COSAM Today

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Message from Dean Giordano - July 2020
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Message from Dean Giordano - July 2020

"While we are anticipating further information about plans for the upcoming fall semester to come soon, I wanted to share with you the progress is our college is making." 

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Spring 2020 Dean's List
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Spring 2020 Dean's List

“A total of 745 COSAM students are on the Spring 2020 Dean’s List,” explained Dean Nicholas J. Giordano. “Our diverse group of students represent 25 states in our nation and places throughout the globe as far away as Malaysia, China and Kenya.” 



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Virtual Leadership Council Keeps COSAM Connected
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Virtual Leadership Council Keeps COSAM Connected

“Kim started an REU program and she has built pipelines to bring in college students to work in Auburn University research labs each summer and received funding from the National Science Foundation for this program,” Dean Giordano added. “Kim’s office is making a difference and we all need to thank her for her work.”

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Auburn Chemistry Professor’s Research Aims to Advance More Efficient Use of Solar Energy
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Auburn Chemistry Professor’s Research Aims to Advance More Efficient Use of Solar Energy

“Energy from the sun, at least in our lifetime, is limitless,” said Farnum, a professor at Auburn since 2016. “I want to come up with new and clever ways of designing molecules so they can store more energy. Then, an engineer can come along and put that molecule in the battery and study how it can be cycled. It’s just a no-brainer, and I think we have to move more and more in the direction of renewable energy.”

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Auburn Researchers Discover Rare Plant Species at Chewacla State Park
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Auburn Researchers Discover Rare Plant Species at Chewacla State Park

“Chewacla State Park is not a huge park in terms of land size, but it holds a fantastic diversity of plant life,” Hansen explained. “The overall numbers of species we identified was impressive, with over 700 different plants across only 696 acres of land. As visitors are made aware of the diversity that is here it enhances their experience whether they are camping, biking or hiking. It will also instill a greater appreciation for how biodiverse our state is, with a park like Chewacla representing something like what the original natural areas of Alabama may have been like.”

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Engineering Electronic Technology
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Engineering Electronic Technology

Do you know how electric and magnetic force fields make common technologies work? Find out more at this week's Science Cafe with Ryan Comes from the Department of Physics. 



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