Grant Announcements

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.

East Carolina University awards funding for ECU and Appalachian faculty and students to research the Village of Portsmouth on Portsmouth Island for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places.

The National Endowment for the Humanities funds Appalachian’s “Blurred Boundaries: The Experience of War and Its Aftermath” discussion series, which explores how the humanities affect our understanding of armed conflict.

Three Appalachian undergraduate students will study abroad for a semester in Belgium at the HOWEST University of Applied Sciences — an experience made possible by funding provided by the host institution.

Reoxcyn Discoveries Group awards funding to Appalachian and North Carolina State University faculty and staff to study the effect walking versus running has on individuals with flavonoid-high diets.

The North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services funds Appalachian’s NEXUS research project that demonstrates the production of synthetic natural gas from bioenergy crops.

Faculty in Appalachian’s Department of Biology have been awarded funding from UNC Asheville to research species boundaries between wildflowers Liatris helleri and L. turgida, both native to North Carolina.