Features: Faculty
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Carefully digging, scraping and sifting. It's how archeologists seek clues into human history. Students at Appalachian State University learn these skills - and find cool artifacts - in a field archeology course each summer. [ more . . . ]
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An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Appalachian State University teams up with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to monitor air quality and atmospheric conditions in order to learn their impact on the area's ecosystems and climate. [ more . . . ]
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A professor seeks to understand the relationship among the Eastern bluebird’s genes, environment and color. [ more . . . ]
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Dan Hauser '92 '97 has amassed one of the most extensive collections of antique sports equipment in the United States. After 13 years of collecting, "several thousand" items fill his basement- from 19th-century baseball gloves to a high-wheeler bicycle, silver trophy cups and vintage uniforms. [ more . . . ]
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Appalachian State University is well known for its research in renewable energy, sustainable development and environmental science. The new Appalachian Research Institute for Environment, Energy and Economics is enhancing that work. [ more . . . ]
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Laurie Williamson, professor and coordinator of the professional school counseling program in the Reich College of Education at Appalachian State University, received a Fulbright Scholar Award to conduct research and teach graduate counseling courses at the University of Balamand in Lebanon for the 2007-08 school year. [ more . . . ]
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Geologist Kate Scharer uses everything from backhoes to trowels to reach deeply for evidence of earthquakes that have occurred over time. She and her colleagues from the University of Oregon and U.S. Geological Survey have documented dozens of earthquakes that occurred along the southern San Andreas Fault since approximately 3,000 B.C. [ more . . . ]
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One hundred and eighty years ago, Charles Darwin enrolled in Christ's College, University of Cambridge after a disastrous year studying medicine at Edinburgh University. He graduated in 1831 with a degree in theology. By the end of the year, he was on board the HMS Beagle as it left Britain on a voyage that lasted almost five years, and changed his life forever. [ more . . . ]
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Seventy-five school teachers from across the country participated in a weeklong National Endowment for the Humanities institute called "Not Just a Scenic Road: The Blue Ridge Parkway and Its History." Offered twice in July 2008, the institute offered educators the opportunity to learn from Appalachian faculty and other experts what the roadway can teach about the environment, Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and social issues both old and new. [ more . . . ]
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Biology professor Gary Walker has spent more than 20 years investigating unique plants growing on and around cliff faces in the Appalachian region. He has found that these rare and restricted plant species hold interesting data on their natural history, as revealed by their genetics, as well as how they have adapted to the earth's changing climatic history. [ more . . . ]
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