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Three students receive 2025 Comer Awards
Hosted by the College of Sciences and Mathematics and the College of Agriculture, this year’s Comer Awards were presented to three graduating Auburn University students. This prestigious tradition continues to honor the exceptional achievements of students by...
Researchers’ report informs governor’s strategic plan
Alabama’s $123 billion agriculture industry has identified land loss, profitability and transportation infrastructure among its most pressing challenges in a recent report. The findings of the report will inform Gov. Kay Ivey’s strategic economic growth plan,...
Researchers study potential savings from reducing time on feed for weaned pigs
Research made possible by $300,000 USDA-NIFA grant The scale of pork production in the U. S. is such that reducing the average pig’s time on feed by just one day can...
Networking in action: poultry science students explore Aviagen’s research center
Networking with industry professionals is a crucial step to success for any undergraduate student. It is especially important for students studying poultry science at...
Graduation marshal Rachel Robinson sets sights on vet school
Auburn University Marching Band member Rachel Robinson has one more march to make. The animal sciences (pre-vet) major is the student marshal for the College of...
Auburn joins regional small-fruit consortium
In a move aimed at advancing and promoting Alabama’s berry and grape industries, Auburn University has joined the multistate Southern Region Small Fruit Consortium, a collaborative initiative that brings together producers, researchers and extension specialists to strengthen the South’s small-fruit industries.
Five in college earn faculty promotions
Auburn University Provost Bill Hardgrave’s recent announcement of faculty across campus who have been awarded promotion or promotion with tenure for 2018 includes five faculty members in the College of Agriculture. Attaining the status of full professor are Christy...
Grant to fund honey bee research at Auburn
Geoffrey Williams, Auburn University assistant professor of insect pollination and apiculture, has been awarded a $283,000 grant from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research’s Pollinator Health Fund for research aimed toward helping reverse the decline in...
Graduating seniors earn College of Agriculture’s top student awards
By Laura Cauthen / Apr 3, 2018 12:28:56 PM Ten College of Agriculture students graduating in May are the 2018 recipients of the college’s highest awards for undergraduates. The awards are presented based on the students’ achievements in academics, leadership and...
Guertal tapped to lead Auburn’s strategic plan process
Auburn University President Steven Leath has tapped Beth Guertal, professor in the Department of Crop, Soils and Environmental Sciences, to lead a strategic planning process that will bring 500 new tenure-track faculty in the next five years.
Auburn University researchers study longleaf pine drought resilience
Longleaf pine ecosystems may be the key to creating more drought-resilient forests, according to a study that Lisa Samuelson, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station researcher and Alumni Professor in Auburn’s School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, is conducting.
College salutes the year’s most outstanding alumni
Auburn University’s College of Agriculture is celebrating nine of its graduates from as far back as 1966 to as recently as 2005 as its 2018 Alumni Award winners.
Ag Hill faculty dominate Auburn awards ceremony
College of Agriculture faculty members claimed the lion’s share of recognition during Auburn University’s 2018 Faculty Awards Dinner in late February. The ceremony formally honored all Auburn faculty who received the university’s highest awards in the 2017-18 academic...
College inks ag science transfer agreement with Snead State
A formal agreement that top Auburn University, College of Agriculture and Snead State Community College administrators have signed guarantees Snead State students who meet Auburn’s transfer-student admission requirements acceptance into the agricultural science...
Bratcher honored for excellence in teaching and mentoring
By Laura Cauthen / Mar 6, 2018 4:42:55 PM News Christy Bratcher, associate professor in the Department of Animal Sciences and director of the Auburn University Food Science Institute, has received the university's Gerald and Emily Leischuck Endowed Presidential Award...
Ag Hill faculty shine at Auburn’s annual awards ceremony
College of Agriculture faculty members claimed the lion’s share of recognition during Auburn University’s 2018 Faculty Awards Dinner in late February. The ceremony formally honored all Auburn faculty who received the university’s highest awards in the 2017-18 academic...
Building leaders major thrust of Mulvaney’s outreach efforts
Auburn University animal scientist Don Mulvaney begs to differ with those who hold that leaders are born, not made. For him, the proof is in the pudding, and in his 35 years as a faculty member in the Department of Animal Sciences, he has amassed a world of proof....
Auburn researchers identify natural enemy of kudzu bug
Auburn University entomologists have discovered and identified a tiny wasp that could provide a huge benefit to Alabama soybean producers and other farmers. Though only about the size of a pinhead, the newly detected parasitoid wasp, Ooencyrtus nezarae, can do plenty...
College inks ag science agreement with Snead State
A formal agreement that top Auburn University, College of Agriculture and Snead State Community College administrators have signed guarantees that Snead State students who meet Auburn’s transfer-student admission requirements are accepted into the agricultural science...
Auburn team brings home championship trophy in 2018 Turf Bowl
By Jamie Creamer / Feb 15, 2018 11:05:14 AM Bill Maynard, left, GCSAA immediate past president, congratulates Auburn's Team No. 37 on its first-place finish in the 2018 Collegiate Turf Bowl. With Maynard are, from left, team coach and Auburn associate professor David...
Layne to lead Auburn's Department of Horticulture
AUBURN, Alabama—Desmond R. Layne, currently a horticulture professor and academic program director at Washington State University, has been named head of the Department of Horticulture at Auburn University following a nationwide search. He will assume the position...
Food Entrepreneur Conference held March 21-22 in Auburn
Current and aspiring culinary capitalists gained valuable insight on food safety, certification and business management during the Auburn University Food Systems Institute’s sixth annual Food Entrepreneur Conference in Auburn March 21-22. The institute is an Alabama...
Tiger Giving Day 2018 focus: quarter-scale tractor team
Auburn University’s quarter-scale tractor team, comprised of biosystems engineering students, will receive 100 percent of the funds donated to the College of Agriculture on Auburn’s Tiger Giving Day 2018, set for Wednesday, Feb. 21. The 24-hour, all-out fundraiser...
Bowen, McElroy college’s newest Alumni Professors
Only 16 of Auburn University’s 1,330 faculty members currently hold the prestigious title of Alumni Professor, and six of those 16 are in the College of Agriculture. As is often the case, the college boasts more Alumni Professors than any other college or school on...
College’s Auburn Ag Online distance ed program ranks 2nd among online degree programs
The Auburn College of Agriculture’s distance education program, Auburn Ag Online, has been ranked the second best online agriculture degree program in the nation by guidetoonlineschools.com.
Carter to represent Auburn at USDA Outlook Forum
Auburn University agricultural communications senior Brittany Carter was one of 30 students from land-grant universities, non-land-grant colleges of agriculture and Hispanic-serving institutions across the nation to participate in USDA’s 2018 Agricultural Outlook Forum Student Diversity Program in Washington, D.C., Feb. 19-23.
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