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Auburn University professor combating red tides through NSF CAREER Award
Auburn University is familiar with battling against a red tide, but this time the foe is coastal red tides that have a significant negative impact on the environment and economy.
Steven Mansoorabadi, assistant professor in Auburn’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has received a five-year, $703,000 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation to study the problem through his project, “Mechanistic and Biosynthetic Studies of Dinoflagellate Bioluminescence.”
His research looks at dinoflagellates, marine microorganisms found in coastal and freshwater environments that bioluminesce, or glow. Some species of dinoflagellates produce toxins, which can cause harmful algal blooms and cause coastal waters to become brown or red, known as red tides.
“It’s very costly both to tourism and the seafood industry, and is harmful to humans and marine life,” said Mansoorabadi. “It can be detrimental to the environment. Shellfish poisoning is often caused by dinoflagellate toxins, and even breathing in spray from affected waters could cause respiratory problems in humans.”
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COSAM welcomes new faculty and staff
Quality faculty and staff allow the college to build upon the already-stellar reputation and strengths of a COSAM education. Our faculty and staff offer the intellectual capital upon which strong programs, innovative research, and student success are built. As we embark on a new academic year, the college would like to extend a warm welcome to the newest members of the COSAM family, including:
- Kimberly Mulligan, Ph.D., director for Diversity and Multicultural Affairs
- Morgan Beadles, curator at the Donald E. Davis Arboretum
- Jamie Oaks, assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences
- Daniel Warner, assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences
- Evangelos Miliordos, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Ming Chen, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Byron Farnum, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Christopher Burton, assistant professor in the Department of Geosciences
- Martín Medina-Elizalde, associate professor in the Department of Geosciences
- Karen McNeal, associate professor in the Department of Geosciences;
- Ryan Comes, assistant professor in the Department of Physics
- Eric Howell, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Physics
- John Schmitt, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Physics
- Katy Crider, academic advisor in the Office of Student Services
- Anna Allen, academic advisor in the Office of Student Services
- Malisa Hanson, administrative support specialist in the Office of Student Services
- Kristen Bond, assistant director in the Office of Outreach
- Charles Eick, Ph.D., affiliate assistant director for Project Lead The Way Launch and Gateway programs in the Office of Outreach
- Courtney Thomas, administrative support specialist in the Office of Research and the Cellular and Molecular Biosciences program
For more information on COSAM’s new hires, click here.
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COSAM Office of Outreach facilitates statewide Project Lead The Way training
The COSAM Office of Outreach was busy this summer offering Project Lead The Way teacher training courses. Project Lead The Way is a national program that provides a transformative learning experience for K-12 students and teachers across the U.S. by stimulating an engaging classroom environment that empowers students to develop in-demand knowledge and skills necessary to thrive in an evolving world.
Auburn serves as the Project Lead The Way’s Engineering and Biomedical Science affiliate university for the state of Alabama. In this role, the university facilitates the delivery of the Project Lead The Way Engineering, Biomedical Science, Gateway and Launch programs by providing professional development through its core training and counselor conferences, as well as college-level recognition, program initiatives, and statewide and regional support and communication.
This summer the COSAM Office of Outreach offered 170 core training courses for 151 teachers. Courses included: Engineering Design and Development; Principles of Engineering; Digital Electronics; Computer Integrated Manufacturing; Design and Modeling; Automation & Robotics; Medical Detectives; Introduction to Engineering Design; Principles of Biomedical Sciences; Human Body Systems; Medical Interventions; and Biomedical Innovations.
The courses aimed to empower educators by providing them with tools to transform the classroom into a collaborative space that supports an activity- project- and problem-based curriculum. The goal is to allow K-12 students an opportunity to apply their knowledge, identify problems, discover unique solutions, and lead their own learning.
For more information on Project Lead The Way, visit the website at http://pltw.org
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