Grant Announcements

Thanks to grant funding from the National Park Service, Appalachian alumnae Paige Anderson ’17 and Kate Hayes ’16 will serve as park interpreters at Shenandoah National Park.

An interdisciplinary team, which includes Dr. Rachel Smith, assistant professor at Appalachian, has received NASA funding to investigate carbon chemistry in forming planetary systems.

Grant funding from UNC Greensboro will allow an interdisciplinary team of Appalachian and UNC Greensboro faculty members to implement BRIDGES — a project designed to engage diverse groups in STEM learning.

Appalachian’s Kristin Phillips and Gail Donaldson received additional funding from the North Carolina Department of Public Safety to provide speech-language pathology services to inmates of four regional N.C. correctional facilities.

Faculty members in Appalachian’s Department of Leadership and Educational Studies have received funding from Columbus State University (CSU) to develop and implement a training program for academic coaches at CSU.

The fall 2017 residency of dance company Ailey II at Appalachian was funded in part by the North Carolina Arts Council.

An interdisciplinary team at Appalachian has received planning funds from the N.C. Humanities Council for their project “Decolonizing Citizenship and Indigenous Lifeways,” which will involve Gadugi Program/Cherokee Partnership students.

Appalachian State University’s Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) student training program receives third-year funding from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

Appalachian professor Patricia Johann in the university’s computer science department has received funding from the National Science Foundation for her project exploring new foundations in indexed programming.