Professional Development Sponsorship Program Application Period
2025-05-01 00:00 - 2025-05-31 23:30 (America/Chicago) | Online Event
Auburn University non-student employees may submit an application for consideration for the Office of Sustainability’s Professional Development Sponsorship Program. The funds support learning opportunities related to sustainability and current job responsibilities, and applications must be received by 11:59 p.m. Central on May 31, 2025, to be considered.

Davis Arboretum Second Tuesday Tours
2025-05-13 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-06-10 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-07-08 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-08-12 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-09-09 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-10-14 12:00 - 13:00 | Donald E. Davis Arboretum
Experience the Davis Arboretum like never before! Make plans to attend our new “Second Tuesday Garden Tours” beginning Tuesday, February 11, 2025, at 12:00 PM! Grab your friends and colleagues and meet us at the Arboretum pavilion for a delightful midday stroll through our beautiful garden as you learn about the wonderful world of Alabama’s native plants.
Tours will meet on the 2nd Tuesday of each month with additional tours available during the stunning peak bloom and vibrant color change seasons.
Join us as you rediscover the wonder and beauty of Auburn University’s Davis Arboretum!

Women Artists in Ascendance
2025-08-26 10:00 - 18:00 | Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art
Featuring objects on loan from the Whitney Museum of American Art alongside the university art collection, Women Artists in Ascendance pulls back the curtain on the story of modern American art by displaying works from a dozen women artists who were goliaths in their own right, including Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan and Lee Krasner.
Organized in partnership with Art Bridges

2025 International Conference On Forest Carbon & Resilience
2025-08-29 - 2025-09-01 | The Hotel at Auburn University & Dixon Conference Center
The International Conference on Forest Carbon and Resilience (ICFCR) is presented by the Auburn University College of Forestry, Wildlife, and Environment to expand knowledge within the areas of forest-based carbon and resilience, the role of forests and forest products in carbon storage and sequestration, and the resistance, adaptation, and resilience of forests in changing environments.

Speaker: Catherine Coleman Flowers
2025-09-11 17:00 | Mell Classroom Building – Room 4550, Auburn, Alabama, 36849, United States
In Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope, Catherine Coleman Flowers explores the intersection of environmental issues, civil rights, and social justice through both personal and political lenses. Flowers draws on her experience fighting for vulnerable rural communities of color who lack access to clean, safe environments, weaving together stories from her own life with broader analyses of climate change, poverty, and systemic disinvestment. Through reflections on history, faith, and interconnectedness, she charts a path toward equity and environmental justice. This collection of personal essays serves as both a call to action and a roadmap for creating a more just and sustainable future for all communities.
Catherine Coleman Flowers is an internationally recognized environmental justice activist and the founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice. A MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient, Flowers sits on the board of directors of the Climate Reality Project, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and RMI. She has served as the co-vice chair of the inaugural White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council and is a practitioner-in-residence at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. Flowers is the author of Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret. In April 2025, TIME named her as one of six leaders to receive the TIME Earth Awards. In 2023, Flowers was recognized as one of the TIME 100 most influential people in the world, and as one of Forbes’ 50 Over 50.

Branching Out: The Public History of Trees with Brian Dempsey and Carrie Barske Crawford
2025-09-17 11:30 - 13:00 | Pebble Hill
Part of the OLLI at Auburn Brown Bag Series
Trees are often viewed primarily as natural resources, yet they also hold powerful places in our cultural landscapes and collective memory. Branching Out: The Public History of Trees, a 2025 essay collection from the University of Massachusetts Press, explores trees through this cultural lens and examines their important role in public history practice.
University of North Alabama historians Dr. Brian Dempsey and Dr. Carolyn Barske Crawford each contributed essays to the volume. In “An Island of Trees Called Old Hickory: History and Place in the Mississippi Delta,” Dempsey examines a small stand of trees on the edge of Cleveland, Mississippi. Though ordinary in appearance, the site embodies deep cultural associations that illuminate how people connect with and interpret their local landscapes.
In “‘The Most Useful Tree:’ The American Chestnut, Stories, and Species Restoration,” Crawford explores how the American Chestnut Foundation leverages memories of the tree’s once-vital economic, social, and cultural role in Appalachia to support ongoing restoration efforts. Her work highlights the potential for powerful partnerships between scientists and public historians. Together, Dempsey and Crawford will share insights from their research and invite the audience to reflect on why trees matter—not only ecologically, but as anchors of meaning in public history and cultural life.

Constitution Day Speaker - Fred Gray
2025-09-17 16:00 | Foy Hall – Room 258
Mr. Gray, perhaps the most noted civil rights attorney in the nation, will reflect on his unique and storied journey arguing for the constitutional rights of African Americans. In his first ten years as a lawyer, Attorney Gray was legal counsel in what would become four landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases and for over seven decades handled numerous civil rights cases, including the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study. His clients include Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Congressman John Lewis. Gray represented Harold Franklin in the lawsuit that desegregated Auburn University. In 2022. President Joe Biden awarded Gray the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor given in the United States.

Sponsored By: the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts, Auburn University Libraries, the Department of Political Science, and the Charles Wesley Edwards, Sr.
Endowment for the Humanities. The Constitution Day lecture is a part of the Discover Auburn Lecture Series.

Third Thursday Literary Series: Jacqueline Allen Trimble
2025-09-18 18:00 - 20:00 | Pebble Hill
Refreshments and book sales will be available at 6 PM; the reading will begin at 6:30 PM.
Jacqueline Allen Trimble is a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow (Poetry), a Cave Canem Graduate Fellow, and an Alabama State Council on the Arts Literary Fellow (2017, 2023). Her poetry has appeared in various journals including Poetry Magazine, The Louisville Review, The Offing, The Rumpus, Salvation South, and Poet Lore.
The Third Thursday Literary Series is sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities, Department of English, and Southern Humanities Review in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University; the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Auburn University; and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.

Inspired by William Bartram: Southern Landscapes by Philip Juras
2025-09-24 10:30 - 13:00 | Pebble Hill
Part of the OLLI at Auburn Brown Bag Series
Growing up in Georgia, artist Philip Juras could only dream of the bountiful southern nature that William Bartram documented two and a half centuries ago. Inspired by Bartram’s writing, Philip has created a body of paintings depicting both contemporary and historic natural landscapes from across the South.
He will present work from his exhibit and award-winning book The Southern Frontier, Landscapes Inspired by Bartram’s “Travels”, along with new drawings and paintings that explore some of the forgotten landscapes Bartram so eloquently painted in words. By celebrating the beauty and richness of the nature we still have today while also conveying what we have lost, Philip’s work helps us imagine what can be restored for future generations.

Moon Festival
2025-10-03 12:00 - 14:00 | Cater Lawn, Auburn University
Taiwan Center and Korea Center joint Moon Festival/Chuseok event with food, games and student performances

Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day
2025-10-04 09:00 - 13:00 | Environmental Services Department Complex, 4277 Wire Road, Suite 100, Auburn, AL, 36832, United States
The City of Auburn Environmental Services Department hosts two Household Hazardous Waste Collection Days in the spring and fall. These free events give Auburn residents the opportunity to drop off hazardous materials that are illegal to dispose of during weekly garbage collection. We will also accept paper documents for secure, on-site shredding as well as computers/electronics for recycling.

Taiwan Center -Taiwan Night
2025-10-17 17:30 | Foy Hall – Room 208, United States
Join the AU-NCKU Taiwan Center at Taiwan Night and experience what a Taiwanese night market might be like in Taiwan! There will be games, prizes and free food (+ free boba tea from Kung Fu Tea)!
If you haven’t been to a traditional Taiwanese Night market, don’t miss out and come join in on the fun! We hope to see you there!

Medical & Health Humanities Speaker Series
2025-10-21 16:00 - 17:00 | Mell Classroom Building – Room 2510, Mell Street, Auburn, AL, 36849, United States
featuring Emily Yates-Doerr (PhD, Anthroplogy), Oregon State University
“Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm”
Free and open to all.

Taiwan Center Tea Talk
2025-10-24 13:00 - 15:00 | Foy Hall – Room 208, United States
Join the Taiwan Center to learn about traditional Taiwanese Tea through tasting and brewing!

37th Annual Pumpkin Carve
2025-10-31 09:00 - 20:00 | Dudley Courtyard
Auburn’s chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students invites all students, faculty and community members for a day of frightful fun.
Starting at 9 a.m., attendees can carve pumpkins, bid on faculty-drawn napkin sketches, enter raffles for goodies provided by local businesses and buy spooky t-shirts and stickers. Refreshments will be available with snacks and treats at various booths. By the glow of 200 pumpkins, judges will announce the winners of the pumpkin carving contest, as well as the napkin sketch bids and raffle baskets. The night will end at 8 p.m. with the auction of spook-tacularly carved pumpkins.

Pumpkin Carve will take place in the Dudley Courtyard

Professional Development Sponsorship Program Application Period
2025-11-01 00:00 - 2025-11-30 23:30 | Online Event
Auburn University non-student employees may submit an application for consideration for the Office of Sustainability’s Professional Development Sponsorship Program. The funds support learning opportunities related to sustainability and current job responsibilities, and applications must be received by 11:59 p.m. Central on November 30, 2025, to be considered.

Davis Arboretum 2nd Tuesday Tours
2025-11-11 12:00 - 15:00, 2025-12-09 12:00 - 15:00 | Donald E. Davis Arboretum
Experience the Davis Arboretum like never before! Make plans to attend our new “Second Tuesday Garden Tours” Grab your friends and colleagues and meet us at the Arboretum pavilion for a delightful midday stroll through our beautiful garden as you learn about the wonderful world of Alabama’s native plants.
Tours will meet on the 2nd Tuesday of each month with additional tours available during the stunning peak bloom and vibrant color change seasons.
Join us as you rediscover the wonder and beauty of Auburn University’s Davis Arboretum!

Parkerson Mill Creek Cleanup
2025-11-14 13:00 - 15:00 | Intramural Fieldhouse
Join Risk Management and Safety next Friday from 1 pm-3 pm for a fun-filled creek cleanup with the Navy ROTC and Political Science students, currently with Dr. Paul Harris. Gloves, bags, and ice water provided. They had over 80
participants last November, and hope to top that this year.
They will meet up at the recreation field house next to the soccer complex, across from the McWhorter Center. They hope to see you there.

Contact:
Mike Freeman
Auburn University
Risk Management and Safety
334-740-1267 or freemms@auburn.edu

Third Thursday Poetry Series - Joe Wilkins
2025-11-20 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-20 18:00 - 20:00 | Pebble Hill
Refreshments and book sales will be available at 6 PM; the reading will begin at 6:30 PM.
Joe Wilkins was born and raised on the Big Dry of eastern Montana and now lives with his family in the foothills of the Coast Range of Oregon, where he directs the creative writing program at Linfield University. He is the author of two novels, The Entire Sky and Fall Back Down When I Die, both of which have garnered wide critical acclaim. Wilkins is also the author of a memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers, winner of a GLCA New Writers Award, and five collections of poetry, including Pastoral, 1994 and When We Were Birds, winner of the Oregon Book Award. You can find him online at joewilkins.org.

Alabama Statewide Primary Election 2026
2026-05-19
Polls in Alabama open for in-person voting in the 2026 Statewide Primary Election.er
Visit aub.ie/vote for more information.

Primary Runoff Election 2026 (If Needed)
2026-06-16 07:00 - 19:00 | Various Locations
Polls in Alabama open for in-person voting in the 2026 Primary Runoff Election, if needed.
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Election Day 2026
2026-11-03 07:00 - 19:00 | Various Locations
Polls in Alabama open for in-person voting in the 2026 General Election.
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