Stories

Appalachian State University’s 2016 Staff Excellence Awards were presented to Livelle Leon Rodriguez, Barry Sauls, Lori Townsend and Tom Van Gilder.

Ray Christian, a storyteller and instructor at Appalachian State University, compartmentalizes his life of 55 years into three disparate segments: an impoverished childhood in a Richmond, Virginia, ghetto, 20 years serving his country in the U.S. Army, and the past two decades “doing nothing but going to school.”

Geophysicist Dr. Scott Marshall studies earthquakes from space, because satellite data can help map fault lines.

Archaeology students sharpen critical thinking skills with an experiment based on the scientific hazards of making assumptions.

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The Appalachian Alumni Association honors two attorneys and two businessmen whose lives are interwoven with the university’s history and accomplishments.