A team of doctoral and undergraduate biosystems engineering students have developed a solution to precise fertilizer application using drone technology. Their project is a finalist in NASA’s 2025 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition.

March 28, 2025

Taylor Korn courtside at a basketball game

As director of social media for The Next Round, a fast-growing sports podcast based out of Birmingham, Alabama, alumna Taylor Korn has a courtside seat to watch Auburn sports teams navigate through each season.

March 27, 2025

Behind the Seams is the theme for this year

The College of Human Sciences 2025 edition of The Fashion Event themed "Behind the Seams," will make a grand debut at the Jay and Susie Gogue Performing Arts Center — a brand-new venue for the live runway show on April 11.

March 27, 2025

weeds wilt after a dicamba application in a field of soybeans

Farmers nationwide will not be permitted to use dicamba herbicide products this growing season. Auburn researchers and Alabama Cooperative Extension System specialists are working to provide Alabama row crop growers with guidance on how to navigate and best manage production without dicamba.

March 27, 2025

Graduate Student Research Assistant sorts through various books Olivia Martín-Piñón

Research from the College of Human Sciences uncovers how reading together boosts early literacy skills and deepens parent-child connections.

March 26, 2025

Cassandra Bolar

College of Human Sciences graduate Cassandra Bolar is a 2025 Black Alumna Award winner and will be honored during Auburn's Black Alumni Weekend April 4-6.

March 26, 2025

two grad students and Dr. Ian Butts work in a lab

The $437 million U.S. catfish industry is in need of better genetic and breeding technologies to be competitive with foreign imports. A team of hatchery scientists from the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station are studying hybrid catfish breeding practices to help improve reproductive efficiency and reduce production costs for catfish farmers.

March 26, 2025

Elijah McAllister next to a College of Education sign

Elijah McAllister, a former Auburn University football captain who was a star on and off the field, is currently pursuing his doctorate to elevate himself academically while continuing to be a difference-maker in the community.

March 26, 2025

Power systems lab

The Southeast Region Cybersecurity Collaboration Center is dedicated to advancing cybersecurity technologies to protect critical infrastructure from outside threats — and it’s using the expertise of Auburn students to help carry out that mission.

March 26, 2025

Young woman standing in front of four small children who are sitting on the floor.

With support from the Russell Medical Foundation, Auburn nursing students and faculty bring health and wellness education to Alabama elementary schools.

March 24, 2025

Eight students in a classroom. Two are standing in the center back to back with the other six are standing around them angrily.

For several years Kate Craig, associate professor of History with the College of Liberal Arts, has taught Honors versions of World History I and II through a series of role-playing games she calls “Reacting to the Past.”

March 24, 2025

Chester Higgins visiting his great uncle

Author, longtime New York Times photographer and Alabama Distinguished Artist Chester Higgins toured Alabama in March, sharing with students and residents how to connect people through the power of photography.

March 24, 2025

palmer amaranth in a field

Auburn's Weed Bionomics Laboratory focuses on managing herbicide-resistant weeds, like Palmer amaranth, the most difficult weed to control because it can produce 600,000 seeds per plant and grow as much as 2.5 inches per day.

March 24, 2025

Preston holds a can of fuel as he begins a prescribed burn in a dry field.

Preston Payne manages and maintains 10,000 acres of university-owned wooded lands spread across 27 sites throughout Alabama that serve as living labs and classrooms.

March 24, 2025

bus

Auburn researchers are part of a study to address engineering challenges associated with energy efficiency of zero emission bus materials.

March 21, 2025

A plow in cover crops

The Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station awarded 29 competitive grants across three principal programs: AgR-SEED, Production Agricultural Research and equipment grants for fiscal year 2024.

March 20, 2025

The Auburn University Center for Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity Engineering is dedicated to uncovering pioneering advancements in AI-driven cybersecurity solutions and tackling the most pressing challenges in the digital age.

March 20, 2025

Auburn’s role in facilitating collaboration between government, academia and industry necessary for maintaining national security was on full display at the university’s Research and Innovation Campus in Huntsville as Congressional heavyweights meet to confer on the vulnerability of the U.S. defense industrial base in relation to challenges posed by China.

March 20, 2025

Nate Knowles and the google sign

Auburn College of Education graduate Lt. Col. Nate Knowles has landed a prestigious fellowship at Google focused on national security.

March 20, 2025

Vince Wolfram, Chad Baker-Mazara and Miles Kelly

Several students have the opportunity to cover the Tigers' run through March Madness in the men's 2025 NCAA Tournament for media outlets.

March 20, 2025

Auburn's National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence is partnering with Blue Origin to overcome the challenges of 3D printing with copper, essentially helping the space technology company's future plans in orbit.

March 18, 2025

Jennie Baumann in her classroom

A group of College of Education faculty members led by Jennie Baumann is working to provide pre-service teachers with a competitive edge in their field.

March 18, 2025

Ernest Opoku’s journey from Ghana to Auburn, and now to MIT, is one of perseverance, intellectual rigor and groundbreaking research.

March 17, 2025

cyber

Auburn has been re-designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Research, making it one of only 11 institutions nationally to hold designations for cyber operations, cyber defense and cyber research.

March 17, 2025

Bryant Smith standing on the court in Neville Arena

Twenty-five years after his team won the SEC men's basketball championship, Bryant Smith is helping lead the 2025 Tigers.

March 17, 2025

Headshot for Nick Davis

The College of Human Sciences' Horst Schulze School of Hospitality Management will welcome hundreds of guests to the annual Hospitality Gala and recognize alumnus L. Nick Davis with the 2025 Horst Schulze Award for Excellence in Hospitality.

March 12, 2025

Emma Chumley, right, and Katie White

Auburn student Emma Chumley created the Auburn Sustenance Project as a class project in hopes of combatting food insecurity in the area.

March 12, 2025

Samantha hugs a dog in a grassy field

Dr. Samantha Warner is using her military experience and Auburn training to continue her veterinary medicine career closer to home.

March 11, 2025

A young woman in a virtual reality headset in front of a computer monitor

Faculty member Tiffani Chidume studies the use of cutting-edge simulation technology, including VR, in nursing education.

March 11, 2025

Sunshine shines through the trees on a porch with rustic chairs

The 415-acre estate where legendary football coach Pat Dye lived and entertained comes back to life as a special events destination and an outdoor classroom.

March 07, 2025

Mari Miles Dempsey, a senior in chemical engineering and an Honors student, is researching photo-initiated hydrogels. If successful, the project has the potential to impact multiple fields, but the most hopeful is transporting items to space.

March 06, 2025

Dillon O

Dillon O'Donnell, a junior in international studies who studies Arabic at Auburn and hopes to one day serve the U.S. Department of State, honed his language and cultural skills across Morocco last fall.

March 06, 2025

Chael Sullivan smiles for a photo.

Chael Sullivan, as President of his fraternity and a member of the War Eagle Girls and Plainsmen, has made a significant impact during his time at Auburn.

March 06, 2025

State troopers approach peaceful protestors on Bloody Sunday in 1965

As the city of Selma, Alabama, commemorates the 60th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” Robert Finkel is helping share the history of that fateful day through several projects.

March 06, 2025

a group of people at at Auburn tailgate. Glenn Mitchell is on the far right. Regenia Sanders is on his right.

Regenia Sanders and Glenn Mitchell, colleagues at Ernst & Young in Atlanta, share a deep passion for their alma mater and firmly believe in helping fellow alums reach their full potential.

March 05, 2025

two men holding awards with black suits on

The State of Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame inducted eight individuals — including one Auburn University alumnus and an Auburn chemical engineering professor — and one corporation during a ceremony Feb. 22 at the Renaissance Birmingham at Ross Bridge.

March 05, 2025

Bill and Linda Lee smiling for a photo

From building a business model around respect to supporting first-generation students at Auburn, Bill and Linda Mobley Lee '70 prove that doing good work together makes for a lasting marriage.

March 04, 2025

James Lindner stands in a field of flowers

Auburn's James Lindner was recently named the most prolific researcher in the field of agricultural education.

March 03, 2025

Pat Carroll, a 1987 aerospace engineering graduate, estimates he’s ridden around 50,000-60,000 miles on his motorcycle over the past few years. Sure, he could cover the ground in an RV or see the world from an airplane, but Carroll says the stories he’s gathered from his bike, on the road, are priceless.

February 28, 2025

The Jule Collins Smith Museum presents “Rodell Warner + Audubon + His Journals” through July 6. The show pairs Audubon prints with Warner’s digital videos and an online artwork. Part of the “Radical Naturalism” series, it explores Audubon’s legacy through contemporary art.

February 27, 2025

Julia Herrin representing South Carolina at the 2021 Miss America pageant

Julia Herrin's path from a small town in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, to the spotlight as Miss South Carolina 2021 and now to the University of South Carolina law school was built from confidence, ambition and unwavering determination.

February 27, 2025

The Applied Research Institute in Huntsville is creating a cutting-edge radiation hardening facility to ensure military tech reliability in space.

February 26, 2025

Charles Dunstan

The upcoming book “Arcs & Sparks and Bits & Bytes” will offer a detailed chronological history of this celebrated department, complete with detailed technological breakthroughs, leadership changes and alumni success stories.

February 26, 2025

Randolph Winter holds a skelton of a puppy as colleagues smile

Randolph Winter uses minimally invasive heart procedures to help dogs and cats live longer lives and shares his expertise with colleagues in India.

February 25, 2025

Thomas Dunn on the set of

Thomas Dunn, an award-winning scenery and lighting designer known for creating transcendent environments through light and space, is helping Auburn Theatre & Dance students bring their next performance to life.

February 25, 2025

Sushil Adhikari works with a graduate student

Congratulations to Sushil Adhikari, our 2025 SEC Faculty Achievement Award winner.

February 24, 2025

The folks tasked with naming the SEC Men’s Swimming and Diving Scholar-Athlete of the Year had it pretty easy this go round. A program record in the 500-yard freestyle, an event in which he ranks 11th nationally. Scoring the second-fastest time in program history in the 1000-yard freestyle against the arch-rival. Five All-American honors. A 4.00 grade point average in mechanical engineering. Yep, Mason Mathias — pruned hands now.

February 24, 2025

Sydnee smiles as she pins fabric to a form

After surviving a fatal crowd crush at the Astroworld Festival in 2021, Sydnee Johnson designed a piece of clothing that helped her heal from the trauma she experienced, and it's now on display as part of Showcase 2025.

February 18, 2025

Brandon Barnett tests his jet engine

Brandon Barnett, a senior in aerospace engineering, used his skills and classroom knowledge to build a functional jet engine in the Makerspace on campus.

February 18, 2025

Matthew Parker

English literature alumnus Matthew Parker '13 puts his degree to work in crafting narratives for criminal defendants.

February 18, 2025