Grants & Research

Grants & Research

Hellbender researcher and Appalachian State University graduate student Hutch Whitman holds a hellbender. Photograph courtesy Hutch Whitman

From Hell and Bent on Returning [student featured]

Imagine a slimy, speckled tube with four legs that appear to have been attached with spare parts. The toes — four on the front legs, five on the rea...

Dr. Brett Taubman is a professor and the director of the Fermentation Sciences program in  Appalachian State University's A.R. Smith Department of Chemistry and Fermentation Sciences.

Dr. Brett Taubman featured on WUNC's The Broadside

From bourbon to chow chow, fermentation is everywhere in Southern food and drink. But how did this "controlled form of rotting" become so prevalent in...

Dr. Jewel Parker ’16 ’18

Dr. Jewel Parker ’16 ’18 awarded Southern Historical Association's Dissertation Prize

When Dr. Jewel Parker, a 2024 graduate of UNC Greensboro’s History Department, learned that her dissertation had won the C. Vann...

Dr. Zachary Russell

Dr. Zach Russell discusses NC Innovation research on Spectrum News

Two NC Innovation grant recipients explain how their research is moving from the lab into the real world. Dr. Zachary Russell of Appalachian State Uni...