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The carbon emissions data set formally maintained by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center has received new life at Appalachian through a cross-campus collaboration.

Sterling-Hellenbrand, professor of German and global studies in Appalachian’s Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, will serve as the Fulbright Visiting Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Graz in Austria in spring 2020.

Appalachian has earned the Arbor Day Foundation’s Tree Campus USA distinction for the fourth consecutive year. The university will plant 25 new trees near Walker Hall as part of its continued commitment to preserving trees.

More than 500 participants took part in the inaugural event organized to honor Dr. Dane Ward, dean of libraries at Appalachian, who was diagnosed with ALS in October 2017.

The winning teams earned awards up to $10,000 each from the Office of the Chancellor and Division of Academic Affairs.

New research led by Appalachian State University’s Dr. Howard Neufeld reveals ozone has dropped over the past several years to its lowest levels in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The research of Dr. David Dickinson, professor of economics at Appalachian, along with political scientists Drs. John Holbein and Jerome Schäfer, has found that insufficient sleep predicts lower voter turnout.

Appalachian alumnus Bryan Belcher ’97 has been appointed director of the Beaver College of Health Sciences Interprofessional Clinic. The clinic enables students to learn important skills while providing needed services to the community.

Lippard, who served as the Department of Sociology’s interim chair in the fall 2018 semester, assumed his new position as chair on March 1.