Research and Innovation
A graphic showing researchers using AI in a lab

Auburn University researchers are utilizing the ever-changing technology of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance and streamline their work.

August 01, 2025

Turner Construction Company hosted university administrators and city of Huntsville officials at a topping off ceremony for the new 50,000-square-foot addition to the Auburn University Applied Research Institute (AUARI) in Cummings Research Park.

July 29, 2025

Cotton gin processing

A fierce battle is being waged between cotton and polyester, with polyester edging ahead as the most widely used fiber in the world, for now. In fact, synthetic materials account for more than half of today’s overall market share.

July 29, 2025

Researcher in safety gloves holding a small vial of amber liquid up to the light in a laboratory setting.

With support from the ACS Petroleum Research Fund, COSAM researchers are uncovering how tar-like petroleum molecules called asphaltenes could power future breakthroughs in electronics and energy storage.

July 28, 2025

When Engineering's Pengyu Chen received a prestigious national award, recognizing outstanding potential in research and education five years ago, the confidence was well-placed. His research on sensors that quickly and accurately detect several immune system signals at once in a single drop of blood continues to draw national attention.

July 24, 2025

several people with golden shovels break down on research facility

Auburn University and the City of Orange Beach broke ground on its latest collaboration — the Gulf Coast Engineering Research Station — which will serves as a permanent hub for studying coastal environments and communities.

July 24, 2025

a female student is wearing a virtual reality headset and haptic gloves

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

A student looks into a test tube in a lab

The week-long, enriching summer science experience brings high-achieving high schoolers to campus to explore advanced science topics with College of Sciences and Mathematics faculty members.

July 21, 2025

Jay Ramapuram works at a piece of equipment in his lab with two students flanking him.

Jay Ramapuram is just the second Auburn faculty member to be elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering's College of Fellows, a distinguished group of only the top 2% of medical and biological engineers worldwide.

July 16, 2025

three men chatting on podcast set

Asim Ali, director of Auburn's Biggio Center, stops by the Everything Auburn podcast to chat about how he gives students and colleagues the tools and know-how to harness the cutting-edge power of AI technology.

July 15, 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

power grid

What happens to power systems during extreme heat? Are blackouts inevitable as climate change intensifies? What can help? Professor Eduard Muljadi answers these questions and more.

July 08, 2025

A man stands in a cotton field

A postdoctoral fellow in the College of Agriculture is mapping the presence of pathogens causing cotton seedling diseases across the Southeast — something that’s never been done before.

July 07, 2025

The Rome Summer Archival Seminar group posing for a photo in front of the Vatican

Johnathon Keller, a doctoral student in the Department of History, reflects on his month in Rome, Italy, researching abroad at the Vatican and Rome’s national libraries.

July 07, 2025

A dog in a vest that says

The mission of Auburn’s Canine Performance Sciences, housed in the College of Veterinary Medicine, is to improve dog detection technology by studying how dogs smell, behave and perform physically.

July 02, 2025

wheat field

Auburn's BISR system has been proposed to aid in early detection of biological threats to the nation's agriculture, environment and food systems.

June 25, 2025

An AI image of a college professor teaching a class about AI

Numerous Auburn University faculty members have implemented artificial intelligence (AI) into their classrooms in unique and innovative ways.

June 23, 2025

zero gravity

Engineering's Masoud Mahjouri-Samani successfully tested a compact nanoparticle 3D printer aboard a series of NASA-sponsored parabolic flights simulating zero gravity.

June 20, 2025

Interior design students work on a virtual reality project.

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

Georgios Arsenious leads discussion about urban forestry

Funded by the U.S. Forest Service Urban and Community Forestry Program, Green Up Alabama is a new collaboration between Auburn and the Alabama Cooperative Extension System that will engage local partners to improve the long-term success of urban greening initiatives.

June 18, 2025

three people on podcast set

Everything Auburn Podcast interviews College of Education's Christine Drew about her new book Spectrum of Independence and how it's helping to prepare children with intellectual disabilities for the transition to college life.

June 18, 2025

forages

From the Coastal Plain to the Black Belt, Alabama cattle producers are utilizing forage systems to their advantage to meet the challenges of modern agriculture.

June 13, 2025

headshot of eirik mulder with a dark background. Eirik is in a blue suit and tie with glasses on

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

A woman smiling during a therapy session

The way we talk about opioid use disorder, according to recent research by Assistant Professor of Communication Victoria Ledford, could significantly affect the policies designed to address it.

June 12, 2025

Wendi, Carter and Dalton sit in comfy chairs with microphone stands to record a podcast

Wendi Weimar applies her theater training to keep students engaged and learning when teaching biomechanics in the School of Kinesiology.

June 10, 2025

A young man holds an IV pole with lights on top

Partnering with KYRA Medical, students and faculty from industrial design and engineering collaborated on a device that eliminates the rush to change IV bags during arthroscopic surgeries.

June 09, 2025

An artist conceptual rendering of the new facility for the College of Human Sciences

The College of Human Sciences newly planned state-of-the-art building to be known as the Barbara Drummond Thorne Academic and Research Facility will be constructed along the same footprint as Spidle Hall and spanning all the way to Roosevelt Drive.

June 05, 2025

a close up of grass

Auburn expert Dave Han tells you when to water, mow and fertilize your lawn this summer.

June 03, 2025

Chemical Engineering's Symone Alexander has found a way to create a clean alternative to synthetic fiber using pecan shells.

June 03, 2025

XO Armor, a company pioneering on-site 3D printing for custom-fitting protective orthotics for professional and college level sports teams, is expanding into the defense sector, where it hopes to leverage its innovative technology to address critical military needs.

May 21, 2025

Shiwen Mao

Shiwen Mao explains how advancing technologies, including 6G, are transforming how people communicate and access information.

May 19, 2025

Haibo Zou holding up two rocks in his geology lab.

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

Myoung-Gi Chon

Associate Professor of Communication Myoung-Gi Chon’s research, recently featured in a congressional briefing series on U.S.-Korea relations, explains how popularity fuels international politics.

May 12, 2025

a close up of bees

Auburn's Bee Center is leading the charge to address the health crisis of honey bees and native bees, which poses a significant threat to agriculture and ecosystems worldwide.

May 07, 2025

Three people look at a notebook in the woods

Forest health Professor Lori Eckhardt is partnering with the City of Mobile and Alabama Port Authority to build sentinel gardens, which serve as early detection systems for invasive pests and diseases, at the port.

May 05, 2025

a woman hands a young lady an award

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

irrigation over corn field

Alabama farmers considering investing in irrigation equipment will soon have a free, comprehensive online tool — built by researchers in the College of Agriculture — to help them decide.

May 01, 2025

A stock image of an insulin shot and sugar

Kevin Huggins is examining the use of glucagon-like peptide-1, better known as GLP-1, medications that have become immensely popular in the U.S.

April 30, 2025

Overtoun Jenda talks to a young student

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

a doctoral student stands behind some lab-created wetland models

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

A young man uses a drill on stacked wood

With the addition of a CLT press, the interdisciplinary faculty of the Auburn Mass Timber Collaborative can manufacture and test mass timber products without leaving campus.

April 21, 2025

Ben Timm checks on Larry Green before sitting him with a brace.

Seven students — six in engineering and one in exercise science — helped an Auburn Family member by developing a custom brace to combat dropped head syndrome.

April 17, 2025

Michael Zabala sits a table with a laptop next to him

Mechanical engineering's Michael Zabala will be a visiting professor for six months in Italy's Museo Galileo, a museum dedicated to astronomer and scientist Galileo Galilei, providing him with the opportunity to pursue the strong historical ties between biomechanics and Renaissance-era scientists.

April 15, 2025

Morgan snuggles with a golden retriever dog

Nursing faculty member Morgan Yordy studies a wide range of health-related topics, including animal-assisted therapy, emotional and sensory regulation and interdisciplinary collaboration opportunities for school nurses.

April 10, 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

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

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