Temple Grandin
Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to hear Temple Grandin speak – free of charge!
Press Release from Auburn University
and Alabama 4-H
Temple Grandin, an animal scientist who has drawn from her experiences as a person with autism to become one of the world’s leading designers of humane livestock-handling facilities, will speak in Auburn Thursday, March 31, as the spring 2011 E.T. York Distinguished Lecturer. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 7 p.m. in the Auburn University Student Center ballroom.
Grandin’s revolutionary designs of livestock-handling equipment and facilities for meat-processing plants as well as ranches and feedlots reflect her expertise in animal behavior and her advocacy for humane livestock management, as each is developed to reduce fear and stress in cattle and other livestock through every phase of their lives. Today, half the cattle in the U.S. and Canada are handled using a restrainer system she designed for meat processors.
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Last year, Grandin’s remarkable story came to light in 2010 with the HBO movie “Temple Grandin,” a film that won seven Emmy awards. Also in 2010, Grandin was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world, a list a Time editor said includes “people who are using their ideas, their visions and their actions to transform the world and have an effect on a multitude of people.”