Features: Faculty

• A dark moment in history inspires beautiful work
  Artists draw their inspiration from many sources—the environment, geometric shapes or angles, and even family history. Roy Strassberg's inspiration for his sculptures and pottery comes from these categories and more, and leads to beautiful work based on one of the world's darkest moments in history—the Holocaust. [ more . . . ]

• Scientists, students and Quechua community partner to understand climate change
  Every morning, 13-year old Nelson Crispin takes a short walk from his home at 13,800 feet through frosty fields to record climate data collected by instruments installed in the Cordillera Vilcanota mountain range in Peru. [ more . . . ]

• Art exhibit spotlights West African culture
  Teachers' grant-supported trip to Senegal culminates in art exhibit at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts. [ more . . . ]

• Internships in the nation's capital lead to great career starts
  The Appalachian in Washington, D.C., program gives students an extraordinary opportunity to intern and network in the nation's capital. [ more . . . ]

• Honeybee decline inspires students and faculty to act
  Appalachian will create a honeybee health database as part of a national effort to understand colony collapse. [ more . . . ]

• Plants for biofuels also clean the environment
  To help reduce dependence on fossil fuels, biologists at Appalachian State University are exploring an Asian grass and algae for use as feedstocks for biofuels. Their work contributes to the development of "second-generation" biofuels: those made from fast-growing, low-impact plants that don't take up precious land. [ more . . . ]

• Graduate students gain top research experience with GRAM
  Close, personal instruction from faculty. Data that improves people's lives. These are among the outcomes of Appalachian State University's special Graduate Research Associate Mentor (GRAM) program. [ more . . . ]

• Top 10 Features of 2010
  Take a look back at the ten most popular features of 2010. [ more . . . ]

• Who are among this year's best teachers?
  Quality teaching is at the core of Appalachian State University's mission. Each year Appalachian and the University of North Carolina Board of Governors recognize outstanding teaching at the undergraduate level. [ more . . . ]

• Asteroids research published in Nature magazine
  Dr. Joe Pollock, a professor of astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Physics and Astronomy at Appalachian State University, is part of an international research team comprised of scientists from Central and Western Europe, Latin American, Canada and the United States identifying and observing pairs of asteroids called binary asteroids. [ more . . . ]