by Laura Cauthen | Apr 23, 2018 | News, The Market
The Market at Ag Heritage Park will kick off its 14th season on the Auburn University campus Thursday, May 3, at 3 p.m. and will continue every Thursday, 3-6 p.m., through Aug. 30. Sponsored by Auburn’s College of Agriculture, the outdoor farmers market is located...
by Laura Cauthen | Apr 23, 2018 | News
The second-ranked Auburn Tigers bested No. 1 Georgia 10-5 to claim the championship trophy at the 2018 National Collegiate Equestrian Association competition in Waco, Texas, last month. The victory was Auburn equestrian’s second national championship in three years...
by Olivia Wilkes | Apr 22, 2018 | AL Cooperative Extension, Fruits & Nuts, Horticulture, News, Research
In a move aimed at advancing and promoting Alabama’s berry and grape industries, Auburn University has joined the multistate Southern Region Small Fruit Consortium, a collaborative initiative that brings together producers, researchers and extension specialists to...
by Laura Cauthen | Apr 11, 2018 | News
Auburn University Provost Bill Hardgrave’s recent announcement of faculty across campus who have been awarded promotion or promotion with tenure for 2018 includes five faculty members in the College of Agriculture. Attaining the status of full professor are Christy...
by Laura Cauthen | Apr 9, 2018 | Entomology & Plant Pathology, News
Geoffrey Williams, Auburn University assistant professor of insect pollination and apiculture, has been awarded a $283,000 grant from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research’s Pollinator Health Fund for research aimed toward helping reverse the decline in...
by Laura Cauthen | Apr 3, 2018 | News
By Laura Cauthen / Apr 3, 2018 12:28:56 PM Ten College of Agriculture students graduating in May are the 2018 recipients of the college’s highest awards for undergraduates. The awards are presented based on the students’ achievements in academics, leadership and...
by Laura Cauthen | Apr 3, 2018 | College of Agriculture, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
By Laura Cauthen / Apr 3, 2018 12:22:59 PM Auburn University President Steven Leath has tapped Beth Guertal, professor in the Department of Crop, Soils and Environmental Sciences, to lead a strategic planning process that will bring 500 new tenure-track faculty in the...
by Laura Cauthen | Apr 2, 2018 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
By Laura Cauthen / Apr 2, 2018 1:57:56 PM The Alabama Beef Cattle Improvement Association, or BCIA, has named Auburn University’s Gulf Coast Research and Extension Center in Fairhope its 2017 Commercial Producer of the Year. The award, presented to center director...
by Laura Cauthen | Apr 2, 2018 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Research
By Laura Cauthen / Apr 2, 2018 11:11:04 AM News Longleaf pine ecosystems may be the key to creating more drought-resilient forests, according to a study that Lisa Samuelson, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station researcher and Alumni Professor in Auburn’s School of...
by Laura Cauthen | Apr 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
By Laura Cauthen / Apr 2, 2018 10:17:25 AM Students tour Alabama agriculture from the mountains to the sea Twenty-eight students from Auburn’s College of Agriculture spent their spring break 2018 on a tour of the state’s diverse farming and farming-related operations....
by Laura Cauthen | Mar 29, 2018 | Alumni Stories
By Laura Cauthen / Mar 29, 2018 2:37:37 PM News Auburn University’s College of Agriculture is celebrating nine of its graduates from as far back as 1966 to as recently as 2005 as its 2018 Alumni Award winners. The honorees include eight successful professionals...
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by Jamie Creamer | Mar 6, 2018 | Biosystems Engineering, Feature, Horticulture, Poultry Science, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
College of Agriculture faculty members claimed the lion’s share of recognition during Auburn University’s 2018 Faculty Awards Dinner in late February. The ceremony formally honored all Auburn faculty who received the university’s highest awards in the 2017-18 academic...
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by Jamie Creamer | Mar 6, 2018 | Horticulture
A formal agreement that top Auburn University, College of Agriculture and Snead State Community College administrators have signed guarantees Snead State students who meet Auburn’s transfer-student admission requirements acceptance into the agricultural science...
by William Cahalin | Mar 6, 2018 | News
By Laura Cauthen / Mar 6, 2018 4:42:55 PM News Christy Bratcher, associate professor in the Department of Animal Sciences and director of the Auburn University Food Science Institute, has received the university’s Gerald and Emily Leischuck Endowed Presidential...
by Laura Cauthen | Mar 6, 2018 | News
College of Agriculture faculty members claimed the lion’s share of recognition during Auburn University’s 2018 Faculty Awards Dinner in late February. The ceremony formally honored all Auburn faculty who received the university’s highest awards in the 2017-18 academic...
by Laura Cauthen | Mar 5, 2018 | Animal Sciences, News
Auburn University animal scientist Don Mulvaney begs to differ with those who hold that leaders are born, not made. For him, the proof is in the pudding, and in his 35 years as a faculty member in the Department of Animal Sciences, he has amassed a world of proof....
by Laura Cauthen | Mar 5, 2018 | News
Auburn University entomologists have discovered and identified a tiny wasp that could provide a huge benefit to Alabama soybean producers and other farmers. Though only about the size of a pinhead, the newly detected parasitoid wasp, Ooencyrtus nezarae, can do plenty...
by Laura Cauthen | Mar 5, 2018 | Horticulture, News
A formal agreement that top Auburn University, College of Agriculture and Snead State Community College administrators have signed guarantees that Snead State students who meet Auburn’s transfer-student admission requirements are accepted into the agricultural science...
by Jamie Creamer | Feb 15, 2018 | News
By Jamie Creamer / Feb 15, 2018 11:05:14 AM Bill Maynard, left, GCSAA immediate past president, congratulates Auburn’s Team No. 37 on its first-place finish in the 2018 Collegiate Turf Bowl. With Maynard are, from left, team coach and Auburn associate professor...
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by Jamie Creamer | Feb 7, 2018 | COA Administration, Feature, Horticulture
AUBURN, Alabama—Desmond R. Layne, currently a horticulture professor and academic program director at Washington State University, has been named head of the Department of Horticulture at Auburn University following a nationwide search. He will assume the position...
by Laura Cauthen | Feb 6, 2018 | Auburn University Food Systems Institute, News
Current and aspiring culinary capitalists gained valuable insight on food safety, certification and business management during the Auburn University Food Systems Institute’s sixth annual Food Entrepreneur Conference in Auburn March 21-22. The institute is an Alabama...
