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AUBURN – Auburn University engineering students are preventing water-borne diseases in impoverished countries throughout the world with two portable water purifying systems they developed. Grant Moore, a senior in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Business-Engineering-Technology classmates Lauren McManus, Grant Martin and Sara Yousey decided to develop the water purifiers for a class [...]

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AUBURN – A team of Auburn University faculty members is part of a five-year project funded by the National Science Foundation to improve middle school science education in Alabama’s Black Belt region. The Auburn team, drawn from the Department of Educational Foundations, Leadership and Technology in the College of Education, will gather data to help [...]

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AUBURN – Auburn University will hold its third annual Middle School Symphonic Honor Band Festival Feb. 2-4 on the university campus. Close to 275 middle school musicians from more than 97 schools representing five states will participate in a weekend of concerts, rehearsals and social activities. The festival is hosted by the Auburn University Bands [...]

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AUBURN – Henry Fadamiro, Alumni Professor in the College of Agriculture’s Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at Auburn University, has been named the university’s Presidential Administrative Fellow for 2012. Auburn’s Presidential Administrative Fellowship Program is designed to help individual faculty members gain senior administrative experience while applying his or her faculty experience to issues [...]

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AUBURN – The tradition of rolling Auburn’s oaks will continue even if the trees do not survive being poisoned in 2010. President Jay Gogue this week accepted the recommendation of the Committee to Study the Future of Rolling Toomer’s Corner, which proposed replacing the troubled oaks—should they die—with one or more large trees and using [...]

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AUBURN – Most landowners know every inch of their property – fences, timber stands, steams, pastures, hills, everything – yet they don’t know what the property looks like from above or on a map. Auburn University forestry researcher John Gilbert kept encountering this situation as he conducted a study for the School of Forestry and [...]

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AUBURN – The Auburn University School of Accountancy has arranged for Auburn to be one of this year’s stops on the “American Whistleblower Tour: Essential Voices for Accountability.” A public panel discussion will take place Monday, Jan. 30, at 7:30 p.m. at 113A Lowder Hall and will feature prominent whistleblowers Sherron Watkins, speaking about the [...]

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AUBURN – Katie and Slade from Valley, Ala., have won the online voting contest for Auburn University’s first War Eagle Wedding. Starting Monday, Jan. 23, www.wareaglewedding.com will accept votes on three choices for Katie’s bridal gown. The dresses were designed by Auburn apparel design students Lauren Mellor, Heather Hall, and Eloise Faber. Voting will last [...]

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AUBURN – Auburn Professor Emeritus of English Bert Hitchcock will give the first lecture in the spring Discover Auburn Lecture Series, Thursday, Jan. 19, at 3 p.m. in the Special Collections and Archives Department of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library. A reception will follow. Hitchcock’s lecture, “Harriet Beecher Stowe: Devil or Angel,” is another in [...]

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AUBURN – The woman who has successfully expanded her alterations business into six locations throughout the Southeast and will make the wedding gown for Auburn University’s first “War Eagle Wedding” will be the featured speaker for the Women’s Philanthropy Board 2012 Winter Workshop, Expo and Luncheon Tuesday, Jan. 31, at The Hotel at Auburn University [...]

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