Shiwen Mao, director of the Wireless Engineering Research and Education Center, received a three-year, $300K National Science Foundation grant to investigate how to integrate drone localization, millimeter wave communications and more for future 6G systems.
October 15, 2024
Ten aspiring entrepreneurs each earned $1,000 in the third-annual Ideas Jam business pitch competition hosted by the Lowder Center for Family Business and Entrepreneurship on campus. More than 40 Auburn students and community members pitched their early-stage business ideas at the low-stress competition.
October 15, 2024
Where there's a Wills, there's a way. And an adjustable cup holders for chairs. And a magic cable machine attachment. And, from the sounds of it, an unbelievably bright future. Listen to industrial and systems engineering senior Wills Crook discuss his Auburn-born aspirations on the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast.
October 15, 2024
Jeff LaMondia is collaborating with five Alabama counties and the Alabama Cooperative Extension System's Live Well Alabama Thriving Communities program to generate safety action plans and implement a series of quick-build, community-painted crosswalk projects to evaluate the benefits and feasibility for broader use.
October 15, 2024
Students interested in a future in education recently engaged with representatives of 45 school districts from 10 states as part of the fall Education Interview Day.
October 10, 2024
Destination STEM inspires regional middle school students with hands-on science and math experiences.
October 08, 2024
A highlight of the seventh-annual Financial Leadership Summit was an industry panel session, where Auburn Financial Management Association students gathered career advice and insights from prominent company leaders.
October 07, 2024
Hey Day will be livestreamed on the Auburn Alumni Association's Facebook page, YouTube Channel and in the Auburn App on Oct. 16 at 11:45 am CST. This live program will include student interviews, campus updates, the history of Hey Day and special guests.
October 07, 2024
Is there some sort of hocus pocus behind Phedra Peter's fervid focus? Is it just that the industrial and systems engineering junior and student leader superstar believes in work — hard work? Find out on the latest episode of the best podcast in higher education.
October 04, 2024
Join the Auburn Family on Saturday, Oct. 26 for the official Auburn University tailgate. Four hours before kickoff at the green space outside the UK Pediatric Therapies Building, the tailgate will include dinner, snacks, hosted bar, televisions and appearances from special Auburn visitors.
October 03, 2024
Auburn University's Forests, Environment and Wildlife Leadership (FEWL) Academy recently acquired firsthand experience in governmental affairs and leadership during its annual visit to Washington, D.C. Comprised of select students expressing leadership abilities in the College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment (CFWE), the group represented Auburn while engaging with natural resource leaders, organizations and agencies during the three-day trip.
October 03, 2024
Students with innovative business ideas have the opportunity to compete for a share of $6,000 in start-up capital at the sixth annual Halloween Pitch Competition, held Oct. 31 in Horton-Hargrave Hall's Broadway Event and Space Theater.
October 03, 2024
Three Auburn University professors have been awarded a nearly $400K grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to enhance Lean Manufacturing education.
October 02, 2024
Frank Canova, inventor of the first smart phone, Daniel A. Henderson, inventor of photo/video messaging and Neil Papworth, who created and sent the first-ever text message, answered questions and shared experiences in a 60-minute discussion.
October 01, 2024
Go ahead and call her Miss Mercedes. Because this Jersey-born mechanical engineering senior and Design and Manufacturing Lab devotee has logged more internship hours in Vance, Alabama than LinkedIn can count. Haley Bhend? More like Haley Benz. Listen to her story on the latest episode of the #GINNing Podcast.
September 30, 2024
Auburn University's Hunger Solutions Institute (HSI) will serve as co-host for the Feeding Change–Nourishing Alabama's Future Summit at the Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center on Nov. 6-7.
September 27, 2024
As more large poultry processors require more stringent animal welfare guidelines, an Auburn research team is investigating how natural light would impact the growth, performance and welfare of broiler chickens.
September 27, 2024
Robbie Ledet, whose career spans more than 25 years in the commercial nuclear sector, was recently named director of the small but increasingly popular minor within the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The curriculum introduces students to the practices and philosophies of the nuclear power industry.
September 25, 2024
Justin Littlefield, a senior in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, has been awarded the 2024 Astronaut Scholarship Foundation award.
September 25, 2024
Christine Schnittka's new book aims to help students learn about STEAM concepts through hands-on crafts.
September 24, 2024
Auburn Engineering's undergraduate program also ranked fourth among the 13 public institutions in the Southeastern Conference and — again — No. 1 in the state.
September 24, 2024
College of Human Sciences alumna Molly Arnett is a traveling and private chef who will tell you she never saw this career coming. A diagnosis shortly after graduation charted a path that was a bit bumpy at first but led to her calling. Arnett sits down for a How Very Human Sciences podcast sharing her passion for creating gluten-free gourmet food and offering advice for the students of today.
September 23, 2024
Parker Lewis couldn't lose. And neither can Parker Thompson. From touring Würzburg to securing the World Wide Web, this cybersecurity engineering grad student has synchronized his Swatch for success. Listen to Thompsas in the latest #GINNing podcast.
September 23, 2024
Craig M. Whittinghill, a U.S. Navy veteran of 29 years, was named deputy director for applied research and services. Kyle D. Klein, who served on Capitol Hill in a variety of senior policy roles for 12 years, was named deputy director for policy and partnerships.
September 23, 2024
The following five faculty members have been selected as the 2024 Auburn University Alumni Professors. Sponsored by the Auburn Alumni Association, the professorships represent the highest standard of teaching, research and service awarded by the association.
September 20, 2024
With nearly 1,000 combined publications, more than 500 students mentored and $38 million in research funding, this year's six Alumni Professors represent a record-setting class.
September 20, 2024
Viewers will have the opportunity to watch the movies, then learn from Auburn University experts, who will serve as discussion leaders.
September 20, 2024
Three Auburn University faculty members on the AI@AU ethics committee are collaborating on a new project funded by the National Science Foundation's Ethical and Responsible Research program.
September 19, 2024
Researchers have discovered that watching certain TikTok videos pertaining to sleep health actually leads to better sleep and improves sleep patterns.
September 19, 2024
The Auburn University Bullock County Agriculture program is a partnership between the Center for Educational Outreach and Engagement and Auburn's College of Agriculture. It offers Union Springs area high school students opportunities to explore agricultural careers through guest speakers, workshops and curriculum focused on agriscience.
September 17, 2024
Four Auburn biosystems engineering doctoral students won second place in the Bioprocessing Startup Competition at the recent American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers annual meeting for their alginate-based food-safe wrappers.
September 17, 2024
Auburn currently claims six astronauts. We're willing to bet chemical engineering alumna and current graduate student Kate Handel may soon make it seven. Listen to this conversation with the Air Force second lieutenant, three-time Space Camp alum, third-generation Auburn grad, second-generation Auburn Engineering grad and possible future president of Mars on the latest episode of the #GINNing Podcast.
September 16, 2024
At its reception for newly tenured and promoted faculty on Sept. 12, the Provost's Office recognized 127 distinguished faculty scholars from across the university who achieved the career milestones of tenure and promotion during the past academic year.
September 13, 2024
Auburn University Outreach's 2024 Royrickers Cook Endowed Engagement Award was awarded to Sean Forbes for his notable contributions to the community through Opelika Grows (O Grows) community garden and farmers market.
September 12, 2024
Mario Eden, dean of Engineering, and Virginia Davis, professor of chemical engineering, were recently elected American Institute of Chemical Engineers fellows — the organization's highest membership grade.
September 11, 2024
A statewide champion for forest landowner education, Auburn faculty member and Alabama Extension specialist Adam Maggard was recently honored as the 2024 Conservation Communicator of the Year by the Alabama Wildlife Federation at the Governor's Conservation Achievement Awards banquet held in Prattville this August.
September 10, 2024
Aleksandr Vinel, associate professor of industrial and systems engineering, will spend the spring 2025 semester teaching and collaborating at Bilkent University in Turkey after being awarded a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program grant.
September 10, 2024
Taylor Davis and Amy Flynn are now part of the Honors College's award-winning advising team and look forward to advising students as they work towards their Honors designation. Recently, we sat down with both advisors and asked them a few questions about their life, the Honors College and some simple things that are important to them.
September 09, 2024
The FY25 budget at Auburn University includes an investment in current and future faculty and staff.
September 09, 2024
Victor Nelson, professor emeritus in electrical and computer engineering, will be recognized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers at its annual conference in November.
September 09, 2024
Listen to a conversation with the co-founder of a medical startup that's changing the game in diabetes management on the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast.
September 09, 2024
Masoud Mahjouri-Samani, the Godbold Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is working to advance the science of atomic interfaces between layered 2D quantum materials.
September 06, 2024
With a grant from the National Science Foundation Rapid Response Research program, Auburn faculty from the College of Engineering and the College of Education recently completed the first summer camp aimed at empowering students from underserved communities.
September 05, 2024
The purpose of Ag Roundup is to support the College of Agriculture by raising visibility, maintaining connections, supporting student scholarships and encouraging Auburn spirit.
September 05, 2024
Alabama blueberry farmers could soon start growing more frost-tolerant cultivars thanks to recent research at Auburn University.
September 04, 2024
The Ginn Faculty Achievement Fellowship recognizes and rewards junior faculty in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering who receive prestigious young investigator awards, including the National Science Foundation CAREER, Department of Defense, Department of Energy or National Institutes of Health.
September 03, 2024
Three architects of the mobile generation — Frank Canova, inventor of the first smart phone; Daniel A. Henderson, inventor of picture and video messaging; and Neil Papworth, who sent the first text message — will visit campus Sept. 30.
September 03, 2024
Huaguo Zhou was recognized by the California Department of Transportation for his study on intoxicated drivers, which identified effective engineering countermeasures to prevent wrong-way driving.
September 03, 2024
Ali Khosravi, an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is teaming up with Bart Prorok, a materials engineering professor; Paul Bartley, an assistant professor in horticulture at Auburn and his twin brother, Mohammad Khosravi, an associate professor at Montana State University, to improve the understanding of how climate change impacts permafrost.
September 03, 2024
Auburn's official artificial intelligence initiative, AI@AU, will host a series of Friday fall lectures — beginning Sept. 6, from guest speakers representing academia and industry.
August 30, 2024
All right Tiger fans! Are you ready? Ben Timm is one of the leaders in the Design and Manufacturing Lab. He's the guy in charge of teaching folks how to machine safely. He chose mechanical engineering because he loved working with his hands. But for the next year, he'll be better known for working with his voice.
August 30, 2024
From Sand Mountain to American Water, from commencement stages to the New York Times business pages, 1981 industrial engineering graduate Susan Story's legacy of leadership is as dynamic as they come. Listen to her story on the latest episode of the #GINNing Podcast.
August 27, 2024
In the kickoff episode to the new season of the Everything Auburn Podcast, hear about the enhanced gameday experience inside Jordan-Hare Stadium. From extra hype stadium lighting and pyro to stadium tours and VIP experiences, more than a dozen enhancements will elevate the 2024 gameday experience.
August 26, 2024
Auburn's EAGLES program has been nominated for a Chick-fil-A 2024 True Inspiration award, which includes a philanthropic grant. The Auburn Family can help the EAGLES program win the top award by voting in the Chick-fil-A app Sept. 3-30.
August 26, 2024
Auburn University was awarded the Collaborative Initiatives Award category of the Tambellini Future Campus Award at the Future Campus Summit on June 27. The award recognizes initiatives to enhance artificial intelligence, or AI, adoption, usage, and literacy, especially in education.
August 23, 2024
The College of Human Sciences hosted a breakfast celebration in August for the Golden Eagles, graduates from 1974 and prior.
August 21, 2024
A team of Harbert College of Business researchers have developed a novel algorithmic approach for handling imbalanced data sets — a common occurrence in predictive analytics — and they aim to apply the method to the world of mergers and acquisitions.
August 21, 2024
DOTs across the fruited, asphalted plains better be thanking their lucky, trucky stars that the someone managing the 1.7-mile test track at the National Center for Asphalt Technology is Jason Nelson. Learn what happens when the rubber meets the road on the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast.
August 19, 2024
More than 50 faculty members from Auburn's College of Sciences and Mathematics convened for the Auburn University Summer STEM Institute.
August 16, 2024
AJIN INDUSTRY donated $100,000 to Auburn's Korea Corner to support the 2024 Global Education Studies Program, which offers Georgia educators an educational experience in Korea.
August 15, 2024
The annual award, presented by The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, honors an American artist or scholar-practitioner who has significantly impacted the American art scene in the spirit of the university's modernist collection strength.
August 15, 2024
Professor Jeff LaMondia and Assistant Professor Ben Bowers are attempting to help local and state agencies incorporate transportation resilience policies into their everyday planning.
August 13, 2024
From the Loveliest Village on the Plains comes Mari Miles Dempsey, a senior chemical engineering Honors student concentrating in biomedical engineering, and currently researching the effect of acoustics in the growth and further development of physarum polycephalum in the Nature Inspired Fluids and Elasticity Lab.
August 12, 2024
Over the 2023-24 academic year, the Cary Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies' Community and Collegiate Programs division served more than 325 nonprofits, included 47 featured expert speakers, provided training sessions and professional development and more across 29 different counties in the state of Alabama.
August 12, 2024
Even in retirement, mechanical engineering professor emeritus Sushil Bhavnani's work with vapor bubbles is rising to the top.
August 09, 2024
John Stephen “Steve” Newton, '75 civil engineering and '76 environmental engineering, has been inducted into the Alabama Sports Officials Foundation Hall of Fame Class of 2024.
August 08, 2024
HL Mando America Corp. was recognized for its support of Auburn, the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
August 08, 2024
Auburn's Department of Biosystems Engineering was hard to miss — and beat — at the 2024 American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Annual International Meeting.
August 05, 2024
On the latest episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast, chemical engineering senior JaVaris Branford reflects on the incredible opportunities that make the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering the best student-centered engineering education experience in America.
August 05, 2024
John Mahas focused his work on managing the emerging cotton leafroll dwarf virus and its vector, the cotton aphid. This research led to the publication of two peer-reviewed papers, one of which marked a first in the Southeastern United States.
August 02, 2024
For its continued efforts to incorporate safety into research and education, Auburn Engineering earned the Campus Safety, Health and Environmental Management Association's 2024 Innovation Award for “Safety Culture for a Large School.”
August 02, 2024
Three-time Olympic Gold Medalist and Auburn swimming great Rowdy Gaines talks about perseverance and the peaks and valleys of life in this College of Human Sciences podcast. Gaines shared this conversation minutes before being celebrated at the 29th Annual International Quality of Life Awards in 2022.
August 01, 2024
As part of its efforts to advance the use of artificial intelligence (AI), Auburn University has been featured in a new case study published by Microsoft highlighting the institution's work to spearhead innovation and bolstering AI literacy across its academic, research and administrative endeavors.
August 01, 2024
The program introduces the engineering design processes that are used to solve some of the world's most pressing challenges to underrepresented high school students from throughout the state.
July 30, 2024
The Laurel Spa is offering a 20% off special on any service for Auburn University Faculty and Staff through Aug. 25.
July 26, 2024
Levi Petix is one of eight students nationally to earn a fellowship from the Molecular Sciences and Software Institute.
July 26, 2024
More than 1,300 students are expected to graduate from Auburn University this summer during three commencement ceremonies held in Neville Arena on Aug. 3.
July 25, 2024
Researchers at Auburn aim to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions due to agriculture by modifying one of the world's largest voluntary conservation programs: the USDA's 25-million-acre Conservation Reserve Program.
July 24, 2024
Soil scientist Audrey Gamble is working to improve sustainability of cotton production by improving soil microbial structure and function.
July 23, 2024
Auburn's National Center for Asphalt Technology received $2.6 million from the National Asphalt Pavement Association's Road Scholars program, underscoring NAPA's commitment to supporting Auburn graduate students at NCAT who are pursuing careers in pavement engineering.
July 23, 2024
Kim Mullenix will serve as the next head of Auburn's Department of Animal Sciences, effective Aug. 19.
July 22, 2024
New assistant electrical and computer engineering professor and erstwhile gameshow contestant Matthew Kirchner recently made a deal with the Office of Naval Research. Learn the death-defying details on the latest episode of the #GINNing Podcast.
July 19, 2024
Milly Montgomery, a junior majoring in apparel merchandising, recently earned the Phi Kappa Phi Susan Stacy Entrenkin Yates Scholastic Achievement Award.
July 17, 2024
Auburn University's Asim Ali will be part of an AI in Sports Panel during the 2024 Southeastern Conference Football Media Days in Dallas on Thursday, July 18.
July 17, 2024
Brendon Allen has some exoskeletons in his closet, and the National Science Foundation wants to know about them. The assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering recently earned a NSF CAREER Award aimed at increasing access to rehabilitation for individuals with movement disorders through a deep learning control framework for home-based hybrid exoskeletons.
July 17, 2024
The College of Sciences and Mathematics has begun raising funds for the Scott R. Santos Memorial Endowed Scholarship in the Department of Biological Sciences.
July 16, 2024
Auburn University hosted the first Village Writing Project institute this summer, under the direction of College of Education associate professor Mike Cook.
July 15, 2024
Cupola Engineering Ambassadors. American Society of Civil Engineers. 100+ Women Strong. Society of Women Engineers. Undergraduate research. Chick-fil-A. Evelyn Chavez does it all.
July 06, 2024
Tae-Sik Oh earned the Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers' President Young Innovator Award.
July 02, 2024
Andrea Simpson '05 has been selected to serve as president of the Alabama Council of the American Institute of Architects beginning in 2025.
June 28, 2024
Auburn's Honors College has been named among the top 50 programs in the nation according to College Transitions. With an overall ranking of 39, Auburn is among a handful of SEC institutions recognized and is the only institution in Alabama included in this year's rankings.
June 28, 2024
Jillian Rager, course support coordinator for Academic Support at Auburn, has been awarded the Outstanding New Supplemental Instruction Supervisor Award at the International Conference on Supplemental Instruction.
June 28, 2024
The Tony and Libba Rane Culinary Science Center at Auburn received the Design Project of the Year by Foodservice Equipment and Supplies Magazine.
June 26, 2024
Jeff LaMondia, in collaboration with the Auburn University Extension, has worked with community members in Eutaw to install new crosswalks and restripe parking spots near Eutaw Primary School in Greene County.
June 25, 2024
Colleagues share reflections on Katrina Akande, a devoted professor, researcher and Extension specialist, who passed away on April 29.
June 25, 2024
Meagan Blosser, outgoing president of Auburn's Top-20 Design, Build, Fly team, doesn't care how you pronounce her name, because this new Auburn aerospace engineering alumna definitely knows how to... go with the flow.
June 25, 2024
Brooke Bailey was one of four exceptional individuals honored as Employees of the Year during the 2024 Employee Recognition Program.
June 24, 2024
Leslie Cordie, associate professor of adult education in the College of Education's Department of Educational Foundations, Leadership, and Technology, received a medal from the Irish government in recognition of her leadership of Research Network #3 for the Asia-Europe Meeting Lifelong Learning Hub, or ASEM LLL, at University in Ireland.
June 24, 2024
Jean-Francois Louf's project was awarded a two-year, $110,000 grant from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund.
June 24, 2024
Emma Signor, who recently left Auburn with a degree and a number of top honors in aerospace engineering, plans a return for her master's degree.
June 21, 2024
