News
May
Duncan Lecture presented by Dr. John Mather, Nobel Prize winner, now available to watch online
05/25/2016
The College of Sciences and Mathematics’ annual M.M. "Dunc" Duncan Jr. Memorial Lecture was held last month and featured Nobel Prize winner John Mather, PhD, senior astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. The lecture, “From the big bang to now: observing the universe with the James Webb Space Telescope,” is now available to watch online.
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College Rank names The 30 Most Beautiful College Arboretums
05/25/2016
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 23, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- College Rank, a website dedicated to ranking and evaluating college programs, has just announced their list of the 30 Most Beautiful College Arboretums.
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COSAM professor part of team that discovers redness gene in birds
05/24/2016
Why do some birds have red feathers? Geoffrey Hill, professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Auburn University, finally found an answer to this deceptively challenging question.
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Patent issued to Drs. Easley and Shannon
05/23/2016
Drs. Easley and Shannon, along with their former graduate students Dr. Jiaming Hu and Dr. Tanyu Wang, were issued a patent for their invention of an “Electrochemical Proximity Assay.” Congratulations to Drs. Easley, Shannon, Hu, and Wang!
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05/17/2016
http://www.chem.fsu.edu/setca2016/photos.html
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Jonathan Musila's poster was awarded first place at the Southeast Enzyme Conference (SEC).
05/17/2016
Jonathan Musila's (a graduate student in the Ellis lab) poster was awarded first place at the Southeast Enzyme Conference (SEC).
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Meet COSAM Graduation Marshal Taylor Young
05/12/2016
Taylor Young represented the College of Sciences and Mathematics at the spring 2016 commencement ceremony.
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Alumni Update: Dr. Emily Roarty '01
05/12/2016
Dr. Emily Roarty, molecular biology ’01, is a scientific manager in the Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology at MD Anderson in Houston, where she oversees the departmental scientific research program including grants, contracts and the Lung Cancer Moon Shot Program. She was recently named Exemplary Employee of the Year out of 20,000 employees within the institution. Her passion for raising awareness for underfunded cancers, such as lung cancer, has helped garner more than $30,000,000 in peer-reviewed research funding since she joined the department.
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Congratulations to Dr. Eduardus Duin on his recent publication in PNAS
05/10/2016
Dr. Evert Duin recently had a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The paper is titled "Mode of action uncovered for the specific reduction of methane emissions from ruminants by the small molecule 3-nitrooxypropanol," and you can read it at the following link. (Read the paper here)
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McAtee accepts a Statistician position with Oak Ridge Affiliated Universities
05/06/2016
Mr. Aaron McAtee has accepted a Statistician position with Oak Ridge Affiliated Universities (ORAU) https://www.orau.org/. He will be designing experiments and analyzing data for the Visual Protection and Performance Division at the US Army Aeromedical Lab. He is graduating this semester (Spring 2016) with his MS degree. His major professor is Professor Nedret Billor.
Congratulations Aaron!
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Geraldo de Souza retiring after 34 years
05/06/2016
Dr Geraldo de Souza is retiring after 34 years with Auburn University in the Mathematics and Statistics Department.
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Auburn’s Climatology Field Trip to the Weather Station
05/02/2016
Our group was briefed in the airport lobby.
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