BOONE—Professors at Appalachian State University are part of the search for signs of life across the galaxy. [more]

BOONE—Dr. Andy Heckert from Appalachian State University’s Department of Geology has received the Outstanding Earth Science Educator Award from the N.C. Geological Survey. [more]

BOONE – The National Association of Geoscience Teachers recently presented its highest geoscience teaching award, the Neil Miner Award, to Appalachian State University’s Marjorie J. McKinney and her late husband, Dr. F. Kenneth “Ken” McKinney, for exceptional contributions to the stimulation of interest in the earth sciences. [more]

BOONE—Approximately 2,000 earthquakes have been recorded in the eastern United States in the past 38 years, but it’s the one that occurred Aug. 23 that has people talking. [more]

BOONE—Johnny Waters will travel to Siberia and the Gobi Desert in northwestern China this summer as co-leader of a United Nations International Geoscience Programme project to study the geologic history of climate change. [more]

BOONE—Join Appalachian State University faculty and others for a panel discussion on environmental preservation April 11. The discussion will be held from 2-4 p.m. in Plemmons Student Union’s Linville Falls Room on campus and precedes an April 18 presentation by conservationist and nature writer Terry Tempest Williams. [more]

BOONE—Most individuals know what steps to take when the National Weather Service forecasts a winter storm: head to the store for groceries, and maybe a container of ice and snow melt. [more]

BOONE—Jonathan Mitchell is helping rewrite the paleontological record.

Research conducted for an honors thesis when Mitchell was a senior at Appalachian State University expands on previous theories of how venomous fangs developed in an ancient reptile. [more]

BOONE— Hehewutei Amakali, a junior geology major at Appalachian State University, has received a $1,500 scholarship from the Subaru Minority Student Scholarship Program. The scholarship is presented in partnership with the Geological Society of America. (GSA) and includes free registration to the GSA Annual Meeting held in November in Denver, Colo. [more]