by Paul Hollis | Nov 30, 2015 | AAES Administration, Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, COA Administration, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
by PAUL HOLLISFederal regulators have approved a fast-growing transgenic salmon as the first genetically engineered animal available for human consumption. And while some are hailing it as a historic breakthrough, others are questioning whether the current approval...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Nov 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
AUBURN, Ala.—The Auburn University Agricultural Alumni Association recently announced the 2016 inductees into the Alabama Agricultural Hall of Honor and the 2015 Pioneer Award recipients. The five will be recognized for their contributions to Alabama agriculture...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Nov 2, 2015 | Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON You can call Gordon Stone a lot of things, because he’s been a lot of things in his 52 years on earth—letterman, lobbyist, farmhand, father, missionary, mayor. But there’s one thing you can’t call the 1986 College of Ag grad: You can’t call...
by Josh Woods | Oct 28, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
More than 30 unique AAES studies are addressing issues of environmental quality and sustainability. From water quality to bioproduct development to the carbon sequestration potential of Alabama soils, the projects address a wide range of natural resource-related...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Oct 4, 2015 | Biosystems Engineering
by MARY CATHERINE GASTON It sounds like a fun campfire game: Choose five words at random from a hat, and tell a story using all five. Your words: sailing, rubber, drone, engineer, Guatemala. What story would you tell? If you’re Christian Brodbeck, a research engineer...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Oct 4, 2015 | Entomology & Plant Pathology
Kenya native helping others reach their potential by JAMIE CREAMER Please excuse the use of an overworked adjective, but there’s just no other way to describe Esther Ngumbi: The woman is passionate. She’s passionate about life, about giving back, about inspiring...
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by Mary Catherine Gaston | Sep 4, 2015 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
Agronomy grad, professor take soil judging to the global stage by JAMIE CREAMER Here’s the situation Kristen Pegues finds herself in right now: She’s 5,300 miles from home, in a field somewhere northeast of Budapest, and life is the pits. Not the pits, as in terrible;...
