The Auburn University Summer STEM Institute (AUSSI) trains educators in evidence-based strategies to boost engagement, belonging, and learning. It builds a collaborative community focused on inclusive, student-centered classrooms in COSAM.
September 11, 2025
An information systems researcher says businesses using game-like approaches are making a smart move.
September 09, 2025
Focused on helping rural, working coast communities to adapt and thrive, the proposed project will develop integrated resilient housing and natural infrastructure for the rural working Gulf Coast. The interdisciplinary team will design and build community-based demonstration projects, creating a scalable adaptation toolkit to promote regional prosperity.
September 09, 2025
Kiwifruit is a high-value specialty crop with great potential to work for Alabama commercial fruit producers or even small-scale cultivation.
September 09, 2025
Auburn University is reaching for the stars again with the announcement of the hiring of Derek Tournear, former director of the Space Development Agency, as its inaugural director of space innovation.
September 08, 2025
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has asked Auburn University to put the pedal to the powdered metal.
September 05, 2025
The $65,000 grant will be used to design and build the aptly named Cost-Effective, Resilient, Energy-Efficient, Equitable and Durable (CREED) House.
September 05, 2025
The partnership will help restore streams, reduce runoff and add features at Hickory Dickory Park to protect local waterways and enhance residents’ quality of life.
September 05, 2025
An Auburn Building Science professor and doctoral candidate are collaborating with international researchers and authorities to document ancient historical sites in Petra, Jordan.
September 04, 2025
In an already stressful and trying growing season, researchers at Auburn University and Alabama Cooperative Extension professionals have confirmed an invasive insect, the two-spot cotton leafhopper, in cotton fields in Alabama. The insect is also commonly known as the cotton jassid.
September 02, 2025
The National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT) at Auburn University is celebrating 25 years of its world-renowned Test Track, a groundbreaking resource that has transformed asphalt pavement research.
September 02, 2025
Two Auburn University faculty members are testing Alabama’s first Historic Preservation academic program to research disappearing Rosenwald Schools.
August 30, 2025
Auburn Landscape Architecture, housed within the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, boasts a rich history that spans four decades.
August 30, 2025
Right in the heart of central Alabama, research is conducted throughout the year to find ways to protect one of the state’s most precious commodities — peaches.
August 28, 2025
Jill Sower studies the people, places and policies of the Gulf Coast oyster farming industry.
August 28, 2025
Electrical and computer engineering's Yin Sun won the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Communications Society William R. Bennett Prize for his co-authored paper, “Timely Communications for Remote Inference.”
August 27, 2025
Auburn University hosted a global computational biophysics workshop led by COSAM’s Rafael Bernardi, training students and researchers to use NAMD and VMD, two leading tools for simulating and visualizing molecular dynamics. The event drew international participants, combined lectures with hands-on problem solving, and highlighted Auburn’s growing role in advancing molecular research and collaboration.
August 26, 2025
While #fatcat drives engagement on social media, Auburn research suggests feline weight monitoring capabilities could soon rest in the palms of pet owners' hands, with the help of AI.
August 26, 2025
The buzz at Auburn's Bee Center isn’t just about harvesting honey for the AU-BEES program. It’s also about groundbreaking research, immersive student experiences and impactful community outreach.
August 25, 2025
The National Science Foundation has awarded Siyuan Dai in materials engineering a grant to explore ways of fusing light and matter that are literally opening new dimensions in nano-optics.
August 25, 2025
College of Agriculture researchers are shifting their catfish vaccine development strategy to bring vaccines to farmers.
August 20, 2025
Students and faculty from the School of Industrial and Graphic Design and the McWhorter School of Building Science teamed up to create marketable products for mass timber installation.
August 19, 2025
The Auburn Mass Timber Collaborative hosted its annual workshop in May, continuing to expand mass timber education across the country.
August 19, 2025
While giraffes are the tallest land animals in the world, health challenges often begin at ground level. Imagine carrying 2,500 pounds of body weight on four feet the approximate size of dinner plates. Veterinary Medicine's Ray Wilhite is part of a new collaborative study that may lead to improved hoof health and longer lifespans for the graceful giants in zoos and other managed environments.
August 19, 2025
Auburn’s Launch Your Societal Impact! workshop brought together 12 interdisciplinary teams to turn research into real-world solutions. From smart health tech to environmental monitoring, the program highlighted how science at Auburn can drive measurable societal benefit.
August 19, 2025
Auburn physicists Shawn Oset and Zexi Xing helped lead an international effort to study 3I/ATLAS, only the third known interstellar object. In just days, their team moved from first observation to a published paper, detecting traces of water that could reshape how scientists understand planetary systems beyond our own.
August 19, 2025
Six Engineering faculty members — Daniel Tauritz, Dave Bevly, Anton Schindler, Virginia Davis, John Evans and Brian Thurow — have been awarded new or continued endowed professorships.
August 19, 2025
Traditional imaging techniques face fundamental limitations when it comes to detecting disease-related proteins on exosomes — nanoscale extracellular vesicles that serve as critical messengers between cells. Two Auburn Engineering researchers, however, have a solution.
August 18, 2025
Auburn University paleontologist Thomas Cullen is co-leading a $3 million international study of the mid-Cretaceous Thermal Maximum — a prehistoric period of extreme warming — to understand how ecosystems responded to rapid environmental shifts and what those patterns reveal about Earth’s history.
August 14, 2025
Three graduate students stepped away from campus this summer for internships with pharmaceutical companies across the country.
August 10, 2025
COSAM’s weeklong field school brings together faculty and graduate students to explore how research can improve STEM teaching—and lays the foundation for a regional hub in education innovation.
August 08, 2025
Auburn researchers are studying the advantages of using Alabama-specific beneficial bacteria from soil samples as a kind of bioinsecticide to reduce pest infestations in crops such as cotton.
August 06, 2025
Researchers in Auburn’s Center for Bioenergy and Bioproducts are studying the incredible potential of biochar to clean water, fuel vehicles and help farmers.
August 05, 2025
Researchers at Auburn University recently developed new methods for safely using poultry processing wastewater for food-grade hydroponic crop production.
August 05, 2025
COSAM doctoral student Raissa Santos de Lima Rosa is interning at the Simons Foundation, studying collagen’s physical properties while gaining hands-on experience in collaborative, cross-disciplinary science.
August 04, 2025
Michael Brown, associate professor of mathematics, received a National Science Foundation grant to explore connections between algebra, geometry and physics.
August 04, 2025
From researching hydrogels for space transportation to using sound to boost pollination, Jean-Francois Louf is a research renaissance man. Listen to his journey on the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast.
August 01, 2025
Auburn University researchers are utilizing the ever-changing technology of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance and streamline their work.
August 01, 2025
Auburn Biosystems Engineering celebrated for excellence and impact abroad
July 30, 2025
Turner Construction Company hosted university administrators and city of Huntsville officials at a topping off ceremony for the new 50,000-square-foot addition to the Auburn University Applied Research Institute (AUARI) in Cummings Research Park.
July 29, 2025
A fierce battle is being waged between cotton and polyester, with polyester edging ahead as the most widely used fiber in the world, for now. In fact, synthetic materials account for more than half of today’s overall market share.
July 29, 2025
With support from the ACS Petroleum Research Fund, COSAM researchers are uncovering how tar-like petroleum molecules called asphaltenes could power future breakthroughs in electronics and energy storage.
July 28, 2025
In its second year, the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience gives students the chance to conduct meaningful, faculty-guided research while simulating the experience of graduate school in electrical and computer engineering.
July 25, 2025
When Engineering's Pengyu Chen received a prestigious national award, recognizing outstanding potential in research and education five years ago, the confidence was well-placed. His research on sensors that quickly and accurately detect several immune system signals at once in a single drop of blood continues to draw national attention.
July 24, 2025
Auburn University and the City of Orange Beach broke ground on its latest collaboration — the Gulf Coast Engineering Research Station — which will serves as a permanent hub for studying coastal environments and communities.
July 24, 2025
The Research Experience for Undergraduates program provided opportunities for students to conduct research related to chemical engineering via a structured summer experience that combined lab work with professional development and mentorship.
July 24, 2025
Auburn chemist Evangelos Miliordos helped explain how urea, a key industrial chemical, can form spontaneously inside saltwater droplets — offering new insight into sustainable manufacturing and the possible origins of life.
July 23, 2025
Pharmacy's Kim Garza is using virtual reality to transform how people learn, whether they’re patients facing a new diagnosis or students preparing for a career in pharmacy.
July 23, 2025
Auburn never fails to show up at the intersection of agriculture and engineering — nor show out. The university's Department of Biosystems Engineering once again loomed large and took charge at the 2025 American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) Annual International Meeting, held recently in Toronto.
July 21, 2025
The week-long, enriching summer science experience brings high-achieving high schoolers to campus to explore advanced science topics with College of Sciences and Mathematics faculty members.
July 21, 2025
