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October
Lin recipient of Jack R. Brown Award
10/17/2017
Dr. Junshan Lin is selected to be the recipient of the 2017-2019 Jack B. Brown Endowed Faculty Award with unanimous support from the 2017-2019 Jack B. Brown Endowed Faculty Award Committee and the approval from Dean Giordano.
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10/27/2017
Congratulations to the following graduate students for their outstanding achievements.
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Salako receives 2017 Frank Sturm Award
10/20/2017
Rachidi Salako is the recipient of the 2017 Frank Sturm Graduate Student Service/Outreach Award. The award certificate will be presented at the end-of-year gathering on Friday, December 8, 2017.
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10/11/2017
In 2014, Auburn University scientists in the Department of Biological Sciences’ Molette Biology Laboratory for Environmental and Climate Change Studies and University of Florida researchers shook the foundation of evolutionary biology: for more than a century, researchers believed sponges were the earliest living lineages of the animal tree. Thanks to modern genomic sequencing techniques, Auburn scientists, together with scientists at the Universities of Florida and Alabama, provided novel evidence that ctenophores, or comb jellies, are actually at the base of the animal kingdom. The research results were published in the journal Nature, sparking a debate amongst the scientific community.
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COSAM names 2017 Distinguished Alumnus, Dr. James William Ott
10/11/2017
Dr. James William “Jim” Ott was recognized as the 2017 COSAM Distinguished Alumnus. Ott received a bachelor’s degree from Auburn University in mathematics in 1965 and a doctorate in mathematics in 1969. His career began with Triangle Universities Computation Center, where he developed software for educational computers shared by Duke University, the University of North Carolina, and North Carolina State University. At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ott was an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science. In 1982, Ott founded Triangle Systems, Inc., developing software for IBM mainframe computer systems. Presently, he continues to oversee the company.
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Couch awarded Distinguished Faculty Teaching Fellowship at Lamar University
10/05/2017
PhD graduate Dr. P. J. Couch ('12) has been awarded the Distinguished Faculty Teaching Fellowship at Lamar University. This prestigious three-year term fellowship is to recognize, reward, and support faculty who have demonstrated outstanding performance in instruction across an academic career. The award includes a very nice financial benefit of more than $40,000.
Dr. Couch received his PhD from Auburn under the supervision of Professor Curt Lindner and is an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at Lamar University. He just gave a job hunting presentation last week to DMS graduate students.
Congratulations PJ !
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