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  • Food physicist offers Earth Day cooking tips [faculty featured]
    Food physicist offers Earth Day cooking tips [faculty featured]
    Yale Climate Connections
    April 21, 2022

    Yale Climate Connections highlights Carla Ramsdell, pre-engineering advisor and practitioner in residence in App State's Department of Physics and Astronomy, and her seven-part Sustainable Food Cooking Challenge video series.

  • Liability vs. Full Coverage [faculty featured]
    Liability vs. Full Coverage [faculty featured]
    WalletHub
    Feb. 25, 2022

    Dr. David Marlett, professor in App State’s Department of Finance, Banking and Insurance, offers expert knowledge on the difference between liability and full coverage car insurance. Marlett holds the Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina Distinguished Professorship at App State, and serves as managing director of the Brantley Risk and Insurance Center.

  • N.C.'s 7th lab school opens in Elkin this fall
    N.C.'s 7th lab school opens in Elkin this fall
    Spectrum News
    Feb. 15, 2022

    Spectrum News interviews App State Academy at Middle Fork Principal Amie Snow and a student about the laboratory school experience. App State opens a new lab school — its second — in partnership with Elkin City Schools in fall 2022.

  • Mt. Everest’s Highest Glacier Feels the Impacts of Human-Induced Climate Change
    Mt. Everest’s Highest Glacier Feels the Impacts of Human-Induced Climate Change
    National Geographic
    Feb. 3, 2022

    National Geographic highlights findings from a paper for which App State geography and planning professor Dr. Baker Perry served as a co-author. The paper, published in the Nature Portfolio Journal Climate and Atmospheric Science, identifies that Mount Everest’s highest glacier is now losing several decades of ice accumulation annually, which is attributed to the earth's warmer climate.

  • Announcing the Campus Safety 2022 Higher Education Director of the Year Finalists
    Announcing the Campus Safety 2022 Higher Education Director of the Year Finalists
    Campus Safety Magazine
    Jan. 31, 2022

    Campus Safety Magazine announces its finalists for the 2022 Higher Education Director of the Year Award — including App State Police Chief Andy Stephenson.

  • New group looks to redefine rural higher education policy [faculty featured]
    New group looks to redefine rural higher education policy [faculty featured]
    Politico
    Jan. 31, 2022

    The Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges, which formed in 2021 and is based at App State, unveils a new metric for identifying rural-serving institutions. Dr. Andrew Koricich, executive director of the ARRC and an associate professor in App State's Department of Leadership and Educational Studies, is interviewed about the alliance's work.

  • Cubans who joined July protests now face stiff sentences [faculty interviewed]
    Cubans who joined July protests now face stiff sentences [faculty interviewed]
    The Washington Post
    Jan. 19, 2022

    Dr. Joseph Gonzalez, associate professor in App State's Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, is interviewed by The Washington Post for an article about the summer 2021 protests in Cuba.

  • Disabled students find unique opportunities at ASU
    Disabled students find unique opportunities at ASU
    Carolina Journal
    Jan. 14, 2022

    The Carolina Journal features App State's Scholars with Diverse Abilities Program.

  • Why the Science of Teaching is Often Ignored [faculty interviewed]
    Why the Science of Teaching is Often Ignored [faculty interviewed]
    The Chronicle of Higher Education
    Jan. 3, 2022

    Dr. Lindsay Masland, associate professor of psychology at App State and associate director for faculty professional development in the university's Center for Academic Excellence, shares how she has worked with faculty members to create a rubric listing specific research-based teaching behaviors, such as inclusive teaching, as a motivator to try new things.

  • Appalachian State buys former Corning building in Hickory for new campus
    Appalachian State buys former Corning building in Hickory for new campus
    WBTV
    Nov. 22, 2021

    Charlotte-based news organization WBTV shares the news that App State has purchased the former Corning Optical Communications property to be the home of the App State Hickory Campus.

  • Three App State leaders attend climate summit in Scotland
    Three App State leaders attend climate summit in Scotland
    Watauga Democrat
    Nov. 11, 2021

    App State Chief Sustainability Officer Lee Ball, Dr. Dave McEvoy, chair of the Department of Economics, and Dr. Martin Meznar, associate dean for global and civic engagement in the Walker College of Business, represented App State at the 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland.

  • App State social work students bring diverse books to WCS classrooms
    App State social work students bring diverse books to WCS classrooms
    Watauga Democrat
    Nov. 10, 2021

    App State social work students raised money to donate books to Watauga County elementary schools to better represent diverse student populations.

  • Is COVID-19 Seasonal? [faculty interviewed]
    Is COVID-19 Seasonal? [faculty interviewed]
    The Scientist
    Nov. 10, 2021

    Dr. Maggie Sugg, associate professor in App State's Department of Geography and Planning, is interviewed for this article by The Scientist.

  • New Appalachian scholarships will benefit 12 Guilford County students annually
    New Appalachian scholarships will benefit 12 Guilford County students annually
    WFDD
    Nov. 1, 2021

    Triad radio station WFDD shares news about the Frank Scholars Program at App State, funded by the late Hughlene Bostian Frank '68 and William "Bill" Frank.

  • Bristol native was one of two named Young Birder of the Year [student featured]
    Bristol native was one of two named Young Birder of the Year [student featured]
    Bristol Herald Courier
    Nov. 1, 2021

    Appalachian State University senior biology major Adrianna Nelson was one of two students to be named the American Birding Association’s Young Birder of the Year, a mentoring program that awards young birders across the country from ages 10-18.

  • Teachers from 15 countries visit Elkin Schools
    Teachers from 15 countries visit Elkin Schools
    The Elkin Tribune
    Oct. 26, 2021

    Elkin City Schools hosted visiting teachers from countries around the world through a partnership with Appalachian State University.

  • Expert Insight on Cheap Renters Insurance [faculty featured]
    Expert Insight on Cheap Renters Insurance [faculty featured]
    MoneyGeek.com
    Oct. 13, 2021

    Dr. David Marlett, managing director of the Brantley Risk & Insurance Center in Appalachian State University's Walker College of Business, shares insights on renter's insurance.

  • How climate change is affecting fall foliage [faculty featured]
    How climate change is affecting fall foliage [faculty featured]
    FOX 13 Salt Lake City
    Oct. 12, 2021

    Dr. Howard Neufeld, professor of biology at Appalachian State University, shares insights with Newsy about climate change's potential effects on fall leaf color and timing.

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