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Lorenzo Cremaschi, a professor in Auburn University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been named the university’s director of undergraduate research. He started the new role Jan. 1.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development Alejandra Y. Castillo recently announced that 50 organizations—including nonprofits, institutions of higher education, state government agencies and other entrepreneurship-focused organizations—from 26 states will receive grants to support programs that will fuel innovation and economic development.
The negative impact humans can have on their own environment is constantly on full display, with climate change, land alterations and harmful algal blooms impacting people’s lives daily.
Auburn’s Recreation and Wellness Center is offering several seasonal services that aim to help Auburn students, faculty and staff in meeting a New Year’s resolution to exercise and become more fit.
While competing on Gordon Ramsey’s new cooking show “Next Level Chef,” Auburn alumnus Jonathan Harrison was cooking with a cause: to bring Southern cooking to the world by being the face of progressive Southern food.
For Auburn University alumnus Cody Sanders, the knowledge and experience he gained while on the Plains has helped him write messages for the nation’s highest office, as well as clients and organizations looking to reach the American people.
Paul Holley never expected to end up in academia.
The Bonnie Plants Foundation is demonstrating its commitment to agricultural education through a multiyear donation to establish a new two-acre Children’s Garden and Pollinator Garden within Auburn University’s 16-acre Transformation Garden project.
Marnii Peel, a student in the Collaborative-Special Education Teacher Education Specialist program in Auburn University’s College of Education, will kick off the new year with a unique distinction: she passed her National Board Certification for Professional Teaching before she even completed her degree.
He still remembers it. It was exciting. Dongye “Don” Zhao was a graduate research assistant at Lehigh University. He got an email from a researcher interested in a paper he’d written a year earlier—his first published in a journal—on trace contaminant sorption through polymeric ligand exchange.
Artificial intelligence, or AI, support systems, automation and robotics have the potential to transform agriculture. A group of Southeastern universities is coordinating a conference to address this potential at Auburn University in the spring.
Auburn University’s Desmond Layne, head of the Department of Horticulture, has been honored by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, or APLU, for leading Auburn’s Transformation Garden project and his completion of the APLU’s Food Systems Leadership Institute, or FSLI.
Auburn University School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences graduate student Summia Rahman recently won the university’s Three Minute Thesis, or 3MT, competition. Rahman will advance to represent Auburn at the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools’ Three Minute Thesis regional competition in February in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Research projects across Alabama, including three at Auburn University, will benefit from more than $1.2 million in funding from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Alabama.
Five Auburn University graduates, all highly accomplished in their fields, have been selected to receive the highest honor given by the Auburn Alumni Association at Auburn’s 2022 Lifetime Achievement Awards dinner and ceremony on Feb. 26. The association also will honor its Young Alumni Achievement Award winner.