by Jamie Creamer | Sep 2, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, COA Administration, Poultry Science
Auburn University poultry scientists Joe Giambrone and Ken Macklin are using funding from the U.S. egg industry to investigate how the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus, which has decimated poultry populations in the Midwest in the past nine months, spreads to...
by Jamie Creamer | Aug 31, 2015 | Ag Land & Resource Management, Animal Sciences, Biosystems Engineering, COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Development, Horticulture, Poultry Science, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Auburn University’s 2015 homecoming celebration and football game are set for Saturday, Oct. 3, and so is the 36th annual Fall Roundup and Taste of Alabama Agriculture. The latter will take place at Ag Heritage Park from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Auburn–San Jose State...
by Jamie Creamer | Aug 28, 2015 | COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
Innocent Okuku, a key player in a movement to bring about a “green revolution” in sub-Saharan Africa, will present a visiting scholar seminar at Auburn University Tuesday, Sept. 8, at 11:45 a.m.in Comer Hall, room 109. The presentation, “Global Food Security...
by Jamie Creamer | Aug 26, 2015 | AAES Administration, COA Administration, Entomology & Plant Pathology
A University of Oxford zoologist and international pheromone authority will explore the myths versus reality of pheromones in humans in a lecture Wednesday, Sept. 30, at 3:30 p.m. in Auburn University’s Rouse Hall, room 112.Sponsored by the College of Agriculture’s...
by Jamie Creamer | Aug 19, 2015 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Horticulture
Members of Auburn University’s Horticulture Club had strong showings in the collegiate-level plant identification and horticultural commodity judging competition held during the American Society for Horticultural Science’s annual conference in New Orleans earlier this...
by Jamie Creamer | Aug 6, 2015 | COA Administration, Poultry Science
Wallace Berry, associate professor in the Department of Poultry Science at Auburn, received the 2015 Novus International Inc. Teaching Award during the Poultry Science Association’s annual meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, in late July.The association established the...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Aug 5, 2015 | Poultry Science
by JAMIE CREAMER Auburn study zeroes in on salmonella in ground poultry If the two-year salmonella study that Auburn University poultry scientist Ken Macklin launched in January were a sentence, you’d need two sheets of notebook paper to diagram it. It’s that complex....
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Aug 5, 2015 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Animal Sciences, Biosystems Engineering, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Horticulture, Poultry Science, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON Credit card offers, utility bills, unsolicited coupons and catalogs. If this is what typically fills your mailbox, you may have become understandably unexcited about the routine trip to the end of the driveway or the local post office. But...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Aug 5, 2015 | Animal Sciences
interview by NATHAN KELLY and JADEN BROWN Horses are nothing new to Ellen Rankins, a senior in equine science from Cusseta, Alabama. In fact, she’s spent a healthy portion of her life around the beloved creatures. But the horses themselves are only a part of Rankins’...
by Jamie Creamer | Aug 4, 2015 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Animal Sciences
Kim Mullenix, assistant professor and Extension specialist in the Department of Animal Sciences at Auburn, and husband Daniel were named second runners-up in the Alabama Farmers Federation’s 2015 Excellence in Agriculture competition. Winners were announced during the...
by Jamie Creamer | Aug 3, 2015 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
Loka Ashwood, a rural sociologist who joined the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at Auburn in June as assistant professor, was lead author on an article that has been named the most outstanding to run in the scholarly journal Rural Sociology...
by Jamie Creamer | Jul 17, 2015 | Biosystems Engineering, COA Administration
Steve Taylor, professor and head of the Department of Biosystems Engineering and director of the Center for Bioenergy and Bioproducts at Auburn University, will receive the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers’ 2015 James R. and Karen A. Gilley...
by Jamie Creamer | Jul 10, 2015 | AAES Administration, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Biosystems Engineering, COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Puneet Srivastava, an ecological engineering professor in Auburn University’s Department of Biosystems Engineering and the Butler-Cunningham Eminent Scholar on Agriculture and the Environment in the College of Agriculture, has taken the reins of the interdisciplinary...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Jul 5, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Entomology & Plant Pathology
Auburn University professor, researcher, former department chair, interim associate dean for research and interim assistant director of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station (AAES) Arthur Appel has been named interim dean for College of Agriculture and interim...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Jul 5, 2015 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
story and video by NATHAN KELLY Food Bank Garden helps feed community The garden was founded almost a decade ago by Beth Guertal, a professor of agronomy. According to Zack Ogles, a Ph.D. student studying under Guertal, the garden’s purpose then—and now—is to feed the...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Jul 5, 2015 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON When she was asked to join some of the world’s best-known senior scientists as a presenter at the 2012 gathering of the World Aquaculture Society, Noe Noe Lwin stole the show. Then just 31 years old, the teacher-turned-entrepreneur captivated...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Jul 5, 2015 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
Ag alum chronicles father’s WWII journey in fascinating new book by JAMIE CREAMER Funny how you can live with someone your whole life and never really know the person. For Auburn College of Agriculture alum Mike Darnell (’79, agricultural business and economics), it...
by Josh Woods | Jun 16, 2015 | Animal Sciences
Auburn University’s Department of Animal Sciences will host the 2015 Beef Cattle Conference Saturday, Aug. 8, at Ham Wilson Livestock Arena and other campus facilities. This year’s one-day conference will follow the theme “Practical Concepts for the...
by Jamie Creamer | Jun 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
Amanda Martin, student recruiter and alumni relations coordinator in the College of Agriculture’s Office of Student Services, has been selected a 2015-16 recipient of the Janet and John Stone Award for Multicultural Understanding, Equality and Justice at Auburn...
by Jamie Creamer | Jun 10, 2015 | COA Administration, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Matt Womble, a master’s student in Auburn University’s School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences, has been named a 2016 Sea Grant John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellow and will spend next year in Washington, D.C., learning how science is translated into...
by Jamie Creamer | Jun 9, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.—Claude Boyd, veteran professor in Auburn University’s School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences, has a new book out. It is the eighth that the internationally recognized aquatic scientist and water-quality expert has authored, co-authored or...