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The Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose theories about symmetry in nature set the stage for today’s understanding of how elementary particles behave will present two lectures Friday (Sept. 27) at Texas A&M University. Chen Ning Yang, who won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1957, will present a general interest lecture, “Symmetry and Physics,” at 4 […]

Robert Charles Lee and Martha (Weiblen) Lee of San Antonio have created a $51,250 endowed scholarship fund in Texas A&M University’s College of Science. The Lee Endowed Scholarship Fund will provide need-based scholarships to students from Smithville High School and Medina Valley High School pursuing a degree in science at Texas A&M. Such need-based scholarships […]

Chemistry researchers at Texas A&M University have received grants totaling almost $840,000 to conduct basic research aimed at helping the federal Department of Energy dispose of radioactive wastes at Cold War-era nuclear sites. Projects being conducted by Texas A&M chemists Abraham Clearfield and Jack Lunsford were among 139 basic research projects at universities and national […]

Physicist Marlan O. Scully has been named a distinguished professor in Texas A&M University’s Department of Physics. Scully joined the Texas A&M faculty as professor of physics in 1992 after stints on the physics faculties of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Arizona and University of New Mexico. He was named director of Texas […]

Richard E. Ewing, dean of Texas A&M University’s College of Science, will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Bergen, Norway, Aug. 20, as part of the university’s 50th anniversary celebration. Bergen’s Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences nominated Ewing for this honor to recognize his central role in the field of applied mathematics/numerical […]

Theoretical physicist Michael Duff is trying to change the shape of the universe or at least the shape of the stuff it is made of. If theories proposed over the past year by Duff and his colleagues in Texas A&M University’s Center for Theoretical Physics hold up, particles that are the building blocks of the […]

Presentation of the second Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation will highlight Statistics Awareness Day Thursday (April 18) at Texas A&M University. Statistician Donald B. Rubin of Harvard University will receive the prize and deliver a lecture on his groundbreaking research during an award ceremony at 7:45 p.m. in Room 206 of Texas A&M’s Memorial Student […]

More than 100 of the state’s finest and youngest scientists will be on the Texas A&M University campus Tuesday and Wednesday (April 16-17) to show off their research skills in the 1996 Texas Junior Academy of Science (TJAS). The Junior Academy of Science is a statewide competition sponsored by the Texas Academy of Science in […]

Sixth grade girls from around the Brazos Valley can learn more about careers in mathematics and science in workshops at Texas A&M University Saturday (March 23). Registration for “Expanding Your Horizons in Science and Mathematics,” sponsored by Texas A&M’s Center for Academic Enhancement and the Bryan-College Station branch of the American Association of University Women, […]

Superconductors, those high-tech materials that were supposed to revolutionize everything from computers to the late superconducting super collider, don’t seem to have lived up to their advance billing, scientists say. That didn’t seem to bother a group of physicists — including a Nobel laureate — who gathered March 11 at Texas A&M University for a […]

Texas A&M University chemist Gary Sulikowski has been selected an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow. This highly competitive fellowship program for young scientists, sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, provides recipients with $35,000 in research support over a two-year period. Sulikowski’s principal areas of research are total synthesis of natural and unnatural products of […]

Richard E. Ewing, dean of Texas A&M University’s College of Science, has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The AAAS Council (the association’s governing body) elects Fellows each year whose “efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications are scientifically or socially distinguished.” Ewing, dean […]