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  • Teaching with heart, vision and an eye for innovation: App State's Dr. Charlie Chen
    Teaching with heart, vision and an eye for innovation: App State's Dr. Charlie Chen

    A Q&A with the university's 2025 UNC Board of Governors Excellence in Teaching Award winner

    April 3, 2025

    In this Q&A, Dr. Charlie Chen, App State’s winner of the 2025 UNC Board of Governors Excellence in Teaching Award, reflects on his 22-year career at the university. The annual award is given to one outstanding faculty member at each UNC System school. Six additional App State faculty have been recognized by the board with campus-based awards.

  • The Leading American Colleges And Universities For Study Abroad
    The Leading American Colleges And Universities For Study Abroad
    Forbes
    Dec. 18, 2024

    The latest Open Doors Report on International Education Exchange has ranked American colleges and universities that sent the greatest number of students to study abroad in the 2022–23 academic year. App State ranked third among master’s level institutions, with 697 students who studied abroad during that time frame. The university also ranked first for the number of students who participated in short-term study abroad programs, and 13th for the number of students who participated in mid-length study abroad programs.

  • App State team’s beehive monitoring system buzzes toward market with NCInnovation support
    App State team’s beehive monitoring system buzzes toward market with NCInnovation support

    The monitoring system could help decrease honeybee die-off, improve hive production

    Dec. 9, 2024

    A $641,951 NCInnovation grant awarded to App State’s Dr. Rahman Tashakkori and his research team will support the commercialization of four components of the team’s Beemon Hive Monitoring System — an innovative tool designed to decrease honeybee hive die-off and increase hive production.

  • App State named a national and world leader in business education for 2024–25
    App State named a national and world leader in business education for 2024–25

    App State’s Walker College of Business, business degree programs have been recognized by US News, The Princeton Review, CEO Magazine, Fortune magazine and Forbes magazine

    Nov. 25, 2024

    App State has earned national and international acclaim for its Walker College of Business and business degree programs. The university was featured in the 2024–25 rankings of U.S. News & World Report, The Princeton Review, Fortune magazine, Forbes magazine and CEO Magazine.

  • ‘The best two weeks of my life’: Study abroad learners share their experience
    ‘The best two weeks of my life’: Study abroad learners share their experience
    The Appalachian
    Sep. 25, 2024

    This summer, App State students visited countries across five continents on faculty-led study abroad programs. The Appalachian shares the experiences of several students who participated in study abroad trips to countries in South America and to Spain.

  • Find Your Sustain Ability: Britt Wray on the age of climate anxiety
    Find Your Sustain Ability: Britt Wray on the age of climate anxiety
    Aug. 2, 2024

    Host Laura England, associate director of App State’s Quality Enhancement Plan and practitioner-in-residence in the Department of Sustainable Development, talks with Dr. Britt Wray, a researcher and storyteller focused on the mental health impacts of climate change. Wray, director of the CIRCLE initiative at Stanford Psychiatry, explores the intersection of climate science, psychology and communication, and shares her journey in navigating interdisciplinary fields — including conservation biology, science communication and the ethics of synthetic biology. She highlights the importance of storytelling in climate communication.

    Find more App State podcasts at podcasts.appstate.edu and subscribe on your favorite platform.

  • Dr. Cynthia Liutkus-Pierce featured in documentary about ancient footprints in Tanzania
    Dr. Cynthia Liutkus-Pierce featured in documentary about ancient footprints in Tanzania
    June 14, 2024

    Research led by App State professor and National Geographic Explorer Dr. Cynthia Liutkus-Pierce is the focus of a new documentary titled “Footsteps: A Journey to the Engare Sero Footprints.” The film follows a pilgrimage to the site of early human footprints in northern Tanzania.

  • Faculty at App State and Ghanaian university explore sustainable solutions for rural communities
    Faculty at App State and Ghanaian university explore sustainable solutions for rural communities

    Collaboration between the rural-serving institutions focuses on teaching and research, encourages cultural exchanges

    May 13, 2024

    App State’s partnership with the University for Development Studies in Ghana continues to connect underserved students and communities in the Appalachian and Northern Ghana regions. The partnership focuses on teaching and research collaborations and encourages cultural exchanges.

  • App State’s next Quality Enhancement Plan will equip students for tomorrow’s careers
    App State’s next Quality Enhancement Plan will equip students for tomorrow’s careers

    ‘Pathways to Resilience’ QEP to launch this fall

    March 19, 2024

    Beginning in fall 2024, Appalachian State University will initiate a new, five-year Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) designed to help prepare students to address climate resilience needs and opportunities across multiple disciplines, equipping them for the careers of tomorrow.

  • On Everest, App State faculty fine-tune tools for sky-high scholarship
    On Everest, App State faculty fine-tune tools for sky-high scholarship

    Dr. Brian Raichle joins Dr. Baker Perry and Sherpa team for weather station maintenance in Nepal

    July 27, 2023

    App State professors Dr. Baker Perry and Dr. Brian Raichle conducted weather station maintenance with a group of elite climbing Sherpas on Mount Everest as part of a National Geographic Society expedition, supported by Rolex and its Perpetual Planet Initiative.

  • Spectrograph installed at South Africa’s Boyden Observatory to aid App State, UFS astrophysicists
    Spectrograph installed at South Africa’s Boyden Observatory to aid App State, UFS astrophysicists

    App State professor Dr. Richard Gray designed, built and installed the astronomical instrument

    June 30, 2023

    App State astrophysicist Dr. Richard Gray has completed the installation of a spectrograph he designed and built for Boyden Observatory’s 1.5-meter telescope. The new instrument will allow App State and UFS scientists and students to gain new insights into the origins and evolution of celestial objects.

  • Associate professor Elizabeth Bellows awarded 2023–24 Fulbright to perform research in Romania
    Associate professor Elizabeth Bellows awarded 2023–24 Fulbright to perform research in Romania

    Her project explores effects of Russia–Ukraine war on educators, students and families

    June 8, 2023

    Dr. Elizabeth Bellows, associate professor in App State’s Reich College of Education, is the recipient of a 2023–24 Fulbright. She will spend nine months in Romania, researching how teachers, students and families are navigating the effects of the ongoing war in neighboring Ukraine.

  • App State small business centers assist 1,000 clients with $65M in capital formation
    App State small business centers assist 1,000 clients with $65M in capital formation

    Small Business and Technology Development Center serves 14 counties with offices in Boone and Hickory

    April 11, 2023

    The App State-affiliated Small Business and Technology Development Center (SBTDC) is a valued asset in the economic development infrastructure of North Carolina, serving as an advisory resource for growing and developing businesses. Learn more about two Hickory area small businesses that have worked with SBTDC to pursue their business goals.

  • Honoring women’s leadership and history at App State
    Honoring women’s leadership and history at App State
    March 8, 2023

    This Women’s History Month, learn more about a few of the App State administrators, alumni, students, faculty, staff and campus visitors who are leading the way and inspiring others, as well as university events and initiatives focused on women’s history.

  • Lumbee tribal flag now hangs in App State’s student union, honoring the Lumbee people and their history
    Lumbee tribal flag now hangs in App State’s student union, honoring the Lumbee people and their history
    March 3, 2023

    Appalachian State University recognized and honored the nearly 60,000 members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina and their history on Feb. 27 with the unveiling of the Lumbee tribal flag in Plemmons Student Union.

  • How the world’s highest weather station was installed atop Everest [faculty featured]
    How the world’s highest weather station was installed atop Everest [faculty featured]
    guinnessworldrecords.com
    Feb. 16, 2023

    Two years after the world’s highest altitude weather station atop Mount Everest was destroyed, a team of Sherpa and scientists risked their lives to replace it with a new and improved one. Dr. Baker Perry, professor in App State’s Department of Geography and Planning, was a co-leader of the project, helping to spearhead the construction of a redesigned weather station that could withstand the extreme weather conditions on top of the mountain. The project was part of National Geographic and Rolex’s Return to Everest Expedition in May 2022.

  • App State honored as a Top Producer of Fulbright scholars, students for 2022–23
    App State honored as a Top Producer of Fulbright scholars, students for 2022–23

    The university is one of 3 master’s institutions nationwide to receive the honor

    Feb. 15, 2023

    App State has been named a Top Producer of Fulbright students and scholars for 2022–23, with two faculty and four alumni receiving a Fulbright to teach, perform research and/or study abroad. This marks the third time the university has received this honor in the past four academic years.

  • These Colleges Produce a Lot of Fulbright Scholars. Here’s How.
    These Colleges Produce a Lot of Fulbright Scholars. Here’s How.
    The Chronicle of Higher Education
    Feb. 15, 2023

    App State made the list of colleges with the most recipients of Fulbright scholarships for the 2022-23 academic year, and is one of three top producers among master's institutions of both Fulbright Scholars and Students. Chrissie Faupel, App State's executive director for international education and development, explains ways that the university assists Fulbright applicants.

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