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October
Chen receives $1.87M NIH grant to research new chemical reactivities of organoboron compounds
11/01/2022
Ming Chen, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is the sole primary investigator of a highly competitive $1,876,283 award from the National Institutes of General Medical Sciences, or NIGMS, part of the National Institutes of Health, or NIH.
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Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry meets with students at SERMACS 2022 in Puerto Rico
11/01/2022
At the 73rd Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, or SERMACS, the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry met with potential students in San Juan, Puerto Rico at the graduate school fair. Held from Oct. 19-22, Paul Ohno, assistant professor, and Chelsea Rand, graduate student, attended this year’s SERMACS event.
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10/25/2022
Where can students go to observe how astronomers see stars through spectroscopy, watch flames dance along a Rubens tube and visit the largest snake in Alabama? Destination STEM, of course!
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Alan Stern shares spectacular experiences of the first flyby of Pluto at the Annual Duncan Lecture
10/25/2022
More than 160 people attended this year’s Duncan Lecture on Oct. 4 to hear from Alan Stern, who has participated in 29 NASA and European Space Agency missions. He is the primary investigator of the New Horizons mission which launched in 2006 and completed the first flyby of Pluto in 2015. The New Horizons mission has provided images of Pluto and its moons that had never been possible to capture before.
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New display showcases “It’s Great to Be a Tiger” at Auburn University
10/25/2022
Aubie embraces that “It’s Great to Be a Tiger!” at a display in the Sciences Center Auditorium.
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DMS is this year's recipient of AU's Departmental Award for Excellence in Education
10/14/2022
Congratulations everyone!
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10/12/2022
DMS Assistant Professor Roberto Molinari received NSF funding as co-PI for the project "Simulation-Based Inference for Differential Privacy" (PI: J Awan, Purdue). The project aims at delivering the first general statistical tools to perform estimation and inference within differentially private mechanisms which are increasingly being adopted in the private sector (e.g., Google, Meta) and recently by the US Census 2020. Among others, the tools developed in this project will be used by Dr. Soren Jordan (Department of Political Science at AU) to study political representation in the US through privatized US Census data.
Congrats, Rob!
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10/05/2022
Dr. Guanqun Cao has been named an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). The ISI is the worldwide professional body that covers all topics of statistics and all sectors where statisticians work, including academia, government, and industry. An ISI elected membership is open to individuals who are established in their careers and have made significant contributions to the statistical profession.
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10/04/2022
Laura Bilenker, assistant professor in the Department of Geosciences, and her collaborator Tom Hudgins, associate professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, have received $505,000 from the National Science Foundation, or NSF, for their project Collaborative Research: Characterizing Iron Deposits in Puerto Rico to Elucidate Metal Transport and Magnetite Mineralization Processes in Skarn Systems. The award is funded through the Petrology and Geochemistry Program in NSF’s Division of Earth Sciences and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). The award began in August 2022 and concludes in July 2025. The $257,000 to Bilenker and $248,000 to Hudgins supports research on the iron deposits (skarns) of Puerto Rico and will advance our understanding of the mineral resources available for renewable energy infrastructure.
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COSAM’s Prado and Falcao to present at 2022 AUX: Immersive Learning Experiences Workshop
10/04/2022
In 2021, OIT and the Biggio Center created a new funding opportunity titled “Student Learning Through Immersive Virtual Experiences”, which resulted in six faculty projects that received full funding. Prado and Falcao were among the faculty named as 2021 grant recipients and are slated to present at the workshop, alongside other recipients, about their AUX 2021 project from 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
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Listen to the Primary Investigator of the NASA New Horizons mission at this year’s Duncan Lecture
10/04/2022
Want to learn more about what is at the edge of our solar system? Is Pluto a planet or a ‘dwarf planet’?
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10/04/2022
In 2019, the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in the College of Sciences and Mathematics joined forces with the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering to launch a joint master’s program in data science and engineering (MS-DSE). The program has two tracks: data science managed by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and data engineering managed by the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering. The program is designed to educate and train professionals in the analysis of big data and to give them the necessary tools for a successful career in this rapidly growing field. It is also aimed at educating students to meet the demand for data scientists in government, industry and academia and to develop data scientists with skills to innovate in the spaces of advanced data management and analytics.
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