Sophomore physics major Connor Bowerman ’24 has been selected as one of two 2021-22 Beckman Scholars at Texas A&M University, as announced April 28 by the Texas A&M LAUNCH: Honors Program. The Beckman Scholars Program is a 15-month mentored research experience for exceptional undergraduate students in chemistry, biological sciences or interdisciplinary combinations thereof at selected universities […]
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. On April 10, a team of engineers and astronomers […]
A new data-driven study from Texas A&M University casts serious doubt on the long-held belief that male students perform better than female students in science — specifically, physics. A team of researchers in the Department of Physics and Astronomy analyzed both the midterm exam scores and final grades of more than 10,000 Texas A&M students […]