Barati’s research explores whether materials that would otherwise be waste can instead be developed into water-management materials for agriculture.
Troy University researcher Dr. Aboulfaz Barati has received an approximately $249,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to explore how materials recovered from waste can be redesigned to help plants survive drought.
The project, titled “Architected Tolerant Superabsorbent Platforms Derived from Heterogeneous Waste Streams for Water-Resilient Seedling Establishment,” aims to not only show that a recycled…
Sydney Bernard was awarded a $1,500 Alabama Audubon’s Walter F. Coxe Research Grant.
A Troy University graduate student has been awarded the 2026 Alabama Audubon’s Walter F. Coxe Research Grant for her research into native freshwater mussels in the Pea River.
Sydney Bernard, a graduate student in the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences from Richmond, Virginia, was awarded the $1,500 grant for her master’s thesis titled “Feeding Ecology of Native Freshwater…
More than 50 students, researchers and professionals from universities across the nation attended ACMSE 2026 at TROY.
From April 23-25, Troy University’s Department of Computer Science welcomed researchers, educators and students from across the country for the 2026 ACM Southeast Conference. One of the longest-running regional conferences affiliated with the Association for Computing Machinery Southeast Conference, ACMSE brought together more than 50 attendees to discuss emerging research and innovations in computer science and…
MathFest is the only undergraduate student math conference in Alabama.
Over April 10-11, more than 90 students from universities across the South gathered in Troy University’s John Robert Lewis Hall for the 19th annual TROY MathFest, a free conference that enables undergraduate students to share their research.
The only undergraduate student math conference in Alabama, TROY MathFest was started in 2004 by Dr. Ken Roblee,…
