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 […]
Texas A&M University and its partners in the Giant Magellan Telescope Corporation announced today (Mar. 5) that fabrication has begun for the sixth of seven mirrors which will form the heart of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) — mirrors that in combination will allow astronomers to see farther into the universe with more detail than […]