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Wright named ASHS Fellow
Amy Wright, professor of horticulture and associate dean for instruction, was named an American Society for Horticultural Science Fellow at the society’s annual conference Sept. 23-27. ASHS is globally recognized as one of the most respected and influential...
Ru wins ASHS Early Career Competition
Sushan Ru, assistant professor of horticulture, won first place in the Early Career Competition at the American Society for Horticultural Science Annual Conference Sept. 23-27. ASHS is globally recognized as one of the most respected and influential professional...
Agricultural economists’ simulator to weigh in on U.S. Conservation Reserve Program
Researchers at Auburn University aim to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions due to agriculture by modifying one of the world’s largest voluntary conservation programs: the USDA’s 25-million-acre Conservation Reserve Program (CRP).
Understanding the role of the soil microbiome in plant health
Soil scientist Audrey Gamble is working to improve sustainability of cotton production by improving soil microbial structure and function.
Mullenix named animal sciences department head
Kim Mullenix will serve as the next head of the Auburn University Department of Animal Sciences, effective Aug. 19.
El Niño adds sense of urgency to fall harvest season
by PAUL HOLLIS AUBURN, Ala.—One of the strongest El Niño climate phases in decades has been building during the past several months, and it could make for a tricky fall harvest season in Alabama and throughout the lower Southeast. Producers who are readying...
Auburn fisheries will host expo, field day Oct. 17
The Auburn University School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences will host an expo and field day Saturday, Oct. 17 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the E.W. Shell Fisheries Research Center on North College Street in Auburn. Free and open to the public, the event...
Wayne Farms gift to support Auburn poultry farm relocation
Wayne Farms LLC, the sixth-largest vertically integrated poultry producer in the U.S., has pledged $175,000 to the construction of a state-of-the-art poultry research unit at Auburn University. “We’re happy to invest in a new farm facility that will thrive, not only...
Auburn animal sciences department to host HORSE U Oct. 24
A one-day educational program targeted toward children and teens who own or have a passion for horses is set for Saturday, Oct. 24, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m., at the Stanley P. Wilson Beef Teaching Unit on the Auburn University campus.Co-sponsored by Auburn’s Department of...
Chen honored for work in International Peanut Genome Project
Charles Chen, associate professor and peanut breeder in Auburn University’s Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences, has been recognized by the International Peanut Genome Initiative for his contributions to ongoing efforts to establish links between...
Auburn professor, grad lead Team USA to international soil judging championship
Auburn University soils professor Joey Shaw just led Team USA to a world championship at the International Soil Judging Contest in Godollo, Hungary. Auburn crop, soils and environmental sciences student Kristen Pegues was the highest scorer in the competition, making her the world’s No. 1 soil judge in 2015.
USA! USA!
Agronomy grad, professor take soil judging to the global stage by JAMIE CREAMER Here’s the situation Kristen Pegues finds herself in right now: She’s 5,300 miles from home, in a field somewhere northeast of Budapest, and life is the pits. Not the pits, as in terrible;...
DeVries named fisheries society fellow
Dennis DeVries, professor in the School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences, has been inducted into the inaugural class of fellows of the American Fisheries Society. He received the honor in recognition of his outstanding contributions in leadership,...
Pilot outreach program exposes high-achieving girls to food science
Although she was still a year and a half away from college, the science-loving high school junior from Birmingham had made up her mind that she was going to major in either sports medicine or biomedical engineering. But then she discovered the fascinating world of...
Auburn scientists explore how bird flu virus enters poultry farms
Auburn University poultry scientists Joe Giambrone and Ken Macklin are using funding from the U.S. egg industry to investigate how the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus, which has decimated poultry populations in the Midwest in the past nine months, spreads to...
2015 Ag Roundup set for homecoming Saturday, Oct. 3
Auburn University’s 2015 homecoming celebration and football game are set for Saturday, Oct. 3, and so is the 36th annual Fall Roundup and Taste of Alabama Agriculture. The latter will take place at Ag Heritage Park from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Auburn–San Jose State...
Leader in Africa's 'green revolution' to present seminar
Innocent Okuku, a key player in a movement to bring about a “green revolution” in sub-Saharan Africa, will present a visiting scholar seminar at Auburn University Tuesday, Sept. 8, at 11:45 a.m.in Comer Hall, room 109. The presentation, “Global Food Security...
Human pheromones topic of Oxford scientist's Sept. 30 lecture
A University of Oxford zoologist and international pheromone authority will explore the myths versus reality of pheromones in humans in a lecture Wednesday, Sept. 30, at 3:30 p.m. in Auburn University’s Rouse Hall, room 112.Sponsored by the College of Agriculture’s...
Horticulture Club members fare well in competition
Members of Auburn University’s Horticulture Club had strong showings in the collegiate-level plant identification and horticultural commodity judging competition held during the American Society for Horticultural Science’s annual conference in New Orleans earlier this...
Berry wins 2015 poultry science teaching award
Wallace Berry, associate professor in the Department of Poultry Science at Auburn, received the 2015 Novus International Inc. Teaching Award during the Poultry Science Association’s annual meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, in late July.The association established the...
Back to the grind
by JAMIE CREAMER Auburn study zeroes in on salmonella in ground poultry If the two-year salmonella study that Auburn University poultry scientist Ken Macklin launched in January were a sentence, you’d need two sheets of notebook paper to diagram it. It’s that complex....
'Tis The Season
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON Credit card offers, utility bills, unsolicited coupons and catalogs. If this is what typically fills your mailbox, you may have become understandably unexcited about the routine trip to the end of the driveway or the local post office. But...
A senior’s Singapore summer
interview by NATHAN KELLY and JADEN BROWN Horses are nothing new to Ellen Rankins, a senior in equine science from Cusseta, Alabama. In fact, she’s spent a healthy portion of her life around the beloved creatures. But the horses themselves are only a part of Rankins’...
Mullenix, husband runners-up in federation competition
Kim Mullenix, assistant professor and Extension specialist in the Department of Animal Sciences at Auburn, and husband Daniel were named second runners-up in the Alabama Farmers Federation’s 2015 Excellence in Agriculture competition. Winners were announced during the...
Ashwood wins award for best journal article
Loka Ashwood, a rural sociologist who joined the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at Auburn in June as assistant professor, was lead author on an article that has been named the most outstanding to run in the scholarly journal Rural Sociology...
Society to honor Taylor with 2015 leadership award
Steve Taylor, professor and head of the Department of Biosystems Engineering and director of the Center for Bioenergy and Bioproducts at Auburn University, will receive the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers’ 2015 James R. and Karen A. Gilley...
El Niño adds sense of urgency to fall harvest season
by PAUL HOLLIS AUBURN, Ala.—One of the strongest El Niño climate phases in decades has been building during the past several months, and it could make for a tricky fall harvest season in Alabama and throughout the lower Southeast. Producers who are readying...
Auburn fisheries will host expo, field day Oct. 17
The Auburn University School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences will host an expo and field day Saturday, Oct. 17 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the E.W. Shell Fisheries Research Center on North College Street in Auburn. Free and open to the public, the event...
Wayne Farms gift to support Auburn poultry farm relocation
Wayne Farms LLC, the sixth-largest vertically integrated poultry producer in the U.S., has pledged $175,000 to the construction of a state-of-the-art poultry research unit at Auburn University. “We’re happy to invest in a new farm facility that will thrive, not only...
Auburn animal sciences department to host HORSE U Oct. 24
A one-day educational program targeted toward children and teens who own or have a passion for horses is set for Saturday, Oct. 24, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m., at the Stanley P. Wilson Beef Teaching Unit on the Auburn University campus.Co-sponsored by Auburn’s Department of...
Chen honored for work in International Peanut Genome Project
Charles Chen, associate professor and peanut breeder in Auburn University’s Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences, has been recognized by the International Peanut Genome Initiative for his contributions to ongoing efforts to establish links between...
Auburn professor, grad lead Team USA to international soil judging championship
Auburn University soils professor Joey Shaw just led Team USA to a world championship at the International Soil Judging Contest in Godollo, Hungary. Auburn crop, soils and environmental sciences student Kristen Pegues was the highest scorer in the competition, making her the world’s No. 1 soil judge in 2015.
USA! USA!
Agronomy grad, professor take soil judging to the global stage by JAMIE CREAMER Here’s the situation Kristen Pegues finds herself in right now: She’s 5,300 miles from home, in a field somewhere northeast of Budapest, and life is the pits. Not the pits, as in terrible;...
DeVries named fisheries society fellow
Dennis DeVries, professor in the School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences, has been inducted into the inaugural class of fellows of the American Fisheries Society. He received the honor in recognition of his outstanding contributions in leadership,...
Pilot outreach program exposes high-achieving girls to food science
Although she was still a year and a half away from college, the science-loving high school junior from Birmingham had made up her mind that she was going to major in either sports medicine or biomedical engineering. But then she discovered the fascinating world of...
Auburn scientists explore how bird flu virus enters poultry farms
Auburn University poultry scientists Joe Giambrone and Ken Macklin are using funding from the U.S. egg industry to investigate how the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus, which has decimated poultry populations in the Midwest in the past nine months, spreads to...
2015 Ag Roundup set for homecoming Saturday, Oct. 3
Auburn University’s 2015 homecoming celebration and football game are set for Saturday, Oct. 3, and so is the 36th annual Fall Roundup and Taste of Alabama Agriculture. The latter will take place at Ag Heritage Park from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Auburn–San Jose State...
Leader in Africa's 'green revolution' to present seminar
Innocent Okuku, a key player in a movement to bring about a “green revolution” in sub-Saharan Africa, will present a visiting scholar seminar at Auburn University Tuesday, Sept. 8, at 11:45 a.m.in Comer Hall, room 109. The presentation, “Global Food Security...
Human pheromones topic of Oxford scientist's Sept. 30 lecture
A University of Oxford zoologist and international pheromone authority will explore the myths versus reality of pheromones in humans in a lecture Wednesday, Sept. 30, at 3:30 p.m. in Auburn University’s Rouse Hall, room 112.Sponsored by the College of Agriculture’s...
Horticulture Club members fare well in competition
Members of Auburn University’s Horticulture Club had strong showings in the collegiate-level plant identification and horticultural commodity judging competition held during the American Society for Horticultural Science’s annual conference in New Orleans earlier this...
Berry wins 2015 poultry science teaching award
Wallace Berry, associate professor in the Department of Poultry Science at Auburn, received the 2015 Novus International Inc. Teaching Award during the Poultry Science Association’s annual meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, in late July.The association established the...
Back to the grind
by JAMIE CREAMER Auburn study zeroes in on salmonella in ground poultry If the two-year salmonella study that Auburn University poultry scientist Ken Macklin launched in January were a sentence, you’d need two sheets of notebook paper to diagram it. It’s that complex....
'Tis The Season
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON Credit card offers, utility bills, unsolicited coupons and catalogs. If this is what typically fills your mailbox, you may have become understandably unexcited about the routine trip to the end of the driveway or the local post office. But...
A senior’s Singapore summer
interview by NATHAN KELLY and JADEN BROWN Horses are nothing new to Ellen Rankins, a senior in equine science from Cusseta, Alabama. In fact, she’s spent a healthy portion of her life around the beloved creatures. But the horses themselves are only a part of Rankins’...
Mullenix, husband runners-up in federation competition
Kim Mullenix, assistant professor and Extension specialist in the Department of Animal Sciences at Auburn, and husband Daniel were named second runners-up in the Alabama Farmers Federation’s 2015 Excellence in Agriculture competition. Winners were announced during the...
Ashwood wins award for best journal article
Loka Ashwood, a rural sociologist who joined the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at Auburn in June as assistant professor, was lead author on an article that has been named the most outstanding to run in the scholarly journal Rural Sociology...
Society to honor Taylor with 2015 leadership award
Steve Taylor, professor and head of the Department of Biosystems Engineering and director of the Center for Bioenergy and Bioproducts at Auburn University, will receive the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers’ 2015 James R. and Karen A. Gilley...