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by Paul Hollis | Jan 12, 2017 | AAES Administration, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Animal Sciences
by MAGGIE SMITH Christy Bratcher always knew she wanted a career that involved working with animals. However, being a veterinarian didn’t seem like the right fit. Bratcher, now an associate professor in the Department of Animal Sciences, knows she has found her home...
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 | Nov 8, 2016 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
Faculty and staff are invited to participate in a research study with the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology to understand food choice, expected consumption of food products and investment decisions. Any person over 19 and not a student is...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Oct 3, 2016 | Poultry Science
by JAMIE CREAMER There was but one stipulation on the full, four-year scholarship that Alabama A&M University offered South Macon County High School senior Melvin Carter back in the late 1980s: The scholarship was his, the university said, if he agreed to major in...
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by Jamie Creamer | Sep 30, 2016 | AAES Administration, Ag Land & Resource Management, COA Administration, Poultry Science
Poultry-based small plates prepared by a dozen of the area’s top chefs and beverages produced by 10 of Alabama’s finest breweries, wineries and distilleries are on tap for local residents who attend Birds and Brews, a fall social and scholarship fundraiser set for...
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by Jamie Creamer | Sep 29, 2016 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, COA Administration
Jayson Lusk, an Oklahoma State University food and agricultural economist whose research focuses on what we eat and why we eat it, will deliver the 2016 E.T. York Distinguished Lecture, titled “The Future of Food,” Tuesday, Oct. 11, at the Auburn Alumni Center on...
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by Paul Hollis | Jul 18, 2016 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
by DAVID REARDONDavid Weaver, one of the best known and longest tenured professors in Auburn’s College of Agriculture, is practically a walking encyclopedia of agronomy. This is obvious to the students and colleagues who have had the opportunity to ask him a...
