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 - 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 - 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 - "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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AUBURN - Retired Gen. Carl Mundy, the 30th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, will address Auburn University's Naval ROTC unit at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, in 125A Lowder Business Building. The presentation is open to the public.

Mundy graduated from Auburn in 1957 with a degree in business administration and in 2007 he received the Auburn Alumni Association's Lifetime Achievement Award.

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AUBURN – James Dawsey, former faculty member in the Auburn University College of Liberal Arts, will talk about his newest book, "Masters and Savages," on Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 3 p.m. in the Auburn University Libraries Special Collections and Archives Department. A reception will follow.

"Master and Savages" is set in Africa and onboard a contract labor ship headed to Brazil after the Civil War and centers on questions of conscience, faith and humanity. Power struggles with the ship's captain, a rebellion among the laborers, horrific weather and British warships in hot pursuit reflect the main character's state of mind.

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AUBURN - The Auburn University College of Liberal Arts and Department of Music will present the ninth annual Sounds of Auburn concert Thursday, Nov. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum.

Approximately 550 students will perform in ensembles that will include the Auburn University Singers, Marching Band, Gospel Choir, Steel Drum Band, Chamber Choir, Jazz Band and the Symphonic Band.

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Two journalists - both respected for their many years of service and dedication to communities as newspaper publishers - will be inducted into the Alabama Newspaper Hall of Honor on Nov. 7 at Auburn University.

Sam H. Oliver, who was the owner and editor of The LaFayette Sun, and Ralph W. Sears, owner and editor of the Shelby County Reporter, will be the 105th and 106th journalists inducted posthumously by the Alabama Press Association since the Alabama Newspaper Hall of Honor was established in 1959.

The ceremony will be at 10 a.m. in the Alabama Newspaper Hall of Honor Room in the Ralph Brown Draughon Library.

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