COSAM Classroom Spotlight – Computational chemistry class offers students an elevated experience to use a high-performance supercomputer, present at a mini-symposium and provide peer reviews

In COSAM, students have an opportunity to have an elevated student experience with bold assignments to help them grow independently and gain lifelong skills. Auburn University students in the Fall 2023 CHEM 5280/CHEM 6280 course, Computational Chemistry, used the Alabama Supercomputer Center in Huntsville, worked on individual research projects and presented at their very own symposium.

“This group had remote access to run quantum-chemical computations on, among others, chemical structures, spectra, and transition states for chemical reactions on the Dense Memory Cluster,” said Filip Pawłowski, an assistant research professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. “But that is just where the students got started.”

COSAM Graduation Marshal seeks to explore world of genetics and inspire others to pursue science

Katie Marlow, originally from Harvest, Alabama, will carry the flag representing COSAM at the Fall 2023 commencement ceremony. For Marlow, who has always loved genetics, this degree is another chapter in her exciting journey to become a genetics professor.

“There is so much we don’t understand in genetics,” she said. “It is the code to life, and it impacts every living thing.”

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