by William Cahalin | Apr 29, 2014 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.—The Auburn University Office of Sustainability recently announced its 2014 Spirit of Sustainability Award recipients, naming several individuals affiliated with the College of Agriculture as recipients. Bill Walton and researchers from the Auburn...
by William Cahalin | Apr 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
4/23/2014 AUBURN, Ala.—The Market at Ag Heritage Park, Auburn University’s open-air farmers market, will open its 2014 season Thursday, May 8, at 3 p.m. and will continue every Thursday, from 3 to 6 p.m., through Aug. 21. The market is located near the intersection of...
by William Cahalin | Apr 18, 2014 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Animal Sciences, Biosystems Engineering, COA Communications, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology, 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 newly established alumni awards program. The honors, formally presented Friday, April 18,...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Apr 15, 2014 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
by JAMIE CREAMER A College of Agriculture agronomist who established a research plot on the Auburn University campus eight years ago to evaluate medicinal plants as high-value alternative crops for Alabama growers has converted the verdant patch into a teaching and...
by William Cahalin | Apr 15, 2014 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
AUBURN, Ala. —Sara Geonczy, a senior majoring in environmental science, feels lucky to have had the opportunity to attend Auburn University. Geonczy, who is a first-generation American citizen as well as a first-generation college student, will graduate in May, just...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Apr 14, 2014 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Inland Shrimp Farm Owner/Manager Offers Recipe, Cooking Tips Shrimp is frequently what’s for dinner in David and Nadine Teichert-Coddington’s Greene County home, and that isn’t surprising, considering they have 20 ponds filled with thousands of Pacific whites right in...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Apr 13, 2014 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON The first time Alan Wilson looked through a microscope at a drop of pond water, he was fascinated by all the things moving around in it. Still, he never imagined that one day he would make a living researching those microscopic organisms as an...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Apr 11, 2014 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Biosystems Engineering
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON In a nondescript building on the Auburn University campus, an Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station researcher is transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary in a study that could have huge implications here at home and around the...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Apr 10, 2014 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Poultry Science
Auburn scientists use laying hens to study uterine fibroids by JAMIE CREAMER An estimated 70 percent of women in the U.S. develop fibroid tumors in the uterus by age 50, and while the noncancerous tumors cause no symptoms for the majority of those women, they make...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Apr 5, 2014 | Animal Sciences
Animal Sciences senior promotes platform of respect as reigning rodeo queen by MARY CATHERINE GASTON Lauren Terry was a toddler when she first rode a horse. She remembers falling off a pony when she was a little girl. Her dad told her to get back in the saddle and...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Apr 3, 2014 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Animal Sciences
by NATHAN KELLY and JAMIE CREAMER A simple, economical tool that could be used to detect and identify harmful bacteria on food products in minutes instead of days and could significantly reduce the incidence of foodborne illnesses in the U.S. and beyond is in the...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Apr 1, 2014 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Former fisheries faculty practices what he preached raising inland shrimp by JAMIE CREAMER About this time every year, David Teichert-Coddington packs his bag, loads his trailer and hits the road, bound for the Florida Keys. If he were going for a few weeks of R &...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Mar 29, 2014 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Auburn Fisheries Pioneer Explains Why Alabama Agriculture Can’t Catch Up by JAMIE CREAMER Sisyphus was a cruel, conniving mythological king of Corinth whose ultimate punishment was an eternity in Hades, pushing a large boulder up a hill, watching it roll back down as...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Mar 25, 2014 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
Professionals in the turfgrass industry can earn a master’s degree in turfgrass management completely online in the newest distance education degree program available through the College of Agriculture’s Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences. The...
by William Cahalin | Mar 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
AUBURN, Ala.—A weeklong on-campus celebration aimed at raising awareness of and appreciation for agriculture is set for March 24-29 during the Auburn University College of Agriculture’s Ag Week 2014. This year’s Ag Week will feature a variety of special activities...
by William Cahalin | Mar 4, 2014 | Entomology & Plant Pathology
AUBURN, Ala.—Nannan Liu, Auburn University professor of entomology and internationally recognized insect molecular toxicologist, has been elected by her colleagues to a three-year term as chair of the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology in the College of...
by William Cahalin | Feb 26, 2014 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Biosystems Engineering
AUBURN, Ala.—Sushil Adhikari, an Auburn University biosystems engineering associate professor and Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station scientist, is conducting research with the potential to impact the state’s economy dramatically. Through a process known as...
by William Cahalin | Feb 24, 2014 | Biosystems Engineering
AUBURN, Ala.—John Fulton, a professor in the Auburn University Department of Biosystems Engineering and specialist with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, has been awarded the Alabama Farmers Federation Agriculture Professorship, College of Agriculture Dean...
by William Cahalin | Dec 22, 2013 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.—The Alabama Commission on Higher Education has approved an online master of turfgrass management program for Auburn University’s College of Agriculture. The program is designed for working professionals and offers 100 percent of its curriculum online. The...
by William Cahalin | Dec 18, 2013 | Entomology & Plant Pathology, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.—A team of Auburn University College of Agriculture researchers studying the development of biofilm formed in aquaculture settings by the highly contagious fish pathogen Flavobacterium columnare has taken the first-ever microscopic image of the biofilm—a...
by William Cahalin | Dec 18, 2013 | Entomology & Plant Pathology
AUBURN, Ala.—Auburn University professor, department chair and researcher Arthur Appel has been named interim associate dean for research in the College of Agriculture and interim assistant director of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, effective Jan. 1,...
