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Auburn Magazine – Winter 2016


The crowd inside the showroom at Harrah’s Hotel and Casino on Las Vegas’ Miracle Mile is packed. Sprinkled into the audience of Baby Boomers are wide-eyed youths coming for a…

When Kiah Erlich was researching colleges, Auburn University seemed a logical fit for the California high school student who wanted to go into aviation. “I researched only aviation programs because…
Other Stories

The old Sports Arena, an all-wooden building that resembled a small airplane hangar, was home to the Auburn basketball team from 1946 through the 1967-68 season. The arena, affectionately called…

“How do you feel about a heart transplant?” the surgeon asked my husband and me. That question would have been terrifying enough if the doctor had been referring to one…

“It's one of those ideas that is so good you wonder why it hadn’t been done before. It just makes sense,” said Randy Bartlett, professor of industrial design in Auburn University’s…

Auburn University and the city of Gulf Shores are moving forward with plans to build a complex in Gulf Shores to serve as both an educational outpost for Auburn and…

Auburn University alumna Kyes Stevens ’94 has been recognized as one of this year’s “Women Who Shape the State,” a program created by AL.com and Birmingham Magazine. Stevens is a…

More than a millennium ago, in present-day southern Mexico and Central America, the ancient Mayan empire stretched across an area the size of Texas. Then, in approximately A.D. 1000, the…