by Mary Catherine Gaston | Oct 21, 2014 | Animal Sciences
by WADE BERRY AUBURN UNIVERSITY – Auburn University graduate Ashton Richardson has been chosen as a finalist for the prestigious Marshall Scholarship. If awarded, Richardson will pursue a doctorate of philosophy in international development at Oxford University....
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Oct 3, 2014 | Poultry Science
CENTRE, Ala.—Young people in Alabama’s northeast corner now have a fast track to careers in poultry science, thanks to a partnership announced today between Auburn University and Gadsden State Community College. A new 2+2 program between the two schools will allow...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Oct 3, 2014 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
The following story appears in the 2014 Auburn-LSU edition of Tailgate Times, an app-based publication of the Auburn University Food Systems Institute. Tailgate Times is published prior to each Auburn home football game. Download the app here and read more stories...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Sep 26, 2014 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Poultry Science
The College of Agriculture has welcomed six new faculty members for fall semester 2014. Thorsten Knappenberger, most recently a postdoctoral researcher at Washington State University, has joined the crop, soil and environmental sciences department as assistant...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Sep 25, 2014 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.—The Southeast Climate Extension project, a large-scale partnership of six universities across the Southeast, was recently awarded the National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s Partnership Award for Multistate Efforts. Brenda Ortiz, an associate...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Sep 23, 2014 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
Auburn Junior Sees Ag Econ Degree from the Mission-Field Perspective by JAMIE CREAMER Ben Brinkerhoff went on his first mission trip the summer before his freshman year in high school and, even in the midst of that hot, labor-intensive week in Honduras, realized...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Sep 19, 2014 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
As of Aug. 1, Auburn University Ph.D. student Zack Ogles had picked a ton of produce—closer to 2,200 pounds, actually—from the eight-row garden he has on the Auburn campus. There’s no telling how many tomato sandwiches, squash casseroles and skillets full of fried...
