by William Cahalin | May 1, 2014 | COA Communications
AUBURN, Ala.—When she graduates from Auburn University with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural communications May 3, Anna Leigh Peek will waste no time moving on to her next endeavor: a position in the guest relations department at Monsanto’s world headquarters in...
by William Cahalin | Apr 29, 2014 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.—The Auburn University Office of Sustainability recently announced its 2014 Spirit of Sustainability Award recipients, naming several individuals affiliated with the College of Agriculture as recipients. Bill Walton and researchers from the Auburn...
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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...
by William Cahalin | Apr 15, 2014 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
AUBURN, Ala. —Sara Geonczy, a senior majoring in environmental science, feels lucky to have had the opportunity to attend Auburn University. Geonczy, who is a first-generation American citizen as well as a first-generation college student, will graduate in May, just...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Apr 13, 2014 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON The first time Alan Wilson looked through a microscope at a drop of pond water, he was fascinated by all the things moving around in it. Still, he never imagined that one day he would make a living researching those microscopic organisms as an...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Apr 11, 2014 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Biosystems Engineering
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON In a nondescript building on the Auburn University campus, an Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station researcher is transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary in a study that could have huge implications here at home and around the...
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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...
