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(06/23/13 1:00pm)
What are the everyday duties of the senior executive chef of Auburn University?I help oversee all food production and service for the campus, which includes all the dining venues and catering.My day is spent crisscrossing the campus visiting every outlet, assisting where needed and making sure quality, safety and consistency standards are followed. We have a great team of managers and wonderful employees who strive to offer the best service possible every day.
(06/06/13 7:34pm)
It seems there is no impossible task for a smartphone. It can be your planner, book, camera, radio, news source and now, your accountability partner.
(05/15/13 11:45pm)
Where is away? When we throw away garbage, where does it go? Is away a far off place, or is away somewhere near our homes and water supplies?
(04/26/13 8:43am)
After serving 10 years as a community gathering and one of Auburn's favorite subcultural hubs, The Gnu's Room is closing its doors.
(04/24/13 7:16pm)
Four students started Why Care Campaign at Auburn last fall, but have expanded it worldwide.
Reaching out to approximately 73 countries, Devin Yeomans, co-founder, Jenni Daniel, co-founder, Anna Kate Mullinix, co-founder and Aubrey Sullivan, co-founder have created this project to raise awareness about hunger locally and internationally.
"The goal wasn't to collect money," Daniel said. "The goal was to spread awareness and really make people truly think about it."
The four women first started the project in their Hunger Studies Capstone class taught by Kate Thornton, director of the hunger and sustainability initiative.
The assignment was to create something that would change the world.
"It was one of those things that we didn't plan it just happened," Mullinix said. "It's one of those things that we could have never dreamed of happening."
The women came up with the idea to spread awareness on the hunger issue, but focused more on asking people a question, not just giving them statistics.
"We realized once we figured out our reason it really empowered us to do more," said Yeomans. "I think by allowing it to be a question made it more powerful."
The Why Care Campaign has partnered with the World Food Program and the Food and Agriculture Program of the United Nations to reach more people.
The first step of the Why Care Campaign was to encourage people to figure out why they care about hunger through pictures sent to the campaign's social media sites.
"The campaign was actually for World Food Day on October 16, 2012, so everything that we had done was building up to that one day," Yeomans said. "The results were incredible. We peaked at 36,000-person reach on Facebook alone. The days leading up to World Hunger Day we collected over 2,500 photos and counting."
The first step of the campaign had gained the attention of people throughout the world by people sending in their photos of why they care about hunger.
"We had a lot of athletes, Olympians, politicians, Christina Aguilera, a lot of NGO leaders and people from the UN," Yeomans said. "The variation was incredible."
Yeomans said that people gave them varied 'Why I Care' responses.
"You had things that were really deep form people that had seen hunger first-hand and then you had people that were more fluid about it, which is fine," Yeomans said. "They would just say 'I care about hunger because I love bacon and everyone should have bacon.' We had a lot of religious, personal and moral reasons."
The second step of the campaign is a call to action.
"We're trying to get together a 50 million pound food drive, for food banks kind of like Beat Bama Food Drive," Yeomans said.
Mullinix said the issue of hunger did not affect her directly until her mission trip to Honduras last summer.
"This past summer I was in Honduras and there was this little boy that came to the orphanage that I was working at and trying to eat made him sick, which is a primary symptom of starvation," Mullinix said. "It really took on a different face that it was no longer just an issue, but it was a person, a name, a face and a story."
The group hopes to encourage students to volunteer on campus to help out their community and the world.
"They can get involved with Committee of 19, start their own food drive or help out the Campus Kitchen," Mullinix said. 'There are many initiatives on campus that give students the ability to make in different in their community and around the state and the world."
The campaign has grown into something that the women cannot control entirely anymore.
"I'm just really excited to see where it goes," Mullinix said. "It's one of those things that we have some control over it, but when it comes down to it there's really not many of us involved can do to control where it goes and what it does. I'm excited to see what it looks like in the future and how it continues to evolve in the international program."
(04/24/13 12:46am)
Several Auburn faculty, staff, alumni and students were recognized by the Office of Sustainability for their outstanding achievements related to their field, whether it was through academics, program development or finding innovation.
(04/10/13 3:33am)
Auburn students took what most people would only see as trash and turned it into something useful and environmentally friendly.
(03/29/13 1:15am)
For the fourth time, Auburn University has won the Tree Campus USA designation from the Arbor Day foundation.
(03/22/13 1:57am)
The 14th annual Flapjack Fest and Silent Auction took place Thursday, March 7 at the Foy Hall Food Court from 6-8 p.m.
Tickets were $5 and all proceeds went toward the Ryan F. Chandler Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund. Five dollars provided attendees with all you can eat pancakes, bacon and sausage.
The purpose of the fundraiser was to ensure that the scholarship is self-sustaining for years to come.
Sodexo and Chartwells, a private food company, donated all of the food for the event.
Ryan Chandler was an Auburn University camp counselor in 1995, the first year that Camp War Eagle was the orientation program on campus. Chandler died four years later in the summer of 1999. His family set up the endowment fund in his honor after his death.
The scholarship fund is awarded to a student in the college of science and mathematics.
"We are here to raise money for the scholarships, and keep Ryan's name and his memory alive," said Mark Armstrong, director of First Year Experience. "We kind of tagged on and said we need to do something as a program to honor his memory."
First Year Experience is involved in many areas of orientation including Camp War Eagle, SOS, first year university seminar courses and the learning community program.
In the spring of 2000, First Year Experience created the Flapjack Fest and Silent Auction. Over the last 14 years, the event has raised more than $60,000 toward the scholarship fund.
Armstrong said the goal was to keep growing the endowment fund so that more students can receive scholarships.
The Foy Hall Food Court was so full that people were standing and eating their food because no more seats were available.
"More than 600 tickets were pre-sold, or sold at the door," said Melissa Dunn, assistant director of First Year Experience, exceeding the original expectation of 400 tickets.
Josh Huggins, head camp counselor and senior in music education, said that three rotations of staff were used during the event.
"We've actually had counselors cooking the pancakes, bacon and sausage in the arena all afternoon," Huggins said.
Sixty-two counselors participated in the preparation and management of the event, including 36 camp counselors, 20 parent counselors and six head counselors.
"That's our whole staff that we'll use throughout the whole entire summer," Huggins said.
George Merriam, junior in public relations, was the first student through the line to get pancakes.
"I'm thinking of going back and getting some more flappies," Merriam said. "I've only had 10."
Merriam said he stayed away from the sausage because it would take up too much space in his stomach and attributes his consumption quantity to his friends helping him keep pace.
The silent auction offered an alternative way for participants to show their support of the event.
"The silent auction is going on and it's all stuff that has either been made or donated, ranging from personal paintings to a football signed by Pat Dye," Huggins said.
The camp counselors were responsible for getting together most of the items that would be auctioned off.
Some of this year's contributions included a panorama photograph of Jordan-Hare Stadium, paintings done by faculty, hand-made jewelry and numerous Auburn memorabilia items.
The photograph of Jordan-Hare Stadium was the highest-grossing item at $70.
Dunn estimated that more than $3,000 was raised by the Flapjack Fest and Silent Auction in support of the scholarship fund.
"I'm grateful for anyone who comes out and takes part in it," Armstrong said.
(03/02/13 7:20am)
Marion Royston's journey to becoming one of 12 students in the nation to win a Mitchell Scholarship is the kind of story that gives truth to the quote, "You can do anything you put your mind to."
(02/27/13 5:31pm)
Dowell Hall channels "The Giving Tree" to encourage residents to go green. (Courtesy of http://ausustainabowl.weebly.com)
(02/27/13 5:27pm)
What would you say Auburn University budgets $23 million a year for?
(02/19/13 11:59pm)
One Auburn professor has shown that increasing an industry's environmental sustainability can lead to a lowering in its operating costs.
(02/14/13 7:14pm)
Iron will be pumping and Zumba will be jumping when the new Recreation and Wellness Center opens spring 2013.
(02/09/13 1:34am)
In an out-of-character move, The President William, Jefferson, Clinton Hunger Leadership award awarded an honorable mention to Auburn University's own shining star in the battle against hunger.
(01/31/13 6:28pm)
It turns out $5 can go a long way.
The Environmental Awareness Organization is spearheading a campaign to add a sustainable investment fund to the University. The proposed fund would be the result of a $5 fee added to tuition each semester and would be used to fund projects related to sustainability on campus.
"So the goal is it's a student-controlled, student-funded program for green investment on campus," said Daniel Martinez, junior in materials engineering and physics and EAO vice president.
The project comes as part of a collaboration with a statewide initiative called the Coalition of Alabama Students for the Environment, or CASE, which unites Alabama college campuses in sustainable projects. Currently, UA, UAH, UAB and Auburn are each involved in efforts to add sustainable investment funds to their campuses, while Montevallo has already succeeded in establishing such a fund.
"Each investment fund will be unique to its campus," Martinez said. "Each one will be different, but the idea is between all of them basically to have a million dollars going toward the green project among all the campuses."
According to Martinez, some campuses will have larger green funds than others, depending on the total number of enrolled students. The Auburn EAO is proposing a $5 fee per student each semester, which, when distributed among approximately 25,000 students, would add up to about $125,000 per semester.
The EAO is in the process of completing a proposal for the fund, which will outline details for the creation of a committee to manage the fund and rules for the submission of project proposals. Currently, the vision is a committee composed of mostly students with a faculty chairperson. The committee would be in charge of reviewing and approving proposals for sustainable projects around campus.
"So students and faculty and staff are all allowed to propose whatever project, and it goes to committee, they discuss it," Martinez said. "And you have to have a budget, you have to have a sponsor, you have to have the cooperating, interested parties already informed and aware and accepting of cooperation. So you don't just come with an idea; you come with a plan."
Martinez said Montevallo has already used its sustainable investment fund to sponsor a bike-sharing program on campus. Other examples of sustainable projects that could be made possible by the fund include campus-wide composting or community gardens.
Although the proposal has not received University approval, the EAO has already contacted the Office of Sustainability in search of support.
According to Mike Kensler, director of campus sustainability operations, the Office of Sustainability will not be involved in the advocating of the fund in order to preserve the campaign's student-run approach. However, Kensler said the Office was able to offer some advice about seeking University approval.
"We just raised those types of questions about timing and process to make sure that the timing was right, whatever they determined that to be, and that the process was good in making sure that the campus was fully informed about it and could make an informed decision," Kensler said.
Kensler said if the fee is approved in the future, it is possible the Office could become involved in a supportive way.
"Of course we support any and all activities to help us become sustainable," Kensler said.
The EAO is also planning to garner student support by distributing a petition in favor of the fund.
"We haven't been told by administration that we need to come to them with a petition yet, but we feel to be armed with a petition will be beneficial," said Stephanie Ard, senior in hotel and restaurant management and EAO president.
The EAO will begin petitioning on Saturday, Feb. 2. Other student organizations, including the Conservation Biology Society and the Real Food Challenge, have expressed their support for the program and may assist in promoting the project in the future, according to Martinez.
Interested students may attend the EAO's next meeting Monday, Feb. 4 at 6 p.m. in Student Center 2218.
(01/31/13 5:23am)
The typical Auburn student has driven down South Donahue a thousand times. The majority have probably noticed a ditch in the area around the Coliseum. Most likely no one knows that this ditch is actually part of a nine mile creek that runs through Auburn.
(01/31/13 5:24am)
The primary purpose of the Parkerson Mill Creek project is to prevent pollution and promote sustainability. (Courtesy of Kaye Christian)
(01/25/13 8:42pm)
Most of us are aware of the growing need for a more sustainable and eco-friendly lifestyle. We see changes being made all over campus, and messages encouraging us to make small changes: use our own water bottles instead of continuously buying plastic ones, walk or ride bikes to campus, recycle. We're being called to do things differently, and the university is changing with us.
(01/17/13 3:37am)
Auburn's David Bancroft will bring Auburn its newest fine dining experience with his new Acre Restaurant.
