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Features
Farmland Values Project
How much are people willing to pay to protect Western North Carolina farmland? Economics Professor Leah Greden Mathews and students unearth surprising statistics on a declining way of life.
Local Foods
The community supported agriculture movement thrives in Asheville, where students, faculty and staff are reaping healthy benefits from carefully tended campus gardens, and alumna Carolyn Fryberger ’07 makes farming her life’s work.
the smokies
The compelling, complicated, unique story of Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the human story, says professor and author Dan Pierce, who reflects on the past and future of America’s most visited national park, now in its 75th year.
Departments
ponderings letter from Chancellor Anne Ponder
around the quad campus news
lending a hand service-learning activities
practically speaking advice from campus experts
extra credit people who go "above and beyond"
tickets, Please! the arts
primary sources undergraduate research projects
longitude & latitude international learning experiences
go, bulldogs! athletics news
in retrospect historical essay
Alumni
