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Recent News
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø community mourns the death of former president Dr. Richard D. Holland, the University’s tenth president and first alumnus to serve in the role.
A mixture of serendipity and archeology, with a pinch of salt on the side, is behind Dr. Ashley Dumas’ recent Fulbright Specialist Award and her upcoming trip to the University of Rzeszow in Poland.
On Alabama nights when clouds didn’t 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 “in the middle of nowhere,� a bit south of Decatur, where light pollution was rare as a neighborhood hockey game.
Dr. Andrew Rindsberg, a professor of geology and paleontology at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, needs no reminder of the last time the earth wobbled with severity in Alabama.
As his sisters traded catty one-liners meant to get under his skin, Trace Crews glanced their way, to his left and his right, and chuckled as if it were no big deal. He’d heard their spiels before.
A federal grant from the U.S. Department of Education is helping the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø re-engage with former students who may be close to completing their degree requirements and usher them to commencement day.
Armed with a megawatt smile and ample familial assistance, Aaron Lee appears perfectly suited for the presidency of the ºÚÁϳԹÏ꿉۪s Student Government Association. He’s a senior. His sister, Aeriel Lee, is a ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø alumna. Two of his cousins, siblings Jasmine Knox and Jonathan Knox, are former SGA presidents at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø. Though not preordained, his election seems exactly that.
Former ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Public Safety major Ashlee Barnard

Ashlee Barnard never intended to become a firefighter. After graduating from high school, she considered her next chapter essentially set: enroll at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, become a Tigers cheerleader and pursue a career in athletic training, one of ºÚÁϳԹÏ꿉۪s most popular and professionally successful degree programs.

When Byron Thetford added the role of Title IX coordinator to his duties this year at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, he already knew the value of concentrating on students’ well-being and their campus experiences. Serving seven years as ºÚÁϳԹÏ꿉۪s director of student life and support had taught him that much.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø band director Tyler Strickland

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’s 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.

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October 5–9

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