Faculty & Staff

Appalachian professor awarded prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowship
Jun 7, 2016

BOONE - Dr. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, Director of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies at Appalachian State University, was awarded a Humbo...

Interim Dean and Associate Dean named by the College of Arts and Sciences
May 30, 2016

BOONE - The College of Arts and Sciences has named Dr. Jennifer Burris  Associate Dean for the coming academic year. Dr. Burris will assume her n...

Professor of history awarded prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend
Apr 26, 2016

BOONE - Dr. Jason White, assistant professor in the Department of History was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend in ...

Dr. Timothy J. Smith elected to the UNC Press Board of Governors
Apr 20, 2016

BOONE—Dr. Timothy J. Smith, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Appalachian State University, has been elected by the Universit...

Appalachian professor Samuella Sigmann honored with award by the American Chemical Society
Apr 5, 2016

Samuella Sigmann, Chemistry, was recently awarded the Tillman's-Skolnick Award from the American Chemical Society's Division of Chemical Health & ...

Bathanti named the Charles George VA Medical Center Writer-in-Residence
Feb 19, 2016

Joseph Bathanti has been named the Charles George VA Medical Center (VAMC) Writer-in-Residence in an innovative program in the Veterans Health Adminis...

College of Arts & Sciences chooses six recipients for summer grant research
Feb 3, 2016

Boone - This summer the College of Arts and Sciences will provide six $5,000 grants to faculty to work on scholarly research, creative projects and ex...

Appalachian Professor elected President of North Carolina School Psychology Association
Jan 12, 2016

BOONE - Dr. James Deni, professor of psychology at Appalachian State University,was elected President Elect of the North Carolina School Psychology As...

Grains of sand hold clues to the history of Alaska’s glaciers
Dec 14, 2015

BOONE—Show most people a core sample from the ocean floor and they only see mud. Ellen Cowan sees a ribbon of time dating back 1 million years or mo...

Geology faculty and students contribute to better understanding of early climate change during the Devonian and Carboniferous Periods
Dec 14, 2015

BOONE—A five-year UNESCO and International Union of Geological Sciences project on the interaction between climate change and the earth's biodiversi...