Features
Auburn Magazine – Winter 2018


Before Aubie was the friendly tiger we know and love today, he was a vicious beast stalking opponents’ mascots on the covers of Auburn football programs. The creation of Birmingham…
Other Stories

Long rows of cotton plants grow up through the red-earthed farm in Lawrence County, Alabama, where, decades ago, Anna Yeager Brakefield’s ’12 grandfather moved his six children in order to teach…

The scientist who successfully gave mouth-to-mouth CPR to a turtle in Mobile Bay is trying to tell us that snake we found is probably #NotACottonmouth. Former Auburn University Research Assistant David…

655 miles. That’s how many miles it took Ashley Ahner ’10 to run a half-marathon in every American state over the course of more than 10 years. But there is…

After taking one coding class as a freshman in software engineering, Phillip Sidberry ’08 decided to take a leap of faith and change his major to apparel design. He wanted…

Down on the tarp-covered grass of an empty Jordan-Hare Stadium, right in front of the southernmost field goal post, former Auburn kicker Daniel Carlson ’16 stood in front of a camera…

Our climate is changing. At a time when our global population is rapidly increasing with numbers expected to double by 2050, climate change threatens the world’s ability to grow food in…

Karthikeyan Sridhar AND Basil Paudel, graduate research assistants, work well together — well enough to win first place at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Additive Manufacturing Heat Sink Challenge.…

When you walk into Jim's Pharmacy in Dadeville, Alabama, you will find all the staples people have come to know with a community pharmacy. Shelves lined with various goods for sale,…