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11/20/2014

Benjamin Franklin wanted the national bird to be the turkey instead of the eagle, because he thought eagles were afflicted by bad moral character.

11/19/2014

Benjamin Franklin wanted the national bird to be the turkey instead of the eagle, because he thought eagles were afflicted by bad moral character.

11/19/2014

The United States is not meeting international standards during its airport screenings for pandemics such as Ebola, says Auburn University Professor David Pascoe, who serves as the U.S. delegate on the International Standards Committee for Thermal Imagers for Human Temperature Screening.

11/19/2014

As part of a self-study, Auburn University stakeholders are being asked to provide input concerning the university's engagement in the region's economic development initiatives.

11/19/2014

Auburn University's Southeastern Raptor Center has begun the first in a series of live online auctions of one-of-a-kind jesses and lures handcrafted especially for the Auburn eagle's gameday flight to support the center's mission of rehabilitation and conservation.

11/18/2014

Gov. Robert Bentley is seeking nominations for an open position on the Auburn University Board of Trustees.

11/17/2014

Allen Landers in Auburn University's College of Sciences and Mathematics is known to many school teachers across Alabama as a modern-day plainsman – for both his ties to Auburn and his family's roots in the Kansas plains – and a trailblazer for his work bridging the gap between K-12 and college in a critical area of education.

11/14/2014

Alabama could potentially be the new home of the Argentine Black and White Tegu, a large predatory lizard reaching 4 feet in length and more than 10 pounds.

11/13/2014

Two Auburn University researchers will study the efficacy and safety of generic drugs with a $400,000 grant from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Richard Hansen and Jingjing Qian, of the Harrison School of Pharmacy's Department of Health Outcomes Research and Policy, recently received the two-year grant to support their studies.

11/13/2014

Auburn University graduate Ashton Richardson has been named a recipient of the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, becoming one of only 40 students in the United States selected for the honor, which enables them to attend their choice of university in the United Kingdom.

11/12/2014

The historic integration of Tuskegee High School will be the centerpiece of a live performance by Auburn University's Mosaic Theatre Company on Monday, Nov. 17, at 6:30 p.m. at Tuskegee First United Methodist Church, 202 S. Main St.

11/11/2014

The Veterans Resource Center at Auburn University will host a Veterans and Family Resource Expo on Saturday, Nov. 15, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Auburn University Arena.

11/10/2014

A ribbon-cutting ceremony Nov. 7 at Auburn University's new covered equestrian arena marked the official opening of the facility that is home to the three-time national champion Auburn equestrian team.

11/10/2014

Common Threads: Empowering Communities through Education in the Arts will hold the last in its series of public events on Friday, Nov. 14, and Saturday, Nov. 15 in Auburn. Presented by the Alabama Folklife Association and the Women's Resource Center, a unit of Women's Initiatives at Auburn University, Common Threads is a series of six programs and workshops that promote the study, appreciation and practice of Alabama's quilting tradition. The two-day event focuses on the life and quilts of the late Mozell Benson, a 2001 National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellow from Waverly, Alabama.

11/10/2014

Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art is home to a growing collection of more than 2,000 works of art with strengths in American modernism. Curators are considering adding works from earlier time periods with support from Auburn alumni and the community.

11/10/2014

Scotland native Stuart Loch says he knew from the first day he began teaching at Auburn University that he would find it to be very rewarding.

11/07/2014

The Auburn University Board of Trustees on Friday approved initiation of the second phase of a plan to renovate Samford Park. The plan calls for 30 live oak trees, grown from acorns taken from the iconic Auburn Oaks 12 years ago and now 15 feet tall, to be planted along a new brick walkway that will connect Samford Hall to Toomer's Corner.

11/07/2014

The Alabama Power Foundation has made a significant philanthropic investment to create the Charles D. McCrary Institute at Auburn University, as announced today by the Auburn University Board of Trustees. The gift is being made in honor of McCrary's recent retirement as president and chief executive officer of Alabama Power Company. McCrary, a 1973 mechanical engineering graduate of Auburn, completed a 40-year career with the company in April.

11/06/2014

Auburn University, known for its spirit, tradition and visually appealing campus, has launched a program to improve and maintain the campus' beauty. The Adopt-A-Spot program has been created to help usher campus stewardship and sustainability through litter and recyclable collection.

11/06/2014

The pivotal role of Alabama's 167th Infantry Regiment during World War I will be the subject of a public book talk by Nimrod Frazer, author of "Send the Alabamians: World War I Fighters in the Rainbow Division," on Tuesday, Nov. 11, at 3 p.m. in the Caroline Marshall Draughon Auditorium on the ground floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library.

11/05/2014

The Disabled American Veterans organization, or DAV, will provide the Auburn University campus an opportunity to have private, personal meetings with certified National Service Officers, or NSOs, on Friday, Nov. 7.A DAV van will be outside of James E. Foy Hall from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

11/04/2014

Auburn University will combine the Office of Human Resources and the Office of Payroll and Benefits and move them to the new Auburn University Administrative Complex at the East Glenn Adminstrative Center, effective Jan. 1.

11/03/2014

For the past four years, Auburn Associate Professor Teresa Gore has used a simulated exercise to teach students how to treat patients with infectious diseases. This year, senior nursing students participated in a simulation of how infectious diseases such as Ebola can easily spread to health care workers through patient care.

11/03/2014

Encouraging, inspiring, a veteran entertainer and having no equal – these are ways Debbie R. Folkerts is described by her students and colleagues.