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....
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Sep 18, 2014 | Animal Sciences
AUBURN, Ala. —An Auburn University Department of Animal Sciences faculty member and a veterinarian who is an alumnus of the department are among 40 young men and women from across the U.S. and Canada being honored for the significant contributions they have made to...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Sep 8, 2014 | Horticulture
AUBURN, Ala. —Auburn University horticulture professor Joe Eakes has been named interim head of the Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture Dean Bill Batchelor has announced. Eakes assumed the role Sept. 5 and will serve in the position until a new...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Sep 3, 2014 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Horticulture
by NATHAN KELLY A 100-vine research vineyard that Elina Coneva established at the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station’s Chilton Research and Extension Center four years ago has the Auburn University horticulture associate professor feeling good about the future of...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Aug 29, 2014 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
By Mary Catherine Gaston Dan Holt and Carol Johnston, researchers in Auburn University’s School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences, have discovered evidence that fish—like mammals and birds—raise their voices when communicating in noisy settings. This...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Aug 26, 2014 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
By MARY CATHERINE GASTON A newly released 2013 U.S. Catfish Database that Auburn University aquacultural economist Terry Hanson compiled paints a grim portrait of the U.S. farm-raised catfish industry overall, but a few bright spots, particularly for Alabama...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Aug 21, 2014 | Entomology & Plant Pathology
AUBURN, Ala. —Auburn University alumni professor and researcher Henry Fadamiro has been named assistant dean and director of global programs in the College of Agriculture, effective Sept. 1, Dean Bill Batchelor has announced. “Agriculture knows no geographical...