Topic: Gifts and Grants

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How New River got its flow back: App State’s NRLP completes Payne Branch environmental restoration project
Jan. 25, 2021
App State’s New River Light and Power has completed its grant-funded project to remove the historic Payne Branch dam from the New River’s Middle Fork, helping to restore this river corridor to a more natural state — which includes improved water quality and enhanced habitat for the area’s aquatic wildlife. Dive in to learn more.
Nearly $12 million in federal funding supports App State Empowering Teacher Learning program
Jan. 22, 2021
App State has been awarded nearly $12 million in federal grant funding to implement Empowering Teacher Learning — a teacher-directed professional learning program designed to add flexibility to traditional recertification and state licensure renewals for Western North Carolina teachers.
Schaffels commit to $1 million matching gift for An Appalachian Summer Festival
Jan. 22, 2021
Nancy and Neil Schaffel and the Murar Foundation have made a $1 million matching gift to the endowment for Appalachian State University’s An Appalachian Summer Festival. The gift will support the festival’s music, dance, theater, film and visual arts programming.
Grant-supported App State project explores relationship between religious studies and public issues
Jan. 13, 2021
Three religious studies faculty members at App State are engaged in a grant-funded project to envision a public-focused future for religious studies teaching and scholarship — one that explores the relationship of religion to topics at the center of public conversation and debate.
App State alumni donate 2,000-plus face coverings to Academy at Middle Fork
‘We have to take care of one another’
Jan. 8, 2021
Donated by App State alumni Robert Roach ’08 and Tom Webb ’73 ’75, along with Webb’s son, Ben Webb, and Brad Valentine, the face coverings are helping to make the return to in-person instruction safer for students and teachers at App State’s Academy at Middle Fork.
Worms–crayfish relationship affects entire freshwater stream ecosystems, App State research finds
Jan. 8, 2021
Published research co-authored by three members of the Appalachian State University Community is the first to find that some small, aquatic worms can have ecosystem-level impacts on freshwater streams due to their relationship with crayfish. Dive in to learn more.
App State alumnus and former NFL head coach Steve Wilks creates Post-Graduate Diversity and Inclusion Scholarship
Jan. 6, 2021
App State alumnus and former NFL head coach Steve Wilks ’92 and his wife have made a gift to the university’s Keep Climbing initiative that includes establishing the Steve and Marcia Wilks Post-Graduate Diversity and Inclusion Scholarship. The yearly scholarship will support one student-athlete from an underrepresented population who is pursuing a graduate degree at App State.
Grant-funded studies by App State analyze COVID-19’s economic impact on Northwestern NC
Dec. 21, 2020
App State was awarded a nearly $98,000 grant to analyze COVID-19’s total economic impact on the Northwestern NC region. In April alone, the region lost an estimated $52.4 million in gross regional product due to COVID-related restaurant and bar closures, according to preliminary reports.
Alumna and sons commit $1M toward App State basketball practice facility
Dec. 7, 2020
App State alumna Missy Harrill ’93 and her sons, Jay Harrill and Brad Harrill, have made a $1 million commitment in support of App State basketball. The gift will fund improvements to the university’s Quinn Recreation Center, to be re-named the Mark E. Harrill Basketball Practice Facility in honor of Harrill’s husband.
App State funded to study rare bats along Blue Ridge Parkway area, investigate disease
Dec. 4, 2020
Dr. Mark Spond, App State’s liaison to the National Park Service (NPS), was awarded NPS funding to conduct studies of bats along North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Parkway — data from which will help expand NPS knowledge of the area’s rare bat species and those affected by white-nose syndrome (WNS), a fatal fungal disease.
$29M-plus in anticipated federal funding supports Appalachian GEAR UP from 2020–27
Nov. 30, 2020
Over the next seven years, Appalachian GEAR UP, a federally funded college access program, will serve more than 14,000 high school students from 10 Western North Carolina school districts by helping them prepare to enter and succeed in postsecondary education.
A second local family will benefit from App Builds a Home collaboration
Nov. 24, 2020
The foundation and fundraising are underway for the second App Builds a Home (ABAH) project, built in partnership with Watauga County Habitat for Humanity. To date, almost $17,000 has been raised toward the total ABAH goal of $40,000 for the project.
US Embassy invests R8m in UFS mountain-to-mountain research project
The South African
Nov. 20, 2020
This news story describes App State's collaboration with University of the Free State in South Africa on a mountain-to-mountain research project.
178 Spooky Duke racers help App State raise more than $13,000 for special-needs children
Nov. 13, 2020
More than 175 racers from across the nation participated in App State’s virtual 2020 Spooky Duke Race and Costume Contest. Proceeds from the annual event benefit App State’s Parent to Parent Family Support Network-High Country (FSN-HC), which supports High Country children with special needs and their families.
‘Doughnut Forget to Vote’ — grant funds voter education, mobilization event for App State students
Nov. 4, 2020
Nearly 750 App State students were treated to a sweet reminder to vote, along with voter information, as part of “Doughnut Forget to Vote” — a nonpartisan voter education and mobilization event held Oct. 22 on App State’s campus.
$500K grant funds mountain-to-mountain collaboration between App State and South Africa’s UFS
Oct. 27, 2020
App State and South Africa’s University of the Free State (UFS) will strengthen their existing partnership through a two-year mountain-to-mountain project that has received $500,000 in grant support. Read more about the project, which will engage faculty, staff and graduate students at both institutions.
App State’s premier signature scholarships — a lifetime of value
Oct. 9, 2020
Three of App State’s signature scholarships — the Chancellor’s Scholarship, the Dr. Willie C. Fleming Scholarship and the Diversity Scholars Program — provide full in-state tuition and fees, plus additional benefits to provide a lifetime of value.
App State announces 2020–21 class of Chancellor’s Scholars
Oct. 9, 2020
The Chancellor’s Scholarship — a four-year program of rigorous study that covers full institutional costs — is Appalachian’s oldest and most academically competitive merit-based scholarship. It is awarded to the highest achieving students who have earned entry into the university’s Honors College.