by Mary Catherine Gaston | Apr 9, 2015 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
May “Noe Noe” Lwin, a Ph.D. student in the Auburn University School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences and a native of Myanmar in Southeast Asia, was recently awarded the Schlumberger Foundation’s 2015-16 Faculty for the Future Fellowship. Now in its 10th...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Mar 20, 2015 | Entomology & Plant Pathology
Two graduate students in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology recently took home awards at the recent meeting of the Southeastern Branch of the Entomological Society of America. Feng Liu, a Ph.D. student in Nannan Liu’s program, and Adekunle (Kunle)...
by Josh Woods | Mar 17, 2015 | Animal Sciences
The Alabama Beef Cattle Improvement Association named the 2014 recipient of the Outstanding Extension Educator at the 72nd Annual Alabama Cattleman’s Association Conference in Huntsville. Alabama BCIA recognized Soren Rodning, associate professor in the Auburn...
by Josh Woods | Mar 17, 2015 | Animal Sciences
The Alabama Beef Cattle Improvement Foundation recently awarded a graduate fellowship and an undergraduate scholarship to two outstanding young people at the Alabama Beef Cattle Improvement Association 2015 Annual Meeting and Awards Program held in conjunction with...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Mar 4, 2015 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
Charles Chen, an associate professor and peanut breeder in the Auburn University College of Agriculture’s Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences, was recently recognized by the International Peanut Genome Initiative for his contributions to ongoing...
by Jamie Creamer | Mar 2, 2015 | Biosystems Engineering, COA Administration
Puneet Srivastava, professor of ecological engineering in Auburn University’s Department of Biosystems Engineering, has been named the Butler-Cunningham Eminent Scholar in Agriculture and the Environment at Auburn following an internal search. College of Agriculture...
by Jaden Brown | Feb 17, 2015 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
Curtis Jolly, a Charles W. Barkley Endowed Professor of Diversity, received the Southern Agricultural Economics Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest honor of the association. Jolly has been in the agricultural economics department for 35 years and is a...