AUBURN - Auburn University volunteers are in the midst of a major coordination effort to administer up to 33,000 doses of H1N1 influenza vaccine to students, employees and dependents. The doses will soon be delivered from the Alabama Department of Public Health.

Auburn has already received more than 7,500 doses to distribute through vaccination clinics on all campuses and off-site for employees who work in other areas of the state. The Harrison School of Pharmacy faculty, staff and students have volunteered to coordinate the effort, which is one of its largest service projects ever.

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AUBURN - Auburn University will welcome Duncan Cole, the consul general from Australia based in Atlanta and the latest in a list of international visitors, to campus this Wednesday, Nov. 18.

Bob McGinnis, Auburn University senior counsel to the president and former vice president for development, said the series of visits are part of a strategic plan to internationalize the university.

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AUBURN - Through a grant from Verizon, researchers in Auburn's College of Engineering are teaming up with the School of Nursing to bolster Kid Check, a program that provides health screenings to children in Alabama's rural communities.

Representatives from the Verizon Foundation will present a check for $23,000 to the deans of Auburn University's College of Engineering and School of Nursing on Thursday, Nov. 19, at 9:30 a.m. at Loachapoka High School. Students and faculty from both colleges, as well as from former Sen. Gerald Dial's office of the Alabama Rural Action Commission, will be on hand for the event.

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AUBURN - Auburn University's Bass Sports Club will host its third annual Auburn University Fall Classic this Friday and Saturday, Nov. 20-21, on Lake Logan-Martin near Pell City.

Collegiate teams from across the southeastern United States will be participating in the event, which will have weigh-ins at Lakeside Landing and Resort at 3 p.m. Friday and at 2 p.m. Saturday. Confirmed participating teams include Auburn, Alabama, Bethel College, Georgia, North Alabama, Northwest Alabama Community College, UAB, Radford and Virginia Tech. There are 18 unconfirmed schools anticipated to participate as well.

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AUBURN - The NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Committee has selected Auburn University to serve as a first- and second-round host for the 2011 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship.

The games will take place in the new Auburn Arena, which will be in its first year of operation. The 2011 event will mark the first time for Auburn to host the first and second rounds of the NCAA Tournament under its current bid format.

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AUBURN - Access and Community Initiatives, a unit of Auburn University's Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, and the Auburn University Gospel Choir will host "Voices Against Hunger" featuring the Afro-American Gospel Choir from the University of Alabama on Sunday, Nov. 15, from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at The City Church, 950 Shelton Mill Road in Auburn. Admission to this public event is $5 or five canned goods.

The "Voices Against Hunger" event is designed to raise awareness about hunger in the state of Alabama. Recent statistics indicate that 754,258 Alabamians, including 266,510 children, live in poverty. Additionally, 1,475,320 Alabamians live below the federal poverty level and 226,000 Alabama households are food insecure. Of those Alabamians living below the poverty level, approximately 546,684 persons per month receive food stamps with the average monthly food stamp benefit per person totaling $90.50.

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AUBURN - The Auburn Alumni Association and its affiliate Auburn clubs nationwide awarded more than $500,000 in scholarships to 226 students this past year. The association raised more than $750,000 for scholarships. Of this, Auburn clubs raised more than $400,000 for scholarships at the close of the fiscal year Sept. 30.

"One of the Auburn Alumni Association's chief priorities is to help ensure that the cost of an Auburn education doesn't present an insurmountable barrier to those who would otherwise enroll," said Debbie Shaw, Auburn's vice president for alumni affairs and executive director of the association. "The association is much more than a spirit organization – it's part of our mission to provide scholarship dollars to those in need."

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AUBURN - Auburn University is bringing together national and international renewable energy experts for the sixth annual Alabama Renewable Energy Conference Nov. 17-18 at The Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center.

"We will have experts from the Southeast as well as a guest speaker from Germany to discuss that country's renewable energy innovations," said Larry Fillmer, executive director of Auburn's Natural Resources Management & Development Institute, which is cosponsoring the event with the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs.

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AUBURN - The Auburn Alumni Association has selected four Auburn University graduates as recipients of its highest honor, the Lifetime Achievement Award. They are: shipping magnate Robert Kenneth Johns '57 of Summit, N.J.; insurance mogul J. Smith Lanier II '49 of Lanett; rocket scientist Gerald W. Smith '61 of Huntsville; and retired astronaut Kathryn C. Thornton '74 of Charlottesville, Va.

A Mobile native and former Tigers lineman, Johns retired as president and chief operating officer of Sea-Land Service Inc., which ultimately developed, engineered and implemented containerized ocean shipping, revolutionizing world trade. He subsequently founded The Hampshire Management Group Inc., is an inductee of the International Maritime Hall of Fame and in 2006 received Auburn's Walter Gilbert Award for former athletes who have distinguished themselves through achievements after graduation.

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AUBURN - "Evolution Proven: The Curious Development of American Anti-Evolution" will be the next lecture in the Discover Auburn series on Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 3 p.m. in the Special Collections and Archives Department of the Draughon Library. Charles Israel, chair of Auburn University's Department of History, will speak on anti-evolution legislation in the United States. A reception will follow.

A special exhibit commemorating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of "Origin of Species" will be on view in Special Collections and Archives.

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