Topic: Research

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Find Your Sustain Ability: Former Head of EPA Gina McCarthy
July 21, 2017
Gina McCarthy discusses what it was like to be in charge of 15,000 people at the EPA and shares why she remains hopeful about our nation and our world.
Summer Symposium Aug. 5-10 will focus on global history and complex connections in remembering the Holocaust and crises today
July 18, 2017
The 16th Annual Martin and Doris Rosen Summer Symposium on “Remembering the Holocaust” will put a particular emphasis on the Holocaust as an event in global history and explores the complex connections between the Jewish refugee crisis of the 1930s and early 1940s with the present refugee crises around the world.
'Mountain of God' Volcano Preparing to Erupt
The East African peak looms over a modern city as well as three major sites featuring signs of early humans.
National Geographic
July 13, 2017
An active volcano in northeastern Tanzania, known as Ol Doinyo Lengai, could threaten Engare Sero, a site of ancient Homo sapiens footprints recently studied by Appalachian State University geologist Cynthia Liutkus-Pierce.
Saving the bees
Appalachian student and faculty researchers seek to recover declining honeybee population
July 13, 2017
There’s hope for declining honeybee populations thanks to Appalachian student and faculty research and special projects.
Elizabethton to partner with Appalachian State on downtown parks feasibility study and master plan
Johnson City Press
July 12, 2017
The Elizabethton Parks and Recreation Department may soon be getting some help from students of Appalachian State University in planning future improvements to the Covered Bridge Park and the nearby Edwards Island Park in downtown Elizabethton.
Photos from industrial design's observational beehive project
July 11, 2017
Three Appalachian State University industrial design majors – Ginny Stern ’15, Cary Cook ’16 and senior Eric Antolic – researched and designed an observational beehive that has become a hit for N.C.-based company Bee Downtown.
Appalachian State solar vehicle places second in international track race
July 9, 2017
Solar-powered Appalachian’s Team Sunergy took second place at the 2017 Formula Sun Grand Prix after hundreds of hours of preparation and three days of intense strategy and track racing. The annual race, which took place this year on the Circuit of The Americas track in Austin, Texas, is an international collegiate endurance competition that sets the standards for and tests the limits of solar vehicle technology.
2017 Appalachian Energy Summit provides students opportunities to network, exchange ideas and promote their work
July 7, 2017
Student attendees at 2017 Appalachian Energy Summit share ideas and network.
The new look of Apperion – Appalachian's 2017 Solar Vehicle
June 30, 2017
Team Sunergy’s new “cruiser class” car for 2018 is in the design concept phase. Its development is informed by data and feedback the team has gathered and compiled from the three competitions in which Apperion has raced.
Runnin’ on Shine
Team Sunergy competes in the Formula Sun Grand Prix July 3-9
June 30, 2017
Solar-powered Appalachian State University’s Team Sunergy took second place at the 2017 Formula Sun Grand Prix after thousands of hours of preparation and three days of intense strategy and track racing.
Department of Mathematical Sciences hosts workshop on Sustainable Energy Consumption
June 28, 2017
During the month of June, the Department of Mathematical Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at Appalachian State University welcomed faculty from around the world to Reconnect, a conference designed to evaluate mathematical and computational tools for energy efficiency and reliability of data centers.
The State of Things: There Goes the Sun
WUNC 91.5
June 15, 2017
This August communities across the United States will witness a total solar eclipse for the first time almost 100 years. Host Frank Stasio talks about the science of the sun with astronomer Rachel Smith. Smith heads the Astronomy & Astrophysics Research Lab at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and is a professor of physics and astronomy at Appalachian State University.
Two Appalachian faculty members named Fulbright Scholars
June 13, 2017
Dr. Anatoli Ignatov, assistant professor in the Sustainable Development Department and Dr. Susan Lappan, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, both at Appalachian State University, were honored with prestigious Fulbright Scholar Awards this spring.
NC biologist recognized for work to recover endangered species
Asheville Citizen-Times
June 12, 2017
The work days can be long. Sometimes they stretch to 12 hours dealing with mussel emergencies. But caring for and breeding baby mussels is some days not like work at all for Rachael Hoch, a biologist with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission.
Dr. Anatoli Ignatov, land ownership and management in Ghana
Faculty Member of Distinction
College of Fine and Applied Arts – Assistant Professor, Department of Sustainable Development
June 1, 2017
Dr. Anatoli Ignatov receives a 2017 Fulbright Scholar Award to study land ownership and management in Ghana.
Dr. Susan Lappan, helping to save the siamang
Faculty Member of Distinction
College of Arts and Sciences – Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
May 31, 2017
Dr. Susan Lappan has been researching the siamang and their ecosystems since 2000. A Fulbright Scholar Award for the 2017-18 academic year will support a new research project in Malaysia.
$100K grant from National Endowment for the Humanities provides funds to explore war and its effects through art
May 23, 2017
Part of the NEH’s “Dialogues on the Experience of War” program, this grant project was developed by Dr. Valerie Wieskamp, Department of Communication; Dr. Lynn Searfoss, Department of English; and Dr. Clark Maddux, Watauga Residential College.
Dr. Tim Ludwig — keeping workers safe
May 22, 2017
A leading authority on industrial safety, Appalachian State University’s Dr. Tim Ludwig has good reason to want to keep workers safe.