Faculty & Staff Spotlights
SAFE Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Annkatrin Rose
Feb 29, 2024
Dr. Rose received a Spring 2023 Student and Faculty Excellence (SAFE) grant to launch her research project, titled "Leaf Spot Endophytes in Southern A...
SAFE Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Shea Tuberty
Feb 29, 2024
Dr. Tuberty received a Spring 2023 Student and Faculty Excellence (SAFE) grant to cover expenses for the Carolinas' Area Benthologists Workshop held a...
Alumni Spotlights
Wilkes company creates new opportunities [alumni featured]
May 22, 2025
A North Wilkesboro-based company plans to soon start large-scale pilot production of a material that makes soil more productive, reduces carbon dioxid...
Lara Souza
Jan 19, 2021
Interview with Lara Souza about her career, her time at Appalachian State University, University of Tennessee and Oklahoma and as Director of Oklahoma...
Christina Daly
Nov 5, 2019
What do you currently do?I am working toward a PhD in Biomedical Sciences at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in the lab of Dr. Ryan Potts.Why di...
Graduate Student Spotlights
Biology graduate student Leigha Henson earns prize at Botanical Society of America Conference
Aug 30, 2023
BOONE, N.C. — Leigha Henson, biology graduate student from Griffin, Georgia, received a 2023 LI-COR Prize at the Botanical Society of America (BSA)'...
Leigha Henson
Apr 12, 2022
Leigha Henson is currently a graduate student in the Department of Biology, working with Dr. Howard Neufeld on the effects of climate change on Southe...
Erik Rangel-Silva
Aug 30, 2021
How did you become interested in biology?Learning about the nervous system in my psychology class really sparked the intrigue for biological processes...
Jen McGuinn