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Carol Ann Gavin Garden

An Oasis for All

This rooftop garden — the largest in Alabama — covers 44,000 square feet of instructional spaces, including the wind tunnel laboratory.

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Brown-Kopel Engineering Student Achievement Center dedication

Dedicated Donors

In addition to the Browns’ gift, more than 50 other alumni have donated $17 million toward the project.

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Li Chen (left) and Ye Wang

Doctoral student applies deep learning to biomedical data for Google Summer of Code 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.

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Jim Thomas

To the Moon and Back, in 50 years

“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.”

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Development officer facilitates unprecedented number of gift commitments in a year

Development officer facilitates unprecedented number of gift commitments in a year

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.

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Auburn students ranked happiest in the country by Princeton Review

Auburn students ranked happiest in the country by Princeton Review

If you’re happy and you know it, you might be an Auburn student.

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The game-changer

The game-changer

Bart Prorok, professor of materials engineering, calls it the game-changer.

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Jim Odom

One Giant Leap For Rocketry

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.

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Robotic drone that cleans waterways takes top prize at Halloween Pitch Competition

Robotic drone that cleans waterways takes top prize at Halloween Pitch Competition

“The judges felt they had the most innovative and impactful idea.”

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Cliff Williams.

The War Eagle Almost Landed

It wasn’t a joke. It was a promise.

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