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Biosystems engineering researcher developing solutions with bioenergy recognized by SEC By Amy Weaver Sushil Adhikari had no intention of having a career in academia, let alone researching solutions to some of life’s challenges. “I just wanted to be an engineer and...
Forum to be held 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 21 Auburn University faculty researchers from the Colleges of Agriculture, Sciences and Mathematics, and Engineering seek to advance innovations in agriculture and natural resources. Together, they are hosting a...
Auburn University’s Kelly Homan and Katelyn Lawson have joined forces to assist the state of Alabama in the creation of its 2025 State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP) revision.
Six student food pantries were recently installed on campus in an effort by the College of Agriculture to alleviate food insecurity among students. The pantries are in...
Program made possible by $246,000 USDA-NIFA grant A College of Agriculture program for future leaders in the beef industry is entering its final academic year and...
The Auburn University College of Agriculture and Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station have announced their 2015 Faculty and Staff Award recipients, all of whom will be formally honored in a college/AAES awards ceremony in February. Individual 2015 faculty awards...
by JAMIE CREAMER Auburn University’s Board of Trustees approved three significant agriculture-related items at it Nov. 20 meeting, one of which will dramatically transform Auburn’s Ag Hill in the next few years. In a unanimous vote, the board gave the go-ahead to a...
Auburn soil science professor Charles Mitchell has been awarded the status of fellow in the American Society of Agronomy. Fellow is the organization’s highest honor and is presented for outstanding contributions to agronomy through education, research and national and...
Hisham Abdelrahman, a Ph.D. candidate under the direction of veteran School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences professor Claude Boyd, was the runner-up and also won the coveted People’s Choice Award during Auburn University’s Three-Minute Thesis, or 3MT,...
Two inventive College of Agriculture programs that are spurring significant economic growth and benefiting citizens throughout the state and region helped Auburn University win a national 2015 Innovation and Economic Prosperity University Award from the Association of...
Federal regulators have approved a fast-growing transgenic salmon as the first genetically engineered animal available for human consumption. And while some are hailing it as a historic breakthrough, others are questioning whether the current approval process for the technology is stringent enough to prevent risks to the environment. One of those doing the questioning is Auburn University’s Conner Bailey.
AUBURN, Ala.—The 2015 Alabama Corn and Wheat Short Course will be held at the Auburn University Hotel and Dixon Conference Center Dec. 14-15.Presenters from the Auburn University College of Agriculture, the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, other land grant...
The College of Agriculture raised more than $10,000 for Department of Animal Sciences scholarships at Pork and Cork, the first in what will become an annual fall fundraising social hosted by the Auburn University Agricultural Alumni Association. Held Oct. 23 at the...
The final numbers are in, confirming that fall semester 2015 enrollment in the College of Agriculture hit an all-time high of 1,430 students. That total—which includes the most undergraduates ever, at 1,128, and a record 302 graduate students—is an increase of 75...
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON You can call Gordon Stone a lot of things, because he’s been a lot of things in his 52 years on earth—letterman, lobbyist, farmhand, father, missionary, mayor. But there’s one thing you can’t call the 1986 College of Ag grad: You can’t call...
Nhuong Van Tran, a 2011 College of Agriculture alumnus, will present a guest lecture, "Future of Global Fish Supply and Demand," Monday, Nov. 2, at 3:30 p.m. in Comer Hall 207. Tran was awarded his B.S. degree in aquaculture in his native Vietnam in 1997 and, after a...
by PAUL HOLLIS “AU Victory” is no longer simply the wish of every Auburn University sports fan. It’s also the name of a new bentgrass variety that promises improved putting greens for golfers. The new variety—the first bentgrass released by the university’s turfgrass...
AUBURN, Ala. – October 5, 2015 – A charitable corporate contribution of $250,000 from Tyson Foods — the largest contribution to date to benefit Auburn University’s Department of Poultry Science’s new research farm unit — will further the department’s academic and...
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON It sounds like a fun campfire game: Choose five words at random from a hat, and tell a story using all five. Your words: sailing, rubber, drone, engineer, Guatemala. What story would you tell? If you’re Christian Brodbeck, a research engineer...
Kenya native helping others reach their potential by JAMIE CREAMER Please excuse the use of an overworked adjective, but there’s just no other way to describe Esther Ngumbi: The woman is passionate. She’s passionate about life, about giving back, about inspiring...
Just because there’s no football on the Plains on Saturday, Oct. 17, that doesn’t mean you should stay away. The School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences invites you to enjoy a rare, uncongested fall Saturday in the Loveliest Village at its second annual...
The 36th Fall Roundup and Taste of Alabama Agriculture, or Ag Roundup, will get underway at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, at Ag Heritage Park and run until 2 p.m., an hour before kickoff of the Auburn University–San Jose State homecoming football game. Co-sponsored by...
by PAUL HOLLIS Climate predictions for the upcoming fall and winter months indicate that Alabama wheat producers will have fewer problems this season with the Hessian fly, but now’s not the time to completely let down your guard. Results of studies have shown that...
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...
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 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...
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