Early Excellence
Get Cordelia Brown talking about how her office’s new location has impacted its mission, and you’ll hear one word over and over: Transform.
Get Cordelia Brown talking about how her office’s new location has impacted its mission, and you’ll hear one word over and over: Transform.
While many departments had outgrown their previous space before moving into the Brown-Kopel Engineering Student Achievement Center, the Office of Career Development and Corporate Relations is still growing into its space.
Alexander Davis, a doctoral candidate in aerospace engineering, was recently awarded a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship sponsored by the Department of Defense.
Auburn University, through its Auburn Cyber Research Center and McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security, is collaborating with the Alabama National Guard Defensive Cyber Operation Element (DCO-E) in Montgomery, Alabama, to provide training to DCO-E cyber analysts on Auburn’s campus.
This rooftop garden — the largest in Alabama — covers 44,000 square feet of instructional spaces, including the wind tunnel laboratory.
In addition to the Browns’ gift, more than 50 other alumni have donated $17 million toward the project.
Auburn Engineering doctoral student Ye Wang was chosen to participate in the Google Summer of Code, a global program that allows students to immerse themselves in open-source software development.
“Standing at the cape, to celebrating again 50 years later, it kind of puts a big lump in your throat when you think about it.”
A member of the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering development team, major gift officer David Mattox, ’05 marketing and ’08 MBA, worked with donors to help facilitate 43 committed proposals. The last time a development officer cultivated connections resulting in more than 40 gifts was in 2014 by Carole Ann Fowler, who served as a development officer for the Raymond J. Harbert College of Business at the time.
If you’re happy and you know it, you might be an Auburn student.