by Mary Catherine Gaston | Apr 13, 2014 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON The first time Alan Wilson looked through a microscope at a drop of pond water, he was fascinated by all the things moving around in it. Still, he never imagined that one day he would make a living researching those microscopic organisms as an...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Apr 11, 2014 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Biosystems Engineering
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON In a nondescript building on the Auburn University campus, an Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station researcher is transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary in a study that could have huge implications here at home and around the...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Apr 3, 2014 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Animal Sciences
by NATHAN KELLY and JAMIE CREAMER A simple, economical tool that could be used to detect and identify harmful bacteria on food products in minutes instead of days and could significantly reduce the incidence of foodborne illnesses in the U.S. and beyond is in the...
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 William Cahalin | Mar 4, 2014 | Entomology & Plant Pathology
AUBURN, Ala.—Nannan Liu, Auburn University professor of entomology and internationally recognized insect molecular toxicologist, has been elected by her colleagues to a three-year term as chair of the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology in the College of...
by William Cahalin | Feb 26, 2014 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Biosystems Engineering
AUBURN, Ala.—Sushil Adhikari, an Auburn University biosystems engineering associate professor and Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station scientist, is conducting research with the potential to impact the state’s economy dramatically. Through a process known as...
by William Cahalin | Feb 24, 2014 | Biosystems Engineering
AUBURN, Ala.—John Fulton, a professor in the Auburn University Department of Biosystems Engineering and specialist with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, has been awarded the Alabama Farmers Federation Agriculture Professorship, College of Agriculture Dean...