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Biosystems Engineering dominates at 2024 ASABE International Meeting
Jeremy Henderson Auburn University's Department of Biosystems Engineering (BSEN) was hard to miss at the 2024 American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) Annual International Meeting recently held in Anaheim, California. And hard to beat. Auburn...
Mahas part of first team to investigate Southern cotton leafroll dwarf virus management
As John Mahas prepared for a move to start postdoctoral research at Cornell University, he was still wrapping up research in the Auburn University lab where he earned his master’s and doctorate. It was here he focused his work on managing the emerging cotton leafroll...
Longtime professor becomes American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow
Longtime Auburn University Professor Beth Guertal has joined the ranks of Thomas Edison, W.E.B. Dubois and Margaret Mead with her election as a fellow to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Three ag faculty members complete national LEAD21 program
Three faculty members from the Auburn University College of Agriculture were among 88 nationally to complete the 2023-24 LEAD21 leadership-development program. They...
Auburn research makes Alabama-grown beer possible
Research shows Alabama barley good for beer, rotational crop The first beer ever brewed from Alabama-grown barley made its debut this past fall, and Auburn University...
Biosystems engineering honored for excellence in education
AUBURN, Ala.—Auburn University’s Department of Biosystems Engineering has been selected to receive the 2015 University Senate Departmental Award for Excellence in Education, an honor that carries with it a $30,000 grant that will be administered in three yearly...
De La Fuente wins undergrad research mentorship award
AUBURN, Ala.—Leonardo De La Fuente, associate professor in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at Auburn University, is one of two recipients of the 2015-16 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship. He...
Former poultry science department head, Dr. Robert N. Brewer, passes away
The Alabama poultry industry and the Auburn poultry science department have lost a true pioneer and visionary. Dr. Bob Brewer, Professor and Department Head Emeritus, passed away May 10, 2015.
Guertal receives TOCA award for column series in Golf Course Management magazine
Elizabeth Guertal, a professor in turfgrass and nutrient management, received a merit award from the Turf and Ornamental Communicators Association last week for her column series, Verdure. Her column appears monthly in Golf Course Management magazine. Guertal’s was...
To market, to market
by NATHAN KELLY One of the best kept secrets of summer barbecues in Auburn is at the corner of Wire Road and Shug Jordan Parkway: the Auburn University Lambert-Powell Meats Laboratory. For students majoring in animal sciences, the meats lab is a place to learn,...
Ecosystems by design
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON Growing up in India’s water-scarce environment, Auburn University biosystems engineering professor Puneet Srivastava understood from an early age the importance of clean water. It was his graduate school experience studying ecosystems,...
Cures for what ails you
by JAMIE CREAMER What began in 2006 as a small-scale study to determine whether medicinal herbs had potential as a profitable alternative crop for Alabama growers is now a 4,200-square-foot garden boasting more than 60 species and varieties of plants that humans...
Coleman awarded NIH grant to study disease-causing fungi
Jeff Coleman has been awarded a $268,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to identify and study the genes within two species of fungi that can cause potentially deadly infections in humans.
Auburn University Soil Judging Team wins 2015 national title
The Auburn University Soil Judging Team is No. 1 in the country after besting 21 other teams from universities across the country during the American Society of Agronomy’s 2015 National Collegiate Soils Contest April 18-24 at the University of Arkansas at Monticello.
DeVries honored with 2015 Spirit of Sustainability Award
Dennis DeVries, a professor in the School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences, was honored with one of the 2015 Spirit of Sustainability Awards April 22. The Auburn University Spirit of Sustainability Awards program began in 2013 to recognize Auburn...
Food science students win first place in product development competition
Congratulations to Food Science Students Corena Newton, Gerris Santos-Norris, Avery Smith, and Emma Williams who have placed 1st in the Southeast IFT product development competition
Brantley, DeVries to receive 2015 Spirit of Sustainability Awards
Two College of Agriculture faculty members are among the five individuals and two groups selected as recipients of Auburn’s 2015 Spirit of Sustainability Awards. The awards will be presented in a ceremony Wednesday, April 22, at 3:30 p.m. at Ag Heritage Park’s Farmers...
Auburn, Tuskegee scientists get $500,000 grant to study land loss among African-Americans
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...
Texas State's Tomasso tapped to lead School of Fisheries at Auburn
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,...
Hoyum named alumnus of the year
Dr. Raymond A. Hoyum of Alpharetta, Ga., was honored as the Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Science’s 2015 Alumnus of the Year at a ceremony April 16. Hoyum is a two-time graduate of the department, earning M.S. in agronomy in 1973 and his Ph.D. in agronomy in 1976.
Mahaffee named alumnus of the year
Dr. Walter F. Mahaffee was honored as the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology 2015 Alumnus of the Year at a ceremony April 16. Mahaffee is a three-time graduate of Auburn University, earning his B.S. in microbiology in 1988 and his M.S. and Ph.D. in plant...
Auburn College of Agriculture honors exceptional alumni
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,...
Graduate student receives Elanco award for exceptional seminar
Kate Meloche, a graduate student in poultry science, was recently presented with the fall 2014 Elanco Graduate Seminar Scholar Award for her presentation “Wooden breast: A novel myopathy of the Pectoralis major in broiler chickens.”
The Market at Ag Heritage Park to open 2015 season May 14
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...
Shannon wins honor for distance ed efforts
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...
Fisheries graduate student receives prestigious international fellowship
May “Noe Noe” Lwin, a Ph.D. student in the Auburn University School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences and a native of Myanmar in Southeast Asia, was recently awarded the Schlumberger Foundation’s 2015-16 Faculty for the Future Fellowship. Now in its 10th...
Biosystems engineering honored for excellence in education
AUBURN, Ala.—Auburn University’s Department of Biosystems Engineering has been selected to receive the 2015 University Senate Departmental Award for Excellence in Education, an honor that carries with it a $30,000 grant that will be administered in three yearly...
De La Fuente wins undergrad research mentorship award
AUBURN, Ala.—Leonardo De La Fuente, associate professor in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at Auburn University, is one of two recipients of the 2015-16 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship. He...
Former poultry science department head, Dr. Robert N. Brewer, passes away
The Alabama poultry industry and the Auburn poultry science department have lost a true pioneer and visionary. Dr. Bob Brewer, Professor and Department Head Emeritus, passed away May 10, 2015.
Guertal receives TOCA award for column series in Golf Course Management magazine
Elizabeth Guertal, a professor in turfgrass and nutrient management, received a merit award from the Turf and Ornamental Communicators Association last week for her column series, Verdure. Her column appears monthly in Golf Course Management magazine. Guertal’s was...
To market, to market
by NATHAN KELLY One of the best kept secrets of summer barbecues in Auburn is at the corner of Wire Road and Shug Jordan Parkway: the Auburn University Lambert-Powell Meats Laboratory. For students majoring in animal sciences, the meats lab is a place to learn,...
Ecosystems by design
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON Growing up in India’s water-scarce environment, Auburn University biosystems engineering professor Puneet Srivastava understood from an early age the importance of clean water. It was his graduate school experience studying ecosystems,...
Cures for what ails you
by JAMIE CREAMER What began in 2006 as a small-scale study to determine whether medicinal herbs had potential as a profitable alternative crop for Alabama growers is now a 4,200-square-foot garden boasting more than 60 species and varieties of plants that humans...
Coleman awarded NIH grant to study disease-causing fungi
Jeff Coleman has been awarded a $268,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to identify and study the genes within two species of fungi that can cause potentially deadly infections in humans.
Auburn University Soil Judging Team wins 2015 national title
The Auburn University Soil Judging Team is No. 1 in the country after besting 21 other teams from universities across the country during the American Society of Agronomy’s 2015 National Collegiate Soils Contest April 18-24 at the University of Arkansas at Monticello.
DeVries honored with 2015 Spirit of Sustainability Award
Dennis DeVries, a professor in the School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences, was honored with one of the 2015 Spirit of Sustainability Awards April 22. The Auburn University Spirit of Sustainability Awards program began in 2013 to recognize Auburn...
Food science students win first place in product development competition
Congratulations to Food Science Students Corena Newton, Gerris Santos-Norris, Avery Smith, and Emma Williams who have placed 1st in the Southeast IFT product development competition
Brantley, DeVries to receive 2015 Spirit of Sustainability Awards
Two College of Agriculture faculty members are among the five individuals and two groups selected as recipients of Auburn’s 2015 Spirit of Sustainability Awards. The awards will be presented in a ceremony Wednesday, April 22, at 3:30 p.m. at Ag Heritage Park’s Farmers...
Auburn, Tuskegee scientists get $500,000 grant to study land loss among African-Americans
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...
Texas State's Tomasso tapped to lead School of Fisheries at Auburn
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,...
Hoyum named alumnus of the year
Dr. Raymond A. Hoyum of Alpharetta, Ga., was honored as the Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Science’s 2015 Alumnus of the Year at a ceremony April 16. Hoyum is a two-time graduate of the department, earning M.S. in agronomy in 1973 and his Ph.D. in agronomy in 1976.
Mahaffee named alumnus of the year
Dr. Walter F. Mahaffee was honored as the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology 2015 Alumnus of the Year at a ceremony April 16. Mahaffee is a three-time graduate of Auburn University, earning his B.S. in microbiology in 1988 and his M.S. and Ph.D. in plant...
Auburn College of Agriculture honors exceptional alumni
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,...
Graduate student receives Elanco award for exceptional seminar
Kate Meloche, a graduate student in poultry science, was recently presented with the fall 2014 Elanco Graduate Seminar Scholar Award for her presentation “Wooden breast: A novel myopathy of the Pectoralis major in broiler chickens.”
The Market at Ag Heritage Park to open 2015 season May 14
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...
Shannon wins honor for distance ed efforts
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...
Fisheries graduate student receives prestigious international fellowship
May “Noe Noe” Lwin, a Ph.D. student in the Auburn University School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences and a native of Myanmar in Southeast Asia, was recently awarded the Schlumberger Foundation’s 2015-16 Faculty for the Future Fellowship. Now in its 10th...