by Mary Catherine Gaston | Dec 2, 2014 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
AUBURN, Alabama–Registration for the Alabama Extension 2014 Corn and Wheat Short Course is now open. This year’s workshop is set for December 15-16 and will be held at The Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center. The conference will feature a...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Dec 2, 2014 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Biosystems Engineering
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON video by NATHAN KELLY What do the U.S. Department of Defense, arts and crafts tycoon Martha Stewart and College of Agriculture researcher David Blersch have in common? All three are embracing a new technology known as 3D printing to advance...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Dec 1, 2014 | Entomology & Plant Pathology
by JAMIE CREAMER It’s a safe bet that no one has ever called Cuba native Rodrigo Rodriguez-Kabana a conformist. That’s not in his DNA. From an early age, he was a threat to orchestrate mischief and flirt like crazy with danger. And who knows what might have become of...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Dec 1, 2014 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Biosystems Engineering
AUBURN, Ala.— Sushil Adhikari, an associate professor in the Department of Biosystems Engineering and an Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station (AAES) researcher, has been recognized by Thomson Reuters as one of the world’s most influential minds. In a report titled...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Dec 1, 2014 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON artwork by ASHLEY WISKIRCHEN If you’ve ever driven past the E.V. Smith Research Center near Tallassee on your way to an Auburn football game, you may have wondered what exactly the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station is. Made up of...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Nov 26, 2014 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
AUBURN, Ala. – Auburn University professor, researcher and Extension specialist Dale Monks has been named director of research operations for outlying units of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Dean and Director Bill Batchelor has announced. The appointment...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Nov 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
AUBURN, Ala.—The Auburn University Agricultural Alumni Association recently announced the 2015 inductees into the Alabama Agricultural Hall of Honor and the 2015 Pioneer Award recipients. The five will be recognized for their contributions to Alabama agriculture...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Nov 24, 2014 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.— Auburn University College of Agriculture associate professor and Extension specialist Stephen Enloe, along with Nancy Loewenstein, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences research fellow, published a new study that reports significant progress in the...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Nov 17, 2014 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
by NATHAN KELLY Auburn’s turfgrass management degree program, housed in the Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences, is one of the oldest and best in the nation. What sets the program apart? Find out in this short video featuring faculty members Dr....
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Nov 13, 2014 | Animal Sciences
by PAUL HARRIS AUBURN UNIVERSITY – Auburn University graduate Ashton Richardson has been named a recipient of the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, becoming one of only 40 students in the United States selected for the honor, which enables them to attend their choice...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Nov 10, 2014 | Animal Sciences
The Auburn University Collegiate Cattlemen and Cattlewomen will be taking orders for their annual holiday sausage box sale through Friday, Nov. 14. Each box contains three 1-pound packages of summer sausage, made by students at the AU Meats Lab, and a 1-pound wedge of...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Nov 7, 2014 | Animal Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.—A ribbon-cutting ceremony today at Auburn University’s new covered equestrian arena marked the official opening of the facility that is home to the three-time national champion Auburn equestrian team. Construction began on the $2 million arena in March...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Oct 30, 2014 | Biosystems Engineering, Poultry Science
by NATHAN KELLY artwork by ASHLEY WISKIRCHEN The National Poultry Technology Center was created seven years ago to help Alabama poultry growers operate more efficiently. Since 2007, its efforts have led to an annual impact to the state’s economy of almost $30...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Oct 30, 2014 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
Auburn turfgrass team keeps some of the South’s most famous grass in championship condition by MARY CATHERINE GASTON video by NATHAN KELLY This spring when the Auburn athletics grounds crew painted the route of Chris Davis’ famous Iron Bowl 2013 run on Pat Dye Field,...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Oct 30, 2014 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Bringing positive change keeps Auburn’s Boyd going and going by JAMIE CREAMER video by NATHAN KELLY Auburn University professor Claude Boyd is retiring. Eventually. Just as soon as his final graduate student—the last of more than 115 master’s and doctoral students he...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Oct 22, 2014 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
The following story appears in the 2014 Auburn-South Carolina edition of Tailgate Times, an app-based publication of the Auburn University Food Systems Institute. Tailgate Times is published prior to each Auburn home football game. Download the app here and read more...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Oct 21, 2014 | Animal Sciences
by WADE BERRY AUBURN UNIVERSITY – Auburn University graduate Ashton Richardson has been chosen as a finalist for the prestigious Marshall Scholarship. If awarded, Richardson will pursue a doctorate of philosophy in international development at Oxford University....
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Oct 3, 2014 | Poultry Science
CENTRE, Ala.—Young people in Alabama’s northeast corner now have a fast track to careers in poultry science, thanks to a partnership announced today between Auburn University and Gadsden State Community College. A new 2+2 program between the two schools will allow...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Oct 3, 2014 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
The following story appears in the 2014 Auburn-LSU edition of Tailgate Times, an app-based publication of the Auburn University Food Systems Institute. Tailgate Times is published prior to each Auburn home football game. Download the app here and read more stories...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Sep 26, 2014 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Poultry Science
The College of Agriculture has welcomed six new faculty members for fall semester 2014. Thorsten Knappenberger, most recently a postdoctoral researcher at Washington State University, has joined the crop, soil and environmental sciences department as assistant...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Sep 25, 2014 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.—The Southeast Climate Extension project, a large-scale partnership of six universities across the Southeast, was recently awarded the National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s Partnership Award for Multistate Efforts. Brenda Ortiz, an associate...