by Mary Catherine Gaston | Oct 21, 2014 | Animal Sciences
by WADE BERRY AUBURN UNIVERSITY – Auburn University graduate Ashton Richardson has been chosen as a finalist for the prestigious Marshall Scholarship. If awarded, Richardson will pursue a doctorate of philosophy in international development at Oxford University....
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Sep 26, 2014 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Poultry Science
The College of Agriculture has welcomed six new faculty members for fall semester 2014. Thorsten Knappenberger, most recently a postdoctoral researcher at Washington State University, has joined the crop, soil and environmental sciences department as assistant...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Sep 25, 2014 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.—The Southeast Climate Extension project, a large-scale partnership of six universities across the Southeast, was recently awarded the National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s Partnership Award for Multistate Efforts. Brenda Ortiz, an associate...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Sep 23, 2014 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
Auburn Junior Sees Ag Econ Degree from the Mission-Field Perspective by JAMIE CREAMER Ben Brinkerhoff went on his first mission trip the summer before his freshman year in high school and, even in the midst of that hot, labor-intensive week in Honduras, realized...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Sep 19, 2014 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
As of Aug. 1, Auburn University Ph.D. student Zack Ogles had picked a ton of produce—closer to 2,200 pounds, actually—from the eight-row garden he has on the Auburn campus. There’s no telling how many tomato sandwiches, squash casseroles and skillets full of fried...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Sep 18, 2014 | Entomology & Plant Pathology
This fall the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology welcomed four new faculty. Alana Jacobson joined the faculty as an insect ecologist\row crop entomologist. Dr. Jacobson comes to Auburn from Dr. George Kennedy’s lab at North Carolina State University....
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Sep 18, 2014 | Animal Sciences
AUBURN, Ala. —An Auburn University Department of Animal Sciences faculty member and a veterinarian who is an alumnus of the department are among 40 young men and women from across the U.S. and Canada being honored for the significant contributions they have made to...
