Features: Research

• Student awarded prestigious grant for undergraduate research
  One student works toward his life goals by researching solutions for a better world. [ more . . . ]

• 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 . . . ]

• Students learn cutting-edge economics research in Cuba
  A collaboration between the Center for Study of the Cuban Economy at the University of Havana and Appalachian's Walker College of Business allows for the exchange of ideas between Appalachian students and faculty, and thought leaders in Cuba who are key to effecting change and building relationships between Cuba and the U.S. [ more . . . ]

• Professor earns award for local water research
  People might assume that water in the mountains is pristine, but the local headwaters are increasingly at risk from urbanization, according to Appalachian State University's Dr. Chuanhui Gu. He is determining to what extent local streams are harmed by pollutants and other change. [ more . . . ]

• The fascinating details of ‘farmitecture’
  Houses, barns and outbuildings from the 19th century are quickly deteriorating across the American landscape, but an Appalachian State University professor is helping preserve the details of farm architecture, which he has coined “farmitecture.” [ more . . . ]

• Partnership benefits Appalachian and N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences
  It's known as the "Triassic trip" - an annual excursion to recover fossils in the American Southwest from the Triassic period. Geology students at Appalachian State University gain knowledge from the field experience, while also collecting resources for the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences' Paleontology Section and its research and collections. [ more . . . ]

• 2012 graduate to begin internship at National Institutes of Health
  Alicia Woock, a May 2012 graduate of Appalachian State University, is starting her professional career with a prestigious two-year internship at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. She credits her research opportunities in Appalachian’s chemistry labs for getting her there. [ more . . . ]

• Double major presents two projects at NCUR
  Jenna Cantrell '12 was among 29 students from Appalachian selected to present at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research this spring. Cantrell presented two research projects, one in each discipline. Her math research, mentored by Marland, focused on managing the cost of carbon emissions. The economics project, mentored by Dr. John Whitehead, included a benefit-cost analysis based on surveys she conducted of people who use Boone’s greenway trail and their perceived usage if the trail were extended. [ more . . . ]

• Percussionist researches teaching of music theory
  A percussion student, Boatright researched whether music theory could be taught just as well using the steel drum as it can with the most predominant instrument used in music theory instruction, the piano. He experimented with students on campus who did not know how to play either instrument. “To my knowledge, there’s not a lot of work in this area,” he said. [ more . . . ]

• Research partners benefit from working with professor
  Dr. Sue Edwards uses “brilliant” and “stellar” to describe research students Margo Pray and Ryland Bradley who took a lead role in working on her molecular biology research funded by the National Science Foundation. [ more . . . ]