Outreach and Extension | Auburn University

Reaching Across Alabama

Auburn partners with government, industry and communities to deliver research-based educational programs that improve the health and economic well-being of all Alabamians. From farming and finances to nutrition and food safety, we take practical expertise to every corner of the state.

Extension

For more than a century, we’ve worked with our land-grant partners at Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University to turn research into real solutions for communities in every corner of the state.

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Outreach

We serve communities far beyond our campus with outreach programs that help citizens, schools, governments and businesses build skills, develop new knowledge and achieve a higher quality of life.

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Innovation that Works

$26 million

Annual outreach and extension spending

67 counties

Extension employees are in every Alabama county

$6.3 billion

Statewide economic impact of Auburn and its alumni in FY2022

Impact for Alabama

Work that changes the world begins at home. Our research, education and outreach make Alabama a safer, healthier, happier place to live.

Stacy Brown, a 1999 Auburn alumna, founder of Chicken Salad Chick and co-owner of Botanic, will serve as the 2026 Horst Schulze Award for Excellence in Hospitality honoree.

Brown to serve as honoree for annual Hospitality Gala

Stacy Brown, a 1999 Auburn alumna, founder of Chicken Salad Chick and co-owner of Botanic, who has built an impressive legacy across the hospitality industry — will be honored at this year’s annual Hospitality Gala — the signature event hosted by students in the Horst Schulze School of Hospitality Management in the College of Human Sciences on the evening of Thursday, April 23.

Auburn Engineering earns 17 Educational Advertising Awards

The Samuel Ginn College of Engineering’s Office of Communications and Marketing recently earned 17 Educational Advertising Awards, the nation’s largest educational advertising awards competition.

A student team walks onto the arena floor carrying their robot during the S.C.O.R.E. VEX Robotics Championship at Auburn University.

State robotics championship at Auburn

The 2026 VEX V5 Alabama State Championship brought student robotics teams from across Alabama to Auburn University on Feb. 20 and 21. Hosted by the Southeastern Center of Robotics Education within the College of Sciences and Mathematics, the event showcased strategy, teamwork and months of student driven engineering design.