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App State biology majors Nick Campany and Carson Scott serve as interns for ACleanWilsonCreek.org, a conservation effort encompassing research, education and hands-on cleanup.

Gabby Brown loves the challenge of transforming complex subjects into simple language that anyone can understand. This English–professional writing major plans to pursue a career in technical writing.

App State’s Office of Student Financial Aid and University Scholarships provides answers for five common questions about financial aid.

App State students share their tips for making the best of their overall Mountaineer experience — inside and outside the classroom.

App State has stepped onto the world stage as the lead institution to operate and maintain weather stations at the highest elevation on the planet — Mount Everest. Funded by the National Geographic Society, the project is creating new opportunities on campus and impacting climate research worldwide.

Benefactor Chris Petti has pledged $500,000 to be applied toward a $1 million challenge gift from Nancy and Neil Schaffel, in support of the endowment fund for An Appalachian Summer Festival — Appalachian State University’s annual celebration of the performing and visual arts.

As a senior at App State, Carter Blue ’20 delved into intimate partner violence in her senior thesis. Now this honors graduate applies her B.S. in sociology-social inequities to advocate for domestic violence survivors at OASIS in Watauga and Avery counties.

First-generation student and Wilson Scholar Nataly Jimenez, a senior majoring in sociology-criminology, deviance and law, aspires to become an immigration lawyer — a goal inspired by watching her own immigrant family encounter hardships.

App State’s location in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina opens avenues of academic and civic engagement particular to the area. The university’s partnership with the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park in Blowing Rock — spanning more than a century — is a good example.