Chelsea Rand-Fleming, one of 10 students selected in the nation for science advocacy training, seeks to impact underrepresented student groups in STEM

Chelsea Rand-Fleming, a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is one of 10 delegates across the entire nation who has been selected for the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology’s 2022 Advocacy Training Program, or ATP.

She applied for the opportunity and her dedication for outreach activities at Auburn demonstrate her passion for outreach. Not only is Rand-Fleming the president of the Auburn Young Chemists Committee chapter, but she actively participates in outreach events with the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers, or NOBCChE.  

“The ATP program will allow me to further serve as a role model to my daughter by displaying the importance of advocacy, outreach and service,” she said. “It’s my goal to also demonstrate that we all have the potential to have an impact of the world.”

Rand-Fleming believes that every student can make a difference.

Eight Auburn University students, graduates receive National Science Foundation fellowships

Eight current or former Auburn University students have won this year’s National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, a program designed to help ensure the vitality and diversity of the scientific and engineering workforce in the United States.

Each fellowship consists of three years of support accessible over a five-year period. For each year, the NSF provides a stipend of $34,000 to the fellow and a cost-of-education allowance of $12,000 to the degree-granting institution.

“That Auburn University students continue to receive these highly prestigious fellowships is a testament to the pathbreaking science and engineering research happening on our campus,” said Tiffany Sippial, director of Auburn’s Honors College. “These eight awardees are richly deserving of this recognition for their extraordinary work.”

COSAM honors students and faculty at Honors Convocation Ceremony

COSAM celebrated students and faculty at the 2021-2022 Honors Convocation held on April 23 at the Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center.

Biological Sciences graduate programs honored at provost's Excellence in Assessment reception

Each year, academic programs across campus submit an annual assessment report that is peer-reviewed in a meta-assessment institute. All assessment reports are scored using a quality of assessment rubric, which rates elements of program assessment on a scale from beginning to exemplary. Programs who receive an overall exemplary score on their report are eligible for the provost’s Excellence in Assessment award. This award is voted on and decided by the University Assessment Council, or UAC, which is an advisory committee that regularly meets to discuss program assessment efforts at Auburn.

This year, 56 programs were eligible to receive the award. The UAC has selected the graduate programs in Biological Sciences as this year’s winner of the provost’s Excellence in Assessment award. Congratulations to the faculty, staff and students of that department, and to Paul Cobine, assessment coordinator for Biological Sciences.

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