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Chon awarded research fellowship at USC Center on Public Diplomacy

As a Center on Public Diplomacy Research Fellow, Associate Professor of Public Relations Myoung-Gi Chon will conduct studies on public diplomacy between South Korea and the United States.

Published: January 17, 2024

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What do students carry in their backpacks?

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.

Published: January 17, 2024

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New assistant dean of biomedical sciences seeks to elevate the student experience, plus improve opportunities to develop and mentor future medical professionals in COSAM

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.

Published: January 17, 2024

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Learning to apply AI to international supply chain issues

Auburn students collaborated with students and businesses in Italy through an innovative new supply chain management course. The Auburn students then competed with their Italian counterparts in the AI Challenge at the University of Trento in early December.

Published: January 16, 2024

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Harbert College of Business

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Reed named executive director of intellectual property exchange at Auburn University

Patrick Reed, formerly assistant vice chancellor for innovation and partnerships at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, has been named the new executive director of the Intellectual Property Exchange (IPX) at Auburn University. He officially assumed the role on Jan. 2.

Published: January 16, 2024

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Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development

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Everything Auburn Podcast: Everything Entrepreneurs with Joshua Sahib

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.

Published: January 16, 2024

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Jaimi Tapp keeps the world moving through Atlanta airport

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.

Published: January 16, 2024

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Chemical engineering start-up nominated for prestigious Ignite Award

VivoSphere, a biomedical engineering start-up founded by chemical engineering researchers Elizabeth Lipke and Yuan Tian, has been selected as one of the most promising new ventures in the bio-diagnostics industry

Published: January 16, 2024

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Samuel Ginn College of Engineering

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'Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know' about mental health interventions

Interoception is how we feel and understand internal sensations like hunger, pain or heart rate. Associate Professor April Smith is developing a new tool that targets interoception as an avenue to improve mental health. Her online intervention, Reconnecting to Internal Sensations and Experiences (RISE), has already shown success in active-duty service members and clinical patients and is currently being tested in college students and veterinarians.

Published: January 16, 2024

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Auburn community gathers to honor life, legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Approximately 250 people gathered for the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Breakfast led by the National Forum for Black Public Administrators — East Alabama Chapter, in collaboration with Auburn University’s Office of University Outreach and the Office of Inclusion and Diversity (OID) on Monday, Jan. 15.

Published: January 15, 2024

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Bartol to Give Distinguished Graduate Faculty Lecture Feb. 13

Frank “Skip” Bartol, Professor of Anatomy, Physiology & Pharmacology, will give Auburn University’s 2023-24 Distinguished Graduate Faculty Lecture.

Published: January 13, 2024

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Laura Plexico named associate dean of engagement and graduate studies in the College of Liberal Arts

Professor Laura Plexico will oversees strategic engagement efforts, graduate studies and interdisciplinary and internationalization programs.

Published: January 12, 2024

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Auburn University urban forestry experts appointed to National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council

Michelle Cole, an urban forestry expert and academic administrator in the College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment (CFWE) at Auburn University and Beau Brodbeck, assistant director of field operations for the Alabama Cooperative Extension System have been appointed to the National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack.

Published: January 12, 2024

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College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment

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Assistant professor in CSSE appointed as associate editor at top-tier artificial intelligence journal

Pan He will help make editorial decisions for IEEE's Neural Networks and Learning Systems journal.

Published: January 12, 2024

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Samuel Ginn College of Engineering

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Auburn postdoc uses James Webb Space Telescope to detect carbon dioxide for the first time in a Centaur

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.

Published: January 12, 2024

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College of Sciences and Mathematics

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Korean Army colonel joins ISE as visiting scholar

Hyun Han, an Army colonel of the Republic of Korea (ROK) has joined the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) as a visiting scholar.

Published: January 11, 2024

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Samuel Ginn College of Engineering

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Employees can access LinkedIn Learning courses through ElevatED

LinkedIn Learning is available to all Auburn University, AUM, TES and Alabama Extension employees.

Published: January 11, 2024

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Employees recognized as Spirit of Excellence recipients

Seven employees were recently honored for their contributions to Auburn

Published: January 11, 2024

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Reimagining 3-D printing

Auburn is at work pioneering new approaches to additive manufacturing.

Published: January 10, 2024

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Samuel Ginn College of Engineering

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College of Nursing researcher aims to improve Korean immigrants’ access to health care

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.

Published: January 10, 2024

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Zoom email address domain change

Zoom domain is updating from @zoom.us to @zoom.com

Published: January 10, 2024

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Building for the future.

Auburn is at work innovating and expanding the market for mass timber products, design, engineering and construction.

Published: January 10, 2024

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Praising Harold Franklin's legacy, Auburn commemorates 60 years of integration

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.

Published: January 09, 2024

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Bartol to give Distinguished Graduate Faculty Lecture Feb. 13

Frank “Skip” Bartol, Professor of Anatomy, Physiology & Pharmacology, will give Auburn University’s 2023-24 Distinguished Graduate Faculty Lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 13, at 3:30 p.m. in the Newsom Auditorium of Bailey Hall at the College of Veterinary Medicine. A reception will follow.

Published: January 09, 2024

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Auburn educator on how AI can enhance instruction and student performance

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.”

Published: January 09, 2024

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Breeden Grant submissions open

Faculty are invited to apply for the Daniel F. Breeden Grant program by Monday, March 25.

Published: January 09, 2024

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Inclusive Excellence Awards applications open

The Office of Inclusion and Diversity (OID) is proud to sponsor the Inclusive Excellence Awards.

Published: January 08, 2024

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Inclusive Excellence Programming Grant applications open

The Office of Inclusion and Diversity (OID) encourages students, faculty and staff to create new opportunities to explore, advance and understand topics related to inclusive excellence.

Published: January 08, 2024

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Undergraduate Research Fellowship applications now open

The Office of Undergraduate Research is currently accepting applications from undergraduate students interested in participating in research fellowships, starting this summer.

Published: January 08, 2024

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Civil Engineering professors utilize $1.3M grant to improve pedestrian safety in local communities

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.

Published: January 08, 2024

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Auburn study reveals impact of free-ranging cat predation on global biodiversity

Researchers in Auburn University’s College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment (CFWE) have co-authored a study about the dietary breadth of free-ranging cats and the impact of their predation on global biodiversity. Recently published in Nature Communications, the study unveils the global impact of free-ranging house cats (Felis catus) on biodiversity by comprehensively assessing the species they consume. The research study, co-led by Auburn professors Chris Lepczyk and Jean Fantle-Lepczyk, drew from over 150 years of data across hundreds of studies from around the world.

Published: January 08, 2024

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College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment

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Landscape architecture professor pioneering natural approaches to Gulf Coast challenges

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.

Published: January 08, 2024

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Auburn’s new parks and recreation management degree preparing leaders for the growing recreation economy

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.

Published: January 08, 2024

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Alabama rural grant program aimed at state's underserved areas

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.

Published: January 05, 2024

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Franklin’s integration of Auburn laid foundation for future generations

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.

Published: January 04, 2024

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Auburn building science students use enthusiasm, ingenuity to dominate construction management competitions

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.

Published: January 03, 2024

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College of Architecture, Design & Construction

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Registration Open for The Auburn Forum on Southern Art and Culture

Exhibiting artists and scholars explore themes on Saturday, Feb. 3 at the museum

Published: January 02, 2024

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Patient experience sparks College of Nursing researcher’s path

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.

Published: January 02, 2024

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Kinesiology faculty share tips for keeping New Year’s resolutions

With the fresh start of the new year, many people resolve to achieve goals and make lifestyle changes, often related to health, wellness and physical fitness. How can they ensure they keep their resolutions throughout the year instead of ditching them after a few weeks? Experts from Auburn University’s School of Kinesiology have some insight.

Published: January 02, 2024

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Associate professor in CSSE part of $1.8 million NIH study to pioneer platform for the analysis of single-cell data

Tin Nguyen will create an easy-to-use web interface through software programs designed in his laboratory.

Published: January 02, 2024

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Samuel Ginn College of Engineering

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Harbert College of Business MBA candidate named SEC’s Men’s Cross Country Scholar-Athlete of the Year

Harbert College of Business MBA candidate Ryan Kinnane finishes a race.

Published: January 02, 2024

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Kerpelman named Auburn University's associate vice president for research

Jennifer Kerpelman, professor and associate dean for research, graduate studies and outreach in the College of Human Sciences, has been named Auburn University’s associate vice president for research, effective Jan. 1.

Published: December 15, 2023

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First class: Auburn University graduates first class of students at Staton Correctional Facility

Auburn University awarded degrees to 11 students in Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore County on Dec. 16.

Published: December 15, 2023

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Christmas tree triumph

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.

Published: December 15, 2023

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Auburn scientist spearheads leading research to help hops grow in Alabama

Assistant Professor Andre da Silva is conducting cutting-edge research on ways to grow hops in Alabama within Auburn University’s Department of Horticulture.

Published: December 15, 2023

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College of Agriculture

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College of Agriculture helps international interns develop practices to benefit home countries

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.

Published: December 14, 2023

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Neuroscience group breaks down walls in pursuit of One Health

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.

Published: December 14, 2023

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Penick serves as scientific advisor for episode of Planet Earth III

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.

Published: December 14, 2023

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