by Josh Woods | Jan 9, 2019 | Entomology & Plant Pathology, News
By Joshua Woods / Jan 9, 2019 4:35:48 PM News The National Academy of Inventors, or NAI, has named Joseph Kloepper, Alumni Professor of plant pathology in Auburn’s College of Agriculture, as one of its 2018 fellows. The 2018 fellows represent 125 research universities...
by Olivia Wilkes | Jan 9, 2019 | Feature, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
By Olivia Wilkes / Jan 9, 2019 4:25:46 PM Feature For months now, an Auburn University research team has been keeping close tabs on roughly 250 tagged paddlefish and smallmouth buffalo in the Alabama River in an effort to learn more about how lock-and-dam systems on a...
by William Cahalin | Jan 2, 2019 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alumni Stories
John Canfield is a Ph.D. student in the Sociology program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2019, he received his M.S. in Rural Sociology at Auburn University, where his research focused on the financialization of farmland in rural Illinois. His advisor was...
by William Cahalin | Jan 1, 2019 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alumni Stories
Jennie Hargrove is a Youth Program Specialist with the Iowa 4-H Youth Development Program. In her role, she provides program, volunteer, and professional supports to seven county 4-H programs in south central Iowa. Jennie completed her B.S. in Family and Consumer...
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by Jamie Creamer | Dec 13, 2018 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Entomology & Plant Pathology
The National Academy of Inventors, or NAI, has named Joseph Kloepper, Alumni Professor of plant pathology in Auburn’s College of Agriculture, as one of its 2018 fellows. The 2018 fellows represent 125 research universities and governmental and nonprofit research...
by Jamie Creamer | Dec 6, 2018 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Animal Sciences, Biosystems Engineering, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Poultry Science, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Nineteen Auburn College of Agriculture and Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station faculty who collectively secured more than $11.8 million in research funding in the past fiscal year were among the 32 honorees in the college’s 2018 faculty and staff awards program in...
by Jamie Creamer | Dec 4, 2018 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Horticulture, Invasive Species, Lawn & Garden, News, Research
A team of university scientists from across the U.S. is waging a nationwide offensive against a dastardly weed that the turfgrass industry in Alabama and beyond deems Enemy No. 1. The villain is Poa annua, or annual bluegrass, and Auburn weed scientist Scott McElroy...
by Margaret Smith | Dec 4, 2018 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, News, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
By Maggie Smith / Dec 4, 2018 2:24:14 PM News An Auburn University associate professor and a department chair soon to join the Auburn family were honored in November by the USDA’s Association of Public and Land-grant Universities’ annual meeting in New Orleans....
by Jamie Creamer | Dec 3, 2018 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Feature, Student Spotlight
By Jamie Creamer / Dec 3, 2018 5:31:00 PM Feature 2019 already is shaping up to be a super year for Wilson Morgan — a super year that starts with a trip to the Super Bowl. That’s the Auburn University junior’s grand prize for submitting the winning application and...
by Olivia Wilkes | Dec 3, 2018 | Global Programs, News, Research
By Olivia Wilkes / Dec 3, 2018 3:51:01 PM News The College of Agriculture held its inaugural “ThanksforGiving to AU research” breakfast on Nov. 20 to recognize visiting scholars and postdoctoral researchers and their contributions to the college. The college’s Office...
by Olivia Wilkes | Nov 6, 2018 | Animal Sciences, Feature, Student Spotlight
By Olivia Wilkes / Nov 6, 2018 4:44:42 PM Feature The hum of wet/dry vacuums mingles with pig grunts and squeals as Auburn University animal sciences pre-veterinarian junior Maegan Reeves approaches the pen of a curly-haired Mangalitsa pig and sticks a vacuum hose...
by Margaret Smith | Nov 6, 2018 | Animal Sciences, News
By Maggie Smith / Nov 6, 2018 2:21:34 PM News Auburn University’s College of Agriculture and College of Veterinary Medicine are offering two educational programs for horse enthusiasts Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018. Horse Course, through the College of Veterinary Medicine, is...
by Margaret Smith | Oct 30, 2018 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, News
By Maggie Smith / Oct 30, 2018 4:43:48 PM News Zhaohu Li, an Auburn University College of Agriculture alumnus, has been named president of Huazhong Agricultural University, one of the top agricultural universities in China. The institution is located in Wuhan, the...
by Jamie Creamer | Oct 30, 2018 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, News, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Dennis DeVries and Rex Dunham, both professors in the College of Agriculture’s School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences, are among the Auburn University faculty members campuswide who have received prestigious honors as part of Auburn’s 2018 Faculty...
by Margaret Smith | Oct 29, 2018 | News, Research, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
By Maggie Smith / Oct 29, 2018 4:23:50 PM News Auburn University aquatic ecologist Alan Wilson and a team of biological, molecular and environmental scientists from three other U.S. institutions are taking on toxic cyanobacteria, also called blue-green algae or pond...
by Jamie Creamer | Oct 24, 2018 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, News, Poultry Science, Research
Auburn University’s Board of Trustees has cleared the way for completion of the multi-unit Charles C. Miller Jr. Poultry Research and Education Center on the north Auburn campus, beginning with construction of an 18,800-square-foot poultry processing plant on the...
by Paul Hollis | Oct 16, 2018 | Biosystems Engineering, Feature, Research
By Paul Hollis / Oct 16, 2018 2:09:04 PM Feature Auburn University researchers are leading a $2 million U.S. Department of Energy project that promises to improve fuel efficiency and economy. The project will create a bio-based fuel additive that can be blended with...
by Margaret Smith | Oct 2, 2018 | E.T. York Lecturer Series, News
By Maggie Smith / Oct 2, 2018 2:28:13 PM News A University of California, Berkeley, economist will discuss the risks versus the benefits of genetically modifying foods and crops when he presents the Fall 2018 E.T. York Distinguished Lecture Monday, Oct. 22, at 4 p.m....
by Margaret Smith | Oct 2, 2018 | News, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
By Maggie Smith / Oct 2, 2018 2:24:41 PM News Auburn University’s School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Business Institute will host a commercial aquaponics workshop Tuesday-Thursday, Oct. 23-25, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day, at...
by Josh Woods | Oct 1, 2018 | Feature, Horticulture, Outreach
By Karen Hunley / Oct 1, 2018 3:36:28 PM Feature The College of Agriculture’s Department of Horticulture is giving back to the community by helping educate Opelika elementary students on gardening practices and at the same time addressing food insecurity in...
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by Jamie Creamer | Sep 25, 2018 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
Joshua Duke, currently professor of applied economics and statistics at the University of Delaware, will join the Auburn University College of Agriculture on March 1, 2019, as Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology chair and professor. College of...
