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Becky Barlow, extension specialist and professor of forestry and wildlife sciences at Auburn University, has been named the Auburn College of Agriculture’s interim associate dean for extension and interim assistant director for agriculture, forestry and natural resource extension programs. Her interim posts will be effective May 15.

Nursing is a practical profession, and a global pandemic has only reinforced that. Auburn University’s School of Nursing is using the COVID-19 pandemic not only to better equip nursing students today, but also to ultimately create the blueprint for innovative nursing education in the future.

The Auburn University Foundation has appointed three new directors to its board: Shirley Frazier Boulware '91 of Tyrone, Georgia; Joseph L. Cowan '70 of Braselton, Georgia; and Patrick T. Henry ’85 of Birmingham, Alabama. The board also named Cheryl Casey ’83 of Denver, Colorado, as its new chair and Paul Jacobson ’94 of Marietta, Georgia, as vice chair. John Morris, Auburn University’s new senior vice president for advancement, will serve as the president of the foundation. 

Auburn University mathematics professor Thi-Thao-Phuong Hoang hopes to use applied and computational mathematics to help scientists better understand and potentially solve real-world problems like water contamination and climate change, and the department’s first-ever National Science Foundation, or NSF, CAREER Award could help her do exactly that.

Two Auburn University students, Che Ka and Grant Wilkinson, have been awarded 2021 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, or NSFGRF—a fellowship program designed to help ensure the vitality and diversity of the scientific and engineering workforce in the United States.