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
Ariel Sharpe, a standout student-athlete and dual STEM major, is serving as COSAM’s graduation marshal after excelling in the classroom, on the track and in the lab — all while staying grounded in faith and driven by a dream to serve others.
July 28, 2025
Science Matters Camp returned to Auburn this summer, engaging students in elementary grades 1–7 with hands-on STEM activities, themed learning and real-world discovery — from building roller coasters to collecting specimens alongside museum scientists.
July 25, 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
Auburn geology major Nathan Deese has been named Alabama’s 2025 Outstanding Geology Student, recognized for his academic excellence, research contributions, and professional promise.
July 14, 2025
COSAM’s new Code Explorers program trains K–2 teachers across Alabama to bring robotics and computer science into early elementary classrooms.
July 14, 2025
Researchers in Auburn’s College of Sciences and Mathematics are helping lead a global effort to study a rare interstellar visitor. The comet 3I/ATLAS — only the third object ever observed from outside our solar system — offers a unique opportunity to investigate the building blocks of other planetary systems. With time secured on space telescopes like Hubble and James Webb, COSAM scientists are at the forefront of uncovering what this object can tell us.
July 10, 2025
