Research and Innovation
an aerial view of a mobile home neighborhood destroyed by a hurricane

Auburn researcher finds current construction practices are sufficient to withstand hurricane-force winds — provided they are executed properly.

May 27, 2025

XO Armor, a company pioneering on-site 3D printing for custom-fitting protective orthotics for professional and college level sports teams, is expanding into the defense sector, where it hopes to leverage its innovative technology to address critical military needs.

May 21, 2025

Lizzy Harkey and her advisor Marilyn Strutchens

Auburn College of Education graduate student Lizzy Harkey earned a Presidential Graduate Research Fellowship and was awarded an Early Career Research Grant for her research.

May 20, 2025

More than 100 industry professionals participated in the 6th ASTM International Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence Specialty Workshop at Auburn for a series of conversations on how to overcome obstacles to the wider adoption of advanced manufacturing.

May 20, 2025

Through the Auburn NSF Research Traineeship program, biological sciences doctoral candidate Antrelle Clark and Forestry and Wildlife graduate Andrew Balder have built a partnership across disciplines. Their collaboration, from fieldwork to skill-sharing, highlights the power of co-production and cross-lab teamwork.

May 19, 2025

Shiwen Mao

Shiwen Mao explains how advancing technologies, including 6G, are transforming how people communicate and access information.

May 19, 2025

Haibo Zou holding up two rocks in his geology lab.

COSAM's Haibo Zou recently was named a fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his work in mathematics and geology.

May 19, 2025

Adit Singh

Adit Singh will develop effective test screens that reduce undetected failures in operation and thereby improve the reliability of integrated circuits.

May 16, 2025

Myoung-Gi Chon

Associate Professor of Communication Myoung-Gi Chon’s research, recently featured in a congressional briefing series on U.S.-Korea relations, explains how popularity fuels international politics.

May 12, 2025

Jaimie Roper is pictured talking inside one of her labs.

Dr. Jaimie Roper’s research aims to address what she says will be a major issue involving mobility in just five short years.

May 08, 2025

Congratulations College of Education Undergraduate Research Fellowship Recipients

Six students mentored in Auburn University’s College of Education, including four who are students in the college, were selected to receive 2025-26 Auburn University Undergraduate Research Fellowships. Ife Ayileka, AK Black, Marigrace Crossett, Grace Greer, Michaela Stanik, and Mary Walker will continue their research projects during the next academic year with the funding they received.

May 08, 2025

Evelyn Hunter is pictured holding an iPad and talking to a patient

College of Education Associate Professor Evelyn Hunter’s research is intended to cause disruption. After all, the word disrupt is literally in the name of her pioneering research study, which is focused on helping those with multiple sclerosis.

May 07, 2025

a close up of bees

Auburn's Bee Center is leading the charge to address the health crisis of honey bees and native bees, which poses a significant threat to agriculture and ecosystems worldwide.

May 07, 2025

Three people look at a notebook in the woods

Forest health Professor Lori Eckhardt is partnering with the City of Mobile and Alabama Port Authority to build sentinel gardens, which serve as early detection systems for invasive pests and diseases, at the port.

May 05, 2025

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The Biggio Center and the Office of Information Technology recently hosted "Leveraging AI for Success," in collaboration with Microsoft, to help students, faculty and staff understand the use of artificial intelligence tools, such as Microsoft Copilot, to enhance their work.

May 02, 2025

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After growing up in a military family, senior Melissa Garnes now conducts and shares relevant research through Military REACH under the mentorship of Professor Mallory Lucier-Greer.

May 02, 2025

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The Alabama Department of Transportation and the Auburn University Transportation Research Institute recently hosted state DOT research leaders during the three-day Southeast Transportation Consortium Peer Exchange.

May 02, 2025

irrigation over corn field

Alabama farmers considering investing in irrigation equipment will soon have a free, comprehensive online tool — built by researchers in the College of Agriculture — to help them decide.

May 01, 2025

A stock image of an insulin shot and sugar

Kevin Huggins is examining the use of glucagon-like peptide-1, better known as GLP-1, medications that have become immensely popular in the U.S.

April 30, 2025

Bosen Lian

Bosen Lian, an assistant professor in electrical and computer Engineering, has been appointed to the editorial boards of two leading academic journals: International Society of Automation Transactions and the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control.

April 30, 2025

When Henry Kendall was asked about what went into his team placing first in the American Society of Naval Engineers' annual Promoting Electric Propulsion Competition in Virginia Beach, he answered: the Auburn Creed.

April 29, 2025

Walmart US CEO John Furner speaking at RFID Lab conference

RFID technology is enhancing companies' operations and Auburn's internationally renowned RFID Lab plays an important role in the technology's advancement and adoption, according to industry executives and leaders at the Lab's recent annual conference.

April 28, 2025

Overtoun Jenda talks to a young student

With an academic career spanning nearly 50 years, almost 40 at Auburn, Overtoun Jenda has left a mark on the field of mathematics and thousands of students that's impossible to calculate.

April 25, 2025

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Overtoun Jenda and Haibo Zou are the latest Auburn faculty members to be named fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Our history with the organization reaches back to 1892.

April 25, 2025

Hao Ding headshot

As National Nurses Week approaches (May 6-12), Business faculty member Hao Ding explains how a research study he co-authored can help hospital administrators improve patient outcomes and the organization’s bottom line — all by changing the way they view nurses’ productivity.

April 25, 2025

The success of the Warrior Research Center has ignited JoEllen Sefton's research and changed the trajectory of health for tactical athletes. Recently named the recipient of the 2024 Award for Excellence in Faculty Outreach, she has spent the past two decades spearheading research and outreach to improve performance while reducing injury for military, police, firefighters and first responders.

April 24, 2025

a doctoral student stands behind some lab-created wetland models

Biosystems engineering's David Blersch is leading two research projects in the Green Infrastructure Lab to address using natural systems to remove pollutants from wastewater.

April 22, 2025

Jonathan Pettus is the new executive director of the Applied Research Institute in Huntsville. Find out why on the latest episode of the best podcast in higher education.

April 22, 2025

chemical engineering students

Chemical engineering graduate students Ayuba Akinpelu and Francis Mekunye earned Merck's Next Gen Leaders in Chemistry awards for 2025, recognizing their research achievements.

April 21, 2025

A young man uses a drill on stacked wood

With the addition of a CLT press, the interdisciplinary faculty of the Auburn Mass Timber Collaborative can manufacture and test mass timber products without leaving campus.

April 21, 2025

Ben Timm checks on Larry Green before sitting him with a brace.

Seven students — six in engineering and one in exercise science — helped an Auburn Family member by developing a custom brace to combat dropped head syndrome.

April 17, 2025

headshots of Overtoun Jenda and Haibo Zou

Two faculty in the College of Sciences and Mathematics are the only two people in Alabama named to the American Association for the Advancement of Science's 2024 class of fellows.

April 16, 2025

Michael Zabala sits a table with a laptop next to him

Mechanical engineering's Michael Zabala will be a visiting professor for six months in Italy's Museo Galileo, a museum dedicated to astronomer and scientist Galileo Galilei, providing him with the opportunity to pursue the strong historical ties between biomechanics and Renaissance-era scientists.

April 15, 2025

231 talented participants from grades six through 12 showcased their independent research projects at the Alabama Science and Engineering Fair (ASEF).

April 15, 2025

pine forest stand in Andalusia, Alabama

Auburn has issued a ‘save the date and call for abstracts’ for the International Conference on Forest Carbon and Resilience to be hosted at The Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center, Sept. 29-Oct. 1.

April 11, 2025

A woman hands out medals

The ISTEM Connectory at Auburn University hosted Alabama’s first-ever Invention Convention on Saturday, April 5.

April 11, 2025

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Shiqiang (Nick) Zou, assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, earned a grant to test an electricity-based method for breaking down toxic PFAS chemicals — also known as "forever chemicals" — in water safer, cheaper and more sustainable.

April 11, 2025

Auburn ’s Industrial and Systems Engineering team continues to play a vital role in an international partnership with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, contributing to groundbreaking research in sustainable logistics.

April 11, 2025

Leah Johnson smiles in a greenhouse as she tends to plants

Leah Johnson is the first applied biotechnology major to be selected for HudsonAlpha's highly competitive BioTrain internship.

April 11, 2025

Morgan snuggles with a golden retriever dog

Nursing faculty member Morgan Yordy studies a wide range of health-related topics, including animal-assisted therapy, emotional and sensory regulation and interdisciplinary collaboration opportunities for school nurses.

April 10, 2025

College of Human Sciences students participating in the 2025 Auburn Research Symposium

The College of Human Sciences was strongly represented at Auburn’s 2025 Research Symposium as undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral researchers presented their research and scholarly discoveries through oral and poster presentations.

April 10, 2025

Two doctors hold an orange cat

Samantha Sampson knew her kitten, Hashbrown, was a fighter. Dr. Randolph Winter and the AU CVM surgical team partnered on a new heart surgery on the young kitten to prove her right.

April 09, 2025

NASA’s Nicky Fox spoke to a crowd of more than 200 at the 2025 Duncan Lecture, sharing stories from her career and insights into NASA’s latest science missions. Hosted by the College of Sciences and Mathematics, the event offered an inspiring look at space exploration, solar research and the future of science at NASA.

April 09, 2025

Tori Phillips and Maria Auad

More than 150 students participated in the 12th Graduate Engineering Research Showcase, with a chemical engineering graduate student winning first place for her work in transparent soil experiments and fluid mechanics.

April 08, 2025

Molly Simonis searches for bats in a culvert under Interstate 85 in Lee County, Alabama.

Researchers are working with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to uncover the mysteries of Alabama’s bat populations and the diseases that affect them.

April 07, 2025

Kelli Russell smiles

A recent report by social science researchers at Auburn and Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station will inform Gov. Kay Ivey’s strategic economic growth plan, Catalyst, on the agriculture industry.

April 03, 2025

Students and faculty stand and discuss presentations.

The 2025 Auburn Research Symposium spotlighted the research and creative scholarship of nearly 500 graduate and undergraduate students from Auburn University and Auburn University at Montgomery.

April 03, 2025