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 &...
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 | 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 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...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | May 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
Williams, AU Equestrian claim third national championship by NATHAN KELLY Nobody would have blamed Auburn University equestrian head coach Greg Williams if he had spent some time celebrating his team’s 2012-13 season. Instead, less than a month after leading the...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | May 15, 2013 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Years of floundering led grad student to fisheries by JAMIE CREAMER Some people are born knowing what they want to be when they grow up. Mollie Smith was not one of them. She had no clear vision of her future when she enrolled at Auburn University as a freshman in...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | May 7, 2013 | Entomology & Plant Pathology, Horticulture
by WENDY REED A gift of more than half a million dollars from the estate of an Auburn horticulture alumnus and his wife has fully funded an endowed professorship in the Department of Horticulture and strengthened a scholarship fund for Auburn horticulture students....