by William Cahalin | Apr 17, 2012 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Animal Sciences
AUBURN Ala.—A curly-haired, morbidly obese, genetically primitive breed of Hungarian pig that until recently was on the brink of extinction could be key to the eventual prevention of diabetes and heart disease in humans, Auburn University researchers contend. The...
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by William Cahalin | Apr 9, 2012 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
BELLE MINA—A new, 4,000-square-foot administrative building made possible by a $1 million donation from the Alabama Farmers Federation officially opened for business at the Tennessee Valley Research and Extension Center in Belle Mina during an April 6 ribbon-cutting...
by William Cahalin | Feb 15, 2012 | School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.—The April 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the waves of tar balls deposited on the beaches shortly thereafter prompted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to produce a tar ball fact sheet. Among the factoids was...
by William Cahalin | Feb 14, 2012 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture & Aquatic Sciences
AUBURN, Ala.—A new research and outreach institute focused on stimulating economic growth in Alabama and the Southeast by strengthening and expanding the region’s domestic aquatic and fisheries industries has been established within the Alabama Agricultural Experiment...
by William Cahalin | Feb 13, 2012 | Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
AUBURN, Ala.—Auburn University has taken its role in the war on hunger to a new level with the creation of the International Hunger Institute within the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station. The institute, which the university’s Board of Trustees established...
