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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. She has been a member of the department’s faculty since 2014, currently serving as an associate professor, Extension beef systems specialist and program...
Auburn scientists begin project to build robot to help ornamental plant growers
Ornamental plant growers in Alabama feeling the squeeze of a competitive labor market may soon find help in an unexpected form. An AI-powered robot, currently in development at Auburn, will be able to inventory thousands of plants while also collecting data on plant...
French brings reimagined faculty position to life
New Professor of Practice for Youth Livestock Programs started June 2023 Sarah-Jane French is someone who believes everything happens for a reason. A new faculty...
Handbook Edited by Auburn Faculty Shows Why Microfinance Matters
"The Handbook of Microfinance, Financial Inclusion and Development," edited by Valentina M. Hartarska, Alumni Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics...
Auburn scientist spearheads leading research to help hops grow in Alabama
By Rachel Damiani Assistant Professor Andre da Silva is conducting cutting-edge research on ways to grow hops in Alabama within Auburn University’s Department of...
Environmental science major merits 2014 President's Award
AUBURN, Ala. —Sara Geonczy, a senior majoring in environmental science, feels lucky to have had the opportunity to attend Auburn University. Geonczy, who is a first-generation American citizen as well as a first-generation college student, will graduate in May, just...
Recipe file: David Teichert-Coddington's Cajun barbecued shrimp
Inland Shrimp Farm Owner/Manager Offers Recipe, Cooking Tips Shrimp is frequently what’s for dinner in David and Nadine Teichert-Coddington’s Greene County home, and that isn’t surprising, considering they have 20 ponds filled with thousands of Pacific whites right in...
Fisheries research team leads regional project on potentially toxic algal blooms
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON The first time Alan Wilson looked through a microscope at a drop of pond water, he was fascinated by all the things moving around in it. Still, he never imagined that one day he would make a living researching those microscopic organisms as an...
AAES scientist looks to loblolly pines as future renewable fuel source
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON In a nondescript building on the Auburn University campus, an Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station researcher is transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary in a study that could have huge implications here at home and around the...
Taking on tumors
Auburn scientists use laying hens to study uterine fibroids by JAMIE CREAMER An estimated 70 percent of women in the U.S. develop fibroid tumors in the uterus by age 50, and while the noncancerous tumors cause no symptoms for the majority of those women, they make...
Making real change
Animal Sciences senior promotes platform of respect as reigning rodeo queen by MARY CATHERINE GASTON Lauren Terry was a toddler when she first rode a horse. She remembers falling off a pony when she was a little girl. Her dad told her to get back in the saddle and...
Auburn scientists developing food pathogen detection system
A simple, economical tool that could be used to detect and identify harmful bacteria on food products in minutes instead of days is in the works.
Farm fresh
Former fisheries faculty practices what he preached raising inland shrimp by JAMIE CREAMER About this time every year, David Teichert-Coddington packs his bag, loads his trailer and hits the road, bound for the Florida Keys. If he were going for a few weeks of R &...
Magnum opus
Auburn Fisheries Pioneer Explains Why Alabama Agriculture Can’t Catch Up by JAMIE CREAMER Sisyphus was a cruel, conniving mythological king of Corinth whose ultimate punishment was an eternity in Hades, pushing a large boulder up a hill, watching it roll back down as...
Turfgrass management master’s now offered online
Professionals in the turfgrass industry can earn a master’s degree in turfgrass management completely online in the newest distance education degree program available through the College of Agriculture’s Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences. The...
Liu elected entomology, plant pathology chair
AUBURN, Ala.—Nannan Liu, Auburn University professor of entomology and internationally recognized insect molecular toxicologist, has been elected by her colleagues to a three-year term as chair of the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology in the College of...
Auburn researcher turning pine trees into gasoline
Through a process known as gasification, Sushil Adhikari is converting pine trees into a gas that can be used to produce gasoline and other liquid fuels.
Fulton named Alfa agriculture professor at Auburn
AUBURN, Ala.—John Fulton, a professor in the Auburn University Department of Biosystems Engineering and specialist with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, has been awarded the Alabama Farmers Federation Agriculture Professorship, College of Agriculture Dean...
Online master’s in turfgrass management at Auburn gets green light
AUBURN, Ala.—The Alabama Commission on Higher Education has approved an online master of turfgrass management program for Auburn University’s College of Agriculture. The program is designed for working professionals and offers 100 percent of its curriculum online. The...
Appel named interim associate dean for research and assistant director in agriculture
AUBURN, Ala.—Auburn University professor, department chair and researcher Arthur Appel has been named interim associate dean for research in the College of Agriculture and interim assistant director of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, effective Jan. 1,...
Fish pathogen remains viable in biofilm, Auburn research shows
AUBURN, Ala.—A team of Auburn University College of Agriculture researchers studying the development of biofilm formed in aquaculture settings by the highly contagious fish pathogen Flavobacterium columnare has taken the first-ever microscopic image of the biofilm—a...
Mask named to new role as Auburn ag, Extension liaison
AUBURN, Ala.—Paul Mask, a 31-year veteran of the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, has been named assistant director for agriculture, forestry and natural resources programs and assistant dean for Extension at Auburn University, effective, Jan. 1, 2014, College of...
Auburn College of Ag, AAES honor top faculty, staff for 2013
AUBURN, Ala.—Fifteen Auburn University College of Agriculture/Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station scientists who collectively brought in more than $5.84 million in extramural research funding in 2013 were among the more than two dozen faculty and staff members...
Meet Stefanie Christensen Francisco
Stefanie Christensen Francisco is the communications director for Conservation Alabama, a non-profit organization that lobbies the state legislature on behalf of our state’s natural resources. Previously, she worked in national news production at CNN, Politico, and...
Auburn poultry scientists link enzyme level, green muscle disease
AUBURN, Ala.—After more than a decade of research into an increasingly common and costly broiler condition known as green muscle disease, a team of poultry scientists at Auburn University has identified a blood enzyme that could give breeders a noninvasive tool to...
Wearable computers could be boon to crop producers
AUBURN, Ala.—A wearable computer described as “a smartphone for your face” has the potential to help row-crop farmers operate more efficiently and profitably, two Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station researchers at Auburn University say. Greg Pate and John Fulton...
Environmental science major merits 2014 President's Award
AUBURN, Ala. —Sara Geonczy, a senior majoring in environmental science, feels lucky to have had the opportunity to attend Auburn University. Geonczy, who is a first-generation American citizen as well as a first-generation college student, will graduate in May, just...
Recipe file: David Teichert-Coddington's Cajun barbecued shrimp
Inland Shrimp Farm Owner/Manager Offers Recipe, Cooking Tips Shrimp is frequently what’s for dinner in David and Nadine Teichert-Coddington’s Greene County home, and that isn’t surprising, considering they have 20 ponds filled with thousands of Pacific whites right in...
Fisheries research team leads regional project on potentially toxic algal blooms
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON The first time Alan Wilson looked through a microscope at a drop of pond water, he was fascinated by all the things moving around in it. Still, he never imagined that one day he would make a living researching those microscopic organisms as an...
AAES scientist looks to loblolly pines as future renewable fuel source
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON In a nondescript building on the Auburn University campus, an Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station researcher is transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary in a study that could have huge implications here at home and around the...
Taking on tumors
Auburn scientists use laying hens to study uterine fibroids by JAMIE CREAMER An estimated 70 percent of women in the U.S. develop fibroid tumors in the uterus by age 50, and while the noncancerous tumors cause no symptoms for the majority of those women, they make...
Making real change
Animal Sciences senior promotes platform of respect as reigning rodeo queen by MARY CATHERINE GASTON Lauren Terry was a toddler when she first rode a horse. She remembers falling off a pony when she was a little girl. Her dad told her to get back in the saddle and...
Auburn scientists developing food pathogen detection system
A simple, economical tool that could be used to detect and identify harmful bacteria on food products in minutes instead of days is in the works.
Farm fresh
Former fisheries faculty practices what he preached raising inland shrimp by JAMIE CREAMER About this time every year, David Teichert-Coddington packs his bag, loads his trailer and hits the road, bound for the Florida Keys. If he were going for a few weeks of R &...
Magnum opus
Auburn Fisheries Pioneer Explains Why Alabama Agriculture Can’t Catch Up by JAMIE CREAMER Sisyphus was a cruel, conniving mythological king of Corinth whose ultimate punishment was an eternity in Hades, pushing a large boulder up a hill, watching it roll back down as...
Turfgrass management master’s now offered online
Professionals in the turfgrass industry can earn a master’s degree in turfgrass management completely online in the newest distance education degree program available through the College of Agriculture’s Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences. The...
Liu elected entomology, plant pathology chair
AUBURN, Ala.—Nannan Liu, Auburn University professor of entomology and internationally recognized insect molecular toxicologist, has been elected by her colleagues to a three-year term as chair of the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology in the College of...
Auburn researcher turning pine trees into gasoline
Through a process known as gasification, Sushil Adhikari is converting pine trees into a gas that can be used to produce gasoline and other liquid fuels.
Fulton named Alfa agriculture professor at Auburn
AUBURN, Ala.—John Fulton, a professor in the Auburn University Department of Biosystems Engineering and specialist with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, has been awarded the Alabama Farmers Federation Agriculture Professorship, College of Agriculture Dean...
Online master’s in turfgrass management at Auburn gets green light
AUBURN, Ala.—The Alabama Commission on Higher Education has approved an online master of turfgrass management program for Auburn University’s College of Agriculture. The program is designed for working professionals and offers 100 percent of its curriculum online. The...
Appel named interim associate dean for research and assistant director in agriculture
AUBURN, Ala.—Auburn University professor, department chair and researcher Arthur Appel has been named interim associate dean for research in the College of Agriculture and interim assistant director of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, effective Jan. 1,...
Fish pathogen remains viable in biofilm, Auburn research shows
AUBURN, Ala.—A team of Auburn University College of Agriculture researchers studying the development of biofilm formed in aquaculture settings by the highly contagious fish pathogen Flavobacterium columnare has taken the first-ever microscopic image of the biofilm—a...
Mask named to new role as Auburn ag, Extension liaison
AUBURN, Ala.—Paul Mask, a 31-year veteran of the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, has been named assistant director for agriculture, forestry and natural resources programs and assistant dean for Extension at Auburn University, effective, Jan. 1, 2014, College of...
Auburn College of Ag, AAES honor top faculty, staff for 2013
AUBURN, Ala.—Fifteen Auburn University College of Agriculture/Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station scientists who collectively brought in more than $5.84 million in extramural research funding in 2013 were among the more than two dozen faculty and staff members...
Meet Stefanie Christensen Francisco
Stefanie Christensen Francisco is the communications director for Conservation Alabama, a non-profit organization that lobbies the state legislature on behalf of our state’s natural resources. Previously, she worked in national news production at CNN, Politico, and...
Auburn poultry scientists link enzyme level, green muscle disease
AUBURN, Ala.—After more than a decade of research into an increasingly common and costly broiler condition known as green muscle disease, a team of poultry scientists at Auburn University has identified a blood enzyme that could give breeders a noninvasive tool to...
Wearable computers could be boon to crop producers
AUBURN, Ala.—A wearable computer described as “a smartphone for your face” has the potential to help row-crop farmers operate more efficiently and profitably, two Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station researchers at Auburn University say. Greg Pate and John Fulton...