Physics and Astronomy News
Oct. 30 - Congratulations to Dr. Julie Vanegas' work has appeared in Le Temps, a leading Swiss magazine. Article: Le Temps 2024
Sep. 3 - Congratulations to Ms. Srbuhi Yolchinyan, UTRGV Affordability Advocate in Fall 2024. Complete Story: Affordability Advocates in Fall 2024
Aug. 21 - Congratulations to Dr. Julie Vanegas for being selected from among 10,000 projects by the American Chemical Society. Full Story: Pilot study uses recycled glass to grow plants for salsa ingredients
Aug. 13 - Congratulations to Dr. Ahmed Touhami was awarded the NSF-MRI grant as co-PI.
Project Title: MRI Track 1: Acquisition of a Photo-Induced Force Microscope for Simultaneous Nanoscopic and Spectroscopic Imaging of Multifunctional Materials and Interfaces.
Jul. 24 - Congratulations to Dr. Liliana Rivera Sandoval on being selected for another consecutive year on her outreach/ citizen project " Ellas y las Estrellas". Her project was selected among many other excellent projects!
Jul. 24 - Congratulations to Dr. Liliana Rivera Sandoval on being featured in the Sky & Telescope magazine inside the September 2024 issue.
Jul. 13 - Congratulations to Dr. Karen Martirosyan for receiving NASA MPLAN 2024. NASA MPLAN 2024 Award.
Apr. 10 - Congratulations! to Dr. Hyeongjun Kim has been selected to receive funding from the for UIUC's NSF STC QCB center.
Apr. 8 - Congratulations! to Dr. Liliana Rivera Sandoval for feature in Exploration Museum Solar Eclipse broadcast. Full Story
Jan. 17 - Congratulations! To Dr. Liliana Rivera Sandoval for her participation in the detection of a radio source in the center of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae, using the deepest, most sensitive radio image ever compiled of a globular cluster.
Full Paper: Ultradeep ATCA Imaging of 47 Tucanae Reveals a Central Compact Radio Source
Nov. 10 - Congratulation! Dr. Liliana Rivera Sandoval got a new NASA grant as PI.
Oct. 19 - Congratualtion! Dr. Joe Romano has been selected as a 2023 awardee of the APS fellowship.
Citation: For foundational contributions to the detection and characterization of stochastic gravitational wave signals.Nominated by: DGRAV
Oct. 16 PhD student Miriam Ramos Arevalo won the prize for best talk in the APS meeting in San Angelo, TX
Oct. 15 - Dr Hyun Lee was interviewed about the eclipe.
Full story: Dr. Hyun Lee Interview
Oct. 15 - Dr. Creighton was interviewed about the eclipse.
Full story: Dr. Creighton Interviewed
Oct. 15 - Dr. Soma Mukherjee sharing this amazing photo:
Oct 15 - CGWA-Brownsville solar telescope.
Sep. 25 - Congratulation! Dr. Liliana Rivera Sandoval is one of the 10 winners of the Women and Girls in Astronomy Program with the project "Ellas y las Estrellas”.
Full Stroy - Ellas y las Estrellas.
Sep. 18 - Dr. Mohanty (PI), Dr. Mukherjee (co-PI), and Dr. Martirosyan (co-PI) were awarded the NSF grant with the title CAP: STARTER: South Texas AI Research, Training, and Education Resource.
Sep. 15 - Dr. Jasim Uddin is now a member of the Editorial Board for the journal Nature Scientific Report.
Sep. 5 - Congratualtion! Dr. Kim’s NIH/NIGMS (National Institute of General Medical Sciences) grant is now funded.
Congratulation to Dr. Soumya Mohanty and Raghav Girganokar.
Aug. 30 - MS student Raghav Girgaonkar has been selected to present a talk at TACCSTER’23.
Congratulation CGWA.
Aug. 23 - CGWA press release.
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