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Topic: Sustainability

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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Leon Levine Hall of Health Sciences achieves Silver LEED certification
    Leon Levine Hall of Health Sciences achieves Silver LEED certification
    May 13, 2020

    Home to the Beaver College of Health Sciences, the facility is the 10th building on Appalachian’s campus to achieve certification with the globally recognized symbol of sustainability achievement and leadership.

  • App State’s Food Resource Hub provides food and personal care items to Mountaineers in need, continues to operate despite global pandemic
    App State’s Food Resource Hub provides food and personal care items to Mountaineers in need, continues to operate despite global pandemic
    May 1, 2020

    App State’s Food Resource Hub provides food and personal care items for university students, faculty and staff in need. Despite the global pandemic, it remains an operational resource for the Appalachian community.

  • 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.

  • App State sophomore wins top prize in 2019–20 Otto Zenke Student Design Competition
    App State sophomore wins top prize in 2019–20 Otto Zenke Student Design Competition
    April 23, 2020

    Sophomore Isaac Wood, an interior design major at Appalachian, has won the top prize — a $1,000 scholarship — in the 2019–20 Otto Zenke Student Design Competition for North and South Carolina students. Appalachian’s applied design program received a matching $1,000 prize.

  • Help save the bees: New app turns users into bee counters [faculty quoted]
    Help save the bees: New app turns users into bee counters [faculty quoted]
    Los Angeles Times
    April 23, 2020

    Computer science professor Dr. James Wilkes, who is also a farmer and beekeeper, explains the first World Bee Count and how to participate with a free app for your smartphone and a willingness to snap photos.

  • App State research yields insights into glacial activity — from Greenland to Antarctica — ‘in a warming world’
    App State research yields insights into glacial activity — from Greenland to Antarctica — ‘in a warming world’
    April 15, 2020

    Research results from a paper co-authored by Appalachian professor Dr. Ellen Cowan and published in the journal Nature Communications show that “increased glacial melting and sediment delivery may delay catastrophic retreat of large marine glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica in a warming world.”

  • NC scientists predict a warmer, wetter and more humid state climate
    NC scientists predict a warmer, wetter and more humid state climate
    April 9, 2020

    In the latest North Carolina Climate Science Report, N.C. scientists, including Appalachian State University professor Dr. Baker Perry, report greenhouse gases promise a warmer, wetter and more humid climate for the state.

  • Civil War Talk Radio: ‘The Environmental History of the Civil War’ [faculty featured]
    Civil War Talk Radio: ‘The Environmental History of the Civil War’ [faculty featured]
    VoiceAmerica
    April 8, 2020

    In this episode, Dr. Timothy Silver of Appalachian State University’s Department of History talks about his newly released book co-authored with App State colleague Judkin Browning titled "The Environmental History of the Civil War.” Silver discuss the impacts of health, medicine, weather and other environmental issues during the Civil War with host Gerald Prokopowicz of East Carolina University.

  • Bring App State’s sustainable values home with these tips and activities
    Bring App State’s sustainable values home with these tips and activities
    March 30, 2020

    Appalachian State University’s Office of Sustainability offers ideas for how to incorporate sustainable practices at home, including composting, gardening and choosing green products.

  • Grant-funded App State GIS analysis aids in advocating climate change policy
    Grant-funded App State GIS analysis aids in advocating climate change policy
    March 4, 2020

    Dr. Johnathan Sugg, assistant professor in Appalachian’s Department of Geography and Planning, along with geography students Tatiana Magee and Will Hutchinson ’16 ’19, has completed a GIS analysis that supports the climate advocacy efforts of nonprofit Protect Our Winters.

  • New partnership with NTE will accelerate efforts to reach climate neutrality
    New partnership with NTE will accelerate efforts to reach climate neutrality
    Feb. 27, 2020

    Under the new agreement, NRLP customers will have more control and choice over their energy consumption and spending through new, innovative rates, such as time- of-use rates, according to NRLP General Manager Ed Miller.

  • Contrary to Todd Gilbert, U.S isn't reducing carbon emissions at world's highest rate [faculty quoted]
    Contrary to Todd Gilbert, U.S isn't reducing carbon emissions at world's highest rate [faculty quoted]
    PolitiFact
    Feb. 24, 2020

    Dr. Jamie Russell of Appalachian State University’s Energy Center gives context regarding the U.S.’s reduction of carbon emissions in this fact-checking column published by The Poynter Institute.

  • State ag agency awards funding to App State biochar project
    State ag agency awards funding to App State biochar project
    Watauga Democrat
    Feb. 24, 2020

    Appalachian State University’s biochar project in the Department of Sustainable Technology and the Built Environment is among 15 projects to receive funds from the N.C. Bioenergy Research Initiative and the New and Emerging Crops Program. The project will receive $80,738.

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