AUBURN -  A new Auburn University-designed, high-tech pharmacy in Meridian, Miss., is the first of its kind and is a model facility that could be built in communities across the United States.

Auburn pharmacy professors Kenneth Barker and Betsy Flynn led a multidisciplinary team in designing the recently opened facility for Vital Care Inc., which will help pharmacists offer complex medications for in-home use, ones that are normally administered only in hospitals.

The two-story, 16,000-square-foot building is used for preparing, dispensing and administering the medications, while, at the same time, serving as a demonstration and teaching model for potential franchisees wishing to open a similar facility. Pharmacists may choose to duplicate the entire design for home-infusion medications or individual function areas.

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AUBURN - After a national search, Auburn University President Jay Gogue has announced that Ainsley Carry has been named Vice President for Student Affairs. Carry comes to Auburn from Temple University, where he served as associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students.

"We are excited to welcome Dr. Carry to the Auburn family as he brings with him a demonstrated passion for working with students and student programs as well as developing student leaders," said Auburn University President Jay Gogue. "His tenure as an administrator at other Southeastern Conference institutions combined with his experience in the area of strategic planning will prove invaluable for leading Auburn's division of student affairs."

Carry, who will begin his new position June 15, has an extensive background in student affairs and is a strong advocate for student leadership and personal development.

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AUBURN - Auburn University received seven awards for its communications, marketing and alumni programs at the 2009 southeastern regional meeting of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Higher Education, or CASE, held Feb. 11 in Atlanta.

The Office of Communications and Marketing won a Grand Award, the highest honor, in the crisis management plans category for its Message Dissemination in a Crisis entry, an outline of Auburn's new emergency communications plan and publications created in cooperation with the Office of Risk Safety and Management and the Department of Public Safety.

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AUBURN – After a national search, Auburn University President Jay Gogue has announced that Mary Ellen Mazey is the university's choice for Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs.  She was approved by the Auburn Board of Trustees at its Jan. 29 meeting.

Mazey has an extensive background in teaching and administration, most recently as dean of the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University.

"Dr. Mazey brings to Auburn a vision and experience in higher education administration that will serve the university well in the coming years," said Gogue. "Her expertise in the area of strategic planning will help us achieve the ambitious goals we have laid out for our future."

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AUBURN - Auburn University's Natural Resources Management & Development Institute and PureVision Technology Inc. have entered into a collaborative agreement in which PureVision is providing a continuous biomass fractionation process development unit to Auburn for use in research and technology commercialization initiatives.

The unit rapidly converts cellulosic biomass into sugars and lignin for making many biobased products including biofuels and industrial chemicals. It will be used by Auburn's Center for Bioenergy and Bioproducts and will be located in newly renovated space in the existing Forest Products Laboratory on the Auburn University campus. It also will be available for interdisciplinary collaborative programs to advance biomass research programs.

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AUBURN - Capt. Daniel P. King, a civil engineer who is retiring from the U.S. Navy after 28 years, has been named assistant vice president for facilities at Auburn University, effective Dec. 8.

In his new post, King will oversee campus maintenance, planning and related functions, including many responsibilities formerly held by John Mouton of the McWhorter School of Building Science. Mouton recently returned to his academic post after three years as special assistant to the president.

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AUBURN - The Southeastern Raptor Center, part of Auburn University's College of Veterinary Medicine, will release a bald eagle back into the wild around 9 a.m. (EDT) on Saturday, Sept. 6, at the Dodge County public fishing area near Eastman, Ga. The public is invited to view the release.

In early June, local residents in Chester, Ga. discovered the bird huddled between two dumpsters. They notified Shannon Morrison, a licensed veterinary technician with Ocmulgee Veterinary Clinic in Eastman, who picked up the bird and transported it to the clinic. After consulting with a wildlife rehabilitator in Georgia, Morrison identified the bird as an immature bald eagle.

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Auburn University Ombudsperson Jim Wohl

Wohl, who has been on the Auburn faculty since 1996, has served on a national roster of mediators since 2006 and was interim ombudsperson for Louisiana State University in 2007.

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AUBURN - The Southeastern Raptor Center at Auburn University will host "Eagles, Owls and Other Critters," a birds-in-flight raptor program, on Fridays before home football games.

Shows will begin at 4 p.m. in the 350-seat Edgar B. Carter Educational Amphitheater on Raptor Road just off Shug Jordan Parkway and are scheduled for Aug. 29; Sept. 5, 19 and 26; Oct. 10; and Nov. 7 and 14.

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AUBURN - Auburn University’s incoming pharmacy students will get an introduction to professional responsibility Friday when attorneys and faculty conduct a mock malpractice trial.

The trial, part of the Harrison School of Pharmacy’s Foundations of Pharmacy orientation course, will involve arguments and deliberations in a fictional $375 million civil suit against a pharmacist. It will be presented at 1:30 p.m. in the Walker Building’s tiered auditorium for 150 first-year students, including 24 from the Mobile campus.

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