by Mary Catherine Gaston | Mar 31, 2015 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
Associate professor’s passion for people and places drives food security work by MARY CATHERINE GASTON It sounds like the story line of a summer feel-good flick: A typical kid grows up in the suburbs of Detroit, finishes high school and enlists in the Navy. As a...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Mar 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
The College of Agriculture’s E.T. York Distinguished Lecturer Series, in conjunction with Auburn University’s Littleton-Franklin Lectures, will present Harvard Medical School professor and Nobel Prize recipient Jack Szostak delivering a lecture titled “The Origins of...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Jan 8, 2015 | Entomology & Plant Pathology
by JAMIE CREAMER House flies are much more than mere nuisances. In adult form, they carry and transmit more than 100 serious human and animal diseases, including salmonellosis, anthrax, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, cholera and diarrhea. They also spread pinworms,...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Apr 15, 2014 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
by JAMIE CREAMER A College of Agriculture agronomist who established a research plot on the Auburn University campus eight years ago to evaluate medicinal plants as high-value alternative crops for Alabama growers has converted the verdant patch into a teaching and...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Apr 10, 2014 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Poultry Science
Auburn scientists use laying hens to study uterine fibroids by JAMIE CREAMER An estimated 70 percent of women in the U.S. develop fibroid tumors in the uterus by age 50, and while the noncancerous tumors cause no symptoms for the majority of those women, they make...
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 William Cahalin | Oct 18, 2013 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Poultry Science
AUBURN, Ala.—After more than a decade of research into an increasingly common and costly broiler condition known as green muscle disease, a team of poultry scientists at Auburn University has identified a blood enzyme that could give breeders a noninvasive tool to...
