AUBURN – Auburn University will award 1,575 academic degrees during two fall graduation ceremonies Monday, Dec. 12, in Auburn Arena. The 10 a.m. ceremony will include the colleges and schools of Architecture, Design and Construction; Engineering; Forestry and Wildlife Sciences; Liberal Arts; Nursing; and Sciences and Mathematics. The 2 p.m. ceremony will be held for [...]
AUBURN – Six students in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University will give a presentation on a community-based research project Dec. 2 in Washington, D.C., at the invitation-only Appalachian Teaching Project of the Appalachian Regional Commission. Led by the Consortium of Appalachian Centers and Institutes, a coalition of Appalachian-studies organizations throughout the Region, [...]
AUBURN – Auburn University biological sciences professor Ken Halanych will participate in a public community forum on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and what scientists are learning about its impact on Saturday, Dec. 3, from 10 a.m. to noon. The forum will be held by teleconference from Dauphin Island Sea Lab Shelby Center at 101 [...]
A network of campus women’s initiatives, Global Leadership of Women, or GLOW, will host a webcast of speakers from around the world who will speak to women of all ages on a variety of subjects that especially affect women’s lives. The webcast will begin at 1 p.m., Friday, Dec. 2 in Ballroom A of The [...]
AUBURN – The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University will present the exhibition, “Promises of Freedom: Selections from the Arthur Primas Collection,” Dec. 10 through March 10. “Promises of Freedom” features a range of works from the private collection of African-American art amassed by Arthur Primas, a Texas resident and prominent [...]
AUBURN – Tools for Tigers, an event designed to help young alumni with all aspects of their job search, will take place Dec. 13 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Auburn University Alumni Center. It is hosted by the Auburn University Career Center and the Office of Alumni Affairs. The event will inform [...]
AUBURN – At Auburn University’s Turfgrass Research Unit just south of campus, plant scientist Scott McElroy is putting five bermudagrass sports turf cultivars through the wringer to generate data that should help high-school, college and pro athletic field managers determine which of the many hybrid varieties available will perform best on their fields. Bermudgrasses have [...]
AUBURN – For the annual survey, “America’s Best Architecture & Design Schools 2012,” DesignIntelligence magazine has ranked Auburn University’s undergraduate Interior Design program in the College of Human Sciences as best in the nation and Industrial Design and Architecture programs in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction in the nation’s top 20 degree programs [...]
AUBURN – Auburn University has opened a Graduate Equivalency Diploma program that will be housed in Wallace Hall and offered free of charge on a first-come-first-served basis. A partnership between Auburn University and Southern Union State Community College, the GED program will open educational and employment opportunities to area residents and university staff members who [...]
AUBURN – Construction will begin soon on a $28.8 million science center designed to foster multidisciplinary research collaborations across the Auburn University campus that will generate new knowledge and technology to benefit Alabama. Groundbreaking ceremonies for the 84,000-square-foot Auburn University Center for Advanced Science, Innovation and Commerce, or CASIC, were held Friday, Nov. 18, at [...]
