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Tiara Staples, a communication theatre major, has been invited to attend the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center June 18-24. During the conference, Staples will assist on a play by theater artist and director Miranda Haymon. Haymon’s project will be one of two plays in development at the conference, which is held…

Five visiting professors will speak on civil rights, civic virtue, and character education at the Auburn University at Montgomery Civil Rights & Civic Virtue Society’s (CRCV) second annual Summer Seminar June 24-28. The CRCV’s summer seminar was created to increase the understanding of civil rights history, deepen the knowledge of civic virtue, and cultivate civic…

Catherine Coleman Flowers, founder and director of the Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise, has spent her career bringing attention to the largely invisible problem of inadequate waste and water sanitation infrastructure in Black, Indigenous, Latinx and poor rural communities across the United States. Flowers will share her work with students, faculty and staff at a…

Two Auburn University at Montgomery communication theatre students have earned invitations to the national Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) in Washington, D.C., April 22-26. While representing AUM at national KCACTF, communication theatre majors Chason Marvin and Tiara Staples will cultivate new skills and collaborate with theatre professionals in their chosen fields. The annual…

Five River Region students have earned top prizes in Auburn University at Montgomery’s (AUM) inaugural high school poetry competition. The competition, hosted by AUM’s Department of English and Philosophy, is open to students in grades 9-12 who live in the River Region. Student participants were invited to submit poems on the subject “Haunting and Folklore,”…

AUM’s Experiential Education and Engagement Center (EEEC) will host the 2024 Southeast and Mid-South Joint Regional Conference February 23-25. The conference’s theme is “Stories for Change” and will feature Derreck Kayongo, the former CEO of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, as the event’s keynote speaker. Kayongo is also a social entrepreneur, founder…

AUM theatre students earned top honors at the 2024 Region IV Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF). KCACTF’s annual festival recognizes top performing students in college and university theatre programs. This year’s event was held Feb. 6-10 in Albany, Georgia. Students recognized with honors at the 2024 KCACTF event: Tiara Staples. Staples earned first…