by Ashley Wiskirchen | Oct 6, 2015 | Poultry Science
AUBURN, Ala. – October 5, 2015 – A charitable corporate contribution of $250,000 from Tyson Foods — the largest contribution to date to benefit Auburn University’s Department of Poultry Science’s new research farm unit — will further the department’s academic and...
by Jamie Creamer | Sep 17, 2015 | Poultry Science
Wayne Farms LLC, the sixth-largest vertically integrated poultry producer in the U.S., has pledged $175,000 to the construction of a state-of-the-art poultry research unit at Auburn University. “We’re happy to invest in a new farm facility that will thrive, not only...
by Jamie Creamer | Sep 2, 2015 | Poultry Science
Although she was still a year and a half away from college, the science-loving high school junior from Birmingham had made up her mind that she was going to major in either sports medicine or biomedical engineering. But then she discovered the fascinating world of...
by Jamie Creamer | Sep 2, 2015 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, COA Administration, Poultry Science
Auburn University poultry scientists Joe Giambrone and Ken Macklin are using funding from the U.S. egg industry to investigate how the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus, which has decimated poultry populations in the Midwest in the past nine months, spreads to...
by Jamie Creamer | Aug 31, 2015 | Ag Land & Resource Management, Animal Sciences, Biosystems Engineering, COA Administration, Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences, Development, Horticulture, Poultry Science, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
Auburn University’s 2015 homecoming celebration and football game are set for Saturday, Oct. 3, and so is the 36th annual Fall Roundup and Taste of Alabama Agriculture. The latter will take place at Ag Heritage Park from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Auburn–San Jose State...
by Jamie Creamer | Aug 6, 2015 | COA Administration, Poultry Science
Wallace Berry, associate professor in the Department of Poultry Science at Auburn, received the 2015 Novus International Inc. Teaching Award during the Poultry Science Association’s annual meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, in late July.The association established the...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Aug 5, 2015 | Poultry Science
by JAMIE CREAMER Auburn study zeroes in on salmonella in ground poultry If the two-year salmonella study that Auburn University poultry scientist Ken Macklin launched in January were a sentence, you’d need two sheets of notebook paper to diagram it. It’s that complex....