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As 2024 draws to a close, Paul Patterson is stepping away from his roles as dean of the College of Agriculture and director of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, effective Jan. 1. He led both to record numbers in the areas of teaching, research and outreach since he assume the positions in March 2016…
When Brandon Smith discusses his research on sustainable beef production, he’s speaking not only as an assistant professor in the Auburn University Department of Animal Sciences but also as someone who is intimately familiar with the needs of producers. “I come from a...
The USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) recently awarded Aniruddha Maity a $300,000 grant to research the influences of endophytes and abiotic factors on herbicide resistance development in Italian...
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...
"The Handbook of Microfinance, Financial Inclusion and Development," edited by Valentina M. Hartarska, Alumni Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics...
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...
Bringing positive change keeps Auburn’s Boyd going and going by JAMIE CREAMER video by NATHAN KELLY Auburn University professor Claude Boyd is retiring. Eventually. Just as soon as his final graduate student—the last of more than 115 master’s and doctoral students he...
by WADE BERRY AUBURN UNIVERSITY - Auburn University graduate Ashton Richardson has been chosen as a finalist for the prestigious Marshall Scholarship. If awarded, Richardson will pursue a doctorate of philosophy in international development at Oxford University. Read...
Young people in Alabama’s northeast corner now have a fast track to careers in poultry science, thanks to a partnership between Auburn University and Gadsden State Community College.
The following story appears in the 2014 Auburn-LSU edition of Tailgate Times, an app-based publication of the Auburn University Food Systems Institute. Tailgate Times is published prior to each Auburn home football game. Download the app here and read more stories...
The College of Agriculture has welcomed six new faculty members for fall semester 2014. Thorsten Knappenberger, most recently a postdoctoral researcher at Washington State University, has joined the crop, soil and environmental sciences department as assistant...
Associate professor and extension specialist Brenda Ortiz is part of a team whose efforts aim to help Southeastern farmers cope with the results of climate change.
Ben Brinkerhoff sees his ag econ degree from a mission-field perspective.
Auburn University Ph.D. student Zack Ogles had picked a ton of produce—closer to 2,200 pounds, actually—from the eight-row garden he has on the Auburn campus.
This fall the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology welcomed four new faculty. Alana Jacobson joined the faculty as an insect ecologist\row crop entomologist. Dr. Jacobson comes to Auburn from Dr. George Kennedy's lab at North Carolina State University. Thrips...
AUBURN, Ala. —An Auburn University Department of Animal Sciences faculty member and a veterinarian who is an alumnus of the department are among 40 young men and women from across the U.S. and Canada being honored for the significant contributions they have made to...
Glyphosate-Resistant Weeds Taking Root in Alabama Fields by NATHAN KELLY It’s becoming an all-too-common occurrence in Alabama agriculture: another weed added to the list of aggressive, undesirable weeds that can hold their own against the broad-spectrum herbicide...
Meet an animal sciences student who sees her future on the ocean.
AUBURN, Ala. —Auburn University horticulture professor Joe Eakes has been named interim head of the Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture Dean Bill Batchelor has announced. Eakes assumed the role Sept. 5 and will serve in the position until a new...
An Auburn horticulture professor’s research aims to boost Alabama’s wine industry by stamping out disease.
By Mary Catherine Gaston Dan Holt and Carol Johnston, researchers in Auburn University’s School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences, have discovered evidence that fish—like mammals and birds—raise their voices when communicating in noisy settings. This...
By MARY CATHERINE GASTON A newly released 2013 U.S. Catfish Database that Auburn University aquacultural economist Terry Hanson compiled paints a grim portrait of the U.S. farm-raised catfish industry overall, but a few bright spots, particularly for Alabama...
AUBURN, Ala. —Auburn University alumni professor and researcher Henry Fadamiro has been named assistant dean and director of global programs in the College of Agriculture, effective Sept. 1, Dean Bill Batchelor has announced. “Agriculture knows no geographical...
AUBURN, Ala. —The fall installment of the 2014 Auburn University Special Lecture Series will take place Friday, Oct. 10, at 11 a.m. in Langdon Hall and will feature Jeffrey Beall, an expert on scholarly publishing. The lecture, entitled “Scholarly Publishing in...
AUBURN, Ala. —The Auburn University School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences will host an expo and field day Saturday, Sept. 20 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...
Researchers with the Auburn University Peanut Team are partnering with an international organization to help farmers in the world’s driest and poorest regions feed the hungry.
Sarah Stephenson put her poultry science major to work on Capitol Hill this summer.
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