COSAM Today - March 10, 2020

Tuesday, March 10, 2020
	...	Geosciences Graduate Student Receives Award to Conduct Research at the Smithsonian “Receiving this award is very prestigious and provides Steph an awesome opportunity to pursue a dream of working in informal science spaces,” explained Dr. Karen McNeal.
	...	Save the Date: The 2020 Auburn Azalea Festival Occurs on April 11, 2020 at the Davis Arboretum The Auburn Azalea series is the result of more than three decades of breeding and production of the luscious blooms seen on campus each spring. The climate and landscape of the south allow for its plethora of azaleas, but Auburn puts the rhododendron on the map for its deeply rooted tradition.
	...	COSAM Faculty Focus - Katherine Buckley, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences “When I was in graduate school, the sea urchin genome was sequenced and we were really surprised by the complexity of immune genes present in the genome,” Dr. Buckley said. “So, it was a good time to start understanding how these immune genes worked in the context of the animal.”
	...	Mother Earth as Art Exhibit Mother Earth as Art—its age-old phraseology embodying the femininity of nature—celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day in 2020 by exploring an intersection of art and science through unique photographic manipulations of our planet’s surface.
	...	Auburn Senior Finds COSAM Passion in Geology “I love the Geology Department,” Woodard said. “I feel like I can go to anybody if I need help with something or don’t know something and they are all willing to do what they can to help.”
	...	COSAM Chemistry Major Worked in Emergency Rooms for Two Decades and Opened Her Own Practice Auburn College of Sciences and Mathematics (COSAM) alumna Debbie Stanford has spent more than two decades in the medical field. Stanford graduated from Auburn in 1979 with a degree in chemistry. Originally, she wanted to pursue a career as either a veterinarian or a chemistry teacher, but ended up down a different path.
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