AUBURN - Target has awarded a grant to the Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy to support a program developed by Mobile pharmacy students to help the Ozanam Charitable Pharmacy meet the needs of the uninsured residents of Mobile, Baldwin and Escambia counties.

Allison Chung, associate clinical professor at the Harrison School of Pharmacy's Mobile campus, said student pharmacists discovered a need for medication therapy management, or MTM, services after running a health screening fair at the non-profit pharmacy last December.

Chung said student pharmacists screened 53 patients in four hours and identified two cases of hyperglycemia and two cases of hypertensive urgencies as a result of inappropriate management of medication therapies. A severe case of pancreatitis was also identified as a result of a duplicated therapy, she added.

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AUBURN - The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a $425,000 Challenge Grant to the Encyclopedia of Alabama, a free online resource on Alabama's history, culture and natural environment. The Encyclopedia of Alabama was one of 215 humanities projects named in the federal agency's recent announcement of $21 million in grants nationwide and the only Alabama project selected in its most recent award cycle.

"The Encyclopedia of Alabama is a remarkable humanities project and its online format makes it an especially beneficial resource for Alabama's students and educators," said Royrickers Cook, assistant vice president for University Outreach, where the editorial offices are located. "This National Endowment for the Humanities grant is an opportunity to create an endowment that will enable the Encyclopedia of Alabama to adapt to and take advantage of technological advancements in the years to come."

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AUBURN - The Scott-Ritchey Research Center at the Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine and Vaxin Inc., a clinical stage vaccine development company, have received a $1 million Michelson Grant award from the Found Animals Foundation to continue development of a vaccine that may provide an alternative to surgical spay and neuter for cats and dogs.

Henry Baker and Nancy Cox of Auburn University and Kent Van Kampen of Vaxin are the lead investigators of the grant project. The Scott-Ritchey Research Center at Auburn is dedicated to research for improving the health of companion animals.

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AUBURN - An Auburn University professor has been awarded a $580,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute for Food and Agriculture, or NIFA, to study the effects of climate change on agriculture and forest production.

Professor Lisa Samuelson, director of the Center for Longleaf Pine Ecosystems in Auburn's School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, received the funding as part of a $20 million, five-year grant awarded to a collaboration of 12 institutions. More than 50 investigators from universities and federal agencies are participating in the project.

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AUBURN – Hal Nix '41 and Margaret Nix, of Matthews, NC, recently donated two endowed scholarships to the Auburn University Scholarship Campaign. The scholarships will be allocated to general scholarships at the university for students from North Carolina.

The gift will support the Auburn Scholarship Campaign which hopes to raise $15 million by December 2011 to strengthen Auburn’s merit scholarship program for exceptional undergraduate students.

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AUBURN – The College of Architecture, Design and Construction at Auburn University has received a $25,000 gift from the Montgomery chapter of Construction Specifications Institute to establish two annual scholarships within CADC. One scholarship will be in architecture and one in building science and will be awarded to students who meet both the financial and academic requirements.

"With this new scholarship endowment, we look forward to our continued partnership with the Montgomery Chapter of CSI," said Dan Bennett, dean of the College of Architecture, Design and Construction. "Scholarships continue to be important for our students and for our programs."

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AUBURN - Auburn University has received its largest in-kind gift in the history of the institution through a Siemens PLM Software in-kind software grant with a commercial value of $195.5 million, according to university president Jay Gogue. Siemens PLM Software is a division of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and is a leading global provider of product lifecycle management software and services.

The in-kind grant was made through the Siemens PLM Software's Global Opportunities in Product Lifecycle Management program, and includes product development software, training and specialized software certification programs. The new software, which will be incorporated into the curricula of Auburn's College of Architecture, Design and Construction ($15.3 million), the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering ($169.7 million) and the College of Human Sciences ($10.5 million), will introduce students to product design, development and manufacturing processes technology used by the world's leading manufacturing companies.

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AUBURN - The Auburn Veterans Scholarship Foundation has pledged $60,000 to the Auburn University Foundation to provide endowed scholarships to veterans and their families.

Auburn Veterans Scholarships honor those who have served in any branch of the United States Armed Forces and are intended to provide a helping hand to those veterans who meet the university's enrollment requirements. The scholarships benefit uniformed U.S. military service members on active duty, inactive reserves or those honorably discharged from the U.S. Armed Forces. Scholarships can also be awarded to immediate family members of these service men and women and provide $2,000 a year to recipients.

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AUBURN – The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Auburn University, known as OLLI at Auburn, was recently awarded a $1 million endowment from the Bernard Osher Foundation. The gift was given in recognition of programming excellence and demonstrating potential for long-term success and sustainability.

OLLI at Auburn has more than 700 members who can choose from more than 150 classes annually and from many other activities such as special lectures, socials and trips. This peer-led organization relies on members, guest speakers and Auburn faculty to teach and moderate courses with books, film and recordings.

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AUBURN - Dean June Henton has announced the faculty recipients of two recently endowed professorships in the Auburn University College of Human Sciences. Effective Aug. 15, Mona El-Sheikh will assume the title of Leonard Peterson & Co. Inc. Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, and Lenda Jo Connell will be the inaugural Under Armour Inc. Professor of Apparel Merchandising, Design, and Production.

El-Sheikh began her career at Auburn in 1990 and was named alumni professor in 2005 and creative research and scholarship awardee in 2007. Supported by approximately $7 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, as well as support from the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, her research program focuses on associations among family risk, psychophysiological regulation, sleep and child outcomes in psychological adjustment, physical health, cognitive functioning and academic performance domains. El-Sheikh's interdisciplinary research is noted for building bridges across several disciplines concerned with child health including child development, developmental psychology, psychopathology and pediatric sleep medicine.

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