by Jamie Creamer | Jun 3, 2015 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology
AUBURN, Ala.—Less than six months after the U.S. announced plans to restore diplomatic and economic ties with Cuba, the Auburn University College of Agriculture has entered a historic partnership with the Agrarian University of Havana and the Cuban National Center for...
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by Jamie Creamer | Jun 2, 2015 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
By Jamie Creamer It was lunchtime in Nepal, and for that, David Rouse is most thankful. He tries not to dwell on the what-ifs. Because what if he, fellow Auburn University fisheries expert Dave Cline and their companions had not stopped for a lunch break at the small...
by Jamie Creamer | Jun 2, 2015 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
story and video by NATHAN KELLY Brady Peek graduated from Auburn University at 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 9. At 5 a.m. on Monday, May 11, he became a full-time farmer. The new agronomy and soils graduate’s farming operation is in the Limestone County community of...
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by Jamie Creamer | Jun 1, 2015 | Biosystems Engineering, COA Administration
AUBURN, Ala.—Auburn University’s Department of Biosystems Engineering has been selected to receive the 2015 University Senate Departmental Award for Excellence in Education, an honor that carries with it a $30,000 grant that will be administered in three yearly...
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by Jamie Creamer | May 27, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology
AUBURN, Ala.—Leonardo De La Fuente, associate professor in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at Auburn University, is one of two recipients of the 2015-16 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship. He...
by Ashley Wiskirchen | May 12, 2015 | Poultry Science
IN MEMORY OF DR. ROBERT N. BREWER The Alabama poultry industry and the Auburn Department of Poultry Science have lost a true pioneer and visionary. Dr. Bob Brewer, Professor and Department Head Emeritus, passed away May 10, 2015. Brewer joined the department in 1969...
by Josh Woods | May 12, 2015 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
Elizabeth Guertal, a professor in turfgrass and nutrient management, received a merit award from the Turf and Ornamental Communicators Association last week for her column series, Verdure. Her column appears monthly in Golf Course Management magazine. Guertal’s was...
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by Josh Woods | May 7, 2015 | Animal Sciences
by NATHAN KELLY One of the best kept secrets of summer barbecues in Auburn is at the corner of Wire Road and Shug Jordan Parkway: the Auburn University Lambert-Powell Meats Laboratory. For students majoring in animal sciences, the meats lab is a place to learn,...
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by Jamie Creamer | May 6, 2015 | Biosystems Engineering
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON Growing up in India’s water-scarce environment, Auburn University biosystems engineering professor Puneet Srivastava understood from an early age the importance of clean water. It was his graduate school experience studying ecosystems,...
by Jamie Creamer | May 6, 2015 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
by JAMIE CREAMER What began in 2006 as a small-scale study to determine whether medicinal herbs had potential as a profitable alternative crop for Alabama growers is now a 4,200-square-foot garden boasting more than 60 species and varieties of plants that humans...
by Jamie Creamer | May 6, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Entomology & Plant Pathology
Jeff Coleman, a mycologist in Auburn University’s Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, has been awarded a $268,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to identify and study the genes within two species of fungi that can cause potentially deadly...
by Jamie Creamer | Apr 29, 2015 | COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
The Auburn University Soil Judging Team is No. 1 in the country after besting 21 other teams from universities across the country during the American Society of Agronomy’s 2015 National Collegiate Soils Contest April 18-24 at the University of Arkansas at Monticello....
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by Josh Woods | Apr 23, 2015 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Dennis DeVries, a professor in the School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences, was honored with one of the 2015 Spirit of Sustainability Awards April 22. The Auburn University Spirit of Sustainability Awards program began in 2013 to recognize Auburn...
by Ashley Wiskirchen | Apr 22, 2015 | Poultry Science
The product development team of food science students Emma Williams, Corena Newton, Avery Smith and Geraldine Santos-Norris won first place April 21 in the product development competition sponsored by the South Eastern Section of the Institute of Food Technologists....
by Jamie Creamer | Apr 21, 2015 | COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Two College of Agriculture faculty members are among the five individuals and two groups selected as recipients of Auburn’s 2015 Spirit of Sustainability Awards. The awards will be presented in a ceremony Wednesday, April 22, at 3:30 p.m. at Ag Heritage Park’s Farmers...
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by Jamie Creamer | Apr 21, 2015 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, COA Administration
AUBURN, Ala.—The USDA’s Agriculture and Food Research Institute has awarded a team of researchers from Auburn and Tuskegee universities a $500,000 grant to study heir property and its impact on land loss in rural African-American communities in the South.Conner...
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by Jamie Creamer | Apr 21, 2015 | Ag Land & Resource Management, COA Administration, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.—Joseph R. Tomasso Jr., currently a professor in the Department of Biology at Texas State University in San Marcos, has been named director of the School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences in Auburn University’s College of Agriculture,...
by Josh Woods | Apr 19, 2015 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
Dr. Raymond A. Hoyum of Alpharetta, Ga., was honored as the Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Science’s 2015 Alumnus of the Year at a ceremony April 16. Hoyum is a two-time graduate of the department, earning M.S. in agronomy in 1973 and his Ph.D. in agronomy...
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by Josh Woods | Apr 17, 2015 | Entomology & Plant Pathology
Dr. Walter F. Mahaffee was honored as the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology 2015 Alumnus of the Year at a ceremony April 16. Mahaffee is a three-time graduate of Auburn University, earning his B.S. in microbiology in 1988 and his M.S. and Ph.D. in plant...
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by Jamie Creamer | Apr 17, 2015 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, COA Administration, COA Communications, Horticulture, Poultry Science, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.—Nine successful and influential professionals who hold degrees from Auburn University’s College of Agriculture have been selected as winners in the college’s 2015 alumni awards program. The honors, formally presented in a ceremony Thursday, April 16,...
by Josh Woods | Apr 16, 2015 | Poultry Science
Kate Meloche, a graduate student in poultry science, was recently presented with the fall 2014 Elanco Graduate Seminar Scholar Award for her presentation “Wooden breast: A novel myopathy of the Pectoralis major in broiler chickens.” The Elanco Graduate Seminar Scholar...
