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...
by Jamie Creamer | Apr 16, 2015 | Ag Land & Resource Management, Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Animal Sciences, COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Horticulture, Poultry Science, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.—The Market at Ag Heritage Park, Auburn University’s open-air farmers market, will open its 2015 season Thursday, May 14, at 3 p.m. and will continue every Thursday, from 3 to 6 p.m., through Aug. 27. The market is located near the intersection of South...
by Jamie Creamer | Apr 13, 2015 | COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
Dennis Shannon, a professor in Auburn University’s Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences, has been recognized by a national distance education coalition for his work in developing a multi-institutional, multidisciplinary online graduate degree program in...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Apr 9, 2015 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
May “Noe Noe” Lwin, a Ph.D. student in the Auburn University School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences and a native of Myanmar in Southeast Asia, was recently awarded the Schlumberger Foundation’s 2015-16 Faculty for the Future Fellowship. Now in its 10th...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Apr 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
The Auburn University College of Agriculture hosts its 10th annual Ag Week April 6-10. Throughout the week, a variety of activities with a state fair theme will highlight and celebrate agriculture and Auburn University’s agricultural heritage. Auburn University and...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Mar 31, 2015 | Poultry Science
story and video by NATHAN KELLY Reading a description of how an egg forms inside a chicken is one thing. Seeing it in 3-D is a completely different experience. That’s why the Auburn University Food Systems Institute is bringing the animal’s insides to life...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Mar 31, 2015 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
Associate professor’s passion for people and places drives food security work by MARY CATHERINE GASTON It sounds like the story line of a summer feel-good flick: A typical kid grows up in the suburbs of Detroit, finishes high school and enlists in the Navy. As a...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Mar 31, 2015 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Entomology & Plant Pathology
Office’s mission: raising global awareness in College of Ag by JAMIE CREAMER It was a simple PowerPoint slide welcoming Juliana Lima to the College of Agriculture at Auburn University as a visiting scholar. But when Lima, a Brazilian professor of aquaculture...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Mar 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
The College of Agriculture’s E.T. York Distinguished Lecturer Series, in conjunction with Auburn University’s Littleton-Franklin Lectures, will present Harvard Medical School professor and Nobel Prize recipient Jack Szostak delivering a lecture titled “The Origins of...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Mar 20, 2015 | Entomology & Plant Pathology
Two graduate students in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology recently took home awards at the recent meeting of the Southeastern Branch of the Entomological Society of America. Feng Liu, a Ph.D. student in Nannan Liu’s program, and Adekunle (Kunle)...
by Josh Woods | Mar 20, 2015 | Entomology & Plant Pathology
Dr. Nannan Liu, endowed professor and chair of the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, was recently published in the Annual Review of Entomology for her research on mosquito insecticide resistance. Her article, “Insecticide Resistance in Mosquitoes:...
by Josh Woods | Mar 20, 2015 | Animal Sciences
Alabama will host the seventh annual Deep South Stocker Conference Aug. 6-7 in Montgomery. The conference is targeting cattle producers in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi. Dr. Kim Mullenix, who is part of Alabama Extension’s beef cattle team, said that producers need...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Mar 18, 2015 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Two faculty members in the Auburn University College of Agriculture’s School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences have been named to recently established positions as assistant directors of the unit, effective March 1. Cova Arias, professor of aquatic...
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by Josh Woods | Mar 17, 2015 | Animal Sciences
The Alabama Beef Cattle Improvement Association named the 2014 recipient of the Outstanding Extension Educator at the 72nd Annual Alabama Cattleman’s Association Conference in Huntsville. Alabama BCIA recognized Soren Rodning, associate professor in the Auburn...
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by Josh Woods | Mar 17, 2015 | Animal Sciences
The Alabama Beef Cattle Improvement Foundation recently awarded a graduate fellowship and an undergraduate scholarship to two outstanding young people at the Alabama Beef Cattle Improvement Association 2015 Annual Meeting and Awards Program held in conjunction with...
