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What is the Microscopy Lab?
Nov 3, 2015

Boone - Dr. Guichuan Hou (Biology) came to Appalachian State University in 2006 to run the William C. and Ruth Anne Dewel Microscopy Facility. There y...

X-rays uncover gut of 320-million-year-old animal
Oct 29, 2015

BRISTOL, ENGLAND—The inner workings of a tiny fossil have been studied using X-ray microscopy, revealing evidence of its digestive system for the fi...

The Visualization Lab: Appalachian’s window on Earth
Oct 27, 2015

BOONE-Walk into Rankin Hall on the Appalachian State University campus and you will walk through labyrinthian hallways and corridors crisscrossing the...

Appalachian students team up with local community to preserve historic African-American school
Oct 22, 2015

BOONE - In the early 1900s Booker T. Washington approached philanthropist and founder of Sears and Roebuck, Julius Rosenwald, to discuss the state of ...

Black Mountain College historians to speak Oct. 27 at Appalachian
Oct 21, 2015

BOONE—The history of the innovative Black Mountain College is the focus of the Oct. 27 Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series...

College of Arts & Sciences infused with sustainable curriculum througout the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural and Mathematical Sciences
Oct 14, 2015

BOONE - Recently Appalachian State University was awarded the Climate Leadership Award, a recognition given by Second Nature and the U.S. Gr...

Appalachian student/faculty delegation presents at conference in Romania
Oct 13, 2015

BOONE—A delegation from the Center for Appalachian Studies at Appalachian State University traveled to Brasov, Romania, recently to present research...

UCF sociologists lecture on racial attitudes in the U.S. and motherhood in the media
Oct 13, 2015

BOONE—Two sociologists from the University of Central Florida will present lectures Oct. 20 and 21 at Appalachian State University on topics that ha...

Assistant Professor Kristen Deathridge nominated to the North Carolina State National Registry Advisory Council
Oct 12, 2015

BOONE - Professor Kristen Deathridge, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, was recently appointed to the North Carolina State National Re...

Historian Alon Confino lectures Oct. 21 at Appalachian
Oct 8, 2015

BOONE—Professor Alon Confino of Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, and the University of Virginia will present the talk “A World Without ...