Auburn University’s faculty experts offer their thoughts and answers on a variety of real-world topics as they make national headlines. Our experts speak on everything from cybersecurity to 3D printing to stock market concerns to hurricane preparedness to the needed response amid a national opioid crisis. Have questions about the news of the day? We have “Expert Answers.”

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Latest Expert Answers

students in a dance summer camp
Campus Experience

High school students can sample campus life through summer camps. The experience often solidifies students' decisions to attend Auburn and select a major.

an aerial view of a mobile home neighborhood destroyed by a hurricane
Research and Innovation

Auburn researcher finds current construction practices are sufficient to withstand hurricane-force winds — provided they are executed properly.

Shiwen Mao
Research and Innovation

Shiwen Mao explains how advancing technologies, including 6G, are transforming how people communicate and access information.

Hao Ding headshot
Research and Innovation

As National Nurses Week approaches (May 6-12), Business faculty member Hao Ding explains how a research study he co-authored can help hospital administrators improve patient outcomes and the organization’s bottom line — all by changing the way they view nurses’ productivity.

A student hard at work in an APLA garden
Campus Experience

Auburn’s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture is teaching future generations of architects how to create communities that will stand the test of time — and changing economic conditions.

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Research and Innovation

In their annual content analysis of Super Bowl advertisers and their ads, Harbert College of Business marketing professors Linda and O.C. Ferrell reveal who's in, who's out and why.

Miria Criado, Ramandeep Kaur and Constantinos Kyriakis
Impact

Three pathobiologists in the College of Veterinary Medicine talk about the rise in bird flu cases nationally, the potential for more transmission to humans and ways people can stay as safe as possible.

Heather Alexander measures a pine tree in a forest with a tape measure
Impact

Heather Alexander in the College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment is an expert in fire ecology and flammability of forests, and she took time to answer questions for an installment of Expert Answers about the California wildfires and Alabama's preparedness level.

headshots for Linda Gibson-Young, Salisa Westrick and Spencer Durham
Research and Innovation

Auburn faculty explain CDC’s new recommendation that people 50 and older get the pneumococcal vaccine.

Janice Hall in her kitchen with a turkey on the counter
Auburn Family

Janice Hall, an Extension Specialist with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System's Federal Nutrition Program, specializing in nutrition and food safety, shares her expertise in preparing turkey and providing a safe dining experience.