Message from the Dean - May 2021

Our campus and local community is on the right track with regards to the COVID19 pandemic. Through the significant efforts by the university and by all of you, our campus has met the challenges of the last year and remains committed to providing a high quality education to all of our students. 

To add to this momentum, the low numbers of new COVID19 cases has allowed Auburn to plan a return to in-person instruction this fall. I believe that students and faculty are looking forward to this next step in the return to normal.

Announcing winners of Greater East Alabama Regional Science and Engineering Fair

The Greater East Alabama Regional Science and Engineering Fair (GEARSEF), an affiliate fair of the Regeneron International Science Fair, took place on March 22-23 (6^th – 8^th grades) and March 30 – April 1 (9^th – 12 grades) in an entirely virtual format. Over 70 AU faculty, graduate students and industry professionals volunteered to judge over 60 independent STEM research projects produced by students in a 19-county region of southeast Alabama.  The conversion to a virtual fair format was made possible by a grant from the Society for Science, a non-profit organization in Washington, D.C., that coordinates the Regeneron Fair system.

NSF CAREER Award helps physics professor continue cutting-edge research on thin films

In addition to being part of an electronic and energy research cluster that has brought the best X-ray diffraction instrumentation to the state of Alabama and winning the U.S. Air Force Young Investigator Award, Ryan Comes, Thomas and Jean Walter Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, is now a NSF CAREER Award recipient.

Comes was selected for the prestigious award for “Interfaces and Superlattices Grown by Hybrid Molecular Beam Epitaxy” with funding for five years totaling $651,110.

Eight Auburn students selected to study Alabama matters with fellows from Stanford University’s Hoover Institution

“My Auburn education has given me the opportunity to engage with individuals across numerous disciplines with a range of various expertise,” said Moss. “I hope to apply my education effectively, but also know that this experience will ultimately help me to become a more critical thinker, an engaged listener and a stronger advocate for many necessary statewide and local policy changes forefront to the lives of Alabamians.”

COSAM Talks - Noah Yawn

In this episode, hear from Noah Yawn, an outstanding COSAM student who is double majoring in biology and geosciences. As you prepare to celebrate Mother's Day this weekend, learn how Noah's mother and grandmother sparked his passion for botany from a very young age. 

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