Sofia Sierra in the laboratory taking samples from test tubes

Sofia Sierra, a first-year doctoral student in the College of Agriculture, is researching how to make infant formula safer by eliminating harmful, heat-resistant bacteria using cold plasma technology.

September 11, 2024

Student petting therapy dog

Auburn’s Student Counseling & Psychological Services uses therapy dogs, some who are retired service dogs, to promote mental health and wellness for all Auburn students.

September 11, 2024

Hugh Freeze speaking at podium

Auburn University head football coach Hugh Freeze and his wife Jill took time to share about family life and football as the keynote speakers at the “Fall-Star” Supper hosted by the Women’s Philanthropy Board in the College of Human Sciences.

September 11, 2024

Major General Livingston smiles and waves to the crowd in a footballs stadium

Major General James E. Livingston, the only Auburn graduate to receive the Medal of Honor, was honored as the Gameday Hero during the Tigers’ football game on Saturday, Sept. 7.

September 09, 2024

The Alumni Who Helped Build the Graduate Hotel

Project Manager Mike Brown ’03 and Project Engineer Matthew Doyle ’20 are two of the many Auburn grads helping to build the Graduate Hotel.

September 06, 2024

a male and a female student operate a machine in the Advanced Structural Lab

Mass timber is a rapidly growing technology used in the design and construction fields, and the Auburn Mass Timber Collaborative is becoming a leader in mass timber research, teaching and outreach in the Southeast.

September 05, 2024

Laura West Ramkorun

History alumna and English-Language Arts teacher Laura West Ramkorun ’10 spent the summer studying education in India through the Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms Program.

September 05, 2024

Ujjwal Guin

Ujjwal Guin and collaborators are identifying vulnerabilities in used, often discarded, memory chips and creating solutions to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data.

September 04, 2024

Haynes Heaton

Haynes Heaton and collaborators hope to replace current diagnostics for post-bone marrow transplant relapse monitoring with a new technology, single-cell RNA sequencing.

September 04, 2024

Brittany Upchurch

For two-time Auburn alumna Brittany Upchurch, giving back is a family affair and motivation for her career.

September 03, 2024

Nursing students and Chambers County EMS help a patient from her home

Auburn is on a mission to build resilient communities throughout Alabama with several programs that bring research and outreach work to rural areas across the state.

August 30, 2024

Chen Ding (left) and Hao Chen (right) in a greenhouse observe their genetically modified poplar varieties.

A team of faculty in Auburn's College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment are pursuing more sustainable forms of agroforestry thanks to a new grant awarded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Their research will focus on the genetics of trees and their domestication for wood pulp production — ultimately maximizing economic gains and reducing environmental impacts.

August 30, 2024

A robotic arm cooks french fries

On the first day of classes this semester, Tiger Dining introduced “Foy on the Fly,” a new food service location featuring a robotic fry cook available via the Grubhub mobile app.

August 29, 2024

Auburn is home to the happiest students in the nation, according to The Princeton Review’s 2025 rankings.

August 28, 2024

Abdul-Khaliq Murtadha as Martin Luther King Jr. in The Mountaintop

Theatre and Dance faculty traveled across the country this summer to bring the Bard's work to life at the states' annual Shakespeare Festivals.

August 28, 2024

Master Sommelier Thomas Price pouring wine

This story profiles Master Sommelier in residence at Auburn’s 1856 – Culinary Residence restaurant Thomas Price on teaching and enjoying wine and teaching beverage appreciation.

August 28, 2024

Tailgates of yore were often banquets fit for royalty.

For lifelong football tailgaters, every season brings friendships, fans and family to a coveted spot on campus.

August 27, 2024

A graphic reading Fall 2024 Enrollment

Auburn University's fall 2024 enrollment includes a record 62% of students who are Alabama residents.

August 27, 2024

Masoud Mahjouri-Samani and graduate student Aarsh Patel.

Masoud Mahjouri-Samani earned a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to create the smallest powder bed additive manufacturing process.

August 27, 2024

Auburn

In the kickoff episode to the new season of the Everything Auburn Podcast, hear about the enhanced gameday experience inside Jordan-Hare Stadium. From extra hype stadium lighting and pyro to stadium tours and VIP experiences, more than a dozen enhancements will elevate the 2024 gameday experience.

August 26, 2024

Cyber Fire was Aug. 24-25 in the Brown-Kopel Center.

In its sixth iteration at Auburn, Cyber Fire Puzzles took almost 60 students on a journey through binaries and malicious programs, giving them the opportunity to develop skills for tracking would-be hackers.

August 26, 2024

Auburn's EAGLES program has been nominated for a Chick-fil-A 2024 True Inspiration award, which includes a philanthropic grant. The Auburn Family can help the EAGLES program win the top award by voting in the Chick-fil-A app Sept. 3-30.

August 26, 2024

Researchers in Auburn's National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence continue to play a critical role in the Rapid Analysis and Manufacturing Propulsion Technology project, specifically the project's resulting Thrust Chamber Liner and Fabrication Method technology which, in July, was named NASA's 2024 Invention of the Year.

August 22, 2024

A young man holding a camera stands in front of Cinderella

The Walt Disney Company, which employs many Auburn alumni and students, will be on campus on October 8 for Disney Day on the Plains.

August 22, 2024

Elmo and Douglas Ziebach on a hunting trip together

A family of College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment alumni has seen the fruits of an Auburn education. The achievements of the Ziebach family highlight the CFWE’s 75-year history of producing forestry graduates who have fueled the growth of the state and region’s forest industry.

August 21, 2024

Two young men smile as they hold a snake

For students studying forestry and wildlife sciences, completing long days of summer practicum at Solon Dixon Center in south Alabama is both a rite of passage and a graduation requirement.

August 21, 2024

Auburn's peanut breeding program has made significant strides in a surprisingly short amount of time, with one of its varietal releases now commanding 40-50% of the peanut acreage in Alabama.

August 20, 2024

A woman sits at a table and signs books for other women in line

The annual Alabama OLLI Day celebration welcomed back Auburn alumni Margaret Renkl and Billy Renkl to the Plains as speakers.

August 20, 2024

three people pose for photo in front of posters

The Auburn University Stormwater Research Facility is partnering with Fagan Consulting LLC to design a portable, self-contained stormwater treatment device to treat stormwater runoff and protect the waters of Alabama and the U.S.

August 19, 2024

Auburn's seminal work on semiconductor packaging has new packaging of its own — the Auburn University Electronics Packaging Research Institute (EPRI). The institute’s recent establishment marks a significant new emphasis on the semiconductor packaging research conducted through Auburn's Center of Advanced Vehicle and Extreme Environment Electronics.

August 19, 2024

A woman kneels down in the forest

Several Auburn researchers have joined forces to assist the state of Alabama in the creation of its 2025 State Wildlife Action Plan revision.

August 19, 2024

A little girl looks at an aquatic specimen with her camp counselor.

Auburn's summer camps fill up quickly and draw students from across the United States. Explore and learn with them by scrolling through a photo essay.

August 15, 2024

For Auburn faculty, staff and students who need help solving a problem, the Ombuds Office — a confidential resource — can help.

August 15, 2024

A woman stands at a podium teaching a class

This coming academic year, more than 800 pre-engineering students will learn all about “sketchnoting,” a note taking technique combining traditional text with symbols and illustrations.

August 15, 2024

two grad students work in a wet lab on Auburn

A team of hatchery scientists from the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station’s E. W. Shell Fisheries Center was awarded $300,000 by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop an immersion-based vaccine for a common bacteria that can cause internal swelling and hemorrhaging gills in largemouth bass.

August 13, 2024

Gretchen Oliver in her lab.

Gretchen Oliver’s life motto is “be better tomorrow,” and it’s a motto that she has been striving to instill in her students in Auburn’s School of Kinesiology for the past decade.

August 12, 2024

Female student sitting on tv set for interview

Student-athlete Allison Tanner pursues an MBA and co-founded a startup after injuries derailed her high jumping career.

August 12, 2024

A young woman in a hard hat and vest smiles while at a construction site.

Two Auburn baseball fans, a student and an alumnus, are working on the Plainsman Park expansion project.

August 12, 2024

Laura Stevens speaking with a student

As the incoming director of the Honors College, Laura Stevens, the English professor and previous director at the University of Tulsa’s Undergraduate Research Challenge, immediately felt a sense of belonging.

August 09, 2024

Three men with an award smile for the camera

Originally from Ghana in West Africa, first-generation college student Ernest Opoku is living out his passion for chemistry as a doctoral student at Auburn University.

August 07, 2024

Students have fun in a session of Auburn Youth Programs

Why did Auburn have more than 4,000 middle and high school students on its campus recently? Logan McKissick with Auburn Youth Programs provides the answer.

August 05, 2024

A man holds a large catfish while a girl and young woman examine it

Some catfish are rapidly growing too large, so Auburn researchers are stepping up to help the Alabama farmers who produce one-third of the nation's catfish.

August 01, 2024

A pharmacy student works with Alabama residents during an AU-SHIP outreach event

A partnership between Auburn's Harrison College of Pharmacy and the Alabama State Health Insurance Assistance Program has helped Medicare patients across Alabama for a decade.

July 31, 2024

A man poses for a photo in the woods

Ken Day’s passion for natural resource management ignited at CFWE in 1976.

July 31, 2024

A woman stands in a creek with a large hill and trees behind her

As an outreach project manager with the Water Resource Center, Laura Cooley is currently spearheading the Moore’s Mill Creek Watershed Project right here in Lee County.

July 28, 2024

NASA and the National Space Grant Foundation were after teams of senior and graduate-level engineering students "to develop advanced and innovative design ideas that will help in solving Artemis mission challenges." They went with three: Michigan, Maryland and the school with more than 500 alumni, including six astronauts and three of the 10 Kennedy Space Center directors, Auburn.

July 26, 2024

Spent grain

The College of Human Sciences Brewing Science and Operations program uses its spent grain food waste to help a local farmer and in turn make a positive environmental impact.

July 25, 2024

A graphic that shows a mom reading to her child.

An Auburn researcher is addressing effective stress management for children with Type 1 diabetes.

July 25, 2024

A wide angle shot with the backs of Auburn graduates in the foreground and the commencement speaker podium in the background

More than 1,300 students are expected to graduate from Auburn University this summer during three commencement ceremonies held in Neville Arena on Aug. 3.

July 25, 2024

Man wears navy shirt in front of blueberry plants in greenhouse

Researchers in the Auburn College of Agriculture and the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station are looking for ways to boost blueberry production in the state by introducing more profitable cultivars.

July 25, 2024