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  • Climate change initiatives could be another casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic [faculty quoted]
    Climate change initiatives could be another casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic [faculty quoted]
    Marketplace
    June 11, 2020

    Dr. Rajat Panwar of the Walker College of Business shares his research findings on corporate sustainability spending during times of financial crisis — including the 2008 recession and COVID-19. He said some companies cut back on their green spending during difficult times, especially those that haven’t built sustainability into their core business models or corporate identities.

  • The wipe down on clean energy
    The wipe down on clean energy

    App State partners with ASU for grant-funded study of photovoltaic soiling loss

    June 8, 2020

    Appalachian’s Dr. Jaewon Oh has collaborated with members of Arizona State University’s Photovoltaic Reliability Laboratory to analyze the soiling loss — or power loss due to dirt, dust and other particles — of six PV power plants across the U.S., including one in North Carolina.

  • App State’s Dr. Paul Wallace is pushing the boundaries of online teaching and learning
    App State’s Dr. Paul Wallace is pushing the boundaries of online teaching and learning
    June 2, 2020

    Appalachian State University professor Dr. Paul Wallace shares his research on social robotics, telepresence and immersive environments — research that may have broader applications due to the coronavirus pandemic.

  • Larimer Field [faculty featured]
    Larimer Field [faculty featured]
    Pittsburgh Quarterly
    June 1, 2020

    Creative writing professor Josepth Bathanti’s poem “Larimer Field,” about Little Leaguers, is this issue's pick for PQ Poem feature. Bathanti is Appalachian State University’s McFarlane Family Distinguished Professor in Interdisciplinary Education and a former North Carolina poet laureate.

  • App State’s Fulbright scholars foster international connections despite global pandemic
    App State’s Fulbright scholars foster international connections despite global pandemic
    May 29, 2020

    Many of Appalachian’s 2019–20 Fulbright scholars were overseas when COVID-19 took hold. Though these faculty members have since returned to the U.S., they have opted to continue their work remotely — demonstrating the importance of fostering international connections, especially during a global pandemic.

  • No asteroids needed: ancient mass extinction tied to ozone loss, warming climate [faculty quoted]
    No asteroids needed: ancient mass extinction tied to ozone loss, warming climate [faculty quoted]
    Science
    May 28, 2020

    Appalachian State University geologist Dr. Sarah Carmichael discusses the latest explanation put forth regarding the cause of a mass extinction 252 million years ago — a warming climate that depleted the earth's ozone layer.

  • How Big Data Analytics & AI Can Help Boost Bee Populations
    How Big Data Analytics & AI Can Help Boost Bee Populations
    Analytics India Mag
    May 28, 2020

    This article details the collaboration between SAS and Appalachian State University to create a World Bee Count app and data visualizations on the world’s bee population to understand the ways in which bees can be protected.

  • World Bee Day [faculty quoted]
    World Bee Day [faculty quoted]
    Colorado Ag Today
    May 22, 2020

    Dr. Joseph Cazier, director of the Center for Analytics Research and Education, discusses the new World Bee Count app released by Appalachian State University and SAS. He describes it as “citizen science” and the first step toward building a global repository of shareable data.

  • World Bee Day 2020: FAO calls for more to be done to safeguard our tiny food heroes, amid alarming decline [faculty mentioned]
    World Bee Day 2020: FAO calls for more to be done to safeguard our tiny food heroes, amid alarming decline [faculty mentioned]
    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
    May 20, 2020

    Appalachian’s Dr. Joseph Cazier,director of the Center for Analytics Research and Education, is mentioned as having spoken at the UN's virtual celebration for World Bee Day.

  • How to safely run outside amid the coronavirus pandemic [faculty quoted]
    How to safely run outside amid the coronavirus pandemic [faculty quoted]
    CBS News
    May 19, 2020

    Amid COVID-19 concerns, health professor Dr. David Nieman is quoted on his research that shows regular moderate-intensity physical activity can improve one's ability to fight viruses — making lifestyle practices consistent with good immune health a "primary" strategy to prevent the risk posed by COVID-19.

  • 2020 winners announced for Chancellor’s Innovation Scholars Program at App State
    2020 winners announced for Chancellor’s Innovation Scholars Program at App State
    May 19, 2020

    The five winning teams will earn awards up to $10,000 each from the Office of the Chancellor and the Division of Academic Affairs.

  • Counting bees, because bees count — App State creates pollinator-tracking app
    Counting bees, because bees count — App State creates pollinator-tracking app
    May 18, 2020

    Appalachian’s Center for Analytics Research and Education (CARE) launches a global initiative to count the world’s pollinator population.

  • A look at Africa's largest fossil footprint site [faculty mentioned]
    A look at Africa's largest fossil footprint site [faculty mentioned]
    CBS News This Morning
    May 16, 2020

    Thousands of years ago, some of humankind's prehistoric ancestors walked across a field in what is now Tanzania — and left footsteps that are now part of the largest fossil footprint site ever found on the African continent. Appalachian’s Dr. Cynthia Liutkus-Pierce led a research project at the site and is seen in this video footage with her undergraduate students.

  • Geological and Environmental Sciences faculty publish culminating research paper on ancient human footprints found in Tanzania
    Geological and Environmental Sciences faculty publish culminating research paper on ancient human footprints found in Tanzania

    The footprints give clues to human social behavior tens of thousands of years ago

    May 15, 2020

    Two faculty members in Appalachian’s Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences have published a culminating article about ancient human footprints in the journal Scientific Reports after a decade of research. The footprints give clues to human social behavior tens of thousands of years ago.

  • Africa's largest group of human fossil footprints discovered in Tanzania [faculty quoted]
    Africa's largest group of human fossil footprints discovered in Tanzania [faculty quoted]
    USA Today
    May 14, 2020

    Appalachian’s Dr. Cynthia Liutkus-Pierce describes the site where she led a 10-year research project to examine footprints preserved within an ancient volcanic mudflow produced by the nearby Oldoinyo L’engai, a still-active volcano in the East African Rift. She is a sedimentologist and paleoenvironmental scientist in the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences. She also directs the university’s environmental science program.

  • From Black Death to fatal flu, past pandemics show why people on the margins suffer most [faculty quoted]
    From Black Death to fatal flu, past pandemics show why people on the margins suffer most [faculty quoted]
    Science
    May 14, 2020

    Dr. Gwen Robbins Schug, an anthropology professor at Appalachian State University who studies health and inequality in ancient societies, says bioarchaeology and other social sciences repeatedly have demonstrated that health crises “play out along the preexisting fault lines of each society,” including social and economic inequalities.

  • App State researchers form interdisciplinary clusters to address COVID-19 topics
    App State researchers form interdisciplinary clusters to address COVID-19 topics
    May 1, 2020

    Nearly 40 members of Appalachian’s faculty are working collaboratively to address topics related to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Such topics include the virus’s economic impact on the region and how to support rural, socially vulnerable community members living alone.

  • NC Climate Report Shows Warming Temperatures, Rising Sea Levels [faculty featured]
    NC Climate Report Shows Warming Temperatures, Rising Sea Levels [faculty featured]
    WFDD
    May 1, 2020

    Appalachian’s Dr. Baker Perry co-authored the recently released North Carolina Climate Science Report. In this interview with public radio, he explains how each part of the state will feel the impacts of climate change. Perry teaches in the Department of Geography and Planning.

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