LEAD participants look out over campus from the top of the Haley Center

Throughout the year, the Truman Pierce Institute hosts LEAD days to help area high school students achieve college and career readiness.

April 15, 2024

Early Childhood Summer Enrichment Program returns this summer

April 11, 2024

Three women sit on a white porch with a flowering bush in the background

Auburn's Regional Autism Network offers translation services for non-English speaking families.

April 02, 2024

Evelyn Hunter receives research funding from Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation

A philanthropic grant is supporting research into health disparities in rural communities.

March 18, 2024

Lightening lights up the sky over a landscape that includes trees and residential neighborhoods

Many rural counties in Alabama have residents who can’t receive severe weather alerts, often due to language barriers or a lack of consistent Internet access. Agriscience Education faculty members are working with Auburn University Extension staff to spread the word about the importance of disaster preparedness.

February 27, 2024

Chih-hsuan Wang, professor in the Department of Educational Foundations, Leadership and Technology; Peter Liu, assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering; and Melody Russell, alumni professor of science education in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching, have teamed up to develop an innovative AI curriculum for high school students from underserved school districts in the State of Alabama.

February 20, 2024

An Auburn University College of Education alumnus stands in front of his class teaching.

Many Auburn alumni teachers are bucking the state and national trend that declares as many as 70% of teachers are said to have considered leaving their jobs in recent years.

February 13, 2024

An Auburn student tutoring a first-grader.

Since September, students in Katie Forster’s Foundations of Language and Literacy class have been working one-on-one with students at Richland to improve their reading skills.

November 29, 2023

two faculty members, a man and a woman, stand together smiling in front of foliage

Auburn faculty members Jada Kohlmeier and Steven Brown have been awarded more than $2 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Education to conduct virtual professional development with secondary social studies teachers from across the nation.

November 06, 2023

Teachers on the trip to Korea gather for a photo.

Last summer, Dr. Jung Won Hur and eight elementary and high school teachers from Alabama traveled to South Korea for nearly two weeks.

October 30, 2023

A Gear Up Achieve logo

Led by efforts from the College of Education and University Outreach, Auburn University has received an $18.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Postsecondary Education to provide greater access and opportunities to more than 6,500 Alabama middle school students.

October 12, 2023

A group of seven interdisciplinary scholars poses for a photo

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine have awarded Auburn $550,000 over the next five years to establish a Gulf Scholars Program on campus.

October 11, 2023

A man lying down on a medical bed

Auburn University’s Warrior Research Center (WRC) has joined forces with the Auburn Police Department to redefine officer wellness – with the WRC focusing on the physical aspects of a police officer’s job.

June 09, 2023

Professors from Auburn University’s College of Education and College of Sciences and Mathematics are joining forces to help reverse a glaring shortage of K-12 science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, teachers throughout the state of Alabama.

January 11, 2022

Rooted in extensive research, “Bloody Sunday, Selma and the Long Civil Rights Movement,” a unique project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) launched this summer with a pair of week-long workshops for dozens of K-12 educators from districts across the nation.

July 26, 2023

Last updated: 11/14/2023