by Jamie Creamer | Mar 31, 2017 | AAES Administration, COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
A College of Agriculture master’s student and a recent graduate have been named 2017 recipients of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The two—Edna Fernandez-Figueroa and April Maxwell—are among a record-setting 14 Auburn University students...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Mar 14, 2017 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Nermeen Youssef, a Ph.D. student studying under Rex Dunham in Auburn’s School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences, was honored with the Soy Aquaculture Alliance’s Student Award during Aquaculture America 2017, the World Aquaculture Society’s annual meeting...
by Paul Hollis | Nov 14, 2016 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, COA Administration, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
by PAUL HOLLIS Auburn University research aimed at minimizing a deadly disease in catfish has, in a short time, prompted Alabama catfish producers to significantly change what they feed their fish. In the study they launched in 2015, researchers are examining whether...
by Paul Hollis | Jun 20, 2016 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, COA Administration, COA Communications, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
by PAUL HOLLISThe sequencing of the channel catfish genome—considered one of the major milestones in the annals of Auburn University research—has been detailed in an article published in the June 2 issue of Nature Communications, an international multidisciplinary...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | May 2, 2016 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Horticulture, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
by JAMIE CREAMER High-achieving double major gearing up to make a difference in the world By the start of her second semester at Auburn University, Evie Smith knew she’d chosen the wrong major. Molecular biology/pre-vet just wasn’t a fit. Nothing against animals, mind...
by Jamie Creamer | Mar 16, 2016 | Animal Sciences, Biosystems Engineering, Entomology & Plant Pathology, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Five College of Agriculture doctoral and master’s students are among 24 graduate students campus-wide who have been selected as winners in the Auburn University Graduate School’s 2015-16 awards program. Lauren Jescovitch, a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Fisheries,...
by William Cahalin | Feb 24, 2016 | Research, Student Research, Student Spotlight
Ben Staton is a graduate assistant pursuing a degree in fisheries management. Ben’s research is focused on Chinook salmon stocks in western Alaska. He is using long-term data sets to create and test models that address questions and make predictions relating to the...