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Just in time for Halloween, the Department of Theatre and Dance will present Monstersongs, a spooky musical adventure. In addition to song, dance and scares, Monstersongs allows Auburn students to work with the shows award-winning playwright.

Khosravi, an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has a goal to research flexible burrowing probes for site investigation and underground excavation. These probes are crucial for various development projects, including underground structures, buildings, dams and pavements, as they determine soil characteristics.

Auburn University and its alumni make a $6.3 billion economic contribution to the state of Alabama, including creating more than 30,000 jobs in addition to university employment, according to a new study.

The Auburn International Mentoring (AIM) Program helps student land international internship.

Mathematics educators from the SEC universities, along with several from other universities, held a summit on the University of Florida campus this fall to discuss how their universities can increase the number of new mathematics teachers they are producing.

The Beat Bama Food Drive (BBFD) is a student-led effort consisting of over 650 volunteers, making it the largest student organization dedicated to service at Auburn. Now in its 30th year, the organization has two main goals: change lives — one meal at a time through donations to the Food Bank of East Alabama and beat the University of Alabama.

Members of the campus community are invited to submit nominations for the 2023-24 Southeastern Conference, or SEC, Faculty Achievement Award. Nominations can be submitted online through Tuesday, November 21, 2023.

Honors student travels to Scandinavia thanks to a national prestigious scholarship and finds a world of opportunities.

Watson retiring after more than two decades.

Auburn Architecture faculty members Mary English and Xavier Vendrell are the winners of the international category in the 56th annual FAD Awards.

Tim Monk is a director on the New Glenn mission management team at Blue Origin.

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and young Auburn alumni like Jay James are leaders in the field. James, a 2015 graduate, serves as cybersecurity operations lead at his alma mater and helps oversee the Security Operations Center.

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LaFayette, Alabama currently has no urgent care facility, and the nearest hospital is a 30-minute drive, but with the OnMed Care Station installed in the Chambers County Community Health and Wellness Center, residents can experience affordable, private and real-time visits with Alabama-licensed health care professionals in a virtual setting.

A doctoral student collaborated with an international team to dive deeper into whether the COVID lockdown actually improved air quality around the world.

Auburn Professor Guillaume Laurent conducts research similar to the kind that recently garnered a team of scientists the Nobel Prize for Physics. In this Expert Answers Q&A, the physics professor explains the award's significance and how it may contribute to society.

The webinars will focus on health care benefits, investment planning, and much more.

The U.S. Army is again asking Auburn University's National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence (NCAME) to help keep its caissons rolling toward the cutting edge.

Participants are invited to join a study with the Harrison College of Pharmacy’s Dr. Amal Kaddoumi related to brain health and Alzheimer’s disease.

With October being Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the Everything Auburn podcast focuses on the world of cyber and how Auburn is a leader in this space. Everything Auburn features Jay James, cyber security operations center lead for Auburn, who talks about his role and provides helpful information when it comes to all things cyber.

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The College of Veterinary Medicine’s new Public & One Health undergraduate degree program seeks to prepare students to solve local and global health issues through multidisciplinary collaboration.

When faced with an unexpected, life-threatening medical emergency, business analytics assistant professor Kangkang Qi learned what it means to be a member of the Auburn family as colleagues stepped in to help him and his family.

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In this episode of the "Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know podcast," Assistant Professor of Sociology Tierra James walks us through her work deploying the community readiness model in Northeast Ohio to understand the cause of a rise in suicide rates in the African-American community.

After an extensive search, Kionna Coleman, assistant chief communications officer at North Carolina State University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), has been named executive director for the Office of Communications and Marketing (OCM), with an official start date of Nov. 1.

ICAMS will host a two-day event, starting with the Advanced Manufacturing Summit at 1 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 26, in the Brown-Kopel Center, followed by an open house on Friday, Oct. 27, at the ICAMS Manufacturing Facility located at 1490 Pumphrey Ave.

Ryan Pollard, a first-year graduate student, earned 'Best in Show' honors for his oral and poster presentation, "A Kinematics-Based Approach to Future Joint Angle Prediction."

 Auburn University Libraries will be hosting Open Access Week events Oct. 23-27 to highlight the importance of open access to research.

Several employees were named monthly winners for their service to Auburn.

The Veterans Resource Center aims to link veteran staff and faculty members with students connected to the military.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has proclaimed Oct. 23-28, 2023, as Alabama Extension Week. During this inaugural celebration, the Alabama Cooperative Extension System encourages people all over the state to engage and see what Extension has to offer by attending a local Extension Week event or visiting a county Extension office.

Doctoral student Brock Herron has spent the last four years studying how to safely transport food — first in Auburn University’s College of Agriculture as a master’s student in poultry science where he won the Master’s Thesis Award and currently within the Harbert College of Business’s Supply Chain Management program where he is a Presidential Scholar.

Full-time, benefit-eligible employees of Auburn have until Nov. 15 to select their benefit offerings -- including their health insurance plan -- for 2024.

'A perfect fit': Tommy Elliott is in his 50th season on Auburn football's stat crew.

Xavier Vendrell and Mary English teach in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture and are practicing architects in Chicago.

Amazon’s Delivery Service Partners recently began delivering packages on campus, with private contractors picking up and delivering most Amazon packages. Changes have been made to how Mail Services interacts with those deliveries for students and staff.

Campus Kitchen is a volunteer force of more than 300 students working to combat food insecurity. Students work in shifts to plan menus, pick up the food from the dining halls and deliver meals on campus and off.

Led by efforts from the College of Education and University Outreach, Auburn University has received an $18.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Postsecondary Education to provide greater access and opportunities to more than 6,500 Alabama middle school students.

A former nurse helps Michigan’s homeless create a new beginning, one piece of furniture at a time

You can’t miss him. A crown of long red hair and the stomp of his cowboy boots are a tell-tale sign that someone fun is coming down the hall at @auburnrecwellness. In this episode, Eric Smith, executive director of Recreation and Wellness, joins us to chat about how he and his team take a holistic approach to health and wellness.

Will Bryan, who is working toward a PhD in mechanical engineering, and Zakariya Veasy, a senior in computer science and software engineering, will compete in the Dec. 7 event.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine have awarded Auburn $550,000 over the next five years to establish a Gulf Scholars Program on campus.

Jaime S. Miller, director of Academic Support within the Office of the Provost, was awarded the Hunter Boylan Research Scholarship at the International College Learning Center Association awards banquet.

Soledad Peresin is an agent of change — whether leading women in science as Chair of WISE Institute, advancing DEI initiatives, fostering innovative solutions in her Sustainable Bio-based Materials Laboratory or mentoring a new generation of scientists.

October is the 20th installment of national Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Morgan Yordy, Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing, has spent years studying the relationship between canines and humans, but it wasn’t until she witnessed it in her own home that she realized just how much dogs can help people heal from trauma.

As World Mental Health Day is observed today, Oct. 10, Auburn University wants those in the community to know how it is responding to the needs of the Auburn Family and the public at large in the way of research and outreach services.

Each year, Auburn University recognizes its faculty members’ achievements in teaching, research, creative scholarship and outreach by awarding its prestigious faculty awards.