More On: Faculty Work

Summer in the City: Making heat stress everyone’s responsibility on construction sites
Have you ever noticed a construction worker on a hot summer day securing asphalt shingles to a roof under the relentless 100-degree sun?

Landscape Architecture Faculty Teaching from the Ground Up
Gwendolyn Cohen, an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, encourages students to see landscapes not just as spaces, but as living systems.

Ph.D. Student Found Just the Right Spot at Auburn
It may seem odd that Muhammad Umer, a Ph.D. student in the McWhorter School of Building Science (BSCI), has spent much of his graduate career working with a dog.

CADC Announces 2024–25 Seed Grant Awardees
The College of Architecture, Design and Construction (CADC) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024–25 CADC Seed Grant Awards, which provide funding to support faculty research, scholarship and creative work. Eighteen projects were selected, totaling more than $100,000.

Preserving 60 years of ‘Bloody Sunday’ history
As the city of Selma, Alabama, commemorates the 60th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” one Auburn University faculty member is helping share the history of that fateful day through several projects.

APLA Faculty Leading the Charge on Energy-Efficient Design
David Shanks, Assistant Professor of Architecture, has energy on the mind.

Winning Research Proposal, Resulting Manual an Auburn Team Effort
Auburn University faculty members Aurélie Frolet, Emily McGlohn and Jillian Maxcy-Brown were recently awarded a 2024 Research Prize by the Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) Foundation.

Alabama Meadows: Getting reacquainted with history, textures and biodiversity
Over the past five years, College of Architecture, Design and Construction landscape architecture faculty members David Hill and Emily Knox have been engaged in research exploring native meadow landscapes of Alabama.

Showcase 2025 highlights unique creative research
When is art not just art? When it’s creative scholarship, the academic work that combines traditional research methods with creative practices.

Auburn celebrates new environmental education building, expanding programs
Auburn University unveiled its newest venue for environmental education at the Kreher Preserve and Nature Center (KPNC) during the official dedication and ribbon cutting of its Environmental Education Building held Friday, Dec. 6.