News
September
State Representative Lovvorn supports COSAM’s BEST Robotics outreach program
09/22/2017
State representative Joe Lovvorn stopped by the Sciences Center Classrooms Building on campus to present a check to Dean Nicholas Giordano and COSAM Director of Outreach Mary Lou Ewald for BEST Robotics. Answering the nation’s need for more and better-prepared workers in scientific, industrial and technological fields, BEST, which stands for “Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology,” is a middle school and high school robotics program, now in its 25th year nationally and 17th year in Alabama. BEST Robotics is the only robotics program in the nation that is offered to schools at no cost. The not-for-profit, all-volunteer program challenges students to design, build and market a robot to use in a six-week-long series of competitions, culminating in the South’s BEST championship, which is hosted by Auburn University’s College of Sciences and Mathematics and the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.
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David Zalik becomes new billionaire.
09/22/2017
David Zalik, former math student and son of our colleague Dr. Richard Zalik, is on the front page of Forbes dated September 5, 2017. He is a new billionaire.
Congratulations Richard!
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COSAM alumnus George Baker reflects on life as a student at API in the 1940s
09/22/2017
George Baker, pre-medicine ’45, was born in 1925 in Columbus, Georgia, and he enrolled at Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University) in 1941. During his childhood, Baker watched his father, Dr. E.L. Baker, practice medicine. As a result, Baker was naturally drawn to the field and studied pre-medicine while a student at Auburn.
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09/22/2017
Bradley Merner, the James E. Land Assistant Professor of Chemistry, received a five-year, $700,000, National Science Foundation Early Career Development, or CAREER, Award for his proposal titled, “Functionalized Bent para-Phenylenes: New Strategies and Tools for the Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes.”
The NSF Faculty Early Career Development, or CAREER, program is a foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education, and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.
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Mansoorabadi receives competitive DOE award to research a solution to the world’s energy crisis
09/22/2017
Auburn University Assistant Professor of Chemistry Steven Mansoorabadi is the recipient of a highly competitive, Early Career Research Program award from the Office of Basic Energy Sciences and the Department of Energy Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research. Approximately 700 proposals were submitted for consideration, and Mansoorabadi is one of only 59 researchers nationwide to receive a DOE Early Career Research Program award, and one of only two recipients in his division, physical biosciences.
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Guanqun Cao is awarded an NSF grant
09/05/2017
Dr. Guanqun Cao is awarded an NSF grant for her research project "AMPS: New Challenges in the Next Generation of Statistical Algorithms for Modern Power Systems." The award is $212,916 and the funding period is 2017-2020. She serves as PI and two Auburn Engineering faculty members Drs. Shiwen Mao and Mark Helms serve as co-PI.
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