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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Sep 5, 2016 | Entomology & Plant Pathology
by JAMIE CREAMER The location selected for this year’s grand UN World Food Day celebration in Kenya’s southernmost county of Kwale just goes to show, you never know who’s watching. The site is a 10-acre family farm in the destitute coastal village of Mabafweni. But...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Aug 31, 2016 | Horticulture
by CHARLES MARTIN Auburn University’s Department of Horticulture is offering seedlings from one of the new Auburn Oaks so fans can have part of the Auburn tradition at home. Proceeds from the sale of the two- to three-foot seedlings, grown from acorns of the...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Aug 1, 2016 | Biosystems Engineering
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON The first time Joe McGee journeyed from his hometown of Eutaw, Alabama, near the state’s western border, to Alabama Polytechnic Institute in Auburn, he hitchhiked to get there. It worked out so well for him that the agricultural engineering...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Aug 1, 2016 | Entomology & Plant Pathology
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON Meet Caixing Xiong, seemingly typical Auburn student. Her favorite building on campus is the Student Rec Center. She loves Auburn football and adores Cam Newton. If you passed her on the Haley Concourse, you’d never know that, in fact, she is...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Jul 4, 2016 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
Maymester Abroad a peak of excellence in veteran professor’s career by JAMIE CREAMER In the pre-dawn hours of May 10, 2016, David Weaver and nine Auburn agriculture students flew out of Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport for a trip halfway around the...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Jul 1, 2016 | COA Communications
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON If you’ve ever wondered what’s become of some of the outstanding College of Ag students we’ve written about in the past, today is your lucky day. That’s because we’re going to catch up with two young alumni we introduced you to back in 2014,...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Jun 6, 2016 | Animal Sciences
Animal sciences alumna emulates mentor in job at Virginia Tech meat lab by JAMIE CREAMER Jordan Wicks’ eureka moment came one Sunday afternoon in 2008, on a road in Carbondale, Illinois. Wicks, a Southern Illinois University sophomore who had yet to decide on a major,...
