by Paul Hollis | Jun 18, 2020 | Feature
By Paul Hollis / Jun 18, 2020 9:21:50 AM Feature On a crowded street in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, a woman sells fish and fruit juice cooled by what appears to be ice. But it’s actually FICE, or Functional Ice, an alternative to ice that was created and tested in a lab...
by Kristen Bowman | Jun 16, 2020 | Feature
By Kristen Bowman / Jun 16, 2020 9:49:41 AM In the Classroom, College of Agriculture, Feature When Auburn University students left for spring break, they didn’t know they were bringing their classrooms with them. But as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak took...
by Paul Hollis | Jun 11, 2020 | AAES Administration, Feature, Research
By Paul Hollis / Jun 11, 2020 9:35:36 AM College of Agriculture, Feature In a unique agreement, Auburn University’s College of Agriculture is joining with an international corporate partner to create a research incubator farm at one of its Alabama Agricultural...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Jun 9, 2020 | Alumni Stories, Feature
By Mary Catherine Gaston / Jun 9, 2020 9:12:29 AM Feature 1986 College of Agriculture alumnus Gordon Stone and his wife, Ellen, share how personal tragedy transformed their lives and outlook Friday, May 7, 1993, began just like any other day for Gordon Stone, a 1986...
by Josh Woods | Jun 5, 2020 | News
By Joshua Woods / Jun 5, 2020 11:33:49 AM Eating on Campus, Agriculture, Auburn University Food Science, News While locally sourced foods are not new to Auburn University campus eateries, the options are soon to grow thanks to two new container farms to be installed...
by Paul Hollis | Jun 3, 2020 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, News
By Paul Hollis / Jun 3, 2020 12:53:20 PM Auburn University, News As the United States has become the epicenter of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, much attention has been paid to metropolitan areas like New York City, where density and population are the largest. But...
by Kristen Bowman | Jun 2, 2020 | News, Outreach, The Market
By Kristen Bowman / Jun 2, 2020 9:21:55 AM Auburn Summer, College of Agriculture, News, Events After a delayed start due to COVID-19, The Market at Ag Heritage Park will reopen from 4-6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 4. The Market is an open-air, growers-only farmers’ market...
by Kristen Bowman | Jun 1, 2020 | AAES Administration, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, News
By Kristen Bowman / Jun 1, 2020 9:51:35 AM News Gregory Pate was recently named director of research operations for outlying units of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station. The appointment is effective Monday, June 1. Since 2008, Pate served as director of the...
by Josh Woods | May 29, 2020 | News
By Joshua Woods / May 29, 2020 9:16:13 AM Agriculture, Campus Life, News The south end of the Auburn University campus will soon be home to a 16-acre garden that will encompass every aspect of plant-based agriculture. Features of the research and teaching garden will...
by Josh Woods | May 28, 2020 | Feature
By Kristen Bowman / May 28, 2020 11:38:20 AM Food Industry, Food Science Degree, Auburn Food Science, Careers in Food Science, Feature Cierra James knows exactly what she wants to do for a living, and it’s not a profession you hear often. “My ultimate dream job is to...
by Josh Woods | May 27, 2020 | News
By Office of Agricultural Communications and Marketing / May 27, 2020 11:21:05 AM In early March, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit Alabama, the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, like Auburn University and other agencies and businesses, transitioned to an alternative...
by Paul Hollis | May 27, 2020 | Research
By Paul Hollis / May 27, 2020 10:49:23 AM Auburn University’s first foray into the peanut breeding business appears to be a success, with AU-NPL 17 showing promise in multiple trials as a variety that can take hits from major diseases and still produce a high-yielding...
by Kristen Bowman | May 26, 2020 | Feature
By Kristen Bowman / May 26, 2020 10:33:16 AM Prospective Students, Feature, Events The dorms, classrooms, dining halls, auditoriums, offices and fields may all be empty, but the College of Agriculture at Auburn University is still giving live tours. The outbreak of...
by Kristen Bowman | May 12, 2020 | News
By Kristen Bowman / May 12, 2020 2:42:51 PM News Graduate students in the College of Agriculture received top honors from the Graduate School and the Graduate Student Council this spring. “We are extremely proud of our outstanding graduate students in the College of...
by Paul Hollis | Apr 24, 2020 | Feature
Even during a worldwide pandemic, faculty, staff and students in Auburn’s College of Agriculture and Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station (AAES) continue fulfilling their roles in providing an abundant and safe food supply to a nation in crisis. “We’ve made the...
by Paul Hollis | Apr 14, 2020 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology, News
By Paul Hollis / Apr 14, 2020 1:50:06 PM Auburn University, Faculty, College of Agriculture, News For the first time in the history of Auburn’s College of Agriculture, two faculty members have been selected for the prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early...
by Josh Woods | Mar 31, 2020 | Alumni Stories, Feature
Chastity Westry is no slacker. The ’97 agricultural business and economics alumna is one busy lady who wears many titles: billion-dollar sales executive, mentor, philanthropist, wife, mother of an active teenager and now third-year law student. Also add to the list a...
by Josh Woods | Mar 30, 2020 | News
By Joshua Woods / Mar 30, 2020 11:41:22 AM News While Auburn University’s College of Agriculture currently cannot host prospective students due to the COVID-19 outbreak, students are now visiting through live virtual tours and information sessions. Live visits are...
by Josh Woods | Mar 27, 2020 | COA Administration, Development, News
By Joshua Woods / Mar 27, 2020 3:09:38 PM News Veteran gift planning expert Phillip Cowart was recently named the College of Agriculture’s director of development. As director, Cowart will lead college efforts to raise private funds for research, facilities,...
by Paul Hollis | Mar 27, 2020 | News, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
By Paul Hollis / Mar 27, 2020 10:21:23 AM News Ash Bullard, a professor of parasitology and taxonomy in the Auburn University College of Agriculture’s School of Fisheries, Aquaculture, and Aquatic Sciences has been named a recipient of the Henry Baldwin Ward Medal,...
by Josh Woods | Mar 17, 2020 | News
Effective late yesterday, Auburn University has adopted a new operational model in an effort to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus among our university family and the communities around us. This extraordinary effort is made solely with the interest of everyone’s...
