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App State Physics Major to Help Select the Mars 2020 Landing Site
Apr 2, 2015

Appalachian State Physics Major Benjamin Migirditch has been selected in a national competition to participate in Caltech's Summer Undergraduate Resea...

Graduate Student Andrew Zeidell Featured in Article by the College of Arts and Sciences
Apr 2, 2015

Recently the College of Arts and Sciences at Appalachian State did an article on graduate student Andrew Zeidell and his work with carbon nanotubes. Z...

David Sitar and Students Pulished in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Apr 1, 2015

David Sitar and two students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at ASU; Zachary Pruett (Grad.) and Mariah Birchard (Undergrad.) worked with a ...

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David Sitar the New Vice President for NCS-AAPT
Mar 31, 2015

David Sitar was nominated, elected and accepted the role of Vice President of the North Carolina Section of the American Association of Phys...

Artist’s conception of the view towards the young star Beta Pictoris from the outer edge of its disk

Dr. Smith on SciWorks Radio
Mar 31, 2015

Dr. Rachel Smith did an interview with SciWorks Radio on Meteorites and Distant Forming Solar-systems. SciWorks Radio is a production of 88.5 WFDD and...

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Dr. Sid Clements selected as a Fulbright Scholar for 2015-2016
Mar 26, 2015

Dr. Sid Clements was selected as a Fulbright Scholar for 2015-2016 by the J. William Fulbright Scholarship Board in Washington DC and the Austrian-Ame...

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Jennifer Burris awared GRAM Grant
Mar 26, 2015

Jennifer Burris has been awarded a Graduate Research Associate Mentoring (GRAM) Grant from the Cratis D. Williams School of Graduate Studies to fund g...

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Dr. Jennifer Burris selected for "Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching”
Mar 16, 2015

Dr. Jennifer Burris has been chosen as this year’s recipient of the "Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching" in recognition for her&nbs...

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Dr. Clements the 2014-2015 recipient of the Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award
Feb 20, 2015

Dr. Sid Clements has just been selected as the recipient of the 2014-2015 Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award. This award was established to honor a ...

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Clements named Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Fellow
Feb 2, 2015

BOONE—Dr. J. Sid Clements of Boone has been named a Fellow in the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). Clements is a professor o...