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  • Counseling partnership yields positive results for WHS students
    Counseling partnership yields positive results for WHS students
    Watauga Democrat
    July 13, 2018

    The Assessment, Support and Counseling (ASC) Center at Watauga High School served 325 students — 24 percent of the student body — in the 2017-18 academic year. Appalachian professor and child clinical psychologist Kurt D. Michael is the founder of the ASC Center, a partnership between Appalachian State University and regional K-12 public schools to provide counseling and mental health education to students.

  • Appalachian’s NEXUS research project cuts by half local farm's greenhouse energy consumption
    Appalachian’s NEXUS research project cuts by half local farm's greenhouse energy consumption
    July 12, 2018

    The root zone heat distribution system installed by Appalachian’s NEXUS team at Springhouse Farm in Vilas, North Carolina, has reduced the farm’s greenhouse energy consumption by 50 percent from January–May.

  • An ATM that dispenses antioxidants
    An ATM that dispenses antioxidants

    Salk-led study clarifies dual role of protein that watches for cellular threats and repairs damage

    Salk Insitute for Biological Studies
    July 10, 2018

    One reason we’re supposed to eat a variety of colorful fruits and vegetables is because they contain nutritious compounds called antioxidants. These molecules counteract the damage to our bodies from harmful products of normal cells called reactive oxygen species (ROS). Now, research led by a Salk Institute professor along with collaborators from Yale, Appalachian State University and other institutions found that a protein called ATM (short for ataxia-telangiectasia mutated) can sense the presence of ROS and responds by sounding the alarm to trigger the production of antioxidants.

  • Four Appalachian Community members awarded 2017–18 W.H. Plemmons Leadership Medallions
    Four Appalachian Community members awarded 2017–18 W.H. Plemmons Leadership Medallions
    July 9, 2018

    Appalachian’s Elaine Everly, Nicole Flournory, Patrick Setzer and Keith Martin are the 2017–18 recipients of W.H. Plemmons Leadership Medallion — the highest award of its kind at Appalachian.

  • New leadership at Appalachian’s Teaching and Research Farm brings collaborative opportunities
    New leadership at Appalachian’s Teaching and Research Farm brings collaborative opportunities
    July 5, 2018

    C.C. “Chip” Hope III, the new director of Appalachian’s Teaching and Research Farm, said his long-term plans for the farm include a Seeds of Resilience project, monthly homesteading workshops and more.

  • Appalachian’s Dr. Scott Relyea receives Fulbright and Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS awards to further his studies in China’s Sichuan province
    Appalachian’s Dr. Scott Relyea receives Fulbright and Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS awards to further his studies in China’s Sichuan province
    June 26, 2018

    Dr. Scott Relyea, assistant professor of history at Appalachian, will travel to China in September 2018 to continue his research on early 20th-century Sino-Tibetan relations in the Kham borderland of eastern Tibet.

  • NCDA&CS grant supports Appalachian research of biochar to increase crop yields at local farm
    NCDA&CS grant supports Appalachian research of biochar to increase crop yields at local farm
    June 25, 2018

    Researchers in Appalachian’s Department of Sustainable Technology and the Built Environment and the Appalachian Energy Center will study biochar’s ability to increase crop yields at Heritage Homestead Farm in Crumpler.

  • Appalachian professor Dr. Steve Hageman receives Fulbright to study global warming’s effects in the polar Arctic
    Appalachian professor Dr. Steve Hageman receives Fulbright to study global warming’s effects in the polar Arctic
    June 22, 2018

    Hageman will apply methods he uses to study fossils to help determine whether environmental effects of global warming can already be observed in the body size of polar Arctic marine organisms.

  • Sociologist weighs in on immigrant family separations — including social, economic impact
    Sociologist weighs in on immigrant family separations — including social, economic impact
    June 20, 2018

    Dr. Cameron Lippard says families are hiding from persecution, even if they’re in the U.S. legally, as a result of recent immigration family separations.

  • Dr. Michael McKenzie ’99 named dean of Appalachian’s Cratis D. Williams School of Graduate Studies
    Dr. Michael McKenzie ’99 named dean of Appalachian’s Cratis D. Williams School of Graduate Studies
    June 18, 2018

    Appalachian alumnus Dr. Michael McKenzie, interim associate provost and chief research officer at Winston-Salem State University, will assume his role as dean of the university’s graduate school on July 1.

  • 8 earn professorships in Appalachian’s Walker College of Business
    8 earn professorships in Appalachian’s Walker College of Business
    June 18, 2018

    The professorships, which will take effect July 1, were awarded to Drs. Tracy Reed, Tammy Kowalczyk, Heather Dixon-Fowler and Ash Morgan, Scott Hunsinger, Peter Groothuis, Dana Clark and Pia Albinsson.

  • What caused the earthquakes that shook N.C.'s mountains this week? [faculty quoted]
    What caused the earthquakes that shook N.C.'s mountains this week? [faculty quoted]
    Winston-Salem Journal
    June 15, 2018

    Dr. Sarah Carmichael in Appalachian State University’s Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences discusses how the old, inactive faults in the Appalachian mountains respond to shifts by the North American Plate.

  • Western Association of Women Historians awards Barbara ‘Penny’ Kanner Prize to Appalachian’s Dr. Lynne Getz
    Western Association of Women Historians awards Barbara ‘Penny’ Kanner Prize to Appalachian’s Dr. Lynne Getz
    June 8, 2018

    Dr. Lynne Getz, professor of history at Appalachian, is the recipient of the Western Association of Women Historians’ Barbara “Penny” Kanner Prize for her book “Abolitionists, Doctors, Ranchers, and Writers.”

  • Appalachian assistant professor featured in documentary on humanity’s big questions
    Appalachian assistant professor featured in documentary on humanity’s big questions
    June 8, 2018

    Dr. Rachel Smith, assistant professor in Appalachian’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, joins a group of scientists in “The Most Unknown” — a documentary film investigating questions that have fueled scientific inquiry for generations.

  • Dr. Denise Brewer named chair of Appalachian’s Department of Family and Child Studies
    Dr. Denise Brewer named chair of Appalachian’s Department of Family and Child Studies
    June 8, 2018

    Dr. Denise Brewer, associate professor in Appalachian’s Department of Family and Child Studies, assumed her new role as department chair in May.

  • Appalachian’s Dr. Jacqui Bergman named interim vice provost for faculty affairs
    Appalachian’s Dr. Jacqui Bergman named interim vice provost for faculty affairs
    June 6, 2018

    Dr. Jacqui Bergman, associate professor and Department of Management chair at Appalachian, will join the university’s Division of Academic Affairs in July as interim vice provost for faculty affairs.

  • ‘Jordan and the Arab Uprisings’ — the latest book by Appalachian’s Curtis Ryan — published by Columbia University Press
    ‘Jordan and the Arab Uprisings’ — the latest book by Appalachian’s Curtis Ryan — published by Columbia University Press
    June 6, 2018

    Dr. Curtis Ryan’s book “Jordan and the Arab Uprisings: Regime Survival and Politics Beyond the State” is being published this month. Ryan is a professor of political science at Appalachian.

  • Meggett named general counsel for Appalachian
    Meggett named general counsel for Appalachian
    June 5, 2018

    Paul Meggett, a former law professor and active member of the North Carolina Bar Association, will begin his new position as general counsel for Appalachian on June 18.

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