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Auburn University holding Middle School Honor Band Festival on campus Feb. 2-4

TigerInsider — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:22:16 +0000

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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Agriculture professor named Auburn University Presidential Administrative Fellow for 2012

TigerInsider — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:33:39 +0000

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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University to plant new trees if current oaks do not survive

TigerInsider — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:12:53 +0000

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 forestry researchers create booklet to help landowners map property online

TigerInsider — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:49:56 +0000

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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‘American Whistleblower Tour’ coming to Auburn University Jan. 30

TigerInsider — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:36:21 +0000

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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Valley couple wins War Eagle Wedding; voting begins Monday for bridal gown

TigerInsider — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:01:26 +0000

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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Harriet Beecher Stowe subject of Jan. 19 Discover Auburn lecture

TigerInsider — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:42:36 +0000

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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Women’s Philanthropy Board Winter Workshop to feature Alabama entrepreneur

TigerInsider — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:01:54 +0000

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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German Consul General to be keynote speaker at Auburn University symposium on immigration and migration in Alabama

TigerInsider — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:56:10 +0000

AUBURN – Lutz Hermann Görgens, the Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany, will deliver a keynote address at “Becoming Alabama: Immigration and Migration in a Deep South State,” Jan. 20-21 at The Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center. The two-day public symposium, hosted by Auburn University’s College of Liberal Arts, will [...]

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Auburn University forestry researchers document each tree on campus

TigerInsider — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:16:49 +0000

AUBURN – A team of Auburn University scientists has recorded data about each tree on campus, documenting more than 7,300 trees valued at almost $11 million and generating data that could help landscape managers nationwide. Professor Art Chappelka of the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences said they now know the species, height, diameter, crown [...]

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