Astronomy, Solar Radio Telescope, 1978

This image shows Mr. Sloop (left), physics student and Dr. Thomas Rokoske, Physics Department faculty, standing outside a campus building looking at a readout from the solar radio telescope built by Mr. Sloop in 1978. The Department of Physics and Astronomy is in the College of Arts and Sciences and maintains the Rankin Science Observatory in Rankin Science Hall, built 1963, and the Dark Sky Observatory, opened 1981, twenty miles northeast of Boone, NC. The Department offers an undergraduate degrees in applied physics and graduate degrees in engineering physics, as well as courses in industrial, chemical, computational, environmental, medical, and radiation safety physics.

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Physics

Appalachian State University

General Picture Files, 2004.040, Box 14, Physics and Astronomy F2, C14.2.3.2.

University Archives, Appalachian State University

3/4/1977

News Bureau

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Appalachian State University. College of Arts and Sciences. Department of Physics and Astronomy

Rokoske, Thomas

Series 6 -- Colleges, Departments, Offices, and Centers

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