The Department of Physics & Astronomy at Texas A&M University has seen a dramatic increase in endowments over last few years. These donations are helping to establish this department as one of the premier physics & astronomy research institutions in the country.
If you would like to give to the Department of Physics, we would love to add you to the distinguished list below. For information, please contact Professor Edward Fry.
For general information on how to give to Texas A&M, please visit the Texas A&M Foundation website.
Gifts for the department:
- George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute Building and George P. Mitchell Physics Building
- Cambridge–Texas A&M Collaboration
- Stephen Hawking’s visit to the Mitchell Institute in 2003
- Mitchell Institute conferences in 2004-2005
- Giant Magellan Telescope (first mirror casting)
- Giant Magellan Telescope (first mirror polishing)
- Giant Magellan Telescope (first mirror final polishing)
- Astronomy Advisory Panel October 2003
- Mercury Dimer Spectroscopy
- Hawking Visit in 2003 (via President Gates’s office)
Endowments:
- Mitchell/Heep Chair in High Energy Physics (held by Bhaskar Dutta)
- Mitchell/Heep Chair in Experimental High Energy Physics (vacant)
- Schüessler/Mitchell/Heep Chair in Optical and Biomedical Physics (held by Hans Schüessler)
- Stephen Hawking Chair in Fundamental Physics (held by Christopher Pope)
- Rachal/Mitchell/Heep Professorship in Physics (held by Darren DePoy)
- Mitchell/Heep/Munnerlyn Chair in Observational Astronomy (vacant)
- Mitchell/Heep/Munnerlyn Endowed Career Enhancement Professorship in Physics and Astronomy (vacant)
- George P. Mitchell ’40 Chair in Experimental Physics (vacant)
- Munnerlyn/Heep Endowed Chair in Quantum Optics (held by Suhail Zubairy)
- Stephen E. Harris Professorship in Quantum Optics (held by Alexei Sokolov)
- Herschel E. Burgess Chair in Physics (held by Marlan Scully)
- Ed Rachal Foundation Endowed Chair in Science (held by Alexey Belyanin)
- Cynthia Woods Mitchell Garden Maintenance Endowment (for the garden on the roof of the George P. Mitchell Physics Building)
- George P. Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics & Astronomy Endowment
- George P. Mitchell ’40 Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Astronomy
- George P. Mitchell ’40 Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Astronomy Research Fund
- George P. Mitchell ’40 Lecture in Astronomy
- George P. Mitchell ’40 Astronomy Colloquium Series Fund
- George P. Mitchell ’40 Salary Enhancement Endowment
- Friends of Cambridge Visitors’ Endowment in Physics
- Chia-Lai Wang Memorial Fund
- C.F. Squire Graduate Research Endowment
- William A. Robba ’51 Graduate Fellowship in Physics
- Jean R. Whitmore Endowed Fellowship in Physics
- Renate Schüessler–Laux Memorial Fund
- James G. Potter Scholarship Endowment
- Physics Undergraduate Scholarship Fund
- Donald F. Hagan ’76 Endowed Scholarship
- Marianne and Robert Hamm Undergraduate Scholarships in Physics
- Matthew P. Hodges ’00 Memorial Scholarship
- Jack McIntyre Undergraduate Scholarship in Physics
- C.W. Mitchell Undergraduate Scholarship for Women in Physics
- Arseven/Mitchell Chair in Astronomical Statistics (held by Jennifer Marshall)
- William R. Thurman ’58 Chair in Physics (held by Valery Pokrovsky)
- Marsha L. '69 and Ralph F. Schilling ’68 Chair in Physics and Astronomy (held by Casey Papovich)
- William H. Bassichis Chair for Teaching Excellence in Physics and Astronomy (held by William Bassichis)
- Katherine A. and Ronald I. Wilson ’72 Scholarship Physics
- William R. Thurman ’58 Endowment Scholarship in Physics
- Hodges Family Fund
- R.C. Shepard ’71 Endowment Scholarship Astrophysics
- Willard and Anne Levin Foundation Endowment Scholarship
- Dr. Phyllis Toback Mechanics Scholars Award
- Sandi Smith Undergrad Scholarship in Physics and Astronomy
- John and Fides Agnolet Endowed Scholarship
- Phillip and Doris Moses Ranch Fund
- Richard Arnowitt Award Endowment
- Physics Festival Endowment
- Lynn and Dr. Veron E. Kenner ’73 Graduate Fellow in Physics
- Michael E. Griffith, DVM ’78 Endowment for MIPEP
- L.R. "Pete" Wright ’54 Undergraduate Research Initiative–Astronomy
- Nancy and Robert L. Dunham ’63 Undergraduate Research Initiative
- Marsha L. '69 and Ralph F. Schilling ’68 Chair for Physics Outreach (held by Tatiana Erukhimova)