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The American Musical: How 'Hamilton' shapes, celebrates history on the stage
How did a history lesson become one of Broadway's most celebrated productions? Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Professor of Theatre Chase Bringardner said celebrating American identity within musical theatre is a tradition as old as the art form itself. ...
Our Students
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 story. ...
Love language: SLHS student creates communication aid for brother with autism
Speech, language and hearing sciences senior Lauren Kutschke’s passion is helping people with special needs communicate more comfortably. After a study abroad program, she sta ...
Political science, history student finds passion for teaching on the Plains
Montana Maslonka came to Auburn looking for a place where she could pursue her passion for politics and history. Along the way, she found a calling to one day become a college ...
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 of Actua ...
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
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 ...
Auburn Alumni Association celebrates Lifetime Achievement, Young Alumni Award recipients
The Auburn Alumni Association recently honored Harold D. Melton '88, a partner at Troutman Pepper and former chief justic ...