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Latest Research Stories
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Environmental Design faculty wins Visionary of the Year

Environmental Design Assistant Professor Eilís Finnegan has been named the 2025 Architectural Visionary of the Year.

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64 students honored with 2026 research symposium awards

This article recaps the 2026 Research Symposium at Auburn University and highlights student award winners.

Auburn research reinvents cleaner poultry houses

Auburn researchers are developing strategies to reduce gas emissions from poultry houses and improve animal welfare for poultry production.

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Auburn to host four NSF-funded summer research sites

This summer, Auburn will host four REU sites where students from across the country participate in intensive NSF-funded research.

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Collaborative bat research uncovers new disease ecology framework

Bats, much like humans, are exposed to the risks of cohabitation when it comes to sharing germs. Molly Simonis, an Auburn University assistant professor of disease ecology and avid bat researcher in the College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment (CFWE) and the College of Veterinary Medicine, has been working to identify the major factors contributing to zoonotic disease transmission across different species, with a special focus on bats.

Auburn engineering rewriting the rules of metallic materials

The structured metals crucial to extreme environment systems such as aerospace propulsion and nuclear energy systems can be really strong at high temperatures — a good thing. Or they can be somewhat pliable at room temperature — also a good thing. But they can't be both. That's just how the game is played... for now.