Research Magazine

Five Auburn University researchers are recipients of awards totaling nearly $3 million in this year’s highly competitive and prestigious National Science Foundation, or NSF, CAREER awards program.

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program is a foundation-wide activity that offers the NSF’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.

Dr. Thi Thao Phuong Hoang
Department of Mathematics and Statistics

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Efficient and Accurate Local Time-Stepping Algorithms for Multiscale Multiphysics Systems

Dr. Ming Chen
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

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Enantioselective Syntheses of Organoboron Compounds via Transition-Metal Catalysis

Dr. Jack Montgomery
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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From Pore to Pipe: A Multiscale Experimental and Numerical Study of Piping in Unsaturated Soil

Dr. Ryan Comes
Department of Physics

Project Title
Topological Phenomena in 4D and 5D Complex Oxide Interfaces and Superlattices Grown by Hybrid Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Dr. Soledad Peresin
School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences

Project Title
Unlocking the Potential of Natural Polymers for Efficient Removal of Emerging Contaminants from Drinking Water