Discover Auburn launches Fall programming!

Discover Auburn is a year-long series features programs on Auburn University research, history, and other topics of interest. The first lecture, "Early Engineering at Auburn" by Art Slotkin, will be held September 17, 2008 at 3:00 p.m. in the Special Collections Department of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library.



Art Slotkin received his Bachelor's in aerospace engineering form Auburn in 1968. He earned an MS in flight structures at Columbia University in New York City in 1969. Retiring in 2003, he attended the Georgia Institute for Technology where he earned another Master of Science degree in the sociology and history of technology and science. He is currently writing a book, They Came From Auburn: A History of Engineering in the New South.

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Auburn University Libraries, the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts, the Auburn University Bookstore and the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.

Discover Auburn will continue with a lecture by Dr. Tom Vaughan on "The History of the Horse Throughout History" in October, and "Bats:Friendly Masters of the Sky," a lecture by Dr. Troy Best, in November. Check our events page for updated information.