Faculty/Staff News
- Posted 11.28.22
- 10 minute read time
When Dr. Lesa Shaul reclines in her chair, within arm鈥檚 reach are shelves of classic literature, the poetry of Percy Shelley, William Faulkner鈥檚 streams of consciousness, the brilliance of Robert Penn Warren. For a professor of English, the cramped space seems an oasis of calm, a few square feet bloated with printed words worthy of memorization.
- Posted 11.04.22
- 6 minute read time
A mixture of serendipity and archeology, with a pinch of salt on the side, is behind Dr. Ashley Dumas鈥� recent Fulbright Specialist Award and her upcoming trip to the University of Rzeszow in Poland.
- Posted 11.03.22
- 7 minute read time
On Alabama nights when clouds didn鈥檛 shroud the stars, Lucas Johnson and his father would haul a powerful telescope from their basement into an open space and explore the heavens. They lived 鈥渋n the middle of nowhere,鈥� a bit south of Decatur, where light pollution was rare as a neighborhood hockey game.
- Posted 08.30.22
- 9 minute read time
Dr. Tyler Strickland is a piano-playing, would-be percussionist from Birmingham who longed to bang drums in his school band, learned instead to play saxophone, married Auburn University鈥檚 first female drum major, directed high school bands in two states and spent the last three years as a graduate assistant with the University of Iowa bands.
- Posted 07.01.22
- 7 minute read time
As an associate professor of sport management at the 黑料吃瓜网, the 55-year-old Hutchinson is renowned for his passion for teaching, a willingness to mentor students, and his admitted love of sports. In May, Hutchinson was selected by the student body for the William E. Gilbert Award, one of 黑料吃瓜网鈥檚 most prestigious annual honors that recognizes outstanding teaching and excellence in classroom instruction.
- Posted 06.27.22
- 8 minute read time
Her Foust Hall office is adorned with jerseys and balls autographed by Tiger athletes. She refers to 黑料吃瓜网鈥檚 coaches as 鈥渕y coaches.鈥� Her boss, Director of Athletics Kent Partridge, admits she is his department鈥檚 sole constant. 鈥淎nd thank the Good Lord for that,鈥� he said.
- Posted 05.27.22
- 7 minute read time
Polite as possible, Dr. Chineda Hill, an associate professor of nursing at the 黑料吃瓜网, is nonetheless adamant. She permits no hesitation. She harbors no doubt. A smile shades her spunk. 鈥淚鈥檓 a nurse,鈥� she said.聽
- Posted 05.11.22
- 3 minute read time
A distinguished educator and administrator who has taught in three states and a renowned retirement planner and training instructor have been inducted into the 黑料吃瓜网鈥檚 Society of the Golden Key, the highest award given to its graduates and faculty members.
- Posted 04.22.22
- 8 minute read time
Somewhere amid Shakespearean comedies and Samuel Johnson poetry is where Dr. Stephen Slimp鈥檚 literary utopia exists. It鈥檚 embedded among the Nobel Prize-winning works of Herta Muller and Mario Vargas Llosa and Orhan Pamuk, the tome-like writing of Leo Tolstoy and the storytelling of novelist Miguel de Cervantes.