News
July
Billor invited to speak at the 26th Colombian Symposium on Statistics
07/28/2016
Dr. Nedret Billor is invited to be a plenary speaker at the 26th Colombian Symposium on Statistics, to be held at Sincelejo, Colombia, August 8-12, 2016. The Symposium is an event organized by the National University of Colombia gathering local and international experts in the main research areas of Statistics. She will give a one-hour talk and a three-session short course (4.5 hours) on outlier detection and robust statistical methods.
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Trawick named senior vice president and chief operating officer for Southern Power
07/26/2016
John G. Trawick, formerly senior vice president of commercial operations and planning for Southern Company Services, was recently named senior vice president and chief operating officer for subsidiary Southern Power. In this role, Trawick will lead the operations of Southern Power's expanding electric generation fleet, as well as project development and construction and asset optimization.
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Recent marine biology graduate teaches ocean conservation in Hawaii
07/20/2016
Jenny Roberts, marine biology ’14, is spending her summer educating a boat of tourists about Hawaiian culture, sea life and ocean conservation. In the winter months, or Humpback Whale season in Alaska and Hawaii, Roberts, who specializes in cetaceans, teaches tourists about Humpback Whale behavior and migration patterns.
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COSAM alumnus leads Juno spacecraft research
07/20/2016
COSAM physics alumnus Phil Valek (B.S. '97, Ph.D. '01) is the lead investigator for the Juno spacecraft JADE instrument, which is a set of sensors charged with detecting the electrons and ions that produce Jupiter’s auroras.
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07/20/2016
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McDonald awarded a three-year research grant by NSF
07/15/2016
Dr. Jessica McDonald is awarded an NSF three-year research grant of amount $120,000 and the title of her research project is "Structure, Colouring, and Flows in Graphs."
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Dhar’s paper selected as Editor’s Pick for 2015
07/06/2016
Associate Professor Sarit Dhar’s article, “Silicon carbide: A unique platform for metal-oxide-semiconductor physics,” was selected as an Editors’ Pick for 2015 in Applied Physics Reviews. To read the paper, click here.
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07/06/2016
Daniel Warner, a research assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, recently published a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The title of the paper is, “Decades of field data reveal that turtles senesce in the wild,” and in the publication, Warner and the other authors of the paper explore the effects of aging on a population of approximately 1,000 individual painted turtles in the backwaters of the Mississippi River over a 24-year period. The authors expected turtle reproduction would increase with age as the turtles grew larger, and there would not be an age-dependent increase in mortality. The research findings painted a different picture. To read the paper, click here.
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COSAM 2016 Faculty Staff Campaign department winner is crowned
07/06/2016
Congratulations to the Department of Geosciences for having the most participation in COSAM’s 2016 Faculty Staff Campaign. Representing the Department of Geosciences with 81 percent participation was Team Captain Sheila Arington.
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COSAM’s chemistry graduate program ranked fourth in the nation
07/06/2016
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry’s graduate school program was listed as the No. 4 program in the country on the 2016 Top Chemistry Graduate Programs rankings that were recently released by GraduatePrograms.com. Each year the website publishes top graduate school rankings, which are compiled based on student and alumni feedback in areas such as quality of instruction, student diversity, campus safety, and earning potential.
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