Faculty and Staff News
Middle Fork restoration a ‘gift to everybody downstream’ [faculty featured]
Oct 29, 2026
BLOWING ROCK — On Friday, conservationists, town officials, National Park Service staff and university scientists gathered on the banks of the Middl...
Slow and steady wins the winter: what is the woolly worm tradition? [faculty featured]
Oct 29, 2026
Each October, thousands gather in Banner Elk, North Carolina, to use the woolly worm to predict the winter weather. Though meteorologists rely on scie...
CAS-supported Robotics Lab advances AI research while creating student opportunities
Oct 28, 2026
BOONE, N.C. — Students in Appalachian State University's Robotics Lab (YeRo Lab) are exploring how robots can learn, adapt, and collaborate with hum...
Dr. Michael Behrent analyzes French politics in Commonweal
Oct 28, 2026
Extraordinary scenes of social unrest and urban violence in France have been interpreted in ways that are exasperatingly predictable. Progressives den...
Dr. William Hicks discusses Nevada voter ID measure in the Las Vegas Sun
Oct 28, 2026
When voter ID proposals first spread after the disputed 2000 presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore, they drew support from both par...
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