by Mary Catherine Gaston | Sep 10, 2014 | Animal Sciences, Student Spotlight
Riley Shugg’s was an unusual summer study-abroad experience for an animal sciences major intent on becoming a large-animal veterinarian and surgeon. In fact, it was an unusual study-abroad experience, period—unless you consider getting up close and personal with great...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Sep 3, 2014 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Horticulture
by NATHAN KELLY A 100-vine research vineyard that Elina Coneva established at the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station’s Chilton Research and Extension Center four years ago has the Auburn University horticulture associate professor feeling good about the future of...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Aug 29, 2014 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
By Mary Catherine Gaston Dan Holt and Carol Johnston, researchers in Auburn University’s School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences, have discovered evidence that fish—like mammals and birds—raise their voices when communicating in noisy settings. This...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Aug 26, 2014 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
By MARY CATHERINE GASTON A newly released 2013 U.S. Catfish Database that Auburn University aquacultural economist Terry Hanson compiled paints a grim portrait of the U.S. farm-raised catfish industry overall, but a few bright spots, particularly for Alabama...
by Mary Catherine Gaston | Aug 19, 2014 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
AUBURN, Ala. —The fall installment of the 2014 Auburn University Special Lecture Series will take place Friday, Oct. 10, at 11 a.m. in Langdon Hall and will feature Jeffrey Beall, an expert on scholarly publishing. The lecture, entitled “Scholarly Publishing in...
by William Cahalin | Jul 28, 2014 | Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences
AUBURN, Ala. —William Dar, director general of the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, or ICRISAT, and colleague Laxmipathi Gowda, the institute’s deputy director general for research, were in Auburn recently as guests of the College of...
by William Cahalin | May 23, 2014 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Biosystems Engineering
AUBURN, Ala. —Researchers with the Auburn University College of Agriculture and Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station will soon be farming more efficiently, thanks to a deal with farm machinery manufacturer Case IH and Kentucky-based H&R Agri-Power. In exchange...
