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(Top) GMT's
second mirror is
prepared at the
University of
Arizona's mirror
lab. (Bottom)
The GMT will
be made of
seven 8-meter
diameter
mirrors. The
fourth will be
"melted down"
in March.
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entrepreneur Richard Caris on Dec. 15
toward the project. Caris is founder and
chairman of Interface Inc., a tech com
pany that designs load cells commonly
used in the oil industry.
Buell Jannuzi, director of the Uni
versity of Arizona’s Steward Observa
tory, said Caris’ gift brought Arizona’s
total contribution close to $35 million.
He said Arizona is committed to raise
$60 million toward the GMT, but
hopes to eventually double that figure.
Texas A&M and UT Austin have
raised $28.1 and $50 million, respec
tively, as of September. A GMT part
ner’s financial contribution ensures
viewing rights on the telescope when
it comes online in 2021 — a distinction
both Texas universities said will ensure
their astronomy departments remain
competitive on the global stage.
Darren DePoy, physics professor and
member of GMT’s board of directors,
said Texas A&M is closing in on the
second half of its planned $50 million
contribution. An A&M Board of Re
gents meeting scheduled for Feb. 12
will hear a breakdown of how A&M
plans to finance the telescope commit
ment.
“I approve of the commitment
funding schedule, Dean Newton does,
our understanding is both the provost
and the president — Provost Watson
and President Hussey — approve of
the documents and would like to sign
them,” DePoy said.
Caris’ winter donation capped a six-
month funding windfall that has pushed
the GMT close to a fotmal construc
tion announcement, said Patrick Mc
Carthy, GMT director. Several of the
GMT’s other partners were also able to
raise their contributions, bringing the
telescope’s total commitment to ap
proximately $500 million.
“Our first [funding] target, the one
that’s critical towards building the tele
scope and building the whole facility,
the partners and the board are essen
tially on the threshold of that target,”
McCarthy said.
While a formal construction an
nouncement is not expected for a
few months, preparation has already
begun to transform part of the Chil
ean mountainside into an observatory.
The site’s remote location requires the
GMT organization to build everything
necessary to sustain a billion-dollar
construction site. Housing and support
structures for the 200 to 250 workers
expected to build the telescope are un
der construction, as well as power lines
and roads.
“We’re establishing our beachhead
on the mountain to begin the construc
tion process sometime in this calendar
year,” McCarthy said.
The GMT organization itself is ex
panding. McCarthy said the staff will
grow from about 50 people to around
150 engineers, scientists and admin
istrators who will take the telescope
through construction and beyond.
And the GMT’s fourth monolithic
mirror will begin its “glass melt” phase
in late March. The GMT’s optical sur
face will eventually consist of seven
8-meter diameter mirrors, but its de
sign can work with just four, a trait
that might hasten its title as “world’s
largest.”
“The fourth mirror is important be
cause that really gets us to a place where
we will have undisputedly the largest
telescope on the planet,” McCarthy
said. “We can make the telescope work
with only four mirrors if we needed to
while we continue to make the rest of
the mirrors, so we see it as an important
milestone.”
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awareness about personal
health in the community,”
Bush said. “Also we have
researchers who come and
talk about cutting-edge
research going on at the
Health Science Center that
they might want to learn
about. Even though it may
not pertain to them specifi
cally, they can learn about
it. I think the real impact is
for people to be able to learn
about their own health and
take care of themselves or
their loved ones.”
Bill Krumm, a member
of the community who
attends the program’s pre
sentations, said the program
helps prepare him to be his
own healthcare advocate.
“I’m not saying anything
against the doctor, but you
have to be your own ad
vocate,” Bill said. “It’s like
when you go to the hospital
for surgery or something,
you should have someone
there as an advocate to
make sure they’ve got shift
changes and everything
else. Knowledge is impor
tant and this is increasing
our knowledge base. As we
get older — I’m in my 70s
— you want to know more
because you become more
of a user of the healthcare
system.”
While a goal of the pro
gram is to highlight the
new Texas A&M Health
Science Center building
and faculty, Long said there
is no correlation between
attending this program and
getting into medical school.
“I’ve had people email
me saying they’re inter
ested in coming to medi
cal school,” Long said. “I
just tell them, ‘This is not a
recruiting event, we don’t
discuss admissions, but if
you’re interested in medi
cal school and want to learn
about any of these health
issues, there is probably
something you can gain
from it.’”
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board is an honor.
“It’s the perfect full circle
from being a student to then
coming back in a position
to continue the advance
ment of what we probably
all think is the greatest uni
versity in the country,” Al
britton said.
Albritton said he plans to
get involved with the stu
dent body, which he said
would be made easier be
cause he has two daughters
attending A&M and has had
two sons graduate.
Texas A&M is a family
tradition, Albritton said, and
he is glad to be the first ap
pointed regent who is the
child of a former regent,
Ford Albritton.
“To the best of anyone’s
knowledge this would be
the first time a son has ever
followed a father on the
Board of Regents, which is
very exciting and very hum
bling to me,” Albritton said.
“When 1 was at A&M my
father was a regent, and he
got to hand me my diploma
and my brother his diploma,
and it appears that I will do
the same thing for my two
daughters.”
Mahomes, managing
partner of Mahomes Bolden
PC, was the first African
American to matriculate and
graduate from Texas A&M
as a member of the Corps
of Cadets, according to the
release.
“It is a great privilege to
have been nominated by
the governor,” Mahomes
said. “It is a great privilege
to serve A&M and to sort
of give back to a university
I feel has given me so much
and I look forward to the
opportunity of serving.”
Phil Adams, owner and
President of Phil Adams
Company, was appointed to
the board by former Gov.
Rick Perry in 2001 and re
appointed in 2009, accord
ing to the press release.
Adams was unavailable
for comment Thursday.
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