Auburn is at work developing robust GPS and dynamic vehicle technology to support autonomous transportation.
March 01, 2024
What to expect on the 251st episode of the award-winning #GINNing Podcast? How about the origin story of geotechnical juggernaut Brian Anderson, a full-scale infrastructure inspiration who's girding the loins of this nation's foundations.
March 01, 2024
The Harrison College of Pharmacy's Angela Calderón is supported by the National Institutes of Health in her study to determine the effects of the natural botanical kratom on HIV antiretroviral drugs.
February 29, 2024
The McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security announced the rollout of a new podcast, part of the institute’s new strategic plan to make the research institute a destination for all things related to cybersecurity.
February 28, 2024
Miria Criado, an assistant professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine, is driven to help curb the detrimental impacts of avian flu on poultry by studying the dynamic between the virus and host within the College of Veterinary Medicine.
February 27, 2024
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded Konstantin Kylukin, assistant professor in the Department of Materials Engineering, $1.2 million through its Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) program, which funds research into "novel materials to address grand societal challenges." And these days, few materials are more novel — or hold more potential for addressing societal challenges — than 2D materials
February 23, 2024
The Southeastern Conference (SEC) recognizes faculty members with exceptional research and scholarship records annually. Professor and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies Frank “Skip” Bartol is this year’s representative for Auburn University.
February 21, 2024
Two students in computer science and software engineering, Matthew Freestone and Hugh Williams, were recently recognized by the Computer Research Association as two of its Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers for 2023-24.
February 20, 2024
In a recently published research study, a team of researchers from the Harbert College of Business and IBM discovered that business-specific subject matter expertise will emerge as an even more – not less – critical element of building and managing increasingly efficient, high-performance supply chains in the age of AI and digital technology.
February 20, 2024
A team of investigators with the Auburn University Harrison College of Pharmacy and East Alabama Health is collaborating to research readmission rates and solutions for improving the transition of care process.
February 19, 2024
An endowed professor in the Auburn University College of Agriculture is listed as among the world’s top 2% of entomologists in a database announced recently by Stanford University.
February 19, 2024
Advancing microelectronic science, technology and education to augment the state’s expertise and industrial base were cornerstone missions of the Alabama Micro/Nano Science and Technology Center when it was established in 1974, and it’s flourished ever since.
February 16, 2024
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)'s Tribology Division recently tapped Rob Jackson, Albert Smith Jr. Professor of mechanical engineering, to helm its prestigious Journal of Tribology.
February 15, 2024
Xinyu Zhang and a team of researchers are developing innovative, cost-effective and portable opioid biosensors capable of providing immediate and accurate opioid detection and monitoring.
February 13, 2024
This week’s segment of the Everything Auburn podcast focuses on a new study by two researchers in Auburn’s College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment who examined the global impact of free-ranging house cats on biodiversity – essentially assessing all of the species that these cats eat and what that means globally.
February 07, 2024
Auburn faculty and partners transform east Alabama mathematics education through dedication and funded research initiatives.
February 07, 2024
Adil Bashir will examine brain MRI of 120 subjects with schizophrenia spectrum disorders between the ages of 35-65 years and compare those images to healthy individuals.
February 06, 2024
Auburn University has yet another National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow. Mehmet Arik, associate professor of mechanical engineering, was recently tapped for the professional honor (widely recognized as the most prestigious awarded to academic inventors) on the strength of more than 120 issued patents with a broad range of applications in medical systems, energy systems, aviation systems and photonics technologies.
February 01, 2024
Vrishank Raghav, associate professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, is among 281 researchers nationwide awarded a Department of Defense grant under the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP).
January 30, 2024
Auburn University named finalist for the 2024 NAFSA Simon Award
January 29, 2024
Auburn University professor and researcher Dr. Leonardo De La Fuente is part of an international team of scientists who are playing a pivotal role in combating a disease that is threatening major tree crops around the world.
January 29, 2024
Construction recently commenced on a new environmental education building at Auburn University’s Kreher Preserve and Nature Center (KPNC), which will be an engaging space for students and visitors to experience the wonder of nature.
January 26, 2024
The Alabama Water Resources Research Institute (AWRRI) invites proposals from Auburn doctoral students for research addressing water resources research priority areas in the state.
January 26, 2024
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded Auburn University’s Di Tian a two-year, $313,420 grant to develop improved long-term, high-resolution precipitation data over the United States.
January 26, 2024
More than 800 students, faculty and staff participated in the university’s inaugural On the Pl(AI)ns of Auburn: AI Day on Jan. 25. The daylong event featured seminars, panel discussions and demonstrations focused on the future of AI tools as part of Auburn’s teaching and learning environment, generative AI, and other digital creation skills.
January 25, 2024
Satyanarayana Pondugula was recently honored with the undergraduate research mentoring award.
January 25, 2024
Dr. Stephen Erath promoted to Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Studies for the College of Human Sciences
January 25, 2024
A successful Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) proposal funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) will soon significantly boost researchers at Auburn University's National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence (NCAME) in model-assisted qualification for additive manufacturing (AM) by establishing microstructure-property relationships in AM metallic materials.
January 25, 2024
Group of Auburn University faculty during Research & Scholarship Connections Travel Grant 2023.
January 23, 2024
An Auburn engineering graduate student project has matured from a concept for a class project to a collaboration with the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force.
January 22, 2024
Mechanical engineering doctoral Azeez Adekunle Adebayo recently received the Graduate Research Scholars Program (GRSP) award through the Alabama Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (ALEPSCoR), a consortium of the state's eight Ph.D. granting institutions, the Alabama Department of Commerce, the Alabama Commission on Higher Education and business leaders.
January 19, 2024
The decades-long legacy of competitively won Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) programs secured by Pradeep Lall continues to grow. Lall, the MacFarlane Endowed Distinguished Professor and Alumni Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, recently won a $315,000 SRC proposal focused on the development and characterization of non-per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (non-PFA) materials for electronics packaging.
January 19, 2024
Maggie Nelson, an aerospace engineering major and Honors College student, earned her fifth national prestigious scholarship when she nabbed the Winston Churchill Scholarship. She is the first student at Auburn to win this award. No other undergraduate in the history of Auburn has won as many prestigious scholarships as Nelson.
January 19, 2024
For tens of thousands of women struggling with infertility in the United States, the support they receive—or don’t receive—from their employer can influence their productivity at work. An Auburn University Harbert College of Business professor is conducting research to learn the extent of that influence and what organizations can do to better support their women employees undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments.
January 18, 2024
As a Center on Public Diplomacy Research Fellow, Associate Professor of Public Relations Myoung-Gi Chon will conduct studies on public diplomacy between South Korea and the United States.
January 17, 2024
Patrick Reed, formerly assistant vice chancellor for innovation and partnerships at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, has been named the new executive director of the Intellectual Property Exchange (IPX) at Auburn University. He officially assumed the role on Jan. 2.
January 16, 2024
VivoSphere, a biomedical engineering start-up founded by chemical engineering researchers Elizabeth Lipke and Yuan Tian, has been selected as one of the most promising new ventures in the bio-diagnostics industry
January 16, 2024
Interoception is how we feel and understand internal sensations like hunger, pain or heart rate. Associate Professor April Smith is developing a new tool that targets interoception as an avenue to improve mental health. Her online intervention, Reconnecting to Internal Sensations and Experiences (RISE), has already shown success in active-duty service members and clinical patients and is currently being tested in college students and veterinarians.
January 16, 2024
Olga Harrington Pinto, a postdoctoral researcher in Auburn's Department of Physics, was granted access to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) where she calculated the CO2 detection for the first time from Centaur 39P/Oterma.
January 12, 2024
Hyun Han, an Army colonel of the Republic of Korea (ROK) has joined the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) as a visiting scholar.
January 11, 2024
Auburn is at work pioneering new approaches to additive manufacturing.
January 10, 2024
Hae Sagong, assistant professor in Auburn University’s College of Nursing, focuses her research on Korean immigrants’ experiences with health care in the rural south.
January 10, 2024
Auburn is at work innovating and expanding the market for mass timber products, design, engineering and construction.
January 10, 2024
Harbert College interviewed Asim Ali following the one-year anniversary of the launch of ChatGPT to find out how generative AI is impacting instruction and student performance at Auburn since then and how he and his organization are leading the adoption and powerful application of what he calls “the transformative technology of our time.”
January 09, 2024
Researchers in Auburn University’s College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment (CFWE) have co-authored a study about the dietary breadth of free-ranging cats and the impact of their predation on global biodiversity. Recently published in Nature Communications, the study unveils the global impact of free-ranging house cats (Felis catus) on biodiversity by comprehensively assessing the species they consume. The research study, co-led by Auburn professors Chris Lepczyk and Jean Fantle-Lepczyk, drew from over 150 years of data across hundreds of studies from around the world.
January 08, 2024
Rob Holmes, associate professor and chair of the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture program in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction, has been awarded $7.75 million in funding over the next five years as part of the Natural Infrastructure Innovation Project.
January 08, 2024
Hae Sagong, a faculty member in Auburn’s College of Nursing, is researching ways to make it easier for Korean immigrants over 50 to obtain health care in the U.S.
January 02, 2024
Tin Nguyen will create an easy-to-use web interface through software programs designed in his laboratory.
January 02, 2024
Assistant Professor Andre da Silva is conducting cutting-edge research on ways to grow hops in Alabama within Auburn University’s Department of Horticulture.
December 15, 2023