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October
Hear from Christy F. Landes at the Schneller Frontiers Lecture on Nov. 16
10/31/2023
Please join us for this year’s Schneller Frontiers Lecture where Christy Landes from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne will deliver her talk titled Towards predictive protein separations: Imaging protein dynamics at nanoscale interfaces. The lecture is scheduled for Nov. 16 at 3:45 PM in SCC 115. Prof. Landes is co-hosted by Assistant Professors Paul Ohno and Chris Grieco from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
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Catherine Kenny wins SCORE’s Terry Marbut Excellence in Robotics Teaching Award
10/31/2023
“Robotics can make a huge difference in the life of a student,” said Jennifer Spencer, assistant director of the Southeastern Center of Robotics Education, or SCORE. “This year’s recipient of the Terry Marbut Excellence in Robotics Teaching Award is an example of what an incredible difference a teacher made with her excitement and dedication for her robotics team.”
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Gameday physics event captivates tailgaters
10/31/2023
Minds were enriched and children and parents alike were fascinated by the Gameday Physics event hosted by the Auburn Physics Department and COSAM Outreach on Saturday, Oct. 21 from 2 – 4 p.m. in the Academic and Classroom Learning Complex (ACLC). The event brought the wonders of physics to the public prior to gameday kickoff through a series of interactive exhibits and demonstrations.
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Lanius represented DMS and COSAM in STEAM Fest held in Huntsville
10/30/2023
Dr. Melinda Lanius represented DMS and COSAM in STEAM Fest held in Huntsville this past Saturday (October 28, 2023).
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Click the link below to view the news article and video clip of her post-event interview with the local media:
https://www.waff.com/2023/10/29/steam-fest-welcomes-thousands-von-braun-center/
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10/24/2023
Research has indicated that overall air quality had improved during the lockdown from COVID. Most major cities saw improved air quality, making it healthier for residents during COVID. While this was true, a group of researchers from five countries began brainstorming post-COVID phase, whether air quality had similarly improved regionally and/or globally, and whether this claim was biased towards urban centers only. Among these researchers is Subhasis Ghosh, a doctoral student in the Department of Geosciences at Auburn University who played a pivotal role in conducting research using remote-sensing and cloud computing techniques to debunk the published myth that air quality had overall improved during COVID. The team found that there was a huge gap in the way air quality improvement was perceived at different scales, which they published in the Physics and Chemistry of the Earth journal. The article is titled Have COVID lockdowns really improved global air quality? – Hierarchical observations from the perspective of urban agglomerations using atmospheric reanalysis data. The study is part of NASA’s Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Science program led by Dr. Chandana Mitra in the Department of Geosciences, which looks at urban agglomerations and their impact on urban microclimate and urban hydrological processes.
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10/24/2023
Konrad Patkowski presented a tutorial how to compute interaction energies between molecules at the kick-off meeting for the PHYMOL European Doctoral Training Network in Luxembourg. Students who are part of this program were able to run calculations in real time thanks to the Psi4 open-source quantum chemistry software. Patkowski, the S. D. and Karen H. Worley Professor in Auburn’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is a co-author of Psi4.
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10/24/2023
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Cao reappointed and Shen appointed to the Don Logan Chair of Mathematics
10/23/2023
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When nanoflakes meet epitaxial thin films
10/17/2023
Funding from the U.S. Department of Defense allows Auburn researchers to fabricate a novel composite material system and explore device applications at its interface.
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COSAM’s Matt Kearley takes a pie to the face to help the Beat Bama Food Drive
10/10/2023
Matt Kearley enjoys teaching in the Department of Biological Sciences. However, on Oct. 5, he also enjoyed letting his students cover him in pie all in the name of making a difference to fight hunger and poverty.
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