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Auburn’s PLUS scholarship program gets boost from Wachovia donation

AUBURN – The Provost Leadership Undergraduate Scholarship, or PLUS, Program at Auburn University received its largest gift ever, a $250,000 donation from the Wachovia Wells Fargo Foundation. The program recently received national recognition when Auburn was named Scholarship Provider of the Year at the 2009 National Scholarship Providers Association Annual Conference for creating the PLUS [...]

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Auburn’s PLUS scholarship program gets boost from Wachovia donation

AUBURN – The Provost Leadership Undergraduate Scholarship, or PLUS, Program at Auburn University received its largest gift ever, a $250,000 donation from the Wachovia Wells Fargo Foundation. The program recently received national recognition when Auburn was named Scholarship Provider of the Year at the 2009 National Scholarship Providers Association Annual Conference for creating the PLUS [...]

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Discover Auburn series continues with ‘Images of Sicilian Women’

AUBURN – The Discover Auburn series at Auburn University continues with “Images of Sicilian Women,” a talk by Giovanna Summerfield, on Thursday at 3 p.m. in the Special Collections and Archives Department of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library.
Summerfield is an associate professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Her research interests include Sicily, [...]

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Auburn University researchers study wicked weed’s role in pine decline

AUBURN – A team of Auburn University scientists has been awarded a $494,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to search for possible links between cogongrass and pine decline – two biological phenomena that pose serious threats to Alabama, both ecologically and economically.
The researchers, led by College of [...]

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Speakers at Auburn honors convocation to focus on outreach to developing countries

AUBURN – The Auburn University Honors College will hold its spring 2010 honors convocation, “‘For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat’: Bringing Relief and Enabling Self Reliance in Developing Countries” on Monday, March 8, at 7 p.m. in 2370 Haley Center. This event is open to the public.
The speakers will be [...]

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Auburn’s Professional Development System partnership named best in nation

AUBURN – Shannon Brandt, a fourth-grade teacher at Wrights Mill Elementary School in Auburn, has experienced the Professional Development System partnership between Auburn University’s College of Education and Auburn City Schools from every possible angle.
She experienced it from the perspective of an Auburn undergraduate and a graduate student, a lab student and an intern, an [...]

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Auburn’s Professional Development System partnership named best in nation

AUBURN – Shannon Brandt, a fourth-grade teacher at Wrights Mill Elementary School in Auburn, has experienced the Professional Development System partnership between Auburn University’s College of Education and Auburn City Schools from every possible angle.
She experienced it from the perspective of an Auburn undergraduate and a graduate student, a lab student and an intern, an [...]

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Auburn University designated a Tree Campus USA University

 AUBURN – The oak trees at Auburn University’s famous Toomer’s Corner are not the only trees getting recognition on campus.
The Arbor Day Foundation has honored Auburn University as a Tree Campus USA University for its dedication to campus and forestry management and environmental stewardship. Auburn is the first college or university in the Southeastern Conference [...]

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Auburn University Outreach receives grant from State Farm for college prep initiative at Loachapoka High School

AUBURN – Auburn University’s outreach division has received a $58,000 grant from the State Farm Youth Advisory Board, or YAB, to develop a service-learning based preparatory program at Loachapoka High School to help students enter and perform better in college, and ultimately qualify for better jobs. Auburn was one of 82 organizations to receive a [...]

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Ask Alabama poll shows majority still backs lottery, gaming for revenues

AUBURN – Despite the controversies swirling around the gambling issue in Alabama, a recent Ask Alabama poll conducted by Auburn University shows that most Alabama adults support a lottery and video gaming to increase state revenues to balance the budget and fund education. Results show that 68 percent support a lottery and 60 percent back [...]

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