Auburn University seniors Kelly Best and Amanda Zimmer were sorority sisters before they became stepsisters when their parents got married in June of 2021. Now, their bond is stronger than ever before as they enjoy their time on the Plains.
February 09, 2024
The Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities recently added to its artifacts collection displaying the artistry and humanity of enslaved Alabamians.
February 09, 2024
After beginning his career as an elite, Auburn-trained bomb detection dog, the yellow Lab spent nearly a decade working with Student Counseling and Psychological Services.
February 08, 2024
Auburn alumna Kathryn Thornton received her bachelor’s degree in physics from the College of Sciences and Mathematics before completing her doctorate in physics and four space missions.
February 08, 2024
Just outside of Rome, the 16th century Chigi Palace in Aricca, Italy, is renowned for safe-gurading Italian heritage, educating students — and for keeping secrets. Part museum, part residence and academic hall for the Joseph S. Bruno Auburn Abroad in Italy program (JSB), the Chigi Palace recently revealed a hidden staircase that makes it primed to expand the program to more Auburn students. With eager students patiently adding their names to a two-year waiting list for the program, the College of Human Sciences is launching a campaign to make the expansion a reality.
February 08, 2024
This week’s segment of the Everything Auburn podcast focuses on a new study by two researchers in Auburn’s College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment who examined the global impact of free-ranging house cats on biodiversity – essentially assessing all of the species that these cats eat and what that means globally.
February 07, 2024
Psychology senior Minh Le encourages first-generation students to take on opportunities and make each Auburn experience meaningful.
February 07, 2024
Auburn faculty and partners transform east Alabama mathematics education through dedication and funded research initiatives.
February 07, 2024
Victoria Cover was the only Auburn student to attend the all expense paid Leadership Institute for the American Chemistry Society. She got to network with people, participate in professional development and learn how she can volunteer in the organization.
February 06, 2024
Auburn University alumnus Joseph Pelfrey has been named the director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville. Pelfrey, who earned his bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering in 2000, will manage one of NASA's largest field installations in this role.
February 05, 2024
Jordan-Hare Stadium will get a new scoreboard for the north end zone. The Auburn University Board of Trustees accepted the proposal from Auburn Athletics to replace the existing scoreboard at its Feb. 2 meeting, held on the campus of Auburn University at Montgomery.
February 05, 2024
The Office of International Programs' Lunar New Year celebrations bring students, faculty, staff and other community members together to celebrate the holiday and learn more about Taiwanese and Korean culture.
February 02, 2024
Clarence Stewart employs the many skills he learned throughout a 10-year distinguished career in the Army from 1989-99 and subsequent two decades of service with the Auburn Police Department to help keep the Auburn campus safe.
February 01, 2024
Auburn University has yet another National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow. Mehmet Arik, associate professor of mechanical engineering, was recently tapped for the professional honor (widely recognized as the most prestigious awarded to academic inventors) on the strength of more than 120 issued patents with a broad range of applications in medical systems, energy systems, aviation systems and photonics technologies.
February 01, 2024
Auburn University's CFWE produces exceptional leaders. Four alumni share how Auburn helped to shape their current careers in academic leadership.
January 31, 2024
Through long-standing home projects, Alabama 4-H members are learning invaluable life skills. The Pig Squeal project is a prime example of how 4-H teaches responsibility, community involvement, partnership and work ethic.
January 30, 2024
Auburn University professor and researcher Dr. Leonardo De La Fuente is part of an international team of scientists who are playing a pivotal role in combating a disease that is threatening major tree crops around the world.
January 29, 2024
The interdisciplinary Real Estate Development minor introduces students to various aspects of real estate development, including the design and construction processes, real property analysis and real estate finance and investment.
January 29, 2024
More than 800 students, faculty and staff participated in the university’s inaugural On the Pl(AI)ns of Auburn: AI Day on Jan. 25. The daylong event featured seminars, panel discussions and demonstrations focused on the future of AI tools as part of Auburn’s teaching and learning environment, generative AI, and other digital creation skills.
January 25, 2024
This week’s segment of the Everything Auburn podcast focuses on Auburn Adapted Athletics—a collaboration between Auburn's Office of Accessibility and School of Kinesiology. This episode features Auburn Wheelchair Basketball Head Coach Robb Taylor and his take on all things Auburn Adapted Athletics, the Paris Olympics, his Auburn Family story and more! Plus, get the scoop on how you can cheer these amazing student-athletes on to victory at their next basketball tournament at Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum.
January 25, 2024
Maggie Nelson, an aerospace engineering major and Honors College student, earned her fifth national prestigious scholarship when she nabbed the Winston Churchill Scholarship. She is the first student at Auburn to win this award. No other undergraduate in the history of Auburn has won as many prestigious scholarships as Nelson.
January 19, 2024
For tens of thousands of women struggling with infertility in the United States, the support they receive—or don’t receive—from their employer can influence their productivity at work. An Auburn University Harbert College of Business professor is conducting research to learn the extent of that influence and what organizations can do to better support their women employees undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments.
January 18, 2024
Both avid Auburn supporters, alumni Rick and Carolyn Salanitri have given faithfully to Auburn University for more than three decades through their service on boards and support of initiatives and scholarships that directly impact student achievement.
January 17, 2024
This ever-present functional accessory is more than a carrier of books, it’s also an expression of a student’s personality, lifestyle and even goals.
January 17, 2024
Beth Schwartz has been selected as the new assistant dean of biomedical sciences. She will be conducting an assessment of the program and will be creating new partnerships in this role.
January 17, 2024
This week’s segment of the Everything Auburn podcast focuses on the Lowder Center for Family Business and Entrepreneurship. This episode features Joshua Sahib, managing director of the center in the Harbert College of Business, who discusses the ways in which this initiative is combining outreach programming and academic studies to address the needs of family businesses and more.
January 16, 2024
As director of operational readiness, Auburn Aviation alumna Jaimi Tapp's job is to make sure more than 100 million passengers move through the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport without issue.
January 16, 2024
Olga Harrington Pinto, a postdoctoral researcher in Auburn's Department of Physics, was granted access to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) where she calculated the CO2 detection for the first time from Centaur 39P/Oterma.
January 12, 2024
Hae Sagong, assistant professor in Auburn University’s College of Nursing, focuses her research on Korean immigrants’ experiences with health care in the rural south.
January 10, 2024
Auburn is at work innovating and expanding the market for mass timber products, design, engineering and construction.
January 10, 2024
The same steps that Harold Franklin walked to integrate Auburn University 60 years ago served as the backdrop for a commemorative event on Jan. 9. A large group gathered in the atrium of the Mell Classroom Building, including a number of Auburn’s “firsts,” like the families of Harold Franklin, Josetta Brittain Matthews and James Owens.
January 09, 2024
Harbert College interviewed Asim Ali following the one-year anniversary of the launch of ChatGPT to find out how generative AI is impacting instruction and student performance at Auburn since then and how he and his organization are leading the adoption and powerful application of what he calls “the transformative technology of our time.”
January 09, 2024
Rod Turochy, associate director for Outreach for the Auburn University Transportation Research Institute and James Madison Hunnicutt professor in traffic engineering, and Larry Rilett, AUTRI Director, work with several housing authorities in the Black Belt region. Many of these neighborhoods have low automobile ownership rates, meaning more pedestrian traffic is on sidewalks and streets.
January 08, 2024
Rob Holmes, associate professor and chair of the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture program in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction, has been awarded $7.75 million in funding over the next five years as part of the Natural Infrastructure Innovation Project.
January 08, 2024
Auburn University’s College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment (CFWE) is launching the state’s first parks and recreation management undergraduate degree program to prepare students to lead an industry that is increasingly recognized as vital to well-being, community growth and diversification.
January 08, 2024
Auburn's College of Veterinary Medicine recently received a $246,495, three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to aid in the recruitment and support of more veterinarians in underserved areas of Alabama, particularly those practicing in the area of food animal medicine.
January 05, 2024
Sixty years ago, Harold A. Franklin registered for classes at Auburn University, integrating the institution as its first African American student. His courage paved the way for future generations, and his legacy lives on today.
January 04, 2024
The competition teams in Auburn University's McWhorter School of Building Science are successful because of the students' emphasis on preparation and their passion for learning and competing.
January 03, 2024
Hae Sagong, a faculty member in Auburn’s College of Nursing, is researching ways to make it easier for Korean immigrants over 50 to obtain health care in the U.S.
January 02, 2024
Harbert College of Business MBA candidate Ryan Kinnane finishes a race.
January 02, 2024
Auburn University awarded degrees to 11 students in Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore County on Dec. 16.
December 15, 2023
Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, Cartner’s Christmas Tree Farm has been named the “2024 Grand Champion Grower,” making them the official Christmas tree providers for the White House’s Blue Room in the 2024 holiday season.
December 15, 2023
Assistant Professor Andre da Silva is conducting cutting-edge research on ways to grow hops in Alabama within Auburn University’s Department of Horticulture.
December 15, 2023
Each summer, some of the best and brightest students at EARTH University in Costa Rica travel to Auburn to study and conduct research with the Auburn Aquaponics Project at the E.W. Shell Fisheries Center. Xavier Rios Flores and Faustin Mukunzi recently spent a semester working on projects in aquaponics and hydroponics that were inspired by their home countries.
December 14, 2023
Neuroscience Educators and Researchers in One Health (NEROH) is a group for students and faculty members in Auburn University’s College of Veterinary Medicine to come together to talk about neuroscience for human and animal health.
December 14, 2023
An episode of Planet Earth III airing in the U.S. this Saturday, Dec. 16, was made possible with the help of Assistant Professor Clint Penick in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology.
December 14, 2023
Between the four of them, School of Communication and Journalism seniors Weston Ball, Colin Beyersdorf, Zach Card and Tate Youngblood share one apartment, dozens of involvement responsibilities and hundreds of Auburn memories.
December 14, 2023
A desire to work in agriculture is something that many people have from an early age. But the story of Leanne Dillard is quite different. Early in her life, she wanted nothing to do with agriculture. So, how did she end up an Alabama Extension forage specialist and college professor?
December 13, 2023
A revolutionary means to safely meet the extreme demands of pulse-power electrical systems was demonstrated on Dec. 7.
December 12, 2023
If die-hard Auburn fans truly bleed orange and blue, then few families’ blood likely features more of the Tiger colors than the Brodbeck clan, whose immediate family features seven Auburn graduates. But a blood test would also show another liquid running just as prominently through the Brodbecks’ veins — coffee.
December 12, 2023
