by William Cahalin | Apr 17, 2012 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Animal Sciences
AUBURN Ala.—A curly-haired, morbidly obese, genetically primitive breed of Hungarian pig that until recently was on the brink of extinction could be key to the eventual prevention of diabetes and heart disease in humans, Auburn University researchers contend. The...
by William Cahalin | Mar 27, 2012 | Animal Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.—Werner G. Bergen, nutritional biochemist and professor in the Auburn University Department of Animal Sciences, has been named a fellow of the American Society for Nutrition, the preeminent worldwide scientific organization for nutritional sciences. The...
by William Cahalin | Feb 15, 2012 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.—The April 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the waves of tar balls deposited on the beaches shortly thereafter prompted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to produce a tar ball fact sheet. Among the factoids was...
by William Cahalin | Feb 13, 2012 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
AUBURN, Ala.—Auburn University has taken its role in the war on hunger to a new level with the creation of the International Hunger Institute within the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station. The institute, which the university’s Board of Trustees established...
