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Seminar Series for the Department of Poultry Science will return Fall 2008




AU PROFESSORS ESTABLISH SUMMER RESEARCH PROGRAM
FOR MINORITIES


Omar Oyarzabal, assistant professor in Poultry Science and chair of the College of Agriculture Diversity Committee, and Jeffrey Fergus, Mechanical Engineering associate professor, have landed a three-year, $210,000 National Science Foundation grant to establish a Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program at Auburn. In each of the program's three years, 10 undergraduate students from underrepresented minorities will come to Auburn to participate in 10-week, hands-on summer research projects involving sensor and biosensor development. The students selected as this summer's participants are from colleges and universities in California, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York and Oklahoma. They will be at AU from May 28 through Aug. 1. Faculty members from the colleges of Agriculture, Engineering and Sciences and Mathematics will serve as mentors for the participants. More information is available at www.ag.auburn.edu/nsfbiosensors/. **From AU Daily, May 1, 2008 **

Now playing: iTunes U!

Want to learn how to boil peanuts, take a tour of Venice or check out the Virtual Chicken? You can do all that and more at iTunes U, a special site just for Auburn University that has been up and running since late last fall. Already Poultry Science IT specialist Marcia Owens Kloepper has filled her department's site with more than 50 podcasts, and other departments, as well as the Alabama Ag Experiment Station and the College of Ag's administrative offices, have also loaded content. And there's still room for more. Check out what's there by visiting http://itunes.auburn.edu, clicking on the "Open AU iTunes" button and following the links to the College of Ag or AAES sites. (Note: You must install iTunes on your PC before visiting the site. You can download it from http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/.) If you're interested in creating informational podcasts of your own, it's easy and help is available to get you started. Contact the iTunes Team at itunes-team@acesag.auburn.edu.**From Agricultural Communications, April 30, 2008 **


Chicken Hawks 2008

Congratulations go out to the Poultry Research Farm employees plus friends and Poultry Science undergrad students that played on the IM team this year. The team won 4 out of 5 games! The players are: Clay Cambell, Joe Hagler, Dwain Holt, Dalton Holt (Last row). Whit Lane, Cory Shadden, Lance Williamson, Scot Garner (3rd row). Trey Tidwell, Bruce Estes (2nd row). David Estes (in front)