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...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Aug 30, 2013 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
by JAMIE CREAMER The number of Americans who have jumped on the gluten-free bandwagon has soared in recent years, largely in response to a plethora of celebrity testimonials and magazine articles extolling the virtues of eliminating gluten—a protein found in wheat,...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Aug 29, 2013 | Poultry Science
by JAMIE CREAMER 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 plasma enzyme that could give breeders a noninvasive...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Aug 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
Spicy Chicken Dip Great for Game-Day Party For College of Agriculture student recruiter and alumni relations coordinator Amanda Martin, one of the best parts of football season is tailgating with friends, and her go-to tailgate recipe—Cheesy Buffalo Chicken Dip—is...
by William Cahalin | Aug 21, 2013 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.—Longtime Auburn University faculty member and administrator John Jensen has been named interim director of the newly renamed School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences, effective Sept. 1, College of Agriculture Dean Bill Batchelor has...
by William Cahalin | Aug 19, 2013 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
AUBURN, Ala.—The public can get an up-close look at agriculture in the 21st century Saturday, Sept. 28, when the Auburn University College of Agriculture, the Alabama Cooperative Extension System and the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station present the second...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Aug 17, 2013 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Two study abroad students highly recommend international tours by WENDY REED and JAMIE CREAMER Derrick Robinson has never been one to pass up a great opportunity, so when the Auburn University agricultural economics master’s student received an email announcement in...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Aug 14, 2013 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
Agronomy graduate’s club involvement, work ethic lead to job by NATHAN KELLY When Jordan and Melissa Toombs married in 2008, Toombs had one major goal: to get his new bride through her final two years of college. But for Toombs, accomplishing one goal means setting...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Aug 6, 2013 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Bill Walton, a former Cape Cod oyster farmer who since 2009 has been an Auburn University assistant professor of fisheries and Alabama Cooperative Extension System fisheries specialist at the Auburn Shellfish Lab on Dauphin Island, is one of seven individuals tapped...
by William Cahalin | Jul 24, 2013 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.—The Auburn University College of Agriculture’s Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures is now the School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences within the College of Ag. The university’s Board of Trustees designated fisheries and three...
by William Cahalin | Jul 18, 2013 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.—The Auburn University Department of Agronomy and Soils has a new name, and a 1979 alumnus of the program is returning to head what is now the Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences, College of Agriculture Dean Bill Batchelor has announced....
by William Cahalin | Jun 26, 2013 | Animal Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.—The Auburn University Department of Animal Sciences will host its 2013 Beef Cattle Conference in Auburn Friday-Saturday, Aug. 16-17, at the College of Veterinary Medicine’s Overton/Goodwin Student Center and other campus facilities. The conference,...
by William Cahalin | Jun 19, 2013 | Poultry Science
AUBURN, Ala.—Alabama’s most profitable agricultural industry is the focus of a new 2+2 educational partnership between Auburn University and Wallace State Community College in Hanceville. The partnership is designed to open more career doors in a part of the state...
by William Cahalin | Jun 18, 2013 | Biosystems Engineering
AUBURN, Ala.—Puneet Srivastava, a biosystems engineering associate professor and Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station researcher at Auburn University, has been awarded a highly competitive, $285,000 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to...
by William Cahalin | Jun 7, 2013 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
AUBURN, Ala.—Deacue Fields, an agricultural economist who has served on the Auburn University faculty for 11 years, has been named to a three-year term as chair of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, effective Aug. 16. Fields was hired at...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Jun 4, 2013 | Horticulture
Passion for students earns horticulture’s Eakes honors by JAMIE CREAMER “I believe in the human touch, which cultivates sympathy with my fellow men and mutual helpfulness and brings happiness for all.” —George Petrie Joe Eakes is not an easy A. In fact, the Auburn...
by William Cahalin | Jun 3, 2013 | Entomology & Plant Pathology
AUBURN, Ala.—The first thing that Zach DeVries does when he opens the door to a new hotel room is to put his luggage in the bathtub. “I’m not being paranoid,” DeVries said. “I’m being cautious.” It is a caution borne of insight that DeVries has acquired over the past...
