Outreach and Extension | Auburn University

Reaching Across Alabama

Auburn partners with government, industry and communities to deliver research-based educational programs that improve the health and economic well-being of all Alabamians. From farming and finances to nutrition and food safety, we take practical expertise to every corner of the state.

Extension

For more than a century, we’ve worked with our land-grant partners at Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University to turn research into real solutions for communities in every corner of the state.

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Outreach

We serve communities far beyond our campus with outreach programs that help citizens, schools, governments and businesses build skills, develop new knowledge and achieve a higher quality of life.

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Innovation that Works

$26 million

Annual outreach and extension spending

67 counties

Extension employees are in every Alabama county

$6.3 billion

Statewide economic impact of Auburn and its alumni in FY2022

Impact for Alabama

Work that changes the world begins at home. Our research, education and outreach make Alabama a safer, healthier, happier place to live.

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Year-round threat: tick risk on the rise

As the lead author of the 2026 Pet Parasite Forecasts, Auburn parasitologist Dr. Kathryn Reif shares the rising risk ticks and other disease-carrying pests can post to both pets and their owners.

Two women in scrubs and with medical gear stand under a tent with one of them holding a dog wrapped in a towel and with a muzzle on. In the background, you can see multiple people and other tents on a grassy lawn.

Veterinary students gain hands-on experience

Thirty-one Auburn University veterinary students spent a Saturday in early April providing cost-free care for pet owners in Fulton County, Ga. Through a partnership with LifeLine Animal Project — an Atlanta nonprofit that seeks to improve access to pet care — students had a chance to step out of the classroom and into practice.

A mother pushes her daughter in an all-terrain wheelchair through the forest.

Auburn attains grant to expand accessibility at KPNC

The Kreher Preserve and Nature Center (KPNC) is expanding access to outdoor recreation through a recent Tier 1 Quality of Life Grant from the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, supporting the purchase of three all-terrain wheelchairs designed specifically for trail use.