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Fishing report from around Northwest Arkansas water.

Following internal searches, Auburn University has selected interim deans for three of its colleges to provide leadership to more than 14,000 students and 800 faculty and staff collectively. The interim appointments follow the announcement of key leadership transitions as the university prepares to launch national searches for permanent deans later this year.

Members of the Auburn University Rocketry Association, or AURA, are prepared to soar.

Jiwan Magar, owner and founder of Five14 Adventure Travel Nepal, visited campus this spring, to talk to students about the Global Perspectives in Human Sciences: Nepal study abroad program that will run this summer, as well as the social business model used by Five14 Nepal. Magar was a guest speaker in Intro to Global Studies, Global Studies Lecture series, Global Hospitality, and Global Studies Capstone. He also spoke at the student chapter of the International Justice Mission, or IJM.

Auburn University Librariesand#8217; next Discover Auburn Lecture Series program features Laura N. Hill, communications editor at the Encyclopedia of Alabama, speaking on the womens suffrage movement in Auburn and East Alabama.

Auburn University is establishing a more permanent presence in the nation’s capital with the creation of a new Office of Federal Relations in Washington, D.C., being headed by an Auburn alumnus with many years of federal government experience.

Wednesday, April 6, will be the third of the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Projects, or APAEP, 2022 Community Conversation series. This talk will be moderated by Adelle Sefton-Rowston, current Fulbright Scholar with the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project.

The brain behind FarmBeats—an agricultural research project developed by Microsoft using solar-powered, white space-based Internet connectivity to record soil temperature and moisture levels and track them with cloud-based computing models—will visit Auburn University in April.

I should have seen it coming.

Recently, Joe Spivey, one of the trustees of Northwest Arkansas Community College, invited me to be a guest at the Noon Rotary Club meeting. The program was about a black slave who eventually became a prominent figure in the development of Rogers and Northwest Arkansas. I had never heard of this man and so was very interested in the story.