by Jamie Creamer | Apr 21, 2015 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, COA Administration
AUBURN, Ala.—The USDA’s Agriculture and Food Research Institute has awarded a team of researchers from Auburn and Tuskegee universities a $500,000 grant to study heir property and its impact on land loss in rural African-American communities in the South.Conner...
by Jamie Creamer | Apr 21, 2015 | Ag Land & Resource Management, COA Administration, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.—Joseph R. Tomasso Jr., currently a professor in the Department of Biology at Texas State University in San Marcos, has been named director of the School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences in Auburn University’s College of Agriculture,...
by Jamie Creamer | Apr 17, 2015 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, COA Administration, COA Communications, Horticulture, Poultry Science, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.—Nine successful and influential professionals who hold degrees from Auburn University’s College of Agriculture have been selected as winners in the college’s 2015 alumni awards program. The honors, formally presented in a ceremony Thursday, April 16,...
by Jamie Creamer | Apr 16, 2015 | Ag Land & Resource Management, Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Animal Sciences, COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Horticulture, Poultry Science, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.—The Market at Ag Heritage Park, Auburn University’s open-air farmers market, will open its 2015 season Thursday, May 14, at 3 p.m. and will continue every Thursday, from 3 to 6 p.m., through Aug. 27. The market is located near the intersection of South...
by Jamie Creamer | Apr 13, 2015 | COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
Dennis Shannon, a professor in Auburn University’s Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences, has been recognized by a national distance education coalition for his work in developing a multi-institutional, multidisciplinary online graduate degree program in...
by Jamie Creamer | Mar 13, 2015 | Animal Sciences, Biosystems Engineering, COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
Four College of Agriculture faculty members have been awarded promotion, tenure or both for 2015, Auburn University Provost Timothy Boosinger has announced. Advancing from the academic rank of associate professor to full professor are Kenneth Macklin in the Department...
by Jamie Creamer | Mar 2, 2015 | Biosystems Engineering, COA Administration
Puneet Srivastava, professor of ecological engineering in Auburn University’s Department of Biosystems Engineering, has been named the Butler-Cunningham Eminent Scholar in Agriculture and the Environment at Auburn following an internal search. College of Agriculture...