by Mary Catherine Gaston | Nov 26, 2014 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
AUBURN, Ala. – Auburn University professor, researcher and Extension specialist Dale Monks has been named director of research operations for outlying units of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Dean and Director Bill Batchelor has announced. The appointment...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Nov 24, 2014 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.— Auburn University College of Agriculture associate professor and Extension specialist Stephen Enloe, along with Nancy Loewenstein, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences research fellow, published a new study that reports significant progress in the...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Oct 30, 2014 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
Auburn turfgrass team keeps some of the South’s most famous grass in championship condition by MARY CATHERINE GASTON video by NATHAN KELLY This spring when the Auburn athletics grounds crew painted the route of Chris Davis’ famous Iron Bowl 2013 run on Pat Dye Field,...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Oct 30, 2014 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Bringing positive change keeps Auburn’s Boyd going and going by JAMIE CREAMER video by NATHAN KELLY Auburn University professor Claude Boyd is retiring. Eventually. Just as soon as his final graduate student—the last of more than 115 master’s and doctoral students he...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Sep 26, 2014 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Poultry Science
The College of Agriculture has welcomed six new faculty members for fall semester 2014. Thorsten Knappenberger, most recently a postdoctoral researcher at Washington State University, has joined the crop, soil and environmental sciences department as assistant...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Sep 25, 2014 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.—The Southeast Climate Extension project, a large-scale partnership of six universities across the Southeast, was recently awarded the National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s Partnership Award for Multistate Efforts. Brenda Ortiz, an associate...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Sep 18, 2014 | Entomology & Plant Pathology
This fall the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology welcomed four new faculty. Alana Jacobson joined the faculty as an insect ecologist\row crop entomologist. Dr. Jacobson comes to Auburn from Dr. George Kennedy’s lab at North Carolina State University....