AUBURN - AU will present an honorary doctor of science degree on May 10 to C. Harry Knowles, an Auburn alumnus whose optical scanning technology is used at every stage of commerce, including nearly every retailing check-out counter across America.

Knowles, who is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of the late 1940s and a 1951 Auburn graduate in physics, will receive the honorary degree during the 10 a.m. graduation ceremony in Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum.

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AUBURN - Auburn University recently received a $100,000 endowed gift from the James M. Cox Foundation in honor of Cynthia Tucker. A 1976 graduate of AU, Tucker was recognized with a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2007 for “her courageous, clear-headed columns that evince a strong sense of morality and persuasive knowledge of the community.” She is currently the editorial page editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The endowment will provide scholarships for students in the journalism program in AU’s College of Liberal Arts. Known as the Cynthia Tucker ’76 Endowed Scholarship for Journalism Excellence, the gift strives to increase the level of diversity in the journalism program.

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AUBURN - Minority alumni of Auburn University are invited to a special tailgate event hosted by the Auburn Alumni Association prior to the annual A-Day game on Saturday, March 29. The Minority Alumni Involvement Now, or MAIN, A-Day Tailgate is a spring event held each year to help reconnect minority alumni with Auburn and with each other.

The tailgate event will begin at 11 a.m., two hours before the A-Day Game kickoff, and will take place at the corner of Roosevelt Drive and Duncan Drive at the usual location of the alumni hospitality tent. To register, visit the Auburn Alumni Web site at http://www.aualum.org/main/main-tailgate.html. Tickets are $5 in advance and $10 at the door. There is no charge for children under 12.

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Natasha Trethewey, a former AU faculty member who won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, will join two other published poets with Auburn ties in a Jan. 24 symposium at the Jule Collins Smith Museum.

At the 4 p.m. symposium, “Ekphrasis: Word and Image,” at the AU fine art museum, Trethewey will join Dan Albergotti, who is a former Auburn instructor, and Jake Adam York, a 1994 Auburn graduate. All three taught in the English Department at Auburn in the late 1990s and early in this decade.

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AUBURN - Auburn University today announced the launch of a dedicated Channel on the widely popular video-sharing Web site YouTube, www.youtube.com/AuburnUniversity.

The Channel currently features more than 60 videos including various lectures and events as well as several student study abroad experiences. Among the most viewed clips are videos of AU’s beloved mascot Aubie and a promotional video featuring AU alumni reading the Auburn Creed.

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