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Research at Auburn

Research is the means through which new knowledge is created. At Auburn, research is an essential part of our tripartite mission of instruction, research and outreach. Successes among the varied research activities within its schools and colleges continue to bolster Auburn among the nation’s top 50 public universities. The goals of research at Auburn are to inspire students in their quest for knowledge, improve quality of life and integrate disciplines to further increase research impact.

Auburn’s role as a land-grant university emphasizes research in agricultural sciences, natural resources, the biological sciences, engineering and the physical sciences, education, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, the liberal arts, human sciences, business, architecture and nursing.

Research Highlights

-Auburn’s combined research funds from competitive contracts and grants increased an annual average of 17 percent throughout the past decade.

-The university has entered into a multimillion-dollar partnership with the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, to stop improvised bombs in Afghanistan by providing a powerful detector tool—bomb sniffing canines. Auburn was selected to produce these IED-detection dogs because of the program’s long history of success with canine olfaction research and detector dog breeding and training.

-In September 2008, the Auburn Research Park opened on a 156-acre site. In November 2010, the park’s second building opened. A third is currently under construction. Auburn Research Park is home to an MRI Research Center that houses a 3T MRI with a 7T MRI arriving in 2011.

-In September 2010, the Auburn University Huntsville Research Center opened. Its purpose is to match Auburn’s research capacities with the fast-growing research community in north Alabama.

-Auburn is home to a strategic initiative focusing on energy and the environment that leverages research capabilities in order to provide long-term solutions to issues associated with renewable energy and with water resources.

-Auburn University expertise has been brought to bear on a host of issues related to the impact, mitigation and restoration efforts associated with the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

-Because food safety is a national priority affecting everyone, Auburn University commissioned the Detection and Food Safety Center in October 1999, as well as the Auburn University Food Systems Initiative in February 2011. Each utilizes interdisciplinary systems approaches to identifying and performing research needed to improve food safety.

-Auburn University is home to the nation’s largest warm-water aquaculture and fisheries program, which has been working in 120 countries to find solutions to the world’s food crisis.