AUBURN - “Beethoven & Me,” a music education project designed for elementary students in Notasulga, has introduced music instruction to the students and has earned an award for its creator.
Jane Kuehne, an assistant professor in Auburn University’s Department of Curriculum and Teaching in the College of Education, recently received the 2010 Robby D. Gunstream Education [...]
AUBURN - Auburn University students studying to become pharmacists must learn about science as well as the day-to-day, personal relationships that develop with patients. One of the ways the Harrison School of Pharmacy teaches students both aspects is through its Objective Structured Clinical Examinations, or OSCEs (pronounced “ah-skeez”), given at the end of spring and [...]
AUBURN - Auburn University Ombudsperson Jim Wohl has been reappointed to a three-year term, Provost Mary Ellen Mazey announced recently.
Wohl served as ombudsperson during a two-year trial period for the position that was established in 2008. He acts as a neutral party in helping employees and the university address workplace conflicts and concerns.
“The trial period [...]
AUBURN - The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art will open a new exhibition of drawings featuring 42 works by European painters, sculptors and draftsmen on July 31.
The visiting exhibition, “Old Master Drawings from the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art,” will be in the museum’s Chi Omega-Hargis Gallery through Nov. 6.
With works [...]
AUBURN - Despite their sometimes destructive consequences, can earthquakes actually be helpful events? The answer is a resounding “yes,” according to a team of two students and two professors from the University of Alabama and Auburn University.
Students Stanton Ingram, from the University of Alabama, and James Taylor, from Auburn University, along with their professors, Andrew Goodliffe, [...]
AUBURN - Stephen “Ash” Bullard, assistant professor in the Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures in Auburn University’s College of Agriculture, recently received a $145,000 National Science Foundation for Rapid Response Research grant for work related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The 12-month study will be conducted by Bullard and [...]
AUBURN - The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University will continue its Saturday Art Club, a hands-on experience for students from kindergarten through high school, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. each Saturday through Aug. 7.
Students will work with materials at one of three stations designed for their age group: kindergarten [...]
AUBURN - The Auburn University Center for Disability Research and Service has officially opened, offering additional resources to improve the lives of Alabama citizens with significant disabilities.
Housed in the Dawson Building, the center is an extension of the Department of Special Education, Rehabilitation, Counseling/School Psychology in the College of Education and will focus on developing [...]
AUBURN - Freshmen enrolled in Auburn University’s Liberal Arts and the Public Good Learning Community spent spring semester discussing and learning first-hand how reading enriches the human experience. They recently found out they had earned more than just a grade for their efforts.
As their final project, the students wrote grant applications for a total of [...]
AUBURN - The Auburn University Speech and Hearing Clinic will hold its annual hearing aid open house July 14-16, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day.
This event is free and open to adults with confirmed hearing loss who are experiencing difficulty hearing and understanding speech, especially in challenging listening situations, and who are candidates [...]
AUBURN - High school sophomores and juniors can visit the Auburn University campus Friday, July 23, for a fast-paced, one-day science program introducing them to the diverse fields of study available in Auburn’s College of Agriculture.
The program, “Discover Your World: Auburn Edition,” begins at 8:30 a.m. and ends at 4:30 p.m. Students will have the [...]
AUBURN - Auburn University is partnering with conservation and wildlife officials to help the eastern indigo snake, the largest snake in the U.S. and a threatened species, once again become a thriving presence in Alabama.
On June 16, Auburn researchers, along with conservation agencies from both Alabama and Georgia, released 17 juvenile eastern indigo snakes into [...]
AUBURN - In a strategic move to strengthen its efforts in the discipline of food science and technology, Auburn University has administratively moved its food science program from the College of Human Sciences back into the College of Agriculture, its original academic home.
The Auburn University Board of Trustees approved the move at its June 18 [...]
AUBURN - A sponsored research agreement between Auburn University and an Alabama company has spawned patent-pending technologies for the production of alternative fuels from waste streams.
Under an agreement with Masada Resource Group, researchers in Auburn’s Department of Chemical Engineering have developed a series of technologies that utilize waste streams from pulp and paper mills and [...]
AUBURN - Auburn University’s DesignSeed program was recently recognized with a 2010 Innovator Award by Southern Growth Policies Board, a regional economic development think tank. DesignSeed creates businesses in rural and distressed areas of Alabama based on innovative product designs created by Auburn’s industrial design students. The 2010 Innovator Awards were chosen from creative initiatives [...]
Auburn University (AU or Auburn) is a state university located in Auburn, Alabama, USA. With more than 23,000 students and 1,200 faculty, it is the largest university in the state, and according to U.S. News & World Report, has a selectivity rating of "more selective." Auburn was chartered on February 1, 1856, as the East Alabama Male College, a private liberal arts school affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The college was donated to the state of Alabama in 1872, when it became the state's public land-grant university under the Morrill Act and was renamed the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama. In 1892, the college became the first four-year coeducational school in the state. The college was renamed the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (API) in 1899. In 1960, its name was officially changed to Auburn University, as it had long been popularly known. Auburn is one of only 13 American universities designated as a land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research center.
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