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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.

Texas A&M chemist Lei Fang has been recognized with a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers in support of his research on conjugated polymers and novel organic materials with unprecedented electronic or optical properties and application.

Congratulations to 2020 Texas A&M chemistry Ph.D. graduate and postdoctoral research associate Rachel Davidson '19, recipient of a 2021 Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in support of her work toward artificial intelligence-driven design of energy materials.

Congratulations to Jennifer Bradford, graduate program coordinator in the Department of Biology, who has been selected to receive the 2021 Excellence in Graduate Advising Award as only the third such honoree in Texas A&M University history.

A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Texas A&M chemist Karen Wooley and Texas A&M chemical engineer Jodie Lutkenhaus has developed a new metal-free battery platform that could lead to more sustainable, recyclable batteries that minimize dependence on strategic metals.

Sophomore physics major Connor Bowerman '24 has been selected as one of two 2021-22 Texas A&M Beckman Scholars, a prestigious award intended to recognize and support exceptional undergraduate students in chemistry, biological sciences or interdisciplinary combinations thereof at selected universities across the United States.

Congratulations to Texas A&M statistician Alan Dabney, who has been named a 2021 Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence — the ninth recipient of the university's highest recognition for classroom performance in Texas A&M College of Science history.

Congratulations to Texas A&M physicist Tatiana Erukhimova, one of three faculty members who have been appointed to 2021 University Professorships in Undergraduate Teaching Excellence (UPUTE) at Texas A&M University.

Astronomers from Texas to Argentina recently celebrated a critical milestone in their nearly decade-long project to search for and measure the electromagnetic evidence of gravitational waves throughout the cosmos — "first light" for the Transient Optical Robotic Observatory of the South (TOROS) telescope in northwestern Argentina, which recorded its first images on April 10.

Texas A&M sophomore chemistry major Brianna Bishop '23 and junior biology major Ryan Rahman ’22 have been named 2021 Goldwater Scholars by the Goldwater Scholarship Foundation in recognition of outstanding academic achievement and research potential. Bishop and Rahman are among 52 Texas A&M students selected to date for the prestigious honor since the initial scholarship was issued in 1989.

Texas A&M chemist Xin Yan has been selected to receive one of three 2021 American Society for Mass Spectrometry Research Awards recognizing young academic scientists for their early research accomplishment and career potential.

Congratulations to Texas A&M mathematician Jean-Luc Guermond, one of 28 international mathematical scientists who have earned selection to the 2021 class of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Fellows in recognition of international excellence in mathematical science and service.