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Recognizing brilliance and curiosity

Alice E. Smith is the first full-time engineering faculty member to be elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

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Assistant Professor David Shanks instructing a group of students in his studio class
Auburn Family
Sustainable energy on the mind

David Shanks, Assistant Professor of Architecture, has sustainable energy on the mind.
State troopers approach peaceful protestors on Bloody Sunday in 1965
Research and Innovation
Preserving history

As the city of Selma, Alabama, commemorates the 60th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” Robert Finkel is helping share the history of that fateful day through several projects.
Sushil Adhikari works with a graduate student
Academics
Fueling a winner

Congratulations to Sushil Adhikari, our 2025 SEC Faculty Achievement Award winner.
Beth Thorne Stukes speaks at an Auburn commencement ceremony.
Auburn Family
Everything Philanthropy

On this edition of Everything Auburn, education advocate Beth Thorne Stukes reflects on her mother’s deep love for the Plains and how her legacy will endure, brick by brick, in the College of Human Sciences.

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Alabama college campus makes list of most beautiful in the country

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Researcher names newly discovered fish species, honoring Cherokee knowledge and advancing conservation

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Research and Innovation
NCAME partners with Blue Origin to improve copper printability

Auburn's National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence is partnering with Blue Origin to overcome the challenges of 3D printing with copper, essentially helping the space technology company's future plans in orbit.

March 18, 2025
cyber
Academics
Designated among the nation's best

Auburn has been re-designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Research, making it one of only 11 institutions nationally to hold designations for cyber operations, cyber defense and cyber research.

March 17, 2025
Bryant Smith standing on the court in Neville Arena
Auburn Family
More than a game

Bryant Smith, a team captain of the 1999 Auburn basketball team, returned to Auburn as a graduate assistant to receive his undergraduate degree in sociology and a master's in community planning. Twenty-five years after his team won the SEC championship, Smith gets the unique opportunity to help lead the 2025 Auburn Tigers through another extremely successful season.

March 17, 2025
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Campus Experience
Alumnus to be honored at Hospitality Gala

The College of Human Sciences' Horst Schulze School of Hospitality Management will welcome hundreds of guests to the annual Hospitality Gala and recognize alumnus Nick Davis with the 2025 Horst Schulze Award for Excellence in Hospitality.

March 12, 2025
Emma Chumley, right, and Katie White
Impact
Giving back to the community

Auburn student Emma Chumley created the Auburn Sustenance Project as a class project in hopes of combatting food insecurity in the area.

March 12, 2025
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Academics
This vet’s a vet

Dr. Samantha Warner spent seven years providing care for working dogs around the globe. Now this Army veteran uses that experience, plus her Auburn training, to continue her veterinary medicine career closer to home.

March 11, 2025
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