Grant Announcements

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.

Design and consulting firm HALL a/e/c PA funds thermal testing of Rockwool Cavity insulation by Appalachian’s Energy Center and Department of Sustainable Technology and the Built Environment.

Parent to Parent FSN-HC has received $45,778 in funding to provide continued support to families and children with special needs in the High Country.

Appalachian's Research Institute for Environment, Energy, and Economics (RIEEE) will use funding from The Clabough Foundation to organize an educational carbon offset workshop for forest landowners in the High Country.

Middle and high school Vietnamese students in Appalachian’s Vietnamese Summer Academy — a four-week study abroad program funded by IDEA Vietnam — will learn about American and local Appalachian culture.

Research examining the emergence of self-governance in teams faced with implicit market competition for the resources of individuals receives funding from the University of East Anglia.

Appalachian State University received funding from Sonsight Wind to prototype test a new three-kilowatt small wind turbine at Appalachian’s Beech Mountain Small Wind Research and Demonstration Site in Banner Elk.

Funding provided by the Fulbright Scholar Program will allow Appalachian’s Dr. Anatoli Ignatov to travel to Ghana to research contemporary contestations over land ownership in the country’s Northern Region for his second project, “Who Owns the Land? Power, Belonging, and the Remaking of History in Ghana”

Funding from the University of North Carolina Greensboro will support the work of Appalachian and UNC-G professors to advise upon and implement new secondary mathematics standards.