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SGA's Mental Health Task Force scheduled to report findings next month

By Claire Tully | Campus Writer | November 6

Walker Byrd, SGA president, recently discussed the developments that are taking place with the Task Force on campus to address mental illness at Auburn. This comes shortly after Branch Acton, social work senior, wrote to the Plainsman and said, “Auburn needs more mental health counselors.” Byrd agreed in his response to the letter and is now providing information about the Task Force and what they are looking to do to better the university’s mental illness resources. “We initiated the Task Force back in August.

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​$10 million grant creates opportunities for college of human sciences

By Claire Tully | Campus Writer | November 5

Auburn’s College of Human Sciences, recently received a grant of $10 million that will go to study Alabama Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Initiative, according to Francesca Alder-Baeder, professor of human development and family studies. “The grant comes through us and then we employ a lot of people and pay graduate research assistants and then we have ten families research centers in other parts of the state,” Adler-Baeder said. Adler-Baeder said that student involvement is important to this initiative. “There will continue to be a lot of student involvement,” Adler-Baeder said.

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Auburn Student Science Program receives grant from National Science Foundation

By Rachel Sprouse l Campus Writer | November 3

The Auburn Student Space Program has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to design, build and test two CubeSat satellites. The idea began when J-M Wersinger, director of the Auburn University Student Space Program, was working with Dr. Michael Briggs at the University of Alabama-Huntsville. "We had been talking for a while about doing some joint work on CubeSats because he had been doing work on a big satellite,"  Wersinger said.

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AUInvolve reaches 500 organizations and counting

By Rachel Sprouse l Campus Writer | November 3

The Office of Student Involvement announced this week that there are now more than 500 student organizations on campus. John-Michael Roehm, coordinator for the Center of Student Involvement, said it's "incredible" to have so many organizations available to students. "[It] means there are more opportunities for students at Auburn to get plugged in and to get involved in something that interests them," Roehm said.

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