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AUM’s Department of Political Science and Public Administration will host a talk exploring polices designed to reduce poverty in the U.S. on Wednesday, Oct. 25, from 6-7 p.m. in Goodwyn Hall 110. The event, Poverty & Policy Talk, will feature guest speaker Richard Fording, the Marilyn Williams Elmore and John Durr Elmore endowed professor of political science at The…

A strip of greenspace at Auburn University at Montgomery (AUM) will become the landing zone for a Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter to touch down for about 30 Army ROTC cadets traveling to Fort Moore, Georgia, for field training exercises in November. The group of Army ROTC Mustang Battalion cadets will begin loading the helicopter at…

Auburn University at Montgomery’s Civil Rights and Civic Virtue Society (CRCV) has named eight outstanding faculty members to the 2023-2024 class of Faculty Fellows Community of Practice. Faculty members selected as fellows will each receive a stipend to spend one academic year pursuing pedagogical or curricular development projects. Fellows will present their findings at the…

AUM Fine Arts senior Kelsey LeMaster recently received a unique undergraduate research opportunity that allowed her to create a visual display capturing the AUM student experience. LeMaster’s artwork, “Life as a Warhawk,” is currently on display in AUM’s Office of Central Advising (Taylor Center 145) and features eight vinyl panels depicting the student experience through…

Sweeping attempts to limit Americans’ access to the ballot box through voter suppression laws and recent legal challenges to the Voting Rights Act will be the focus of Auburn University at Montgomery’s 2023 Constitution Day celebration. “We’re focusing on voting rights for this year’s Constitution Day event because it’s a very salient civil rights issue…

Law enforcement officers face immense pressure on the job and are inherently exposed to on-the-job risks more often than most professions. Recent police shootings of unarmed minorities and the psychological state of officers when responding to crime has been under debate by many Americans, including law enforcement officials and policymakers. “It’s better to view cops…

If more psychologists were given the authority to administer prescriptions to patients dealing with mental health disorders, would that diminish the number of suicides in the United States? Auburn University at Montgomery researcher Agnitra Roy Choudhury, assistant professor of economics, posed the question in his research study on the “Effects of giving psychologists prescriptive authority:…

From podcasts to TV news stories, multimedia storytelling is one of the most compelling ways to tell stories to connect visually and emotionally with audiences. Auburn University at Montgomery will host a summer camp for high school students to explore using imagery, audio and video to create multimedia stories — such as podcasts — to…