Faculty in Appalachian’s Department of Biology have been awarded funding from UNC Asheville to research species boundaries between wildflowers Liatris helleri and L. turgida, both native to North Carolina.

Appalachian’s French Embassy-Benjamin Franklin/Generation Study Abroad Scholarship program receives support from the French Embassy and the Institute of International Education (IIE).

Funding from the Blue Ridge Partnership of Children will allow Appalachian’s Parent to Parent Family Support Network-High Country to provide support and information to families with special-needs children.

Appalachian receives funding from the National Council of University Research Administrators to launch PREPARE — a customized mentoring program for junior faculty in the university’s Beaver College of Health Sciences.

Research project “Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for Sustainable Development: Interventions with Native American-Owned Small Businesses” is funded by $5,000 Oak Ridge Associated Universities grant.

The North Carolina Wine and Grape Council awards Appalachian State University with grant to research biogenic amine and off-flavor producing molds and bacteria in winemaking.

Appalachian State University received funding from Sonsight Wind to prototype test a new three-kilowatt small wind turbine at Appalachian’s Beech Mountain Small Wind Research and Demonstration Site in Banner Elk.

Funding provided by the Fulbright Scholar Program will allow Appalachian’s Dr. Anatoli Ignatov to travel to Ghana to research contemporary contestations over land ownership in the country’s Northern Region for his second project, “Who Owns the Land? Power, Belonging, and the Remaking of History in Ghana”