by Paul Hollis | Feb 15, 2016 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Horticulture
Auburn University’s College of Agriculture is working across state lines with other land-grant institutions to help increase fruit tree production in the U.S.Nearly 30 land-grant institutions, representative of the Western, North-Central, Southern and Northeastern...
by Jamie Creamer | Feb 9, 2016 | Horticulture
Auburn Department of Horticulture faculty members Jay Spiers and Joseph Kemble received recognition for outstanding contributions to the horticulture industry during the 2016 annual meeting of the American Society for Horticultural Science’s Southern Region in San...
by Jamie Creamer | Feb 5, 2016 | Biosystems Engineering, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Poultry Science
Four College of Agriculture faculty members were awarded prestigious honors during Auburn University’s 2015-16 Faculty Awards ceremony Feb. 2. Wallace Berry, associate professor in the Department of Poultry Science, received the Alumni Undergraduate Teaching...
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by Jamie Creamer | Feb 5, 2016 | Ag Land & Resource Management, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, COA Administration, Development, Poultry Science
AUBURN, Ala.—A new, state-of-the-art poultry science research and education complex to be constructed on the north campus of Auburn University over the next two years will be named in honor of a forward-thinking poultry industry pioneer, thanks to an Atlanta, Georgia,...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Feb 1, 2016 | Animal Sciences
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON For poultry science senior John Allen Nichols, a trip to China this summer will be a first. While it won’t be the first time the Trussville native has traveled internationally, it will be his first as an ambassador. As president of the Auburn...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Feb 1, 2016 | Animal Sciences, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
by JAMIE CREAMER Two things made Danielle Tadych’s graduation from Auburn University in December over-the-top special. First, she graduated alongside Chris, her year-older brother and near-constant companion for the past 21 years. Even before he cleared the stage with...
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by Josh Woods | Jan 29, 2016 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Entomology & Plant Pathology
by MAGGIE LAWRENCE AUBURN, Ala.—Public health officials are working to contain an outbreak of Zika virus across Central and South America. But scientists at Auburn University do not believe that the United States will face the disease in the numbers appearing in...
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by Paul Hollis | Jan 21, 2016 | COA Administration, COA Communications, Poultry Science
by PAUL HOLLISThe College of Agriculture’s food science program will get a major boost this fall when it changes from an option in poultry science to a full-fledged bachelor of science degree.The new interdisciplinary degree program, approved by Auburn’s Board of...
by Jamie Creamer | Jan 11, 2016 | Biosystems Engineering
An award-winning essay by Auburn University biosystems engineering senior Ann Nunnelly appears in the January/February issue of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineer’s publication, Resource. Nunnelly’s essay, “Sustainability as an issue of...
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by Jamie Creamer | Jan 11, 2016 | AAES Administration, COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
Auburn University plant breeder David Weaver was presented the U.S. cotton industry’s 2015 Cotton Genetics Research Award Jan. 7 at the 2016 Beltwide Cotton Improvement Conference in New Orleans. Weaver, professor in the Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental...
by Jamie Creamer | Jan 4, 2016 | AAES Administration, COA Administration
Ten accomplished professionals who hold degrees from Auburn University’s College of Agriculture have been selected as recipients of the college’s 2016 Outstanding Alumni Awards. The awards will be presented in a ceremony Wednesday, Feb. 3, at the Auburn Alumni Center....
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by Jamie Creamer | Jan 4, 2016 | AAES Administration, Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Animal Sciences, Biosystems Engineering, COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Horticulture, Poultry Science, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
The Auburn University Agricultural Alumni Association will honor five individuals who have made significant contributions to the state’s agricultural industry during the 2016 Alabama Agriculture Hall of Honor banquet, set for Thursday, Feb. 4, at the Auburn Marriott...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Jan 4, 2016 | Horticulture
by NATHAN KELLY and MARY CATHERINE GASTON Visit the campus of Fayetteville High School in Talladega County, and what you find may surprise you. Far from the typical public K-12 campus, Fayetteville’s grounds are a real-life wonderland designed to extend learning...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Dec 31, 2015 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
His dad helped revolutionize the way we farm fish. Now this fisheries grad spends his days ensuring folks can catch them. by MARY CATHERINE GASTON If you’ve ever crossed paths with Graves Lovell, chances are you remember him. It’s fairly likely he’s the only...
by Paul Hollis | Dec 16, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Biosystems Engineering, COA Administration, COA Communications, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
AUBURN, Ala. —Auburn University College of Agriculture and Alabama Extension professionals will host a precision agriculture workshop in Auburn Thursday, Jan. 28, at the Auburn University Hotel and Dixon Conference Center. Cutting-edge precision agriculture...
by Jamie Creamer | Dec 10, 2015 | COA Administration
Amanda Martin, student recruitment and alumni relations coordinator for the College of Agriculture at Auburn University, has received the 2015 Early Career Achievement Award from Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s College of Agricultural Sciences and its...
by Jamie Creamer | Nov 30, 2015 | AAES Administration, Ag Land & Resource Management, Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Animal Sciences, Biosystems Engineering, COA Administration, COA Communications, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Development, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Horticulture, Poultry Science, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
The Auburn University College of Agriculture and Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station have announced their 2015 Faculty and Staff Award recipients, all of whom will be formally honored in a college/AAES awards ceremony in February. Individual 2015 faculty awards...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Nov 30, 2015 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Horticulture, Poultry Science
by JAMIE CREAMER Auburn University’s Board of Trustees approved three significant agriculture-related items at it Nov. 20 meeting, one of which will dramatically transform Auburn’s Ag Hill in the next few years. In a unanimous vote, the board gave the go-ahead to a...
by Jamie Creamer | Nov 30, 2015 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
Auburn soil science professor Charles Mitchell has been awarded the status of fellow in the American Society of Agronomy. Fellow is the organization’s highest honor and is presented for outstanding contributions to agronomy through education, research and national and...
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by Jamie Creamer | Nov 30, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Entomology & Plant Pathology, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Hisham Abdelrahman, a Ph.D. candidate under the direction of veteran School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences professor Claude Boyd, was the runner-up and also won the coveted People’s Choice Award during Auburn University’s Three-Minute Thesis, or 3MT,...
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by Jamie Creamer | Nov 30, 2015 | Poultry Science, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Two inventive College of Agriculture programs that are spurring significant economic growth and benefiting citizens throughout the state and region helped Auburn University win a national 2015 Innovation and Economic Prosperity University Award from the Association of...
