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___MASK33___ ( WCU ) is a coeducational public university located in Cullowhee , ___MASK99___ , United States . The university is a constituent campus of the ___MASK74___ system . Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi is a species of spider in the family Euctenizidae , described in 2007 by ___MASK35___ professor of biology Jason E . Bond and Norman I . Platnick , curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City . It is named after Canadian rock musician Neil Young . ___MASK35___ is a public , doctoral / research university in Greenville , ___MASK99___ , United States . Named ___MASK35___ by statute and commonly known as ECU or East Carolina , the university is the third - largest in ___MASK99___ . The Association of Public and Land Grant Universities designates East Carolina as a Sea Grant university and an Innovation and Economic Prosperity campus . Cullowhee is a census - designated place ( CDP ) in Jackson County , ___MASK99___ , United States . The population was 9 , 428 as of the 2010 census . The area known as Cullowhee has Western Carolina University , part of the UNC System , and the village / town of Forest Hills within its area . The Jackson County Recreation Department and the Jackson County Airport are also located in the Cullowhee area . The name of the town was long thought to mean " Valley of the Lillies ," but is actually derived from part of the Cherokee phrase " joolth - cullah - wee " which translates as " Judacullah ' s Place ." Judacullah , a giant warrior and hunter who the Cherokee believe lived in the area , is an important figure in their religion and culture . Blacksburg is an incorporated town in Montgomery County , Virginia , United States , with a population of 42 , 620 at the 2010 census . Blacksburg is dominated economically and demographically by the presence of Virginia Tech ( ___MASK79___ ). The City of ___MASK14___ , often called ___MASK14___ City or simply ___MASK14___ , is the most populous city in the United States . With an estimated 2015 population of 8 , 550 , 405 distributed over a land area of just , ___MASK14___ City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States . Located at the southern tip of the state of ___MASK14___ , the city is the center of the ___MASK14___ metropolitan area , one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world . A global power city , ___MASK14___ City exerts a significant impact upon commerce , finance , media , art , fashion , research , technology , education , and entertainment , its fast pace defining the term " ___MASK14___ minute ". Home to the headquarters of the United Nations , ___MASK14___ is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world . ___MASK99___ is a state in the southeastern region of the United States . The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south , Tennessee to the west , Virginia to the north , and the Atlantic Ocean to the east . ___MASK99___ is the 28th most extensive and the 9th most populous of the U . S . states . The state is divided into 100 counties . The capital is Raleigh . The most populous municipality is Charlotte , and it is the second largest banking center in the United States after New York City . The American Museum of Natural History ( abbreviated as AMNH ), located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan , ___MASK14___ City , is one of the largest museums in the world . Located in park - like grounds across the street from Central Park , the museum complex comprises 28 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls , in addition to a planetarium and a library . The museum collections contain over 33 million specimens of plants , animals , fossils , minerals , rocks , meteorites , human remains , and human cultural artifacts , of which only a small fraction can be displayed at any given time , and occupies more than . The museum has a full - time scientific staff of 225 , sponsors over 120 special field expeditions each year , and averages about five million visits annually . Education is the process of facilitating ___MASK44___ , or the acquisition of knowledge , skills , values , beliefs , and habits . Educational methods include storytelling , discussion , teaching , training , and directed research . Education frequently takes place under the guidance of educators , but learners may also educate themselves . Education can take place in formal or informal settings and any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks , feels , or acts may be considered educational . The methodology of teaching is called pedagogy . Jason E . Bond is a professor of biology and director of the Biodiversity ___MASK44___ Center at Auburn University . When he was an associate professor with the Department of Biology at ___MASK35___ , he discovered the trapdoor spider Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi and numerous other species in the genus Aptostichus . He went to undergraduate school at Western Carolina University , majoring in biology in 1993 . He then went to receive his M . S . in Biology ( 1995 ) and Ph . D . in Evolutionary Systematics and Genetics ( 1999 ) from Virginia Tech . On August 6 , 2008 , Bond appeared on The Colbert Report , where he named the spider Aptostichus stephencolberti after host Stephen Colbert . A university (" a whole ", " a corporation ") is an institution of higher ( or tertiary ) education and research which grants academic degrees in various subjects . Universities typically provide ___MASK6___ and postgraduate education . Professor ( commonly abbreviated as " prof .") is an academic rank at universities and other post - secondary education and research institutions in most countries . Literally , " professor " derives from Latin as a " person who professes " being usually an expert in arts or sciences , a teacher of the highest rank . Norman I . Platnick ( born 1951 in Bluefield , West Virginia ) is an American arachnologist . He is a Professor Emeritus of the Richard Gilder Graduate School and Peter J . Solomon Family Curator Emeritus of the invertebrate zoology department of the American Museum of Natural History . A 1973 Ph . D . recipient at ___MASK27___ , Platnick has described over 1 , 800 species of spiders from around the world , making him the second most prolific arachnologist in history , behind only Eugène Simon . Until 2014 he was also the maintainer of the World Spider Catalog , a website formerly hosted by the AMNH which tracks the arachnology literature , and attempts to maintain a comprehensive list , sorted taxonomically , of every species of spider which has been formally described . In 2007 he received the International Society of Arachnology ' s Bonnet award , named for Pierre Bonnet , in recognition for his work on the catalog . Aptostichus is a genus of spiders in the family Euctenizidae found predominantly in southern California , United States . ___MASK20___ ( AU or Auburn ) is a public research university in Auburn , Alabama , United States . With more than 22 , 000 undergraduate students and a total of more than 28 , 000 students and 1 , 200 faculty members , it is one of the state ' s largest universities as well as one of two public flagship universities in the state . The ___MASK74___ is a multi - campus public university system composed of all 16 of North Carolina ' s public universities , as well as the NC School of Science and Mathematics , the nation ' s first public residential high school for gifted students . Commonly referred to as the ___MASK74___ system or the UNC system to differentiate it from the original campus in Chapel Hill , the university has a total enrollment of over 183 , 001 students and confers over 75 % of all baccalaureate degrees in North Carolina in 2008 . Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms , including their structure , function , growth , evolution , distribution , identification and taxonomy . Modern biology is a vast and eclectic field , composed of many branches and subdisciplines . However , despite the broad scope of biology , there are certain general and unifying concepts within it that govern all study and research , consolidating it into single , coherent field . In general , biology recognizes the cell as the basic unit of life , genes as the basic unit of heredity , and evolution as the engine that propels the synthesis and creation of new species . It is also understood ___MASK17___ that all the organisms survive by consuming and transforming energy and by regulating their internal environment to maintain a stable and vital condition known as homeostasis . ___MASK79___ , popularly known as Virginia Tech , is a public , land - grant , research university with a main campus in Blacksburg , Virginia , educational facilities in six regions statewide , and a study - abroad site in Switzerland . Through its Corps of Cadets ROTC program , Virginia Tech is also designated as a one of six senior military colleges in the country . As the commonwealth ' s third - largest university , Virginia Tech offers 225 undergraduate and graduate degree programs to some 30 , 600 students and manages a research portfolio of $ 513 million , the largest of any university in Virginia . The university fulfills its land - grant mission of transforming knowledge to practice through technological leadership and by fueling economic growth and job creation locally , regionally , and across Virginia . A public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government , as opposed to private universities . Whether a ___MASK32___ is considered public varies from one country ( or region ) to another , largely depending on the specific education landscape . California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area . Located on the western ( Pacific Ocean ) coast of the U . S ., California is bordered by the other U . S . states of Oregon , Nevada , and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California . The state capital is Sacramento . Los Angeles is California ' s most populous city , and the country ' s second largest after ___MASK14___ City . The state also has the nation ' s most populous county , Los Angeles County , and its largest county by area , San Bernardino County .