Master Sommelier Thomas Price pouring wine

This story profiles Master Sommelier in residence at Auburn’s 1856 – Culinary Residence restaurant Thomas Price on teaching and enjoying wine and teaching beverage appreciation.

August 28, 2024

Tailgates of yore were often banquets fit for royalty.

For lifelong football tailgaters, every season brings friendships, fans and family to a coveted spot on campus.

August 27, 2024

A graphic reading Fall 2024 Enrollment

Auburn University's fall 2024 enrollment includes a record 62% of students who are Alabama residents.

August 27, 2024

Masoud Mahjouri-Samani and graduate student Aarsh Patel.

Masoud Mahjouri-Samani earned a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to create the smallest powder bed additive manufacturing process.

August 27, 2024

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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

Cyber Fire was Aug. 24-25 in the Brown-Kopel Center.

In its sixth iteration at Auburn, Cyber Fire Puzzles took almost 60 students on a journey through binaries and malicious programs, giving them the opportunity to develop skills for tracking would-be hackers.

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

Researchers in Auburn's National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence continue to play a critical role in the Rapid Analysis and Manufacturing Propulsion Technology project, specifically the project's resulting Thrust Chamber Liner and Fabrication Method technology which, in July, was named NASA's 2024 Invention of the Year.

August 22, 2024

A young man holding a camera stands in front of Cinderella

The Walt Disney Company, which employs many Auburn alumni and students, will be on campus on October 8 for Disney Day on the Plains.

August 22, 2024

Elmo and Douglas Ziebach on a hunting trip together

A family of College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment alumni has seen the fruits of an Auburn education. The achievements of the Ziebach family highlight the CFWE’s 75-year history of producing forestry graduates who have fueled the growth of the state and region’s forest industry.

August 21, 2024

Two young men smile as they hold a snake

For students studying forestry and wildlife sciences, completing long days of summer practicum at Solon Dixon Center in south Alabama is both a rite of passage and a graduation requirement.

August 21, 2024

Auburn's peanut breeding program has made significant strides in a surprisingly short amount of time, with one of its varietal releases now commanding 40-50% of the peanut acreage in Alabama.

August 20, 2024

A woman sits at a table and signs books for other women in line

The annual Alabama OLLI Day celebration welcomed back Auburn alumni Margaret Renkl and Billy Renkl to the Plains as speakers.

August 20, 2024

three people pose for photo in front of posters

The Auburn University Stormwater Research Facility is partnering with Fagan Consulting LLC to design a portable, self-contained stormwater treatment device to treat stormwater runoff and protect the waters of Alabama and the U.S.

August 19, 2024

Auburn's seminal work on semiconductor packaging has new packaging of its own — the Auburn University Electronics Packaging Research Institute (EPRI). The institute’s recent establishment marks a significant new emphasis on the semiconductor packaging research conducted through Auburn's Center of Advanced Vehicle and Extreme Environment Electronics.

August 19, 2024

A woman kneels down in the forest

Several Auburn researchers have joined forces to assist the state of Alabama in the creation of its 2025 State Wildlife Action Plan revision.

August 19, 2024

A little girl looks at an aquatic specimen with her camp counselor.

Auburn's summer camps fill up quickly and draw students from across the United States. Explore and learn with them by scrolling through a photo essay.

August 15, 2024

For Auburn faculty, staff and students who need help solving a problem, the Ombuds Office — a confidential resource — can help.

August 15, 2024

A woman stands at a podium teaching a class

This coming academic year, more than 800 pre-engineering students will learn all about “sketchnoting,” a note taking technique combining traditional text with symbols and illustrations.

August 15, 2024

two grad students work in a wet lab on Auburn

A team of hatchery scientists from the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station’s E. W. Shell Fisheries Center was awarded $300,000 by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop an immersion-based vaccine for a common bacteria that can cause internal swelling and hemorrhaging gills in largemouth bass.

August 13, 2024

Gretchen Oliver in her lab.

Gretchen Oliver’s life motto is “be better tomorrow,” and it’s a motto that she has been striving to instill in her students in Auburn’s School of Kinesiology for the past decade.

August 12, 2024

Female student sitting on tv set for interview

Student-athlete Allison Tanner pursues an MBA and co-founded a startup after injuries derailed her high jumping career.

August 12, 2024

A young woman in a hard hat and vest smiles while at a construction site.

Two Auburn baseball fans, a student and an alumnus, are working on the Plainsman Park expansion project.

August 12, 2024

Laura Stevens speaking with a student

As the incoming director of the Honors College, Laura Stevens, the English professor and previous director at the University of Tulsa’s Undergraduate Research Challenge, immediately felt a sense of belonging.

August 09, 2024

Three men with an award smile for the camera

Originally from Ghana in West Africa, first-generation college student Ernest Opoku is living out his passion for chemistry as a doctoral student at Auburn University.

August 07, 2024

Students have fun in a session of Auburn Youth Programs

Why did Auburn have more than 4,000 middle and high school students on its campus recently? Logan McKissick with Auburn Youth Programs provides the answer.

August 05, 2024

A man holds a large catfish while a girl and young woman examine it

Some catfish are rapidly growing too large, so Auburn researchers are stepping up to help the Alabama farmers who produce one-third of the nation's catfish.

August 01, 2024

A pharmacy student works with Alabama residents during an AU-SHIP outreach event

A partnership between Auburn's Harrison College of Pharmacy and the Alabama State Health Insurance Assistance Program has helped Medicare patients across Alabama for a decade.

July 31, 2024

A man poses for a photo in the woods

Ken Day’s passion for natural resource management ignited at CFWE in 1976.

July 31, 2024

A woman stands in a creek with a large hill and trees behind her

As an outreach project manager with the Water Resource Center, Laura Cooley is currently spearheading the Moore’s Mill Creek Watershed Project right here in Lee County.

July 28, 2024

NASA and the National Space Grant Foundation were after teams of senior and graduate-level engineering students "to develop advanced and innovative design ideas that will help in solving Artemis mission challenges." They went with three: Michigan, Maryland and the school with more than 500 alumni, including six astronauts and three of the 10 Kennedy Space Center directors, Auburn.

July 26, 2024

Spent grain

The College of Human Sciences Brewing Science and Operations program uses its spent grain food waste to help a local farmer and in turn make a positive environmental impact.

July 25, 2024

A graphic that shows a mom reading to her child.

An Auburn researcher is addressing effective stress management for children with Type 1 diabetes.

July 25, 2024

A wide angle shot with the backs of Auburn graduates in the foreground and the commencement speaker podium in the background

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

Man wears navy shirt in front of blueberry plants in greenhouse

Researchers in the Auburn College of Agriculture and the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station are looking for ways to boost blueberry production in the state by introducing more profitable cultivars.

July 25, 2024

The Jule

Interior design and business students find an unexpected partner in The Jule Museum when applying classroom knowledge to real-world scenarios as part of their Auburn academic experience.

July 24, 2024

PNPS alumnae

Gabby Thabes and Reagan Myers talk about how a degree in philanthropy and nonprofit studies has allowed them to focus on solving critical problems and help people and organizations.

July 24, 2024

Rowdy Gaines poses with Olympic gold medal.

Forty years ago, Rowdy Gaines ’81 won three gold medals at the Los Angeles Olympic Games.

July 24, 2024

Two young people work on a drone while a video crew records their actions

Attendees at the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) World Congress in Sweden this summer learned how Auburn faculty are attacking the problem of brown spot needle blight, a disease running rampant in the southeast U.S.

July 23, 2024

SURE program poster presentations

Auburn’s Summer Undergraduate Research Experience provided students with a glimpse of graduate school life through a 10-week program hosted by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

July 23, 2024

Panagiotis Mistriotis

Panagiotis Mistriotis is using engineering knowledge to improve the properties of adult stem cells for cellular therapies and tissue regeneration.

July 22, 2024

An Auburn professor is pictured outdoors.

A team of Auburn researchers is developing innovative, cost-effective and portable opioid biosensors.

July 19, 2024

Emily Brutko

Professional flight senior Emily Brutko is an accomplished student aviator and rising star in flight instruction.

July 19, 2024

An Auburn assistant professor stands next to rover robot

An AI-powered robot will be able to inventory thousands of plants while also collecting data on plant growth, pests and diseases.

July 18, 2024

In the inaugural SEC Startup Student-Athlete Pitch Competition, it was impressive that two of the five finalists were entrepreneurial teams from Auburn University’s New Venture Accelerator. It is even more notable that one of them won.

July 16, 2024

Two young women use a hammer and nails to build a structure out of wood

Auburn is changing lives by designing houses that can mitigate rain, wind and flood damage in Alabama and beyond.

July 16, 2024

Stuart Simms

A history doctoral candidate in the College of Liberal Arts is studying what happens on Earth while we explore space.

July 15, 2024

A young woman reads to a group of children in a classroom

The Early Childhood Summer Enrichment Program offers College of Education students valuable classroom teaching experience when school is out for the summer.

July 15, 2024

A man stands in a forested area surrounded by fire

Drawing from his life’s passion and admiration of the longleaf ecosystem, CFWE alumnus John McGuire recently published a book titled “The Forest that Fire Made.”

July 12, 2024

An Auburn researcher is pictured working with apparel design.

Two College of Human Sciences researchers are positively impacting lives through user-centered apparel and interior design.

July 12, 2024