News Archive

Newland to Give Distinguished Graduate Faculty Lecture October 18, 2011

Dr. Christopher Newland of the Auburn University Department of Psychology will give this year's Distinguished Graduate Faculty Lecture, sponsored by Alumni Affairs and the Graduate School. Newland is an expert in neurotoxicology, and will talk about environmental contaminants and their effect on our lives.

Date: October 18, 2011
When: 3 - 4 pm (reception following in Hargis)
Where: Langdon Hall

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Graduate and Professional Fair: all students invited

Auburn University's Career Services will hold the annual Graduate and Professional Fair on October 5, 2011, from 10 - 1 in the Student Center Ballroom. Over 60 universities will have representatives there to talk to students about graduate and professional programs in their institutions.

Any student considering graduate school should be there! Find out more at http://auburn.edu/career

There will be a drawing for a free ipad for those who register. Faculty and GTAs: please encourage your students to attend!

Graduate Student Orientation to Be Held August 15

Orientation for new graduate students will be held August 15, 2011, in the first floor auditorium of Lowder Hall (113A). Registration begins at 8:00 am, and orientation begins at 8:30. A pizza lunch will be offered courtesy of the Graduate Student Council at 11:30 am on the Shelby Center portico. Lunch will be followed by a session for GRAs (and any other new students interested in attending) called "Introduction to Research at Auburn" from 12:30 - 1:30.

The GTA (Graduate Teaching Assistants) orientation, hosted by the Biggio Center, will be held in the AU Hotel and Conference Center, Ballroom A, on the same day from 12:30 - 4:30.

Although teaching assistants will not be able to attend the research session, that presentation will be available on the Graduate School website later that week.

Parking is available near Lowder; please consult the campus map for location details.

For more details, please contact Jessica Nelson at jsn0002@auburn.edu.

2011 Distinguished Dissertation Award Winners Announced

In the Fall of 2009, the Graduate School first announced that it would recognize the achievements of outstanding doctoral students by creating the Auburn University Graduate School Distinguished Dissertation Awards. For 2011, nominations were solicited from the colleges and schools in two categories: Biological/Life Sciences and Humanities/Fine Arts.

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Graduate Students Recognized at Awards Luncheon

The Graduate School and Graduate Student Council hosted a luncheon on April 21, 2011 for graduate students who won awards this year in several categories.

George Flowers, Dean of the Graduate School, and George Crandell, Associate Dean, gave the Distinguished Dissertation Awards, Merriwether Fellowships, Outstanding Masters and Doctoral Students, and recognized winners of the 2011 Graduate Scholars Symposium.

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Auburn Authors Honored at Awards

Thirty five Auburn faculty and administrators were recognized on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 for their contributions to scholarship at Auburn.

At an afternoon ceremony and reception, the Auburn University Libraries and the Graduate School recognized faculty who published books in the 2005 – 2010 calendar years. Eligible authors received an award for each year in which they authored, co-authored, or edited a book-length publication during the five year span.

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Graduate Student Appreciation Week Begins

Activities for this year's Graduate Student Appreciation Week begin Tuesday, April 19. Visit the GSC website for a schedule of events.

Graduate Scholars Symposium Winners Announced

The Graduate Student Council is pleased to announce the winners of the 2011 Graduate Scholars Symposium, held April 2, 2011 at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art. To see a full list of winners, click here.

Incentives Offered for New Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificates

To encourage the development of Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificates, the Graduate School invites faculty to submit proposals for development.

Incentives for Development

The Graduate School is offering the following incentives to faculty members who submit one of the three proposals selected for development*:

$1,000 to the faculty member (or team of faculty members) submitting the proposal

Up to $1,000 for the development of new distance education courses required as part of the IGC

Support for marketing the new IGC

A return of tuition and course fees from IGC courses offered via distance education**

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Graduate School Announces New Horizons Lecturer for 2011

The Auburn University Graduate School is pleased to announce the New Horizon Lecture for 2011 will feature the Deputy Surgeon General, Boris D. Lushniak, MD, MPH. The Lecture will be held April 8 at 2:00 pm in the Shelby Center Auditorium. A reception for Rear Admiral Lushniak will follow in the Shelby Center Atrium area.

RADM Lushniak has had a long career with the US Public Health Service before his current assignment as Deputy Surgeon General. Among many other accomplishments, he was part of the CDC/NIOSH team at Ground Zero (World Trade Center), and has served on disaster response teams in several countries. To read more about RADM Lushniak, please see his biography on the Surgeon General's website.

Auburn's New Horizons Lecture Series aims to promote the interchange of ideas, the development of collaborative ventures, and the benefits of graduate education to the people of Alabama. For more information, contact George Crandell, associate dean of the Graduate School, at (334) 844-2125 or crandgw@auburn.edu.

Dr. Ted Becker Speaks at February Colloquium

Dr. Ted Becker, Alma Holladay Professor of Civic Engagement in the Department of Political Science, spoke at the February installment of the GSC's Colloquium series for graduate students on February 9.

Dr. Becker, an internationally renowned political economist, spoke on "The Gospel of Democracy." He touched on the idea of the people's revolution, and explored examples from the past as well as events unfolding now. Dr. Becker asserts that most popular uprisings lead eventually to a state that is similar to the one that was brought down, and that true democracy is almost never the result. He pointed instead to the Swiss model of democracy, which includes provision for national referendum, or the power of the people to bring issues to vote, and to vote directly on these issues.

Dr. Becker has traveled and lectured widely on the subject of democracy, and blogs regularly on the website for his digital textbook, The Last, Lost Empire. To engage in dialogue with Dr. Becker about democracy, technology, and the changing world, please visit his blog at http://last-lost-empire.com/blog/.

Auburn Students Think Tall

Design Build students win prestigious competition sponsored by Volkswagen.

AUBURN - When Michael Glenboski and Dylan Cook won a competition sponsored by Volkswagen earlier this year, their entry solved a problem in a unique way. The contest invited architecture students from eight schools in the southeast to submit proposals for a bridge to connect employee and guest parking to the main plant. Among the problems they had to solve, there was a 700 foot span and 50 foot drop in elevation from the parking to the plant.

The innovative and award winning approach? Thinking about the “incline that tired workers would face after a day at work,” Michael says. Their approach incorporated two flat spans connected by an elevator at the mid-point. No other team thought to eliminate the slope altogether. The duo believes that their design was ultimately successful because they considered worker fatigue from the beginning as part of the problem.