Grant Announcements

Appalachian professor Dr. Peter Soulé will use NSF funds to research rainfall variability in the Southeast Atlantic Coastal Region of the U.S. by tree ring dating the area’s longleaf pine.

The North Carolina Arts Council awarded $5,400 in funding for Appalachian to host the residency of artists Bob Ray and Barbara Hardy, along with their art exhibition “Circles of Influence.”

Faculty and students of Appalachian’s IDEXlab were awarded funding from the city of Elizabethton, Tennessee, to develop a conceptual master plan proposal and a feasibility study for two of the city’s parks.

Using NEH funding, Appalachian faculty hosted an event last fall at the Lincoln Heights Rosenwald School in Wilkesboro for alumni of the school and community members to share their stories.

The Eastern Research Group has awarded funding to the Appalachian Energy Center at Appalachian to conduct research of worldwide community-based landfill gas projects that benefit communities near landfills.

The United States Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) funded 2017 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) for two undergraduate Appalachian students.

Appalachian hosted 21 Teaching Excellence and Achievement (TEA) Fellows in 2017 with funding provided by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

Appalachian religious studies professor Randall Reed receives funding from the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion to perform data analytics in religious studies.

The Poultry Production and Product Safety Research Unit of the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service funds Appalachian’s development of food safety and processing training to combat food-borne pathogens in organic poultry production.