Topic: Gifts and Grants

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NC OSHERC funds Appalachian study on individual-level temperatures in cold work environments
July 17, 2018
Drs. Maggie Sugg and Jennifer Runkle, the grant recipients, said they plan to translate the study’s findings into new prevention strategies that would ensure optimal worker performance and protection in such environments.
The Paleontological Society funds Appalachian research into what role a lack of oxygen played in the Late Devonian mass extinction
July 17, 2018
Appalachian’s Dr. Cole Edwards and his team of researchers are testing rock samples collected from the western U.S. for anoxia — or the absence of oxygen — which may have contributed to the Late Devonian extinction.
Rumple Memorial Presbyterian Church supports Parent to Parent FSN-HC fund for medically fragile infants and children
July 17, 2018
The $3,000 grant will help support Appalachian’s Sydney Powell Fund for Infants and Children who are Medically Fragile, which offers financial assistance to families in need who have a child with a serious medical condition.
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.
Appalachian’s Vietnamese Summer Academy kicks off at 5,280 feet
July 12, 2018
Middle and high school students in Appalachian’s Vietnamese Summer Academy are learning about American and Appalachian culture and improving their English language skills as they explore the region and interact with the community.
IDEA funds second annual Vietnamese Summer Academy at Appalachian
July 12, 2018
The academy allows visiting middle and high school Vietnamese students to learn about American and Appalachian culture and improve their English language skills as they explore the region and interact with the community.
Appalachian hosts 25 young African leaders for six-week institute
July 10, 2018
The Mandela Washington Fellows joined Appalachian campus and local community members at the opening reception of a six-week institute focused on civic leadership.
Innovative business ideas win regional students scholarships in Appalachian’s GEAR UP Pitch Competition
July 10, 2018
Among the students’ idea pitches were a solar-powered phone case, a device for car pedal extension and an organic, homemade sanitizer spray.
Appalachian students build tiny house for local nonprofit KAMPN
July 9, 2018
Students in Appalachian’s Department of Sustainable Technology and the Built Environment have been working to construct a tiny house for LIFE Village — a new initiative of Kids with Autism Making Progress in Nature (KAMPN).
NSF Fellowships support Appalachian alumnae’s graduate-level study in science disciplines
June 28, 2018
Rachel Jordan ’18 and Autumn Melby ’18 will pursue dual master’s and Ph.D. programs beginning in fall 2018 through National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships.
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
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
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.
John Weaver Endowed Scholarship to benefit Appalachian Athletics programs
June 20, 2018
The scholarship is named in honor of John Weaver — the 1971 Appalachian alumnus who capped his 47-year coaching career at the university following the conclusion of the 2018 outdoor track and field season.
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.
Two-time alumna Johnna Reisner has received a 2018–19 Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award
June 15, 2018
Reisner will teach English language classes at a higher education or other academic institution in Poland for the 2018–19 academic year.
Appalachian State University announces 2018 Chancellor’s Scholars
June 13, 2018
Appalachian names 10 incoming students as Chancellor’s Scholars. The Chancellor’s Scholars Program is the university’s oldest and most academically competitive merit-based scholarship.
Appalachian industrial design major receives Celia Moh Scholarship
June 11, 2018
Ryan Decker, an industrial design major with a concentration in furniture design at Appalachian, is one of only three students from across the U.S. to receive the Celia Moh Scholarship.