Ten years after sustaining a traumatic brain injury that left him without the ability to speak, walk or use the left side of his body, Matt Beth will be graduating with his doctoral degree from Auburn University's College of Education and has been chosen to represent the Graduate School as its student marshal.
Half a world away in Queensland, Australia, a group of Alabama Cooperative Extension System specialists and agents this spring toured the Bundaburg region in search of fresh ideas they could bring home to Alabama farmers. In visiting a dozen farms and research sites, the team found familiar challenges — water scarcity, rising production costs and the constant pressure to produce more with fewer resources.
The Graduate Student Council (GSC) recognizes faculty members who go above and beyond their duty as teachers, advisors, and mentors. This annual award is a special honor, as nominations and winners are determined entirely by graduate students.
As a young child, Rehman Qureshi had a fascination with space travel and a dream of working for NASA, so he did what any ambitious kid would do: he went to the NASA career website, sorted by alphabetical order and decided he would become an aerospace engineer. Now, Qureshi is in his final semester of earning a doctorate in aerospace engineering, and his ambitious nature hasn't slowed down.
Doctoral candidate Li Zhou has been named one of only six recipients nationwide of the 2026 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award, a top honor recognizing emerging leaders in higher education.
After decades of building a career, raising a family and running a nonprofit, Sheila Sjolseth came to pursue a doctorate at Auburn University's Graduate School.
