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High notes: AU Singers hits 55 years
International stages, lifelong friendships and a few trips down the aisle. As AU Singers celebrates 55 years, students and alumni share the songs, stories and people that keep them coming back. Director Dale Farmer agreed to lead the group for one year. Twenty years later, he's still giving them ple ...
Our Students
'Sound' service: Tiger Giving Day donors fund graduate student making difference
Graduate assistant Addison Peacock, whose position was funded by Tiger Giving Day donors, if following in her mother's footsteps by serving Alabama's rural communities. ...
MCP student Roonak Soleimani puts planning in practice with City of Auburn
Roonak Soleimani, a student in the Master of Community Planning program, is applying her knowledge and research to improve life for residents as a planning fellow with ...
A story of her own: Auburn senior finds her voice, purpose and next chapter through English
She came to Auburn for veterinary medicine. Now, with a 4.0 GPA, 250,000 words under her belt and a love for all things literature, Taylor Thomas is writing a whole new ...
Research & Outreach
Endowed English professor connects literature and role-playing games
Emily Friedman never expected a media trend built around recorded role-playing games to shape her research career. But today, she is helping define the emerging world o ...
License to plunder: The role of pirates in the American Revolution
During the American Revolution, privateering became a powerful wartime strategy, giving the fledgling nation another way to challenge the world's greatest naval power. ...
Think Global, Listen Local: How Auburn graduate students are reimagining global development research
Auburn's Global Development Solutions Lab brings faculty, graduate students and international partners together to tackle global development challenges through communi ...
Arts & Culture
Tickets on sale for 2026-2027 Theatre & Dance season, opening nights to support scholarship fund
Theatre & Dance is proud to announce its 2026–27 season, themed “DARE to be fearless and true.” Just as every theatre student who steps onto a stage encounters the unk ...
Philanthropy powers hands-on learning for future music business pros
The Don and Alexandra Clayton Recording Arts Honors, a juried competition for contemporary student musicians at Auburn’s Lucky Man Studio, is serving as a real-world l ...
Theatre Management graduate helps Auburn schoolchildren, seniors make performance art with memories
Abigail Bowling, a recent Theatre Management and Creative Writing graduate, interned this spring with the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities ...
Outstanding Alumni
Hope on wings: Aviation alumni providing free flights to children with cancer
No child should ever miss cancer treatment because their family can’t afford a plane ticket. That’s the mission behind the Limitless Foundation, a nonprofit founded by ...
The Art of Flying: Auburn aviation grad 'Pilot Picasso' goes viral for flight tracker masterpieces
It's called flight tracker art. And 2022 Auburn aviation grad Benjamin McDaniel just delivered its Mona Lisa — literally. ...
Common ground at Ground Zero: How an Auburn-trained historian is reframing 9/11 for a generation too young to remember — her own
Brucie Porter '25 was three years old on Sept. 11, 2001. She doesn't remember a second of it. Now it's her job to ensure ...