Fisheries Ph.D. student wins People's Choice in 3MT contest

by Jamie Creamer | Nov 30, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Entomology & Plant Pathology, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences

Hisham Abdelrahman, a Ph.D. candidate under the direction of veteran School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences professor Claude Boyd, was the runner-up and also won the coveted People’s Choice Award during Auburn University’s Three-Minute Thesis, or 3MT,...

Agriculture projects help Auburn earn national innovation award

by Jamie Creamer | Nov 30, 2015 | Poultry Science, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences

Two inventive College of Agriculture programs that are spurring significant economic growth and benefiting citizens throughout the state and region helped Auburn University win a national 2015 Innovation and Economic Prosperity University Award from the Association of...

Chen honored for work in International Peanut Genome Project

by Jamie Creamer | Sep 9, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences

Charles Chen, associate professor and peanut breeder in Auburn University’s Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences, has been recognized by the International Peanut Genome Initiative for his contributions to ongoing efforts to establish links between...

DeVries named fisheries society fellow

by Jamie Creamer | Sep 4, 2015 | Biosystems Engineering, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences

Dennis DeVries, professor in the School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences, has been inducted into the inaugural class of fellows of the American Fisheries Society. He received the honor in recognition of his outstanding contributions in leadership,...

Horticulture Club members fare well in competition

by Jamie Creamer | Aug 19, 2015 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Horticulture

Members of Auburn University’s Horticulture Club had strong showings in the collegiate-level plant identification and horticultural commodity judging competition held during the American Society for Horticultural Science’s annual conference in New Orleans earlier this...

Berry wins 2015 poultry science teaching award

by Jamie Creamer | Aug 6, 2015 | COA Administration, Poultry Science

Wallace Berry, associate professor in the Department of Poultry Science at Auburn, received the 2015 Novus International Inc. Teaching Award during the Poultry Science Association’s annual meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, in late July.The association established the...

Mullenix, husband runners-up in federation competition

by Jamie Creamer | Aug 4, 2015 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Animal Sciences

Kim Mullenix, assistant professor and Extension specialist in the Department of Animal Sciences at Auburn, and husband Daniel were named second runners-up in the Alabama Farmers Federation’s 2015 Excellence in Agriculture competition. Winners were announced during the...