“This grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education (EHR/DGE) is the first NRT-award for Auburn University and the first in the state of Alabama that will train students to make a sustainable, lasting impact increasing the climate resiliency in the southeastern United States,” explained Dr. Karen McNeal from the Department of Geosciences and the primary investigator of this award. Learn more about this grant that will help reform graduate education over the next five years. 

Monday, September 23 was the first day of autumn. Did you know that fall leaves actually take time away from our day? Find out more from a professor in the Department of Physics.

Check out a local archived newspaper clipping of the Donald E. Davis Arboretum in 1983 as autumn began, and then click on the image to see how the garden has changed more than three decades later.

“Professor Goldsmith trained and taught me to become an independent researcher, and without this training I would not be where I am today,” Ward said. Read more about this proud COSAM graduate and co-author of two prestigious publications who is now pursuing multi-disciplinary research in biology and chemistry at Northwestern University. 

“Auburn is very rigorous in academics,” Kennedye said. “It is not easy, it is challenging. It just allowed me to grow as a student with academics and as a person finding myself. So, my time at Auburn has been very well spent and definitely prepared me for what’s to come.” Check out the accomplishments of this outstanding COSAM student. 

“It was a great opportunity to reconnect with the people in COSAM who helped me achieve my goals and allow them to share in my success since leaving Auburn,” Prince said. Read more about this COSAM alumna.