Pharmacy's Kim Garza is using virtual reality to transform how people learn, whether they’re patients facing a new diagnosis or students preparing for a career in pharmacy.
July 23, 2025
Harrison Ranier, a junior in the College of Human Sciences, and Liam Heary, a junior in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, won $8,000 in seed funding at the SEC Start-Up.
July 15, 2025
The new major in biological and agricultural technology management aims to produce graduates who use technology to solve problems.
July 14, 2025
Mechanical engineering doctoral student Ehsan Vaghefi landed a highly selective internship with a Silicon Valley startup that has been designing and developing what they call "the world's first real flying car."
July 08, 2025
As the head of Auburn's culinary science program, Mark Traynor ensures all students learn the entire lifecycle of food, from growing and preparing to serving, sharing and composting.
July 08, 2025
Auburn University's TIGER Tech Leaders is an innovative idea-sharing group that works to provide best practices and promote success with the use of AI-related tools like Microsoft Copilot.
July 08, 2025
Karol Renfroe knows a thing or two about students. After spending decades as a nurse and educator, she cites investing in Auburn students as the most meaningful part of her career.
July 07, 2025
Numerous Auburn University faculty members have implemented artificial intelligence (AI) into their classrooms in unique and innovative ways.
June 23, 2025
Students in the College of Human Sciences' Interior Design program got a multitude of experiences packed into the spring semester thanks to a unique community outreach project and a partnership with a local homebuilder to expand the use of cutting-edge virtual reality technology.
June 18, 2025
A team of aerospace engineering students, who continued working on their project after graduating in May, took top honors in NASA’s 2025 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems – Academic Linkage Competition Forum, where undergraduate and graduate teams competed to develop new concepts for operating on the Moon, Mars and beyond.
June 18, 2025
Mechanical engineering sophomore Eliana Floyd, who has been into cars for as long as she can remember, just standing in pit lane would have made the hours of work worth it. But to actually win a race — a national championship — at Talladega? That was more electric than the car itself.
June 17, 2025
The new option, from the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering and College of Sciences and Mathematics, is another step toward solidifying Auburn as a leader in training space industry professionals.
June 16, 2025
The Public and One Health program's first two graduates are prepared to make a difference in a wide range of fields, including environmental health, epidemiology and health promotion and policy.
June 16, 2025
Junior Eirik Mulder earned the award which recognizes outstanding students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics who show exceptional academic performance, ingenuity and potential to make meaningful contributions to their fields.
June 12, 2025
Over the past year, more than 800 First Year Engineering Seminar students learned sketchnoting, a highly effective style of note taking that combines traditional text with symbols and illustrations.
June 06, 2025
Auburn Aviation's Jill Glidewell is a former U.S. Air Force and Delta Air Lines pilot who is educating the next generation of aviators.
June 04, 2025
In Professor Daniel Tauritz’s sections of COMP 2240: Discrete Structures, computer science students don’t just solve math problems — they experience them.
June 02, 2025
Auburn faculty members and researchers are embracing artificial intelligence in the classroom and the laboratory, spearheading innovative methods in teaching and research.
May 29, 2025
Kyle Castellano, who logged a 4.0 GPA throughout his four years on campus, is the first — and only — Auburn student to win both the university's Master’s Thesis Award and Distinguished Dissertation Award.
May 20, 2025
COSAM's Haibo Zou recently was named a fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his work in mathematics and geology.
May 19, 2025
After growing up in a military family, senior Melissa Garnes now conducts and shares relevant research through Military REACH under the mentorship of Professor Mallory Lucier-Greer.
May 02, 2025
With an academic career spanning nearly 50 years, almost 40 at Auburn, Overtoun Jenda has left a mark on the field of mathematics and thousands of students that's impossible to calculate.
April 25, 2025
Biosystems engineering's David Blersch is leading two research projects in the Green Infrastructure Lab to address using natural systems to remove pollutants from wastewater.
April 22, 2025
Auburn University's School of Aviation program features a group of talented women nearly three times the national average who are serving in leadership roles.
April 17, 2025
Andy Young has worked behind the scenes for some of the biggest names in sports. Now he’s teaching the next generation of professionals in Auburn as a journalism-sports production professor.
April 11, 2025
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
Faculty member Tiffani Chidume studies the use of cutting-edge simulation technology, including VR, in nursing education.
March 11, 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'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
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
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
Thomas Dunn, an award-winning scenery and lighting designer known for creating transcendent environments through light and space, is helping Auburn Theatre & Dance students bring their next performance to life.
February 25, 2025
The folks tasked with naming the SEC Men’s Swimming and Diving Scholar-Athlete of the Year had it pretty easy this go round. A program record in the 500-yard freestyle, an event in which he ranks 11th nationally. Scoring the second-fastest time in program history in the 1000-yard freestyle against the arch-rival. Five All-American honors. A 4.00 grade point average in mechanical engineering. Yep, Mason Mathias — pruned hands now.
February 24, 2025
Brandon Barnett, a senior in aerospace engineering, used his skills and classroom knowledge to build a functional jet engine in the Makerspace on campus.
February 18, 2025
Alumnus Matthew Capps, who earned a bachelor’s degree in ornamental horticulture and a Master of Landscape Architecture, is the new director of Alabama State Parks.
February 17, 2025
Excellence is a term that Pam Hennessey has become synonymous with, and that’s why she was recently awarded the 2025 Provost Advising Award for Outstanding Advising Administrator.
February 14, 2025
Thanks to Florabot, an AI-driven robot developed by researchers in the Smart Systems Lab within the Department of Biosystems Engineering, farmers may soon be able to assess entire rows of azaleas, hydrangeas, petunias and many other ornamental plants in the time it takes you to read this article.
February 13, 2025
Associate Professor Constantinos Kyriakis and Assistant Professor Maria Naskou met in Greece over a decade ago and have supported one another in science and life ever since.
February 13, 2025
Gary Martin and Marilyn Strutchens, married since 1996 and Auburn colleagues since 2000, share a passion for mathematics and helping the next generation of teachers.
February 11, 2025
Sydney Freeman Jr. is a first-generation college student and two-time Auburn alum. He was the first African American male to attain full professorship at the University of Idaho, and just last fall, was one of 10 people chosen as a Fellow of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
February 11, 2025
The SCIP program focuses on increasing mental health services in rural Alabama schools by preparing school counseling students to collaborate with school nurses and ESOL teachers.
February 06, 2025
Fourth-year pharmacy students have the opportunity to apply their knowledge and skills to patients on Native American reservations.
February 05, 2025
