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texas a&m university professor of physics dr william h bassichis is one of five university faculty members who have been appointed to university professorships in undergraduate teaching excellence announced executive vice president and provost david b prior the three-year appointment carries an annual salary supplement of $5 000 provided by the university as well as annual discretionary income to support the recipients teaching program and related professional development bassichis who will hold one of two thaman professorships in undergraduate teaching excellence has been a member of the texas a&m faculty since 1970 on student evaluations he has been either the highest or second-highest-ranked teacher each year that he has been on the faculty last spring bassichis was asked to teach a group of students at texas a&m university-qatar covering two semesters of physics in four months the students voted bassichis as their favorite professor despite the amount of work he assigned in 2003 bassichis was honored as one of the two inaugural recipients of texas a&ms presidential professor for teaching excellence award these professorships are being conferred upon some of the universitys most distinguished teachers who have exhibited excellence and devotion to the education of undergraduate students at texas a&m university prior said outstanding teaching of our undergraduate students continues to be a priority with texas a&m and the new appointees signify this commitment in its highest sense for the complete story go to http://revtamuedu/stories/05/031505-6html -atm-
college station in the blink of an eye an experiment was conducted last week almost 700 feet underground that could help reveal some of the secrets of the universe and a texas a&m university professor has played a key role in the process robert webb professor of physics is part of the fermi lab team involved in the minos experiment that sent a beam of subatomic particles from a site in batavia ill to a site in minnesota about 450 miles away the minos (main injector neutrino oscillation search) experiment didnt require a very long waiting time the entire process took about 25 milliseconds but the results could help explain about how the universe was created and where it goes from here webb explains this entire experiment has been five years in the making and the results we get from it could be exciting even life changing says webb who helped design the minnesota facility a 6 000-ton stack of plastic and steel plates that caught the neutrino beams the site is located in soudan minn in a former iron mine the whole idea is to study neutrinos learn about them and how they interact and what they do neutrinos are one of the basic building blocks of the universe and about 5 percent of all matter in the universe is made up of neutrinos yet we know very little about them webb says in the experiment a beam of neutrinos traveled at near the speed of light from the fermilab site in illinois to the minnesota site each burst lasts only about 10 millionths of a second the invisible neutrinos leave no trace as they make the 450-mile trip from illinois to minnesota the two sites will record about 1 500 such collisions of the neutrinos during the next year the minos experiment is an on-going process webb explains the $170 million project uses hundreds of scientists from around the world webb adds we are bombarded by neutrinos every second of the day and we know that neutrinos were present at the very creation of the universe webb notes we know much more about electrons and protons than we know about neutrinos yet neutrinos are much more common they are very mysterious yet very vital and we know almost nothing about how they work and what they do we are hoping this experiment will tell us some of the secrets of neutrinos its the largest such experiment of its kind ever undertaken fermi lab is a division of the us department of energy -atm- contact: dr robert webb (979) 845-4012 or robert-webb@tamuedu the post unique fermi lab experiment could unravel secrets of universe appeared first on texas a&m college of science
in the blink of an eye an experiment was conducted last week almost 700 feet underground that could help reveal some of the secrets of the universe and a texas a&m university professor has played a key role in the process robert webb professor of physics is part of the fermi lab team involved in the minos experiment that sent a beam of subatomic particles from a site in batavia ill to a site in minnesota about 450 miles away the minos (main injector neutrino oscillation search) experiment didnt require a very long waiting time the entire process took about 25 milliseconds but the results could help explain about how the universe was created and where it goes from here webb explains this entire experiment has been five years in the making and the results we get from it could be exciting even life changing says webb who helped design the minnesota facility a 6 000-ton stack of plastic and steel plates that caught the neutrino beams the site is located in soudan minn in a former iron mine the whole idea is to study neutrinos learn about them and how they interact and what they do neutrinos are one of the basic building blocks of the universe and about 5 percent of all matter in the universe is made up of neutrinos yet we know very little about them webb says in the experiment a beam of neutrinos traveled at near the speed of light from the fermilab site in illinois to the minnesota site each burst lasts only about 10 millionths of a second the invisible neutrinos leave no trace as they make the 450-mile trip from illinois to minnesota the two sites will record about 1 500 such collisions of the neutrinos during the next year the minos experiment is an on-going process webb explains the $170 million project uses hundreds of scientists from around the world webb adds we are bombarded by neutrinos every second of the day and we know that neutrinos were present at the very creation of the universe webb notes we know much more about electrons and protons than we know about neutrinos yet neutrinos are much more common they are very mysterious yet very vital and we know almost nothing about how they work and what they do we are hoping this experiment will tell us some of the secrets of neutrinos its the largest such experiment of its kind ever undertaken fermi lab is a division of the us department of energy -atm- contact: dr robert webb (979) 845-4012 or robert-webb@tamuedu
college station dr emil wolf wilson professor of optical physics at the university of rochester and a world renowned authority on physical optics will visit the texas a&m university campus next week to deliver two presentations on optical science as part of the department of physics distinguished lecture series on wed mar 9 wolf will present scientists who created the world of optics an overview of the lives and contributions of 21 great scientists from galileo galilee to paul dirac who helped define the science of optics the lecture scheduled for 1:45 pm in room 202 of the engineering physics building will feature portraits of these scientists as well as drawings and other photographs that will help to place their work in proper perspective on thurs mar 10 wolf will focus on another of historys great scientists thomas young as he sheds new light on one of the most beautiful physics experiments of all time performed by young nearly 200 years ago and its continued relevance today in youngs interference experiment two hundred years later the presentation will begin at 4 pm in room 202 of the engineering physics building dr m suhail zubairy a professor of physics at texas a&m who completed his phd thesis under wolfs supervision describes wolf as one of leading figures in optics of the 20th century also one of its most prolific writers wolf is the co-author of two popular books principles of optics considered one of the best books in classical optics ever written and now in its sixth edition after first being published in 1959 and optical coherence and quantum optics published in 1995 in addition he has served as editor of the 45-volume ongoing series progress in optics since its inception in 1961 a member of the university of rochester faculty since 1959 wolf has held research positions at cambridge university the university of edinburgh and the university of manchester his many international professional honors include the optical society of americas frederic ives medal and max born award the franklin institutes michelson medal the italian national research councils marconi medal the czechoslovakian academy of sciences gold medal and the union of czechoslovakian mathematicians and physicists medal wolf is an honorary member of the optical society of america for which he served as president in 1978 as well as the optical societies of india and australia in addition he is the recipient of seven honorary degrees from universities in the netherlands great britain the czech republic and canada both presentations are open to the public for more information on either topic or on wolf please contact the department of physics at (979) 845-7717 -atm- contact: shana k hutchins (979) 862-1237 or shutchins@sciencetamuedu or dr george kattawar (979) 845-1180 or kattawar@tamuedu the post world renowned physicist to address optical science appeared first on texas a&m college of science
dr emil wolf wilson professor of optical physics at the university of rochester and a world renowned authority on physical optics will visit the texas a&m university campus next week to deliver two presentations on optical science as part of the department of physics distinguished lecture series on wed mar 9 wolf will present scientists who created the world of optics an overview of the lives and contributions of 21 great scientists from galileo galilee to paul dirac who helped define the science of optics the lecture scheduled for 1:45 pm in room 202 of the engineering physics building will feature portraits of these scientists as well as drawings and other photographs that will help to place their work in proper perspective on thurs mar 10 wolf will focus on another of historys great scientists thomas young as he sheds new light on one of the most beautiful physics experiments of all time performed by young nearly 200 years ago and its continued relevance today in youngs interference experiment two hundred years later the presentation will begin at 4 pm in room 202 of the engineering physics building dr m suhail zubairy a professor of physics at texas a&m who completed his phd thesis under wolfs supervision describes wolf as one of leading figures in optics of the 20th century also one of its most prolific writers wolf is the co-author of two popular books principles of optics considered one of the best books in classical optics ever written and now in its sixth edition after first being published in 1959 and optical coherence and quantum optics published in 1995 in addition he has served as editor of the 45-volume ongoing series progress in optics since its inception in 1961 a member of the university of rochester faculty since 1959 wolf has held research positions at cambridge university the university of edinburgh and the university of manchester his many international professional honors include the optical society of americas frederic ives medal and max born award the franklin institutes michelson medal the italian national research councils marconi medal the czechoslovakian academy of sciences gold medal and the union of czechoslovakian mathematicians and physicists medal wolf is an honorary member of the optical society of america for which he served as president in 1978 as well as the optical societies of india and australia in addition he is the recipient of seven honorary degrees from universities in the netherlands great britain the czech republic and canada both presentations are open to the public for more information on either topic or on wolf please contact the department of physics at (979) 845-7717 -atm- contact: shana k hutchins (979) 862-1237 or shutchins@sciencetamuedu or dr george kattawar (979) 845-1180 or kattawar@tamuedu
college station imagine an entire chemistry laboratory reduced to the size of a postage stamp it could happen while others may think big texas a&m university physicists don naugle and igor lyuksyutov are thinking small as in micro small they have successfully managed to levitate micron-sized fluids using magnets which could lead to new advances in medicine chemistry chemical engineering and other related fields by using small magnets on a postage-stamp-sized chip naugle and lyuksyutov have managed to move and merge tiny levitating droplets and crystals and to control the orientation of the levitating crystals the droplets used were as small as bacteria or 100 times smaller than a human hair and up to one billion times smaller in volume than has been demonstrated by conventional methods their work was recently published in applied physics letter and featured in several science journals their research is funded by the robert a welch foundation and national science foundation grants it might be possible to do the same thing with a large number of fluids chemicals or even a virus naugle explains the texas a&m team has managed to move and levitate several substances including alcohol solutions oils some types of powders and even red blood cells and bacteria it could be theoretically possible to reduce an entire chemistry lab to a few postage-stamp-sized chips try to picture individual chemical beakers (droplets) being merged into other chemical beakers thats the principal involved here naugle calls the method a lab on a chip and says the possibilities are exciting the lab-on-a-chip device levitates and manipulates diamagnetic objects which are very weakly repelled by magnets he notes these include living tissue and other objects and substances you dont think of as being magnetic the new procedures could be applied to other fields he believes though it has taken several years to achieve the droplet levitation process we need to see if we can make progress with manipulating dna nanotubes and other things using both magnetic and electric fields naugle says it would be exciting to see if we could precisely transport levitating nanotubes into predefined positions on a silicon chip this could open up even more doors for future research the texas a&m teams work can be viewed at http://levitationphysicstamuedu -atm- contact: don naugle (979) 845-4429 or naugle@physicstamuedu the post thinking small: texas a&m physics team creates lab-on-a-chip appeared first on texas a&m college of science
imagine an entire chemistry laboratory reduced to the size of a postage stamp it could happen while others may think big texas a&m university physicists don naugle and igor lyuksyutov are thinking small as in micro small they have successfully managed to levitate micron-sized fluids using magnets which could lead to new advances in medicine chemistry chemical engineering and other related fields by using small magnets on a postage-stamp-sized chip naugle and lyuksyutov have managed to move and merge tiny levitating droplets and crystals and to control the orientation of the levitating crystals the droplets used were as small as bacteria or 100 times smaller than a human hair and up to one billion times smaller in volume than has been demonstrated by conventional methods their work was recently published in applied physics letter and featured in several science journals their research is funded by the robert a welch foundation and national science foundation grants it might be possible to do the same thing with a large number of fluids chemicals or even a virus naugle explains the texas a&m team has managed to move and levitate several substances including alcohol solutions oils some types of powders and even red blood cells and bacteria it could be theoretically possible to reduce an entire chemistry lab to a few postage-stamp-sized chips try to picture individual chemical beakers (droplets) being merged into other chemical beakers thats the principal involved here naugle calls the method a lab on a chip and says the possibilities are exciting the lab-on-a-chip device levitates and manipulates diamagnetic objects which are very weakly repelled by magnets he notes these include living tissue and other objects and substances you dont think of as being magnetic the new procedures could be applied to other fields he believes though it has taken several years to achieve the droplet levitation process we need to see if we can make progress with manipulating dna nanotubes and other things using both magnetic and electric fields naugle says it would be exciting to see if we could precisely transport levitating nanotubes into predefined positions on a silicon chip this could open up even more doors for future research the texas a&m teams work can be viewed at http://levitationphysicstamuedu -atm- contact: don naugle (979) 845-4429 or naugle@physicstamuedu
as part of a campus-wide explosion in faculty numbers the physics department at texas a&m university in college station aims to launch a top-notch astronomy program overall the campus is increasing its faculty size by 450 or 25% by 2008 physics faculty will swell from 45 to 60 with at least four of the new positions slated for astronomy and cosmology this is the nations fifth largest university and our goal is to go from no astronomy program whatsoever to one of the worlds leading programs in observational cosmology and astronomy says texas a&m physicist roland allen two alumni are key to realizing the physics departments astronomy plans george mitchell a real estate magnate and petroleum engineer has given nearly $7 million to the department charles munnerlyn a phd in optical engineering and a pioneer in the development of laser vision correction has contributed more than $3 million after hearing stephen hawking say on national public radio a few years ago that his biggest disappointment in 25 years was the cancellation of the ssc [superconducting super collider] says mitchell i talked to people at a&m and we arranged a meeting [with hawking] that led to hawkings ongoing participation in a series of mitchell-financed symposia at the university mitchells donations also go toward among other things endowed chairs and participation in the giant magellan telescope joining the gmt one of several next-generation telescopes under discussion worldwide should help attract smart young people to a&m says mitchell i want to see a&m in general become a more prestigious university will the university be able to realize its lofty dream of having a top 10 astronomy program the idea goes back to a recommendation from an external review panel says physics department head edward fry i think the university will jump through all sorts of hoops to hire extraordinary people the post texas a&m reaches for stars appeared first on texas a&m college of science
as part of a campus-wide explosion in faculty numbers the physics department at texas a&m university in college station aims to launch a top-notch astronomy program overall the campus is increasing its faculty size by 450 or 25% by 2008 physics faculty will swell from 45 to 60 with at least four of the new positions slated for astronomy and cosmology this is the nations fifth largest university and our goal is to go from no astronomy program whatsoever to one of the worlds leading programs in observational cosmology and astronomy says texas a&m physicist roland allen two alumni are key to realizing the physics departments astronomy plans george mitchell a real estate magnate and petroleum engineer has given nearly $7 million to the department charles munnerlyn a phd in optical engineering and a pioneer in the development of laser vision correction has contributed more than $3 million after hearing stephen hawking say on national public radio a few years ago that his biggest disappointment in 25 years was the cancellation of the ssc [superconducting super collider] says mitchell i talked to people at a&m and we arranged a meeting [with hawking] that led to hawkings ongoing participation in a series of mitchell-financed symposia at the university mitchells donations also go toward among other things endowed chairs and participation in the giant magellan telescope joining the gmt one of several next-generation telescopes under discussion worldwide should help attract smart young people to a&m says mitchell i want to see a&m in general become a more prestigious university will the university be able to realize its lofty dream of having a top 10 astronomy program the idea goes back to a recommendation from an external review panel says physics department head edward fry i think the university will jump through all sorts of hoops to hire extraordinary people
college station dr peter m mcintyre professor of physics at texas a&m university has been appointed to the newly-endowed chair associated with the universitys george p and cynthia w mitchell institute for fundamental physics mcintyre will hold the mitchell/heep chair in experimental high energy physics endowed with a recent gift from george p and cynthia w mitchell of the woodlands and a matching gift from the herman f and minnie belle heep foundation of college station edward fry department head was very appreciative of the gift and was delighted that mcintyre was appointed to the chair i cannot think of anyone more deserving than peter; he is a brilliant scientist and i know this chair will enable him to accomplish many more research firsts fry said mcintyre received his phd in 1973 from the university of chicago he joined texas a&m in 1981 and leads programs of research in high energy physics accelerator physics and superconductor technology mcintyre was named a sloan fellow in 1980-1982 and a fellow of the american physical society in 2001 mcintyre is known for his invention of proton-antiproton colliding beams the ultimate ‘atom smashers that yielded the discoveries of the weak bosons and the top quark to complete the standard model of fundamental forces; as well as new technology for the worlds highest magnetic fields for accelerators of the future he has invented a way to produce electric power from nuclear fission in a reactor that is intrinsically stable cannot melt down eats its own waste does not produce bomb-capable isotopes and uses a fuel (thorium) that is ten times more plentiful than uranium he also is credited with the invention of a way to destroy toxic organic contaminants in industrial wastewater and lethal bacteria in foods using a new technology for making efficient high-power electron beams on the teaching front mcintyre has created visual physics a new and better way to teach first-year physics to 2 000 aggies every year when told about the appointment to the chair mcintyre commented now i can sit down sometimes! the post mcintyre appointed to mitchell high energy physics chair appeared first on texas a&m college of science