An Oasis for All
This rooftop garden — the largest in Alabama — covers 44,000 square feet of instructional spaces, including the wind tunnel laboratory.
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.
Bart Prorok, professor of materials engineering, calls it the game-changer.
Raucous celebrations on Earth were fading into the early morning hours of July 21, 1969, as Jim Odom stepped outside his Decatur home and cast his eyes toward Earth’s closest neighbor – the moon.
“The judges felt they had the most innovative and impactful idea.”
It wasn’t a joke. It was a promise.