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January
COSAM Student Spotlight: Natalie Williams
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
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
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
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.
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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