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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