AUBURN - Auburn University's Executive MBA program in the College of Business is ranked 84th in the 2009 Financial Times global ranking of the world's best Executive MBA programs.

Auburn is ranked 40th among programs in the United States and is one of only two Southeastern Conference schools ranked this year. In the nine years Financial Times has ranked Executive MBA programs, this is the first year Auburn has been eligible for ranking. The University of Tennessee's program is ranked 93rd overall and 46th among programs in the United States.

The ranking is based on surveys completed by Executive MBA alumni and from information provided by the business school. The surveys evaluated 16 criteria in three areas including alumni career progression, diversity and international reach and research productivity of the faculty.

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AUBURN – Researchers in an Alabama educational alliance have received a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to help Alabama students with disabilities earn college degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics and, ultimately, enter the workforce.

The funding was granted to the Alabama Alliance for Students with Disabilities in STEM – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – which is a collaborative effort involving Alabama State University, Auburn University, Auburn University Montgomery, Tuskegee University, Central Alabama Community College, Southern Union State Community College and the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind. The alliance also includes six school districts in Lee, Chambers, Elmore, Montgomery, Macon and Tallapoosa counties and has an outreach component that covers the entire state.

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AUBURN - Auburn University officials dedicated the John C. H. Miller Jr. Writing Center Sept. 24 in the Governor's Room at The Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center.

Speakers included Jay Gogue, Auburn University president; Sarah Newton, Board of Trustees president pro tempore; Margaret Marshall, newly named director of university writing; Sharon Roberts, co-chair of the Writing Initiative Task Force; and Matt Klauza, assistant to the center director and a Ph.D. candidate in English.

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AUBURN - Auburn University is ranked 39th among public universities nationwide, according to an annual survey released by U.S. News & World Report today. The ranking marks the 17th consecutive year the magazine has ranked Auburn among the nation's top 50 public universities.

Auburn ranked 20th among land-grant institutions and 88th in the nation among both public and private schools.

The undergraduate program of Auburn's Samuel Ginn College of Engineering is ranked 64th nationally overall and 36th among public universities that offer doctoral programs in engineering. Rankings of other programs are released at various times during the year by U.S. News & World Report.

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AUBURN - A newly released Forbes.com special report has ranked Auburn University's MBA program 29th among the nation's public institutions and 64th overall. The ranking measures the best five-year "return on investment" for MBA graduates of the class of 2004.

For this year's survey, Forbes sent out 17,000 questionnaires to graduates of master of business administration programs around the world. To determine the five-year MBA gain, Forbes compared their earnings in their first five years out of business school to costs such as tuition, required fees and foregone compensation.

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AUBURN - Francesca Adler-Baeder, an associate professor and extension specialist in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, was recently named one of Auburn University's 2009 Distinguished Diversity Researchers. The competitive award is given by the Research Initiative for the Study of Diversity and the Office of the Vice President for Research to celebrate and showcase the best diversity research being done on campus.

Selected among nominees in the category of "established diversity researcher," Adler-Baeder's work assesses community-based relationship education programs targeting low-resource and underserved populations of youth, couples and non-married parents. A hallmark of her work is the development and use of diverse partnership teams of researchers, students and community partners.

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AUBURN - George Mitrevski, an associate professor in Auburn University's Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to study in Macedonia.

Mitrevski, who leaves in August, received a nine-month appointment and will be conducting research on an electronic collection of Macedonian texts at the Academy of Sciences and the Arts and at the Macedonian Language Institute in the Republic of Macedonia. He will also be working at the Pedagogical Faculty in the city of Bitola where he will teach English essay-writing and American literature.

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AUBURN – Oliver D. Kingsley Jr., associate dean in Auburn University's Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, recently received the Henry DeWolf Smyth Nuclear Statesman Award for his contributions to public knowledge of nuclear energy. The award was established jointly by the American Nuclear Society and the Nuclear Energy Institute.

Kingsley received the award, which recognizes statesmanlike contributions to discussion of nuclear energy, at the Nuclear Energy Institute's annual conference, an assembly of organizations representing businesses and professionals involved in commercial nuclear technologies. The Nuclear Energy Institute develops policy on key legislative and regulatory issues affecting the industry.

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Auburn University students have garnered numerous awards and scholarships throughout the history of the university. This spring, three students from the university's Honors College received prestigious recognition that places them among the nation's best and brightest academic achievers. Rebecca Ludvigsen of Lilburn, Ga., has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Germany; Anne-Marie Hodge of Chattanooga, Tenn., earned a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship; and Lauren Hayes of Abbeville, Ala., was named to the second team in USA Today's All-USA College Academic Team competition.

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AUBURN – Several Auburn University graduate programs in engineering and education improved their standings in the recently released U.S. News and World Report "Best Graduate Schools" rankings.

The graduate program in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering moved up to 69th from 73rd nationally, is rated 41st among public universities and 24th among the 53 land-grant research universities. Also improving in that college is chemical engineering (50th nationally, 32nd among public universities) and mechanical engineering (62nd nationally, 37th among public universities).

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