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Topic: Awards and Honors

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  • 3 App State graduate students win $25,000 award in sustainable business pitch competition
    3 App State graduate students win $25,000 award in sustainable business pitch competition
    June 1, 2023

    Three App State graduate students won a $25,000 prize in EnergyTech’s annual business pitch competition. The event has teams identify a promising energy technology, assess its market potential and pitch a strategy for commercialization of the product to a panel of judges.

  • App State honors campus, community champions of diversity, equity and inclusion
    App State honors campus, community champions of diversity, equity and inclusion

    4 individuals, 1 regional team receive 2023 Inclusive Excellence Awards

    May 31, 2023

    Four members of the campus and local community, as well as a team from Mount Airy City Schools, are the recipients of App State’s 2023 Inclusive Excellence Awards, which recognize individuals’ active, intentional and ongoing commitment to inclusive excellence.

  • Surry County principal named Principal of the Year in North Carolina [alumni featured]
    Surry County principal named Principal of the Year in North Carolina [alumni featured]
    Winston-Salem Journal
    May 19, 2023

    App State alumna Donna L. Bledsoe ’04 ’08 was named the 2023 Wells Fargo North Carolina Principal of the Year. Bledsoe has been the principal of Cedar Ridge Elementary School in Surry County since 2016. She was chosen among eight regional principals of the year and the charter school principal of the year.

  • Over 3,600 App State graduates earn degrees at Spring 2023 Commencement
    Over 3,600 App State graduates earn degrees at Spring 2023 Commencement
    May 16, 2023

    Appalachian State University conferred degrees to over 3,600 students during its 2023 Spring Commencement ceremonies, held May 12 and 13 at the Holmes Convocation Center.

  • App State digital textbook rentals boast 99% participation rate, save students $5M in 2022–23
    App State digital textbook rentals boast 99% participation rate, save students $5M in 2022–23

    University wins national award for its e-book programming

    May 5, 2023

    Since its launch in 2021, App State’s award-winning digital textbook rental system — one of the first of its kind in the nation — has been utilized by 99% of the student population. The program has saved students over $5 million in the past academic year.

  • App State honors 14 students, faculty and staff at inaugural Awards of Distinction ceremony
    App State honors 14 students, faculty and staff at inaugural Awards of Distinction ceremony
    April 28, 2023

    App State held its inaugural Awards of Distinction ceremony April 27 on the Boone campus, honoring 14 students, faculty and staff for their commitment to excellence in serving the university and its community members.

  • App State’s Dr. Maryam Ahmed wins 2023 UNC Board of Governors Excellence in Teaching Award
    App State’s Dr. Maryam Ahmed wins 2023 UNC Board of Governors Excellence in Teaching Award

    6 additional App State faculty to receive campus-based awards

    April 27, 2023

    App State biology professor and virologist Dr. Maryam Ahmed is the university's recipient of the 2023 University of North Carolina Board of Governors Excellence in Teaching Award. She will receive a $12,500 cash prize as part of the award.

  • Beaver Scholars program propels App State grad’s health care career close to home
    Beaver Scholars program propels App State grad’s health care career close to home
    April 21, 2023

    App State’s Beaver Scholars program helped pave the way for alumna Alexis “Lexie” Farr to give back to her hometown community through her job at UNC Health Blue Ridge in Morganton. The scholarship program supports North Carolina students with a commitment to health care careers.

  • App State professor Katherine Ledford awarded 2022–23 Fulbright to teach in Jordan
    App State professor Katherine Ledford awarded 2022–23 Fulbright to teach in Jordan

    Her project aims to foster cross-cultural understanding through literature

    Feb. 13, 2023

    Dr. Katherine Ledford, professor of Appalachian studies at App State, is spending the spring 2023 semester in Amman, Jordan, where she teaches at Al-Ahliyya Amman University — working to foster cross-cultural understanding between the people of Appalachia and Jordan through literature.

  • App State alum Meredith Lindsey Draughn ’15 is 2023 National School Counselor of the Year
    App State alum Meredith Lindsey Draughn ’15 is 2023 National School Counselor of the Year
    Feb. 6, 2023

    Appalachian State University alumna Meredith Lindsey Draughn ’15 is the 2023 National School Counselor of the Year — giving her the opportunity to spotlight the school counseling profession and the school counselors who support K–12 students every day.

  • Appalachian State Theatre and Dance Production of “The Moors” Chosen for 2023 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival
    Appalachian State Theatre and Dance Production of “The Moors” Chosen for 2023 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival
    High Country Press
    Feb. 6, 2023

    App State's Department of Theatre and Dance was selected to perform its production of “The Moors” at the 55th annual regional Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. App State is one of only four programs in the Southeastern U.S. chosen to participate.

  • App State’s Dr. Sarah Evans receives CAREER award from National Science Foundation
    App State’s Dr. Sarah Evans receives CAREER award from National Science Foundation

    Funding to support ongoing permafrost research, K–12 education collaborations

    Jan. 31, 2023

    App State’s Dr. Sarah Evans, assistant professor in the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. The award comes with a federal grant to support Evans’ research and education activities for five consecutive years.

  • App State tops National Board Certified Teachers list for 7th consecutive year
    App State tops National Board Certified Teachers list for 7th consecutive year
    Jan. 30, 2023

    For the seventh consecutive year, App State leads the nation for its number of alumni who are National Board Certified Teachers, with 2,269 alumni having earned the national credential to date.

  • App State Online bachelor’s, master’s programs named among 2023’s ‘Best Online Programs’
    App State Online bachelor’s, master’s programs named among 2023’s ‘Best Online Programs’

    Business, education, nursing programs recognized in annual U.S. News & World Report rankings

    Jan. 27, 2023

    App State’s online bachelor’s programs and online graduate programs in business, education and nursing — offered through App State Online — rank among the best in the nation for 2023, according to U.S. News & World Report’s “2023 Best Online Programs” rankings.

  • App State students, faculty member honored with 2022 Global Leadership Awards
    App State students, faculty member honored with 2022 Global Leadership Awards
    Jan. 17, 2023

    App State held its annual Global Symposium on Nov. 16, 2022, as part of International Education Week. Three students and one faculty member received Global Leadership Awards at the event, recognized for their efforts to initiate, develop and support opportunities for global learning at App State.

  • Professor Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand awarded 2022–23 Fulbright to teach, conduct research in Austria
    Professor Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand awarded 2022–23 Fulbright to teach, conduct research in Austria

    She will continue her research project ‘Medieval Literature in the Modern Landscape’

    Jan. 10, 2023

    With the support of her Fulbright award, Dr. Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand, professor of German and global studies at App State, will serve as the Fulbright Visiting Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Graz in Austria in spring 2023, where she will teach and conduct research.

  • UNA’s Dr. Ken Kitts Included on AL.com’s Final Listing of Top 22 for 2022 [alumni featured]
    UNA’s Dr. Ken Kitts Included on AL.com’s Final Listing of Top 22 for 2022 [alumni featured]
    University of North Alabama
    Dec. 31, 2022

    University of North Alabama president and App State alumnus Ken Kitts ’85 ’87, was among 22 people to be honored on AL.com’s list of Alabamians who made the state a better place in 2022. Kitts was the only higher education leader to be recognized.

  • App State confers approximately 1,500 degrees at Fall 2022 Commencement
    App State confers approximately 1,500 degrees at Fall 2022 Commencement
    Dec. 19, 2022

    Appalachian State University conferred degrees to almost 1,500 students during the 2022 Fall Commencement ceremonies held Dec. 16 at the Holmes Convocation Center.

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