by Margaret Smith | Jan 31, 2020 | Horticulture, News
The Department of Horticulture is set to receive 100 percent of the funds donated to the College of Agriculture on this year’s Tiger Giving Day, set for Feb. 19. The funds will be used to support new on-campus hydroponic container gardens. These high-tech gardens will...
by Margaret Smith | Jan 29, 2020 | Feature, Poultry Science
By Maggie Smith / Jan 29, 2020 10:00:23 AM News Twenty-one Department of Poultry Science students presented their research findings at the International Poultry Scientific Forum and American Feed Industry Association’s Pet Food Conference earlier this week in Atlanta....
by Margaret Smith | Jan 28, 2020 | Animal Sciences, News
By Maggie Smith / Jan 28, 2020 9:24:29 AM News Kim Mullenix, associate professor of animal sciences and beef extension specialist, was recently awarded the Outstanding Young Animal Scientist Award – Education by the Southern Section of the American Society of...
by Margaret Smith | Jan 22, 2020 | News
By Maggie Smith / Jan 22, 2020 10:19:30 AM News Seven College of Agriculture students were recently awarded scholarships by the Alabama Nursery and Landscape Association at the Gulf States Horticultural Expo in Mobile. The scholarship recipients include horticulture...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Jan 7, 2020 | Alumni Stories, Animal Sciences, Feature
By Mary Catherine Gaston / Jan 7, 2020 2:54:08 PM Feature Animal and dairy sciences alumnus plays a valuable part in the unique place he’s chosen to call home Plains, Georgia, is a special place. Of course, the whole world knows Plains as the home of America’s 39th...
by Jamie Creamer | Dec 20, 2019 | Alumni Stories, Feature
By Jamie Creamer / Dec 20, 2019 3:05:51 PM Feature ’13 Auburn food science grad lives dream finds sweet job with Nestlé Beth Westmoreland Miller baked her first batch of Nestlé® Toll House® chocolate chip cookies when she was 10 years old. OK, so maybe she didn’t...
by Paul Hollis | Dec 2, 2019 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Feature, Research
By Paul Hollis / Dec 2, 2019 12:19:40 PM Climate Change, College of Agriculture, Feature, News On the heels of the hottest, driest fall in Alabama’s history, Auburn University researchers are working to find ways to improve water-use efficiency for farmers. Growers...
by William Cahalin | Nov 22, 2019 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
In the year 1919: World War I ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. Congress ratified the18th Amendment, authorizing Prohibition, and the 19th, giving women the right to vote. The Boston Red Sox traded Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees. Ford Motor Co....
by Margaret Smith | Oct 24, 2019 | Entomology & Plant Pathology, News, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Two College of Agriculture faculty members were recognized last night at the Auburn University Office of the Provost Professorship Dinner and Ceremony. Rex Dunham, alumni professor in the School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences, was recognized as the...
by Paul Hollis | Oct 18, 2019 | News, Poultry Science
By Paul Hollis / Oct 18, 2019 2:04:26 PM Events, Poultry Science The College of Agriculture’s Department of Poultry Science recently unveiled a sculpture presented by Aviagen, one of the world’s largest poultry breeding service companies. Aviagen privately...
by Paul Hollis | Oct 8, 2019 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Feature, Research
By Paul Hollis Grants from the National Science Foundation are some of the most prestigious and competitive researchers can receive, with only one out of every five proposals ultimately being approved for an award. So for one department in Auburn University’s College...
by Jamie Creamer | Oct 1, 2019 | Animal Sciences, News, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
By Jamie Creamer / Oct 1, 2019 3:57:49 PM News Veteran College of Agriculture faculty members Rex Dunham and Russ Muntifering have been announced as 2019 recipients of two of Auburn University’s highest faculty awards. Dunham, Alumni Professor in the School of...
by Margaret Smith | Oct 1, 2019 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, News
By Maggie Smith / Oct 1, 2019 3:51:19 PM News Don Ball, alumni professor in Auburn’s Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences, recently co-authored a book which examines the history and modern uses of forage tall fescue. “The Wonder Grass” takes a...
by Jamie Creamer | Sep 30, 2019 | Feature, Horticulture
By Jamie Creamer / Sep 30, 2019 4:10:41 PM Feature Five and a half months ago, a team of medical specialists came to a grim conclusion: If the comatose patient in UAB Hospital’s neuroscience intensive care unit didn’t die, he would spend the rest of his mentally...
by Paul Hollis | Sep 30, 2019 | E.T. York Lecturer Series, News
By Paul Hollis / Sep 30, 2019 3:26:10 PM News, Events The climate is changing, but farmers are not to blame, the chief scientist of the USDA said recently during a presentation to a group of students and faculty at Auburn University. “There are a lot of reasons for...
by Paul Hollis | Sep 30, 2019 | Alumni Stories, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Research
By Mitch Emmons A recent doctoral graduate in the College of Agriculture’s entomology program has completed the first scientific classification and identification study of a group of insects, phylloxerans – an insect similar to an aphid – that has been...
by William Cahalin | Sep 22, 2019 | News
By Office of Agricultural Communications and Marketing / Nov 7, 2017 10:10:00 AM Abbie Adcock Cuny (BA poultry science ’14) works with Chick-fil-A Inc. in the supplier quality and safety division as a liaison between Chick-fil-A operators and poultry suppliers. She...
by William Cahalin | Sep 22, 2019 | News
By Office of Agricultural Communications and Marketing / Nov 7, 2017 10:06:28 AM Jay McCurdy (PhD agronomy and soils ’13) has been named recipient of the Crop Science Society of America’s 2017 Early Career Award for making significant contributions to the field within...
by William Cahalin | Sep 22, 2019 | News
By Office of Agricultural Communications and Marketing / Nov 7, 2017 10:02:27 AM Casey Whitaker (BS ag communications ’14) is communications manager for the Arlington, Virginia–based Animal Agriculture Alliance, an industry organization that helps bridge the...
by William Cahalin | Sep 22, 2019 | News
By Office of Agricultural Communications and Marketing / Nov 7, 2017 9:45:29 AM Sarah Frederick Henson, (BS animal sciences ’05) released her debut novel, “Devils Within,” in October. She is an attorney who recently joined the firm of Grace, Matthews and Debro LLC in...
by Jamie Creamer | Sep 5, 2019 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alumni Stories, E.T. York Lecturer Series, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Feature, Horticulture, Poultry Science, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
The Auburn University College of Agriculture’s E.T. York Distinguished Lecturer Series will present U.S. Department of Agriculture Deputy Undersecretary Scott Hutchins as the Fall 2019 York Lecturer Thursday, Sept. 26, in Auburn. In the lecture, set for 4 p.m. in the...
