Get excited for a caffeinated frenzy. Sarah Barnett, the owner of Mama Mocha's Coffee Roastery, is organizing Auburn's first barista throw down Aug. 19 at The Gnu's Room at 6 p.m."It's kind of like Iron Chef, except for coffee," Barnett, also known as Mama Mocha, said.
Sanjeev Baskiyar recently received a $594,352 grant from the National Science Foundation to be used for scholarships in Auburn's computer science and software engineering (CSSE) department.
Auburn student athletes must balance sports, schoolwork and social lives. Auburn's numerous foreign athletes must juggle all of these things, plus deal with the added pressure of being so far from home.
Every Friday this month in London's Victoria & Albert Museum, jazz musicians perform, or "woodshed," in an exhibit created by Auburn University's Rural Studio, part of the architecture school.
This summer, on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons in Shelby Center, students ages 10 through 18 make robotic tanks out of Lego pieces, program their own versions of Pacman and create computer software that calculates mathematical equations, among other things.
The Auburn Track and Field Teams entered day one of the NCAA Outdoor Finals Wednesday at Hayward Field, commonly referred to as Track Town USA, in Eugene, Oregon, with strong performances from individual athletes and relay teams.
Hundreds of Lee County residents gathered at Municipal Park in Opelika Tuesday evening to enjoy the sounds of Conner Lorre, a Neil Diamond tribute artist, as part of the Summer Swing concert series.
Between spring and fall semesters at Auburn University, many students who stay in town for the summer struggle to find local entertainment. "Most everyone I know goes to Birmingham or Atlanta a lot for fun activities," said Megan Neely, a senior in Human Development and Family Studies.
