AUBURN UNIVERSITY – Education and awareness can be the key in preventing a bite from man’s best friend, says Auburn University veterinary professor James Wright, who has some common sense suggestions for keeping everyone, including your animal, safe.

The American Veterinary Medical Association observed the third week of May as National Dog Bite Prevention Week to focus on educating people about preventing dog bites. It reports that small children, the elderly and Postal Service carriers – in that order – are the most frequent victims of dog bites.

(WTVM)--Students from Auburn University’s Department of Communications and Journalism will deliver a special presentation about their recent work in Columbus on April 25 at 5:30 p.m. at the Columbus Museum.

The presentation is part of the Chattahoochee Heritage Project, which Journalism students at Auburn University participate in each semester. These students create multi-platform content that focuses on significant areas of cultural and historical interest.

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.