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No place like home

No place like home

It’s taken nearly 20 years, but Erich Weishaupt has found his way back home. Weishaupt, ’97 electrical engineering, is the owner of The Ruby Slipper Café, and in June 2016 he opened his sixth location with a restaurant in Orange Beach. But his journey back to Sweet Home Alabama has […]

by × November 29, 2016 ×

Problems in paradise

Auburn University civil engineering professor Prabhakar Clement continues to study effects of the 2010 BP oil spill. On a trip to the Gulf Coast in May, he collected tar balls found lining the beaches for testing. More than one pound of tar balls were picked up along a small stretch […]

by × November 29, 2016 ×