Topic: Gifts and Grants

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Solar-powered shelter: Hospitality House of Boone reveals 54 solar panels
Watauga Democrat
Nov. 28, 2017
The Hospitality House of Boone cut the ribbon Nov. 28 on its new solar panel system with 54 photovoltaic panels, becoming what it says is the first homeless services facility in the United States with solar power. Appalachian State University’s Appalachian in the Community Together service group committed to $5,000 for the project.
Carbon cutback
County, ASU partners in landfill gas contract
Wilkes Journal-Patriot
Nov. 21, 2017
Appalachian State University has agreed to buy carbon credits resulting from an old Wilkes County landfill project that prevents the release of methane gas into the atmosphere.
Ricks did not make big donation to be in spotlight
Watauga Democrat
Nov. 10, 2017
Mark Ricks does not seek the spotlight. Ricks, who donated a $10 million gift to his alma mater Appalachian State on Nov. 9 at the Holmes Center, would rather just stay in the background instead of be the center of attention.
Appalachian alumnus Mark Ricks ’89 commits $10 million to support Mountaineer Athletics
Nov. 9, 2017
At a ceremony in Holmes Convocation Center, Appalachian State University announced a commitment of $10 million to support the university’s A Mountaineer Impact initiative. Chancellor Sheri Everts and Director of Athletics Doug Gillin announced the commitment from Mark Ricks, a 1989 alumnus of the university. The commitment represents the university's largest outright gift to date.
Alumnus’ new endowment fund and named space in Peacock Hall honor information systems professor
Oct. 17, 2017
A new endowment fund and meeting and networking space at Appalachian State University have been established to honor Dr. Albert L. Harris, a longtime professor in the Department of Computer Information Systems and Supply Chain Management in the Walker College of Business (WCOB).
Appalachian’s Fleming Scholars honored at pinning ceremony Oct. 6
Oct. 10, 2017
Three of the four newest 2017-18 Fleming Scholars were recognized in a traditional pinning ceremony Friday, Oct. 6, on the Appalachian State University campus.
Spooky Duke Race and Costume Contest is Saturday, Oct. 28
Oct. 10, 2017
The 7th annual Spooky Duke Race and Costume Contest will be held on the campus of Appalachian State University to benefit Parent to Parent Family Support Network™-High Country.
Embracing a rich tradition — space and recognition for the NPHC’s Divine Nine
Oct. 9, 2017
Appalachian State University’s National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) Plots and Gardens project provides space and recognition for the Divine Nine — the historically black Greek-letter organizations that compose the NPHC.
Teaching Excellence and Achievement program (TEA)
Appalachian hosts 21 international educators enhancing their teaching skills
Oct. 5, 2017
Appalachian is hosting 21 educators from 18 countries this month through its Teaching Excellence and Achievement program (TEA), now in its seventh year.
From turtles to town hall: SECU Public Fellows Internship at ASU
EducationNC
Sept. 27, 2017
Jordan Boles entered ASU as a fully-supported ACCESS Scholar, became an employee at ASU’s Office of International Education and Development, and is now president of the Alpha Phi sorority chapter, to name just a few of her successes. Boles has made the most of her college experience—and the same can be said of her SECU Public Fellows Internship.
Appalachian’s NSF-funded scanning electron microscope supports undergraduate research
Sept. 21, 2017
The National Science Foundation, through a major research instrumentation program grant, awarded the College of Arts and Sciences’ Dewel Microscopy Facility at Appalachian State University $562,842 for a new scanning electron microscope (SEM).
Five Appalachian legacy first-year students earn Alumni Memorial Scholarships
Sept. 15, 2017
Five first-year students at Appalachian State University have received an Alumni Memorial Scholarship (AMS), awarded by the Appalachian Alumni Association to children of the university’s graduates. The recipients are Hannah Marie Dalness, Amanda Fields, Ethan Hahn, Alexander McGuire and Michael Williams.
From Farm to Table
Appalachian donates fresh produce to local organizations for residents in need
Sept. 9, 2017
Appalachian donates fresh produce to local organizations for residents in need.
From Farm to Table
Sept. 6, 2017
Appalachian State University’s Goodnight Family Department of Sustainable Development has forged a partnership with Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture (BRWIA) to donate excess food harvested at the university’s Blackburn Vannoy Teaching and Research Farm and campus gardens to families in need.
Author Susan Rivers to speak Sept. 7, proceeds support University Libraries’ Student Employee Scholarship Program
Aug. 30, 2017
Back by popular demand, the University Libraries at Appalachian State University will sponsor “A Novel Experience” fundraising dinner with award-winning playwright Susan Rivers.
Hankins’ first book garners Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise
Aug. 14, 2017
Dr. Davis Hankins of Appalachian State University is one of 10 winners of the Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise this year. He received this award for his work “The Book of Job and the Immanent Genesis of Transcendence” (Northwestern University Press, 2015).
SECU continues to fund Appalachian internships; 10 students complete 2017 summer internships
Aug. 4, 2017
Ten students from Appalachian State University completed 2017 summer internships in public sector and nonprofit entities of rural and underserved regions of North Carolina as part of a program called the State Employees’ Credit Union (SECU) Public Service Fellows.
Visual history archive with 55,000 testimonies of genocide survivors and witnesses will be accessible this fall through Appalachian’s Belk Library and Information Commons
Aug. 2, 2017
This fall semester, Appalachian State University will become one of 79 sites to provide full access to the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive. The archive contains 55,000 testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust, the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda (1994), the Nanjing Massacre (1937), the Guatemalan Genocide (1978-1996), the Armenian Genocide (1915-1923) and the Cambodian Genocide (1975-1979).