Through long-standing home projects, Alabama 4-H members are learning invaluable life skills. The Pig Squeal project is a prime example of how 4-H teaches responsibility, community involvement, partnership and work ethic.
January 30, 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
The interdisciplinary Real Estate Development minor introduces students to various aspects of real estate development, including the design and construction processes, real property analysis and real estate finance and investment.
January 29, 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
This week’s segment of the Everything Auburn podcast focuses on Auburn Adapted Athletics—a collaboration between Auburn's Office of Accessibility and School of Kinesiology. This episode features Auburn Wheelchair Basketball Head Coach Robb Taylor and his take on all things Auburn Adapted Athletics, the Paris Olympics, his Auburn Family story and more! Plus, get the scoop on how you can cheer these amazing student-athletes on to victory at their next basketball tournament at Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum.
January 25, 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
Both avid Auburn supporters, alumni Rick and Carolyn Salanitri have given faithfully to Auburn University for more than three decades through their service on boards and support of initiatives and scholarships that directly impact student achievement.
January 17, 2024
This ever-present functional accessory is more than a carrier of books, it’s also an expression of a student’s personality, lifestyle and even goals.
January 17, 2024
Beth Schwartz has been selected as the new assistant dean of biomedical sciences. She will be conducting an assessment of the program and will be creating new partnerships in this role.
January 17, 2024
This week’s segment of the Everything Auburn podcast focuses on the Lowder Center for Family Business and Entrepreneurship. This episode features Joshua Sahib, managing director of the center in the Harbert College of Business, who discusses the ways in which this initiative is combining outreach programming and academic studies to address the needs of family businesses and more.
January 16, 2024
As director of operational readiness, Auburn Aviation alumna Jaimi Tapp's job is to make sure more than 100 million passengers move through the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport without issue.
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
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
The same steps that Harold Franklin walked to integrate Auburn University 60 years ago served as the backdrop for a commemorative event on Jan. 9. A large group gathered in the atrium of the Mell Classroom Building, including a number of Auburn’s “firsts,” like the families of Harold Franklin, Josetta Brittain Matthews and James Owens.
January 09, 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
Rod Turochy, associate director for Outreach for the Auburn University Transportation Research Institute and James Madison Hunnicutt professor in traffic engineering, and Larry Rilett, AUTRI Director, work with several housing authorities in the Black Belt region. Many of these neighborhoods have low automobile ownership rates, meaning more pedestrian traffic is on sidewalks and streets.
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
Auburn University’s College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment (CFWE) is launching the state’s first parks and recreation management undergraduate degree program to prepare students to lead an industry that is increasingly recognized as vital to well-being, community growth and diversification.
January 08, 2024
Auburn's College of Veterinary Medicine recently received a $246,495, three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to aid in the recruitment and support of more veterinarians in underserved areas of Alabama, particularly those practicing in the area of food animal medicine.
January 05, 2024
Sixty years ago, Harold A. Franklin registered for classes at Auburn University, integrating the institution as its first African American student. His courage paved the way for future generations, and his legacy lives on today.
January 04, 2024
The competition teams in Auburn University's McWhorter School of Building Science are successful because of the students' emphasis on preparation and their passion for learning and competing.
January 03, 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
Harbert College of Business MBA candidate Ryan Kinnane finishes a race.
January 02, 2024
Auburn University awarded degrees to 11 students in Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore County on Dec. 16.
December 15, 2023
Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, Cartner’s Christmas Tree Farm has been named the “2024 Grand Champion Grower,” making them the official Christmas tree providers for the White House’s Blue Room in the 2024 holiday season.
December 15, 2023
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
Each summer, some of the best and brightest students at EARTH University in Costa Rica travel to Auburn to study and conduct research with the Auburn Aquaponics Project at the E.W. Shell Fisheries Center. Xavier Rios Flores and Faustin Mukunzi recently spent a semester working on projects in aquaponics and hydroponics that were inspired by their home countries.
December 14, 2023
Neuroscience Educators and Researchers in One Health (NEROH) is a group for students and faculty members in Auburn University’s College of Veterinary Medicine to come together to talk about neuroscience for human and animal health.
December 14, 2023
An episode of Planet Earth III airing in the U.S. this Saturday, Dec. 16, was made possible with the help of Assistant Professor Clint Penick in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology.
December 14, 2023
Between the four of them, School of Communication and Journalism seniors Weston Ball, Colin Beyersdorf, Zach Card and Tate Youngblood share one apartment, dozens of involvement responsibilities and hundreds of Auburn memories.
December 14, 2023
A desire to work in agriculture is something that many people have from an early age. But the story of Leanne Dillard is quite different. Early in her life, she wanted nothing to do with agriculture. So, how did she end up an Alabama Extension forage specialist and college professor?
December 13, 2023
A revolutionary means to safely meet the extreme demands of pulse-power electrical systems was demonstrated on Dec. 7.
December 12, 2023
If die-hard Auburn fans truly bleed orange and blue, then few families’ blood likely features more of the Tiger colors than the Brodbeck clan, whose immediate family features seven Auburn graduates. But a blood test would also show another liquid running just as prominently through the Brodbecks’ veins — coffee.
December 12, 2023
This week’s segment of the Everything Auburn podcast focuses on the student fan experience. This episode features Michael Floyd, the former vice president of the Auburn Jungle, who discusses just how involved our student fans are at sporting events and how that experience currently involves the student section in Neville Arena known as The Jungle.
December 12, 2023
As CADC’s recruitment and scholarship manager, Chastain has guided thousands of students through the admissions process, welcoming families, arranging tours and answering questions from parents.
December 11, 2023
Since immigrating to the United States from Pakistan in 2018, the husband-wife tandem of Hassan Raza Shah and Sakina Rubab Rizvi have called Auburn home, and now they’re excited they can both call Auburn University their alma mater.
December 09, 2023
Renowned sleep expert Mona El-Sheikh, the Leonard Peterson & Co. Inc. Professor in Auburn University’s College of Human Sciences, has been working over 20 years to unravel lingering questions about children’s sleep: a topic that piqued her interest, in part, because of sleep’s primacy in our lives.
December 08, 2023
Pharmacy's Salisa Westrick received $1 million in funding from the CDC to address immunization inequities and disparities through community pharmacies.
December 07, 2023
Marshall Scholarship winner Cameron Tice reviews data from his work with individuals suffering with substance abuse.
December 07, 2023
The unusually high mortality rate of largemouth bass across all stages of production makes it a challenge for farmers to raise this fish for profit. Researchers at Auburn University hope to expand production of largemouth bass in Alabama and the U.S. by solving the problem of high mortality rates.
December 07, 2023
Auburn’s Tigers United recently signed a IMOU with India’s Forest College and Research Institute Hyderabad to promote tiger conservation through student scholarship, thus furthering the mission of the Tigers United University Consortium.
December 07, 2023
From the Sphinx to space, flappers to French fries, Auburn’s history is filled with stories that are too good to be true. Except they are.
December 06, 2023
Jonathon Valente, an assistant research professor in Auburn University's College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment and assistant unit leader for USGS' Alabama Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, is hoping to bridge the gap between different schools of thought pertaining to the best approach for prioritizing conservation areas.
December 06, 2023
Auburn public relations alumna Jackie Jags works every day to share Chick-fil-A's culture of care with the public.
December 05, 2023
This week’s segment of the Everything Auburn podcast focuses on the world of gaming and how Auburn is providing a unique digital experience for its students and employees in the Harold D. Melton Student Center. The episode features James MacElroy, president of Auburn Esports, who discusses the many gaming offerings now available on campus.
December 05, 2023
As a development coordinator in Auburn’s College of Education, Kelly Buckingham stands out for her impact on others and attention to detail. Her co-workers like the fun atmosphere she brings to the office by way of her energy and sense of humor, and she plays music that keeps everyone grooving and productive.
December 05, 2023
The Graduate School's InterConnect program welcomes international graduate students to campus and gives them opportunities to experience American culture.
December 04, 2023
Nearly 1,900 students will participate in fall 2023 commencement ceremonies at Neville Arena on Dec. 9.
December 01, 2023
