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Anthropology students Clementine Wall and Sierra Raimondi and education student Erin Deans presented their research at the Appalachia Studies Assoication conference in Dahlonega, Ga., March 19-20.

Bird Stasz, Sierra Ramondi (senior anthropology) and Erin Deans (senior Teaching Fellow elementary education) presented the results of their research, “A good idea but: Vanishing rural schools in Appalachia.” The research, funded through summer research funds and sponsored by PERCS, is an ethnographic study of two rural schools in Macon County N.C., one bound for consolidation and one not bound.