Behind the Seams is the theme for this year

The College of Human Sciences 2025 edition of The Fashion Event themed "Behind the Seams," will make a grand debut at the Jay and Susie Gogue Performing Arts Center — a brand-new venue for the live runway show on April 11.

March 27, 2025

weeds wilt after a dicamba application in a field of soybeans

Farmers nationwide will not be permitted to use dicamba herbicide products this growing season. Auburn researchers and Alabama Cooperative Extension System specialists are working to provide Alabama row crop growers with guidance on how to navigate and best manage production without dicamba.

March 27, 2025

Graduate Student Research Assistant sorts through various books Olivia Martín-Piñón

Research from the College of Human Sciences uncovers how reading together boosts early literacy skills and deepens parent-child connections.

March 26, 2025

Cassandra Bolar

College of Human Sciences graduate Cassandra Bolar is a 2025 Black Alumna Award winner and will be honored during Auburn's Black Alumni Weekend April 4-6.

March 26, 2025

two grad students and Dr. Ian Butts work in a lab

The $437 million U.S. catfish industry is in need of better genetic and breeding technologies to be competitive with foreign imports. A team of hatchery scientists from the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station are studying hybrid catfish breeding practices to help improve reproductive efficiency and reduce production costs for catfish farmers.

March 26, 2025

Elijah McAllister next to a College of Education sign

Elijah McAllister, a former Auburn University football captain who was a star on and off the field, is currently pursuing his doctorate to elevate himself academically while continuing to be a difference-maker in the community.

March 26, 2025

Power systems lab

The Southeast Region Cybersecurity Collaboration Center is dedicated to advancing cybersecurity technologies to protect critical infrastructure from outside threats — and it’s using the expertise of Auburn students to help carry out that mission.

March 26, 2025

Young woman standing in front of four small children who are sitting on the floor.

With support from the Russell Medical Foundation, Auburn nursing students and faculty bring health and wellness education to Alabama elementary schools.

March 24, 2025

Eight students in a classroom. Two are standing in the center back to back with the other six are standing around them angrily.

For several years Kate Craig, associate professor of History with the College of Liberal Arts, has taught Honors versions of World History I and II through a series of role-playing games she calls “Reacting to the Past.”

March 24, 2025

Chester Higgins visiting his great uncle

Author, longtime New York Times photographer and Alabama Distinguished Artist Chester Higgins toured Alabama in March, sharing with students and residents how to connect people through the power of photography.

March 24, 2025

palmer amaranth in a field

Auburn's Weed Bionomics Laboratory focuses on managing herbicide-resistant weeds, like Palmer amaranth, the most difficult weed to control because it can produce 600,000 seeds per plant and grow as much as 2.5 inches per day.

March 24, 2025

Preston holds a can of fuel as he begins a prescribed burn in a dry field.

Preston Payne manages and maintains 10,000 acres of university-owned wooded lands spread across 27 sites throughout Alabama that serve as living labs and classrooms.

March 24, 2025

bus

Auburn researchers are part of a study to address engineering challenges associated with energy efficiency of zero emission bus materials.

March 21, 2025

A plow in cover crops

The Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station awarded 29 competitive grants across three principal programs: AgR-SEED, Production Agricultural Research and equipment grants for fiscal year 2024.

March 20, 2025

The Auburn University Center for Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity Engineering is dedicated to uncovering pioneering advancements in AI-driven cybersecurity solutions and tackling the most pressing challenges in the digital age.

March 20, 2025

Auburn’s role in facilitating collaboration between government, academia and industry necessary for maintaining national security was on full display at the university’s Research and Innovation Campus in Huntsville as Congressional heavyweights meet to confer on the vulnerability of the U.S. defense industrial base in relation to challenges posed by China.

March 20, 2025

Nate Knowles and the google sign

Auburn College of Education graduate Lt. Col. Nate Knowles has landed a prestigious fellowship at Google focused on national security.

March 20, 2025

Vince Wolfram, Chad Baker-Mazara and Miles Kelly

Several students have the opportunity to cover the Tigers' run through March Madness in the men's 2025 NCAA Tournament for media outlets.

March 20, 2025

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

Jennie Baumann in her classroom

A group of College of Education faculty members led by Jennie Baumann is working to provide pre-service teachers with a competitive edge in their field.

March 18, 2025

Ernest Opoku’s journey from Ghana to Auburn, and now to MIT, is one of perseverance, intellectual rigor and groundbreaking research.

March 17, 2025

cyber

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

Twenty-five years after his team won the SEC men's basketball championship, Bryant Smith is helping lead the 2025 Tigers.

March 17, 2025

Headshot for Nick Davis

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

March 12, 2025

Emma Chumley, right, and Katie White

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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