AUBURN – Kim Phuc Phan Thi, a prominent advocate for children affected by war throughout the world, will speak at Auburn University’s Langdon Hall at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 12. A reception will be held in the Langdon Hall courtyard beginning at 6 p.m. The lecture and reception are free to the public. Phuc is [...]
AUBURN – The Auburn University Office of Sustainability will present a lecture, “Using local ecological knowledge to aid restoration decisions in the Gulf of Mexico,” by Shirley Laska, professor emerita of sociology and founding past director of the Center for Hazards Assessment, Response and Technology at the University of New Orleans, Wednesday, April 18, at [...]
AUBURN – The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University will host its third annual Art in the Garden event April 14. Food and wine, live music and landscape vignettes will introduce an evening of entertainment, including a silent auction and special guest speaker James Farmer. Beginning at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, [...]
AUBURN – Werner Bergen, nutritional biochemist and professor in the Auburn University Department of Animal Sciences, has been named a fellow of the American Society for Nutrition, the preeminent worldwide scientific organization for nutritional sciences. The status of fellow is the highest recognition the society bestows on nutrition scientists and is reserved for individuals who [...]
AUBURN – The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University will host lyric soprano and Alabama native Christina Burroughs, with pianist Nicole Agostin, Thursday, March 29, from noon to 1 p.m. The free public performance is part of the museum’s weekly series, A Little Lunch Music. With few exceptions, the pieces in [...]
AUBURN – A recent Auburn University study provides evidence that today’s college students are heavier and, yes, fatter when they graduate than when they first arrived on campus. And that’s true more so for the male student body than the female. The study tracked changes in male and female college students’ weight, size, shape and [...]
AUBURN – Jenna Bush Hager, daughter of former President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush, will be the featured speaker at the Women’s Philanthropy Board 10th anniversary Spring Symposium and Luncheon on Monday, April 23, at The Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center. The morning symposium is free to all [...]
AUBURN – The first Forum on Sleep and Child Development at Auburn University, April 1-3, will bring together a select group of national and international scholars whose work demonstrates connections between family processes, pediatric sleep medicine and child development. The forum was organized by Mona El-Sheikh, the Leonard Peterson Inc. Professor in the Department of [...]
AUBURN – Longtime ABC News correspondent Jim Wooten and widely regarded Auburn historian and activist Wayne Flynt are among the five honorees chosen to receive the 2012 Auburn Journalism Awards. The other honorees are Valley Times-News publisher Cy Wood, Alabama High School Athletic Association Communication director Ron Ingram and al.com senior producer Vickey Hunt Williams. [...]
AUBURN – Paul Bergen, a senior in Auburn University’s College of Sciences and Mathematics double majoring in microbiology and German, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Germany for the 2012-13 academic year. At the Technical University of Munich, he will continue to pursue his research in microbiology. “Paul is an inquisitive and [...]
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