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January



COSAM Student Spotlight: Natalie Williams

Natalie Williams collects tardigrades, or 'water bears', for research during her NASA Internship in Huntsville.

01/11/2022

A native of Huntsville, AL, Williams’ interest in science, along with her ties to Auburn University, were evident at a young age. Her father, Tom, is an engineer and graduate of Auburn, so she grew up in an environment conducive to scientific interests. She even vividly recalls details of a trip to Cape Canaveral, FL, sitting atop her father’s shoulders while watching a shuttle launch. “I still can visualize the large clock that counted down the launch, and as a child, I wanted to work in Mission Control,” Williams said. 

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Researchers Switch Off Gene to Switch On Ultraviolet in Butterfly Wings

Info: The male species of the orange sulphur butterfly (Colias eurytheme, top right) is the only one to display UV iridescence in nature. The female of the same species (top left) and both the female and male of the clouded sulphur butterfly (Colias philodice, bottom left and right) do not display UV iridescence due to the presence of a speciation gene on a sex chromosome.  Credit: Vincent Ficarrotta and Arnaud Martin/ The George Washington University


01/11/2022

New study reveals important observations on how species evolve distinctive traits critical to evolutionary success

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New $500,000+ NSF award enhances emerging quantum research cluster at Auburn University

Wencan Jin sets up the autocorrelator that can retrieve the short pulse durations for example, 50 femtosecond.

01/25/2022

Impactful Instrumentation: Wencan Jin uses his ultrafast laser lab in the Department of Physics to conduct 2D magnetic materials research with a $523,200 National Science Foundation (NSF) award.

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Student teams display robotics, STEM and teamwork skills at 2022 SCORE Showdown

Welcome to the SCORE Showdown

01/25/2022

On January 18-20, 2022, student robotics teams from across the nation were able to put hours of hard work to the test as they competed in the 2022 SCORE Showdown held at Great Wolf Lodge in LaGrange, GA. Hosted annually by the Southeastern Center of Robotics Education (SCORE) and in partnership with the Robotics Education and Competition Foundation (REC), the event is a premier VEX robotics tournament where school teams across three age levels – elementary, middle and high school – get to showcase innovative robots that they’ve built by competing in a series of qualifying and final matches.

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DMS PhD alum Feng Bao ('14) receives NSF CAREER grant

01/21/2022

Feng Bao, a 2014 PhD graduate of DMS, has just been awarded an NSF CAREER grant for the project “CAREER: An Efficient Computational Framework for Data Driven Feedback Control.” Feng, currently an assistant professor of mathematics at Florida State University, was advised by Profs. Yanzhao Cao and AJ Meir. This is the first ever NSF CAREER award for FSU’s Department of Mathematics.

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First Post-Bacc student at Auburn gains research experience in computational biology

01/18/2022



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COSAM Leaders attend 2022 CIVSA Student Development Institute in Washington, D.C.

COSAM Leaders at the U.S. Capitol

01/18/2022

From Jan. 6-8, 2022, three students from the COSAM Leaders student organization, accompanied by two COSAM faculty and staff, attended the 2022 Collegiate Information & Visitor Services Association (CIVSA) Student Development Institute in Washington, D.C. In conference sessions, COSAM Leaders learned valuable ways that the student organization can increase its diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, as well as ways to increase its social media presence.

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