One of the world's largest optical mirrors has been successfully installed for the first time into a support system prototype — a milestone that marks the start of a six-month optical testing phase to validate the Giant Magellan Telescope's extraordinary performance.
Nicholas Bentley '21, Sara Maynard '17 and Tiffany Sill '22 are three of six Texas A&M students honored with 2024 Phil Gramm Doctoral Fellowships recognizing scholarly excellence in teaching, research and mentorship.
National Academy of Sciences and Medicine member Dr. David Liu is set to receive the 2024 A.I. Scott Medal for Excellence in Biological Chemistry Research honoring the late Texas A&M chemist A. Ian Scott and his 30-year career of pioneering achievement.
Texas A&M Chemistry is gearing up to host the 36th annual Chemistry Open House and Science Exploration Gallery on Saturday, Oct. 19, in the state-of-the-art Instructional Laboratory & Innovative Learning Building on Texas A&M's West Campus.
Susan Smallman ’90 has endowed a scholarship in the Texas A&M College of Arts and Sciences to support English and chemistry majors who are facing financial need.
Research led by Texas A&M atmospheric scientist Dr. John Nielsen-Gammon has found that climate change has intensified storm-related rainfall by nearly 20% — a possible indicator of a troubling long-term trend most recently evidenced by Hurricane Helene.
Hundreds of Texas A&M economics majors took advantage of the invaluable opportunity to interact with representatives from 20 prominent companies and learn more about student organizations within the department during its largest-ever Career Night.
College of Arts and Sciences donor Dr. John Thoppil ’97 hopes his new scholarship for biology and chemistry majors in the Arts and Sciences Leadership Scholars Program will inspire students to pay it forward.
A study involving Dr. Franco Marcantonio has examined the source of lead contamination in a Tibetan glacier, concluding that human activities are responsible for introducing the pollutant metal in some of the most remote and pristine regions of the world.
Dr. Santiago Castro-Gómez will visit the Texas A&M campus for a week-long residency culminating in an October 17 public lecture as part of the Melbern G. Glasscock Center’s short-term visiting fellowship program.
Dr. Benjamin Davis from the Department of Global Languages and Cultures and the Race and Ethnic Studies Institute discusses the importance of recognizing Indigenous Peoples’ Day and what it represents in lieu of Columbus Day.
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and National Academy of Sciences member Dr. Marcetta Y. Darensbourg is the sixth all-time College of Arts and Sciences recipient of the Aggie Women Network's Eminent Scholar Award recognizing extraordinary achievement in research, scholarship and service.
Dr. Gunnar Schade and students in his class collaborated with misinformation researchers at Ripple Research for a deep dive into climate change misinformation circulating on LinkedIn, a realm where the extent and impact of misinformation, which is surprisingly thriving, is largely unexplored.
Dr. Kevin Kelly has been recognized with the APS’s 2025 Henry Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics for his work on neutrino and dark matter physics.
Celebrate National Transfer Student Week by meeting two Aggie transfer students — including senior psychology major Raeesah Khan '25 — who found belonging at Texas A&M through T-Camp and the Transfer Student Program.
Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities will expand access to the collections while enabling Texas A&M Anthropology to move toward becoming a state-certified repository complete with digitized materials.
To date, the Advancing Discovery to Market Innovation Awards Program has provided more than $8 million in funding to create new products from recent innovations or discoveries since it was launched in 2023.
The kills in scary films are bloodier than ever, but that doesn’t necessarily make them scarier, according to Texas A&M English professor Dr. James Francis.
As a Fulbright lecturer in Japan, Dr. Evan Haefeli is spending the fall and spring semesters teaching undergraduate and graduate American history courses at three different universities in Tokyo. He joins Statistics' Dr. Derya Akleman and Geography's Dr. Kathleen O'Reilly, who were appointed most recently as 2023-24 Fulbright Scholars in Turkey and India, respectively.
Texas A&M zoology graduates Jim ’68 and Jon Chancellor ’71, together with their wives, have created scholarships to support first-generation students in the Arts and Sciences Leadership Scholars Program.
Thirteen faculty have been appointed to endowed chairs and professorships in the College of Arts and Sciences this fall in recognition of their teaching, research and service accomplishments and their career scholarly excellence.
The oldest oceanography department in the nation commemorated its 75th anniversary in September, bringing together former students, faculty and friends for a weekend celebration of the department's rich history and equally bright future.
