November

Auburn University’s College of Architecture, Design and Construction has been awarded a $635,000 grant by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, to develop housing solutions for people with disabilities and with aging in place. This is the largest HUD grant ever awarded to Auburn University and the first in over a decade.

The Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine is directing a program to strengthen veterinary services to designated underserved rural populations in Kentucky through a grant provided by the USDA’s Veterinary Services Grant Program and in partnership with Kentucky veterinarians.

Auburn researchers will use an almost $321,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture grant to field-test a novel vaccine that would effectively and economically control one of the most serious bacterial infections in the aquaculture industry today.

The public will have an opportunity to witness the enthusiastic, sports-like environment surrounding BEST Robotics at the 2017 South’s BEST championship at Auburn University in Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum on Dec. 2 and 3. The championship will feature the top 54 teams from five southeastern states.

The Auburn University Research Initiative in Cancer, or AURIC, has announced the recipients for its 2018 research grants programs for faculty and students.

The Auburn Alumni Association has added four new members to its Board of Directors: J. Benjamin “Ben” Chappell of Homewood, Alabama; Douglas E. Kilton of Houston, Texas; Jennifer G. Moore of Hampton Cove, Alabama; and Michael C. Rogers of Mobile, Alabama

Auburn University Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs Johnny Green has been named one of seven community leaders from across Alabama's Black Belt region as a fellow in the Delta Regional Authority's Delta Leadership Institute.

Following the launch of Auburn University’s Critical Conversations Speaker Series this fall, the university has announced the slate of distinguished scholars and thought leaders who will visit the campus in spring 2018.

The search for Auburn University's next athletics director is set to begin immediately with assistance from a six-person advisory committee.

Auburn University student Matthew Rogers has been named a Rhodes Scholar, one of only 32 U.S. students to receive the honor to study at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Rogers, a senior majoring in software engineering, will pursue a doctorate in cyber security.

Advanced art history students at Auburn University get a hands-on look at the world of art curation right in their own backyard and have a unique experience for their portfolios. Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art welcomes students to curate a two-part exhibition in the Chi Omega-Hargis Gallery. Exhibition one is titled "The American City: Tourists and Denizens" and exhibition two focuses on "Division of Labor." Museum staff will feature the student's research in an online series of collection spotlights.

Retired U.S. Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey, a decorated combat veteran who held high-profile roles in the Pentagon and the White House, will discuss "Lessons in Leadership" during an open campus lecture hosted by Auburn University's Raymond J. Harbert College of Business on Wednesday, Nov. 29.

Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art will present “Making Trouble with the Guerrilla Girls” on Thursday, Nov. 30, at 6 p.m. at Telfair Peet Theatre. The art museum is bringing in one of the anonymous artists, also known as Frida Kahlo, to perform a “one girl gig” in observance of the 125 Years of Auburn Women. The event is open to the public, and free advance tickets are available at www.jcsm.auburn.edu. A pop-up Museum Shop will feature masks, pins, scarfs, mugs and other official Guerrilla Girls merchandise.

Janelle Green can't be the only person at Auburn University whose life has been touched by a premature birth.

Delta Air Lines, the Delta Air Lines Foundation and the Jacobson Family Foundation granted $6.2 million to support multiple programs at Auburn University during an event at the Auburn University Regional Airport on Friday.

In response to recent phishing scams, data breaches and sensitive data compromises across the country, the Office of Information Technology, or OIT, is encouraging the Auburn employees and students to help slim down and better protect their documents.

An Auburn University faculty member has joined an elite group of scientists and engineers whose contributions to planetary science have warranted an asteroid naming.

The Jay and Susie Gogue Performing Arts Center at Auburn University, a new 85,000-square-foot venue slated for completion by August 2019, is the focus of the This is Auburn Speaker Series event set for Friday, Nov. 17, at 3 p.m. at the Auburn Alumni Center. Chris Heacox, inaugural executive director of the Performing Arts Center, will present “The Future of the Performing Arts at Auburn University” and discuss the impact that the center will have on the performances and educational experiences available to students at Auburn.

The dean of Auburn’s Harbert College of Business was named the university’s next provost and vice president for academic affairs following a unanimous vote by the Board of Trustees today.

Auburn University has selected Jaime Hammer as its new general counsel, following a national search. Her appointment is effective Jan. 8, 2018.

The holiday celebrations begin early this year with the Auburn University Department of Theatre’s production of “A Civil War Christmas.” Opening in the Telfair Peet Theatre on Thursday, Nov. 9, at 7:30 p.m., “A Civil War Christmas” weaves together a tapestry of stories surrounding fictional and historical characters with holiday music, marches, hymns and spirituals of the period to tell a story of companionship and communal hope arising from one of our nation’s darkest hours.

Three Auburn University programs and two faculty members have been recognized in DesignIntelligence magazine’s annual survey of “America’s Best Architecture & Design Schools 2017-2018.”

The College of Human Sciences at Auburn University will honor FEED co-founder and CEO Lauren Bush Lauren and former Major League Baseball player Tim Hudson and his wife Kim, both notable philanthropists, at the 24th Annual International Quality of Life Awards on Monday, Dec. 4, at the United Nations in New York City.

Auburn University’s Raymond J. Harbert College of Business improved to No. 13 nationally among online MBA programs in The Princeton Review’s newly released ranking of top business schools.

An Auburn University study on the black bear population in Alabama shows a growing number of bears in northeast Alabama and a distinct genetic group in southwest Alabama.

A global wireless network between universities is giving faculty, staff and students freedom to access WiFi when their work takes them away from Auburn.

Auburn University’s Southeastern Raptor Center and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, or DNR, will return a young, healthy bald eagle to the wild Saturday, Nov. 11, at Lake Park, Georgia.

The Southeastern Raptor Center at Auburn University is well known for its educational and wildlife conservation programs and for its work rehabilitating and releasing raptors back into the wild. With the acquisition of a new 2017 van, the center now is positioned to broaden its outreach.

Closing out the exhibition schedule for 2017, the 1072 Society Exhibition will feature selected works by women artists honoring "125 Years of Auburn Women” at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University. From only three in 1892 to more than half the student population today, women have left an indelible mark on Auburn University.

The tradition of excellence for The Auburn Plainsman student newspaper continued this year as the newspaper was awarded its 20th national Pacemaker Award in late October at the Associated Press/College Media Association National College Media Convention in Dallas.

Auburn’s War Eagle Flying Team finished second in the Region IX SAFECON flying skills competition last week at the Auburn University Regional Airport as part of the National Collegiate Flying Association’s annual competition.

Auburn Engineering professor David Umphress has been named director of the Auburn Cyber Research Center, whose mission includes research and development as well as education, policy and practice.

Auburn University’s Veterans Resource Center and the Auburn Student Veterans Association have scheduled events on campus to honor veterans during Veterans Day week, Nov. 6-10. Throughout the week, Auburn students will hear the military service songs for each branch of service in order of precedence after the fight song is played from Samford Clock Tower at noon each day.

Over the course of six classes per week, approximately 180 women gather in the Student ACT on Auburn’s campus to learn how to enhance their safety and utilize self-defense techniques to get away from a potential assailant. They’re enrolled in the Auburn University Department of Campus Safety and Security’s Rape Aggression Defense, or R.A.D., program.

The Auburn Alumni Association recently hosted two major events to commemorate the 125th Anniversary of Auburn Women, a formal luncheon and a black-tie gala dinner, at The Marquee at The Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center.

Bradley Merner, the James E. Land Assistant Professor of Chemistry, received a five-year, $700,000, National Science Foundation Early Career Development, or CAREER, Award for his proposal titled, “Functionalized Bent para-Phenylenes: New Strategies and Tools for the Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes.”

George Petrie’s academic and athletic legacies at Auburn University will be the topics discussed at the This is Auburn Speaker Series event set for Friday, Nov. 10, at 3 p.m., at the Auburn Alumni Center. Two-time Auburn alumnus and editor emeritus of Auburn Magazine Mike Jernigan will talk about Petrie’s lasting influence at Auburn. Petrie, the author of the Auburn Creed, is the subject of Jernigan’s book, “Auburn Man: The Life and Times of George Petrie.”

Two Auburn University seniors will interview for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship in the following weeks. Kasey Cooper, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering with a minor in sports coaching, and Matthew Rogers, a senior majoring in software engineering, will travel to Birmingham in mid-November to interview with other finalists from Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Mississippi, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

A young, healthy bald eagle will be released back into the wild Saturday, Nov. 4, at Walker County Lake in Jasper, Alabama, by the Southeastern Raptor Center.

An Auburn University scientist is part of an international research team that has identified the impacts of deforestation on global biodiversity. Breaking up the rainforest into small, isolated patches is forcing more species to live at the forest edge and putting those that are dependent on the forest core at risk, according to the team’s study.

Auburn University will host the 2018 SEC Academic Conference that will focus on cyber security, SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey announced Wednesday.