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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,...
by William Cahalin | Dec 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
AUBURN, Ala.—The Auburn University Agricultural Alumni Association will pay tribute to five individuals for the significant contributions they have made to the state’s agricultural industry during its 2014 Alabama Agricultural Hall of Honor banquet, set for Thursday,...
by William Cahalin | Dec 4, 2013 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Animal Sciences, Biosystems Engineering, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Poultry Science, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.—Fifteen Auburn University College of Agriculture/Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station scientists who collectively brought in more than $5.84 million in extramural research funding in 2013 were among the more than two dozen faculty and staff members...
by William Cahalin | Dec 4, 2013 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.—Paul Mask, a 31-year veteran of the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, has been named assistant director for agriculture, forestry and natural resources programs and assistant dean for Extension at Auburn University, effective, Jan. 1, 2014, College of...
by William Cahalin | Nov 10, 2013 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alumni Stories
Stefanie Christensen Francisco is the communications director for Conservation Alabama, a non-profit organization that lobbies the state legislature on behalf of our state’s natural resources. Previously, she worked in national news production at CNN, Politico, and...
by William Cahalin | Oct 18, 2013 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Poultry Science
AUBURN, Ala.—After more than a decade of research into an increasingly common and costly broiler condition known as green muscle disease, a team of poultry scientists at Auburn University has identified a blood enzyme that could give breeders a noninvasive tool to...
by William Cahalin | Oct 15, 2013 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Biosystems Engineering
AUBURN, Ala.—A wearable computer described as “a smartphone for your face” has the potential to help row-crop farmers operate more efficiently and profitably, two Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station researchers at Auburn University say. Greg Pate and John Fulton...
by William Cahalin | Oct 7, 2013 | Biosystems Engineering
AUBURN, Ala.—A two-week, tri-state road show highlighting the advances that a regional bioenergy research partnership in the Southeast has made in its first two years will wrap up Saturday, Oct. 12, in Auburn and will be set up at Ag Heritage Park from 9 a.m. to noon...
by William Cahalin | Sep 26, 2013 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.—An online master’s degree program in soil, water and environmental science at Auburn University has gained final approval and will officially launch spring semester 2014, giving working professionals in fields related to natural resource management the...
by William Cahalin | Sep 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
AUBURN, Ala.—Auburn University’s 2013 Fall Roundup and Taste of Alabama Agriculture is set for Homecoming Saturday, October 12, from 9 a.m. to noon at Ag Heritage Park. Activities will be set up on Ag Heritage Park’s south side, with the main entrance located at the...
by William Cahalin | Sep 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
AUBURN, Ala.—The Auburn University College of Agriculture will launch its 2013-14 E.T. York Distinguished Lecturer series Monday, Sept. 23, when Philip Martin of the University of California, Davis delivers the fall lecture, “Agriculture and Immigration: What’s Next?”...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Sep 6, 2013 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Entomology & Plant Pathology
by JAMIE CREAMER Two key research breakthroughs at Auburn University over the summer could prove valuable weapons in the frustrating battle against the rapidly spreading, crop-destroying kudzu bug, and both are in the form of native insects that prey on the invasive...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Sep 1, 2013 | Animal Sciences
Journeys abroad prompt Auburn animal sciences/pre-vet senior to change courses by WENDY REED Katie Brennan was on an island off the coast of Thailand when she started second guessing herself. For 16 of her 19 years, Brennan had been so sure of her future, never...
