse. Larry Brown, course designer and coordinator, will deliver […]