COSAM Today is a newsletter that provides alumni and friends of the Auburn University College of Sciences and Mathematics, or COSAM, with a smart way to stay on top of the latest news and updates from the college.
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Learn how this COSAM faculty is the recipient of a $650,000 NSF CAREER Award to develop a new method to detect protein modifications, which could directly impact diseases such as cancer and diabetes. Read more about her impressive research.
Physics of Plasmas highlights COSAM's Plasma Sciences Laboratory group for a paper with high downloads and citations in 2017-2018. Learn more about the paper based on research conducted on the Magnetized Dusty Plasma Experiment.
Kennedye McGhee is just one of four undergraduate students from around the nation that participated in an internship program at Yale University researching ovarian cancer and the impact of the p53 mutation. Check out this outstanding COSAM junior.
Only a handful of students receive support from the Barringer Meteorite Crater fund each year, however, Neeraja Chinchalkar is the third Auburn University student to gain this honor. In 2014, 2017 and now in 2018, COSAM students have been part of this elite group of international researchers. Find out about her work at the Wetumpka impact crater.
Alumnus Wesley Curles, COSAM Dean's Medalist, recipient of an NCAA Postgraduate scholarship and the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, is now attending medical school and shares his advice for students.