Archive for the 'Staff' Category
August 6, 2008
 AUBURN - The Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project, an outreach program in Auburn University’s College of Liberal Arts, has received a grant of $14,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts to teach art, photography and creative writing in Alabama’s prisons.
Project director Kyes Stevens said the grant will support additional educational programs and materials in correctional facilities and will fund a pilot project with Space One Eleven, a non-profit community arts organization in Birmingham, to offer studio instruction for both previous participants and those now participating in community corrections in Birmingham.
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July 31, 2008
AUBURN - Professor David Bransby and Larry Fillmer, executive director of Auburn's Natural Resources Management and Development Institute, announced the Coast to Coast and Back Renewable Energy Tour kickoff and media day Monday, Aug. 4, in Montgomery.
Alabama Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks hosted the event to mark the beginning of a nationwide tour by Wayne Keith in his Bio-Truck, which is powered by biomass materials such as wood, switchgrass, crop residues and chicken litter. Keith, a partner in Renewable Energy Systems in Springville, Ala., has mounted a gasifier on a V8 pickup truck that travels about one mile per pound of wood and can reach 80 miles per hour.
He demonstrated the vehicle at the event. In late September, Keith and Bransby will begin a nationwide tour in the truck to raise public awareness of renewable energy and its economic, environmental and social benefits. Keith then will participate in a road race from Berkeley, Calif., to Las Vegas for vehicles powered by non-commercially available fuels.
Contact: Christy Rhodes Kirk, (334) 240-7103, (Christy.Kirk@agi.alabama.gov), or
Mike Clardy, (334) 844-9999 (clardch@auburn.edu)
July 31, 2008
AUBURN - Auburn University’s Southeastern Raptor Center will release a bald eagle back into the wild at 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 2, in Savannah, Ga. The public is invited to view the release at 1412 Walthour Drive where the eagle was found injured in February.
“The person who owns the property where the eagle was discovered had been observing this bird and its mate for a while,” said Liz Crandall of the Auburn raptor center. “The mate is apparently still hanging around the property, so that is why we chose to release the bird back in Savannah.”
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July 15, 2008
Auburn University employee and recent graduate Matt Laney rides along Auburn's new bike path next to South Donahue Drive
AUBURN - Bicyclists will find a more welcoming environment at Auburn University over the next few years as the university implements the third stage of its transition from the traffic-clogged campus of a decade ago to a pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly environment.
The rapid rise in gasoline prices is making bicycles a more attractive alternative to the automobile for short trips at Auburn and nationally. However, even before fuel costs escalated in 2008, campus planners and a university committee were developing a network of bike paths and taking other actions to make the campus more conducive to bicycle traffic.
Previous stages in the transition included expansion of the Tiger Transit bus system and replacement of streets with pedestrianways in the center of campus.
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June 27, 2008
Jeffrey P. McNeill
AUBURN - After a national search, Auburn University President Jay Gogue has named veteran higher education fundraiser Jeffrey P. McNeill Vice President for Development.
President of the McNeill Group, a fundraising and higher-education management consulting firm in South Carolina, McNeill has nearly 30 years of experience leading development initiatives at other large institutions, including 25 at land-grant universities.
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June 24, 2008
John M. Mason
AUBURN - After a national search, Auburn University President Jay Gogue today announced that John M. Mason has been named Associate Provost and Vice President for Research.
Mason, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, Research and Outreach in the College of Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, has an extensive background in teaching, research, consultation and administrative leadership, and also serves as the director of the Thomas D. Larson Pennsylvania Transportation Institute and executive director of the Mid-Atlantic Universities Transportation Center.
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June 17, 2008
Auburn University horticulture professor Gary Keever works with a newly installed irrigation hose on one of the school's two famous oak trees on Toomer's Corner.
AUBURN - Two of Alabama's best-known trees, Auburn's Toomer's Corner live oaks, are about to get spruced up.
On Saturday, specialists in the care of live oaks from the regional office of Bartlett Tree Experts in Tucker, Ga., will perform a horticultural version of "Extreme Makeover" on the historic trees at the southwest corner of College Street and Magnolia Avenue, where Auburn University meets downtown Auburn. For much of the day, curbside traffic lanes at that corner will be closed and traffic through the intersection will be constricted while the Bartlett crew works on the trees.
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June 17, 2008
AUBURN - An Alabama agricultural land-grant alliance of three Alabama universities has been awarded a USDA Grand Challenge Award for its proposal to help move the nation toward bioenergy.
Auburn University's Natural Resources Management and Development Institute and its Center for Bioenergy and Bioproducts, in collaboration with Alabama A&M University and Tuskegee University, submitted "Partnerships: The Pathway to a Vibrant Bioeconomy for Alabama" to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's "25x'25 Alliance" competition. The USDA's goal is to develop technology and plans that could help provide 25 percent of the country's energy from renewable resources by the year 2025.
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June 6, 2008
AUBURN - Research by an Auburn University doctoral student is drawing connections in science magazines to Kevin Bacon, the Hollywood actor whose name has become synonymous in the popular culture with social networks among celebrities.
However, Theo Manno, a doctoral candidate in biological sciences, has found three degrees of separation, on average, not six, among his subjects, none of which are the famous actor, and none of which are American or even human. Yet Manno’s research on free-ranging, wild Columbian ground squirrels in Alberta, Canada, found some parallels with human social activity.
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May 27, 2008
AUBURN - Auburn University Journalism Professor Ed Williams, serving his final semester as faculty adviser to The Auburn Plainsman student newspaper, has established The Ed Williams Endowed Scholarship in Journalism to benefit students and also to mark his 25 years of service to journalism at AU and his 23 years as faculty adviser to the Plainsman.
“My students tell me that I’ve impacted their lives, but I wanted to leave another kind of legacy, something that will be here long after I am gone,” said Williams. “I felt that funding an endowed scholarship is something that will be a part of Auburn forever and something that demonstrates the commitment that I’ve had to my students and to The Auburn Plainsman for the past 25 years.”
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