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Texas A&M junior chemistry major Oscar Gonzalez '20 has been named a 2019 Goldwater Scholar by the Goldwater Scholarship Foundation in recognition of outstanding academic achievement and research potential. Gonzalez, a Science Leadership Scholar, is among 48 Texas A&M students selected to date for the prestigious honor since the initial scholarship was issued in 1989.

Congratulations to Texas A&M physicist and Mitchell Institute Director Bhaskar Dutta, who has been appointed as holder of the Mitchell-Heep Chair in High Energy Physics.

Sarah Witherspoon, a widely respected expert in algebra and a Texas A&M faculty member since 2004, has been appointed as head of the Texas A&M Department of Mathematics, effective September 1, 2019.

Join The Stella Hotel and Texas A&M Astronomy Thursday (June 13) to kick off the summer season in style at a free Star Party at The Stella from 9 to 11 p.m.!

Texas A&M chemist Karen Wooley's laboratory is fighting hemorrhage — a leading cause of death in traumatic injuries — by developing a bioabsorbable wound dressing with encapsulated chitosan nanofibers that, when applied to liver injury sites in animals, dissolves in as little as seven days, eliminating the need for subsequent physical removal and any chance of re-injury in the process

Congratulations to Texas A&M statistician Cliff Spiegelman, who has been recognized by the Texas A&M chapter of Sigma Xi with one of its primary annual awards celebrating scientific excellence and advancement — the 2019 Outstanding Science Communicator Award.

Texas A&M physicist Ed Fry has been selected to receive the Texas A&M Foundation's 2019 Partner in Philanthropy Faculty Award recognizing his commitment to enhancing and encouraging a culture of philanthropy at Texas A&M University.

Congratulations to Texas A&M Chemistry's Larry Brown, one of two faculty members who have been appointed to 2019 University Professorships in Undergraduate Teaching Excellence (UPUTE) at Texas A&M University.

Texas A&M Science Ph.D. students Rajat Maji, Shubhadeep Chakraborty and Agustin Millet are among 15 selected university-wide to receive 2019 Distinguished Graduate Student Awards recognizing excellence in research, teaching and mentoring.

Fifteen Texas A&M students enrolled in Physics 206 (Classical Mechanics) this spring were honored as Pearson Mechanics Scholars after earning top-scoring marks on an end-of-semester challenge exam.

Congratulations to Texas A&M biologist Deborah Bell-Pedersen, one of five Texas A&M faculty named to the inaugural class of University Professorship holders, a new distinction intended to recognize, elevate and amplify faculty achievement and impact.

On April 28, friends, family and colleagues across the Texas A&M campus gathered to remember Texas A&M professor Wesley Thompson, a neurobiologist who joined the Department of Biology in 2013 and explored various developmental aspects of the simplest of all vertebrae synapses, the neuromuscular junction, to gain insight into how the brain and overall human body adjust to aging, disease and injury.