AUBURN UNIVERSITY – Auburn University and the Southeastern Conference announced today that Professor Pradeep Lall of the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering has been honored with the SEC’s Auburn University Faculty Achievement Award for 2012-2013.

Lall, the T. Walter Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Center for Advanced Vehicle and Extreme Electronics at Auburn, will receive a $5,000 honorarium, and he becomes Auburn’s nominee for the SEC Professor of the Year, who will be selected from 14 nominees representing SEC universities.

AUBURN UNIVERSITY – Award-winning journalist and Auburn alumna Rheta Grimsley Johnson will give the 2013 New Horizons Lecture Tuesday, April 9, at 2 p.m. in Auburn University’s Langdon Hall auditorium.

The veteran newspaper reporter and columnist’s career spans 42 years, and has garnered awards such as the Scripps Howard Ernie Pyle Award for feature writing, and the American Society of Newspaper Editors’ Distinguished Writing Award for Commentary. In 1991, she was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.

AUBURN, AL - On Saturday, Dec. 1, legendary AU football coach, Pat Dye, will host a holiday open house at his Quail Hollow Gardens Japanese Maple Tree Farm and Crooked Oaks Hunting Lodge. The event will be held from 8 a.m. until noon.