by Mary Catherine Gaston | Jan 8, 2015 | Entomology & Plant Pathology
by JAMIE CREAMER House flies are much more than mere nuisances. In adult form, they carry and transmit more than 100 serious human and animal diseases, including salmonellosis, anthrax, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, cholera and diarrhea. They also spread pinworms,...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Jan 7, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
by JAMIE CREAMER Auburn University plant breeder Edzard van Santen is using a $402,500 competitive grant from USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop an improved variety of a non-bloating forage legume that could help beef producers across...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Jan 6, 2015 | Horticulture
Auburn University professor Dave Williams has been selected as head of the Department of Horticulture, effective Feb. 1, Dean and Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station Director Bill Batchelor has announced. “Dr. Williams brings to this position extensive experience...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Dec 3, 2014 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Animal Sciences, Biosystems Engineering, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Horticulture, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.— Dr. Bill Batchelor, Dean of the College of Agriculture and Director of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, announced recipients of the 2014 college and experiment station faculty and staff awards during a reception Tuesday, December 2 at the...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Dec 2, 2014 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Biosystems Engineering
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON video by NATHAN KELLY What do the U.S. Department of Defense, arts and crafts tycoon Martha Stewart and College of Agriculture researcher David Blersch have in common? All three are embracing a new technology known as 3D printing to advance...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Dec 1, 2014 | Entomology & Plant Pathology
by JAMIE CREAMER It’s a safe bet that no one has ever called Cuba native Rodrigo Rodriguez-Kabana a conformist. That’s not in his DNA. From an early age, he was a threat to orchestrate mischief and flirt like crazy with danger. And who knows what might have become of...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Dec 1, 2014 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Biosystems Engineering
AUBURN, Ala.— Sushil Adhikari, an associate professor in the Department of Biosystems Engineering and an Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station (AAES) researcher, has been recognized by Thomson Reuters as one of the world’s most influential minds. In a report titled...
