Congratulations to Dr. Chineda Hill ’04, who recently received AUCON’s 2026 Black Alumni Award. Given annually by the Auburn Alumni Association, the Black Alumni Awards recognize a recipient from each of Auburn’s 12 colleges for outstanding achievements in their professional lives, personal integrity, and stature and service to the university. Dr. Hill is a professor of nursing and course coordinator for Foundations of Nursing Practice II at the University of West Alabama, where she has...

Twenty-six students from AUCON’s Family Nurse Practitioner program celebrated an important milestone Thursday, May 28, in their journey to becoming Nurse Practitioners -- they received their white clinical coats, embroidered with the Auburn Nursing logo. The Nurse Practitioner White Coat Ceremony is a rite of passage marking the transition from classroom coursework to clinical, hands-on patient care. This cohort will now begin the clinical phase of their curriculum and are on track to...

Kaitlin Mixon of Fairhope, Ala., is the 2026 College of Nursing recipient of the President’s Award, one of the university’s highest student honors. Given annually to one student from each college, the award recognizes students who demonstrate outstanding qualities of leadership, citizenship, character and promise of professional ability. Selected by the dean, Mixon received the award from President Christopher B. Roberts earlier this month at the annual President’s Luncheon.