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Auburn grad turns popular mommy blog into Amazon’s top-ranked parenting humor book

Auburn grad turns popular mommy blog into Amazon’s top-ranked parenting humor book

Before motherhood, Robin O’Bryant used ketchup as a condiment on a hot dog at Jordan-Hare Stadium. Now the mother of three, she uses it as a way to get her daughters to eat their vegetables. Little did she know, the funny and often ridiculous parts of motherhood – like considering ketchup a vegetable – would [...]

Auburn grad Katherine Webb will be emphasizing personal beauty, fitness in Miss USA pageant

Auburn grad Katherine Webb will be emphasizing personal beauty, fitness in Miss USA pageant

Auburn is terrorizing the runway these days: Miss Alabama, Miss Teen Florida, Miss America. And now Miss USA—again. Two years ago, Audrey Moore, then an Auburn student, strutted her stuff for the Heart of Dixie at the Miss USA pageant. This year it’s Phenix City native Katherine Webb. Webb graduated from Auburn last May. In [...]

From Diamond Doll to Diamond Doll: Former actress and pro wrestling personality Kimberly Page reminisces about her days on the Plains

From Diamond Doll to Diamond Doll: Former actress and pro wrestling personality Kimberly Page reminisces about her days on the Plains

Once upon a time, Kimberly Page was a Auburn Diamond Doll. She was an AOPi and a wonderful student. She made good grades, great grades. She graduated magna cum laude in 1990 with a degree in public relations and journalism and went to grad school at Northwestern. She was on her way to a promising [...]

Auburn University (Montgomery) grad named Chief of Israel’s Air Force

Auburn University (Montgomery) grad named Chief of Israel’s Air Force

We can’t find Amir Eshel’s name in the yearbook or even in Auburn’s alumni directory. But maybe that’s exactly the way he wants it. On Sunday, Eshel—make that Major-General Amir Eshel—was named as the next chief of the Israel Air Force. According to reports, he’s an Auburn graduate. And technically, he is. But the reason [...]

Auburn grad designs video games—and teaches Auburn students how to

Auburn grad designs video games—and teaches Auburn students how to

Auburn hoodies are great and all, but when it comes to successful designers working in the video game industry, Auburn has an even greater claim to Tim Lindsey, who not only went to Auburn (Industrial Design, ’96), he’s currently teaching at design class at Auburn A 14 year veteran of the game industry, Lindsey’s game [...]

Recent Auburn grad’s homegrown business turns old team T-shirts into gameday showstoppers

Recent Auburn grad’s homegrown business turns old team T-shirts into gameday showstoppers

As it turns out, wearing a dress to a football game is mostly a southern thing, but a Tiger transplant hopes to change that trend. During her last semester at Auburn, Wallis Smith-Owens started This Old Blouse, an Etsy-based shop where she sells dresses made from old college T-shirts. After graduating in December with a [...]

Celebrated professional gentleman (and Auburn alum) publishes handbook for proper living

Celebrated professional gentleman (and Auburn alum) publishes handbook for proper living

War Eagle, I do say…

Auburn’s oldest living alumnus celebrates 105th birthday

Auburn’s oldest living alumnus celebrates 105th birthday

When he walked at graduation William H. Holley, like many before and since, shook the hand of the university’s president, Dr. Bradford Knapp. At that time the president lived in Cater Hall. The governor was Bibb Graves. Know those names? The oaks at Toomer’s hadn’t been planted yet. Toomer’s Drugs was still competing with Homer [...]

Accolades continue for Auburn grad Octavia Spencer with Essence Magazine’s “Breakthrough Award”

Accolades continue for Auburn grad Octavia Spencer with Essence Magazine’s “Breakthrough Award”

And it don’t stop for Octavia Spencer.

Auburn alum Octavia Spencer receives Oscar nomination

Auburn alum Octavia Spencer receives Oscar nomination

Our chances of landing that TWER interview grow slimmer by the day.

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