Family of five standing and smiling at the camera.

Leukemia survivor Karina Sones is thriving thanks to the EAGLES program and the Auburn Family’s generosity.

April 10, 2025

Auburn professor Bruce Tatarchuk

With energy costs rising and grids failing, Auburn is developing new energy sources to power the future.

April 09, 2025

Christopher B. Roberts, JoEllen Sefton and Royrickers Cook pose at an awards ceremony.

JoEllen Sefton received the 2024 Award for Excellence in Faculty Outreach for her work's profound and lasting impact on the military, local public servants, tactical athletes and students.

April 09, 2025

Ripe pecans growing on a pecan tree.

Three generations and counting contribute to a growing pecan farm's success.

April 09, 2025

Two doctors hold an orange cat

Samantha Sampson knew her kitten, Hashbrown, was a fighter. Dr. Randolph Winter and the AU CVM surgical team partnered on a new heart surgery on the young kitten to prove her right.

April 09, 2025

Molly Simonis searches for bats in a culvert under Interstate 85 in Lee County, Alabama.

Researchers are working with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to uncover the mysteries of Alabama’s bat populations and the diseases that affect them.

April 07, 2025

Kelli Russell smiles

A recent report by social science researchers at Auburn and Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station will inform Gov. Kay Ivey’s strategic economic growth plan, Catalyst, on the agriculture industry.

April 03, 2025

Chris Martin smiles at an older woman in the community center

As an Auburn student, Chris Martin volunteered at the Boykin Community Center, and now that he's a faculty member, he's back at the center leading his students in health care outreach activities.

April 03, 2025

A student hard at work in an APLA garden

Auburn’s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture is teaching future generations of architects how to create communities that will stand the test of time — and changing economic conditions.

April 03, 2025

Students and faculty stand and discuss presentations.

The 2025 Auburn Research Symposium spotlighted the research and creative scholarship of nearly 500 graduate and undergraduate students from Auburn University and Auburn University at Montgomery.

April 03, 2025

Tiger Cage pitch competition trophy

Accountancy major Sophia Aulisio earned first place in the 2025 Tiger Cage Business Idea Pitch Competition, receiving $30,000 in startup capital for her business idea, Protector Innovations.

April 02, 2025

A young woman holds a video game controller in the shape of a large circle over her head

Kinesiology faculty member Danielle Wadsworth is currently studying how video games can be beneficial for families focusing on fitness.

April 02, 2025

A growing partnership between the Army and Auburn aims to effectively integrate mission command capabilities in the Polaris MRZR Alpha 4 vehicle and develop a litter support system for the vehicle to transport wounded soldiers on the vehicle. Initial prototypes for both systems are currently undergoing experimentation and operational testing.

April 01, 2025

several students stand around a table with young girl sitting

On their third consecutive trip to Children's of Alabama in Birmingham, members of the Auburn University Rocketry Association provided more interactive opportunities for the young patients, including helping them launch their own homemade rockets.

April 01, 2025

A team of doctoral and undergraduate biosystems engineering students have developed a solution to precise fertilizer application using drone technology. Their project is a finalist in NASA’s 2025 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition.

March 28, 2025

Taylor Korn courtside at a basketball game

As director of social media for The Next Round, a fast-growing sports podcast based out of Birmingham, Alabama, alumna Taylor Korn has a courtside seat to watch Auburn sports teams navigate through each season.

March 27, 2025

Behind the Seams is the theme for this year

The College of Human Sciences 2025 edition of The Fashion Event themed "Behind the Seams," will make a grand debut at the Jay and Susie Gogue Performing Arts Center — a brand-new venue for the live runway show on April 11.

March 27, 2025

weeds wilt after a dicamba application in a field of soybeans

Farmers nationwide will not be permitted to use dicamba herbicide products this growing season. Auburn researchers and Alabama Cooperative Extension System specialists are working to provide Alabama row crop growers with guidance on how to navigate and best manage production without dicamba.

March 27, 2025

Graduate Student Research Assistant sorts through various books Olivia Martín-Piñón

Research from the College of Human Sciences uncovers how reading together boosts early literacy skills and deepens parent-child connections.

March 26, 2025

Cassandra Bolar

College of Human Sciences graduate Cassandra Bolar is a 2025 Black Alumna Award winner and will be honored during Auburn's Black Alumni Weekend April 4-6.

March 26, 2025

two grad students and Dr. Ian Butts work in a lab

The $437 million U.S. catfish industry is in need of better genetic and breeding technologies to be competitive with foreign imports. A team of hatchery scientists from the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station are studying hybrid catfish breeding practices to help improve reproductive efficiency and reduce production costs for catfish farmers.

March 26, 2025

Elijah McAllister next to a College of Education sign

Elijah McAllister, a former Auburn University football captain who was a star on and off the field, is currently pursuing his doctorate to elevate himself academically while continuing to be a difference-maker in the community.

March 26, 2025

Power systems lab

The Southeast Region Cybersecurity Collaboration Center is dedicated to advancing cybersecurity technologies to protect critical infrastructure from outside threats — and it’s using the expertise of Auburn students to help carry out that mission.

March 26, 2025

Young woman standing in front of four small children who are sitting on the floor.

With support from the Russell Medical Foundation, Auburn nursing students and faculty bring health and wellness education to Alabama elementary schools.

March 24, 2025

Eight students in a classroom. Two are standing in the center back to back with the other six are standing around them angrily.

For several years Kate Craig, associate professor of History with the College of Liberal Arts, has taught Honors versions of World History I and II through a series of role-playing games she calls “Reacting to the Past.”

March 24, 2025

Chester Higgins visiting his great uncle

Author, longtime New York Times photographer and Alabama Distinguished Artist Chester Higgins toured Alabama in March, sharing with students and residents how to connect people through the power of photography.

March 24, 2025

palmer amaranth in a field

Auburn's Weed Bionomics Laboratory focuses on managing herbicide-resistant weeds, like Palmer amaranth, the most difficult weed to control because it can produce 600,000 seeds per plant and grow as much as 2.5 inches per day.

March 24, 2025

Preston holds a can of fuel as he begins a prescribed burn in a dry field.

Preston Payne manages and maintains 10,000 acres of university-owned wooded lands spread across 27 sites throughout Alabama that serve as living labs and classrooms.

March 24, 2025

bus

Auburn researchers are part of a study to address engineering challenges associated with energy efficiency of zero emission bus materials.

March 21, 2025

A plow in cover crops

The Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station awarded 29 competitive grants across three principal programs: AgR-SEED, Production Agricultural Research and equipment grants for fiscal year 2024.

March 20, 2025

The Auburn University Center for Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity Engineering is dedicated to uncovering pioneering advancements in AI-driven cybersecurity solutions and tackling the most pressing challenges in the digital age.

March 20, 2025

Auburn’s role in facilitating collaboration between government, academia and industry necessary for maintaining national security was on full display at the university’s Research and Innovation Campus in Huntsville as Congressional heavyweights meet to confer on the vulnerability of the U.S. defense industrial base in relation to challenges posed by China.

March 20, 2025

Nate Knowles and the google sign

Auburn College of Education graduate Lt. Col. Nate Knowles has landed a prestigious fellowship at Google focused on national security.

March 20, 2025

Vince Wolfram, Chad Baker-Mazara and Miles Kelly

Several students have the opportunity to cover the Tigers' run through March Madness in the men's 2025 NCAA Tournament for media outlets.

March 20, 2025

Auburn's National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence is partnering with Blue Origin to overcome the challenges of 3D printing with copper, essentially helping the space technology company's future plans in orbit.

March 18, 2025

Jennie Baumann in her classroom

A group of College of Education faculty members led by Jennie Baumann is working to provide pre-service teachers with a competitive edge in their field.

March 18, 2025

Ernest Opoku’s journey from Ghana to Auburn, and now to MIT, is one of perseverance, intellectual rigor and groundbreaking research.

March 17, 2025

cyber

Auburn has been re-designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Research, making it one of only 11 institutions nationally to hold designations for cyber operations, cyber defense and cyber research.

March 17, 2025

Bryant Smith standing on the court in Neville Arena

Twenty-five years after his team won the SEC men's basketball championship, Bryant Smith is helping lead the 2025 Tigers.

March 17, 2025

Headshot for Nick Davis

The College of Human Sciences' Horst Schulze School of Hospitality Management will welcome hundreds of guests to the annual Hospitality Gala and recognize alumnus L. Nick Davis with the 2025 Horst Schulze Award for Excellence in Hospitality.

March 12, 2025

Emma Chumley, right, and Katie White

Auburn student Emma Chumley created the Auburn Sustenance Project as a class project in hopes of combatting food insecurity in the area.

March 12, 2025

Samantha hugs a dog in a grassy field

Dr. Samantha Warner is using her military experience and Auburn training to continue her veterinary medicine career closer to home.

March 11, 2025

A young woman in a virtual reality headset in front of a computer monitor

Faculty member Tiffani Chidume studies the use of cutting-edge simulation technology, including VR, in nursing education.

March 11, 2025

Sunshine shines through the trees on a porch with rustic chairs

The 415-acre estate where legendary football coach Pat Dye lived and entertained comes back to life as a special events destination and an outdoor classroom.

March 07, 2025

Mari Miles Dempsey, a senior in chemical engineering and an Honors student, is researching photo-initiated hydrogels. If successful, the project has the potential to impact multiple fields, but the most hopeful is transporting items to space.

March 06, 2025

Dillon O

Dillon O'Donnell, a junior in international studies who studies Arabic at Auburn and hopes to one day serve the U.S. Department of State, honed his language and cultural skills across Morocco last fall.

March 06, 2025

Chael Sullivan smiles for a photo.

Chael Sullivan, as President of his fraternity and a member of the War Eagle Girls and Plainsmen, has made a significant impact during his time at Auburn.

March 06, 2025

State troopers approach peaceful protestors on Bloody Sunday in 1965

As the city of Selma, Alabama, commemorates the 60th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” Robert Finkel is helping share the history of that fateful day through several projects.

March 06, 2025

a group of people at at Auburn tailgate. Glenn Mitchell is on the far right. Regenia Sanders is on his right.

Regenia Sanders and Glenn Mitchell, colleagues at Ernst & Young in Atlanta, share a deep passion for their alma mater and firmly believe in helping fellow alums reach their full potential.

March 05, 2025

two men holding awards with black suits on

The State of Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame inducted eight individuals — including one Auburn University alumnus and an Auburn chemical engineering professor — and one corporation during a ceremony Feb. 22 at the Renaissance Birmingham at Ross Bridge.

March 05, 2025