May 05 2009: Benjamin Strycker has been awarded the Sandia National Laboratories/Texas A&M University Excellence in Science Research Fellowship.

Apr 13 2009: The Physics Department would like to thank all of the student volunteers who made Physics Festival 2009 a great success!

Mar 13 2009: CHALLENGE GRANT - An anonymous donor has offered to match gifts to the endowment for the Nelson M. Duller Chair in Experimental Physics that are made between March 1, 2009 and October 31, 2009. Gifts will be matched up to a total of $100,000.

Mar 01 2009: Tatiana Erukhimova and David Toback are selected among the first recipients of the TAMU University System Student Led Award for Teaching Excellence (SLATE).

Sep 29 2008: Saskia Mioduszewski selected as recipient of APS 2009 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award

Sep 24 2008: Rainer Fries named 2008-09 Montague-Center for Teaching Excellence Scholar for the College of Science

Aug 14-15 2008: The Department of Physics will host Attosecond Science MURI workshop.

May 19 2008: Adjunct faculty member Paul Corkum, recipient of the Polanyi award, becomes member of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest honor for lifetime achievement

May 13 2008: Jairo Sinova awarded Distinguished Achievement College-Level Award in teaching from AFS

Mar 27 2008: Dave Toback selected as holder of University Professorship in Undergraduate Teaching Excellence (Thaman Professorship)

Feb 19 2008: NY Times article regarding Dr. Lifan Wang's project to install a telescope on the Antarctic Plateau

Feb 15 2008: Max Goncharov, postdoctoral research associate for Teruki Kamon and David Toback, highlighted for research at Collider Detector at Fermilab

Feb 08 2008: Michael Weinberger, postdoctoral research associate for David Toback and Teruki Kamon, highlighted for research at Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) at International Science Grid this week

Feb 06 2008: Heldenfels building closing and the effects on Physics students.

Dec 11 2007: Sheldon Campbell, Dmitry Pestov, Nate Pogue, and Feng Xie win Student Presentation Awards for talks at the Fall 2007 TSAPS meeting!

Dec 10 2007: Ralf Rapp receives the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Nov 30 2007: Prof. Alexey Belyanin receives the Jo Ann Treat Award recognizing excellence in research.

Nov 21 2007: Distinguished Prof. Christopher Pope featured in the TAMU Battalion.

Oct 22 2007: Hyer Award given to Alexei Sokolov and Dmitry Pestov.

Oct 07 2007: Hand on Physics Gallery on Oct. 20th, organized jointly with the Texas APS meeting.