- Dr. Kathryn Webb Farley and Dr. Patricia Mitchell (Government and Justice Studies) received a $50,000 State Employees Credit Union (SECU) grant to assist non-profits to help meet the needs of the surrounding communities. (21)
- A three-year grant awarded to App State by the Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PhysTEC) will help increase the number of graduates from the university’s B.S. in physics-secondary education program and other graduates with teacher licensure in physics secondary education. The $97,265 grant, awarded to Dr. Jennifer Burris (Physics and Astronomy), funds the PhysTEC program at Appalachian for the 2019–20 academic year. An additional $197,375 in grant funding is anticipated for the second and third years of the program. (20)
- The Department of Computer Science received $176,000 in funding to establish a four-year High Achievers in Computer Science Scholarship program. (19)
- Dr. Sandie Gravett (Philosophy and Religion) has received a grant of $50,000 from the Henry Luce Foundation in support of her project on “public-focused” undergraduate religious studies programs. (21)
- The U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council selected Dr. David Nieman’s lab (Biology) for a contract totaling $188,000 to study “Blueberry Supplementation and Inflammation Resolution after Exercise” at the App State N.C. Research Campus Human Performance Lab. (20)
- Dr. Kathleen Schroder (Geography and Planning), Dr. Jesse Lutabingwa (OIED and Government and Justice Studies) and Julie Shepherd Powell (Appalachian Studies) received $500,000 to continue work with the American University of Free State of South Africa to strengthen their existing partnership through a federally funded mountain-to-mountain grant project that will engage faculty, staff and graduate students at both institutions in teaching, research, mentorship, scholarship and more. (20)
- Dr. Amy Page (Sociology) has taken over The Senior Companion program and the Foster Grandparent program grants. She was able to obtain federally funded grants totally over $500,000. Through this ongoing effort, area senior citizens assist some of the region’s youngest and oldest residents in the surrounding five counties. (20)
- A cross-disciplinary team of faculty in the college was awarded a $1,000,000 NSF S-STEM grant to assist with the nation’s shortage of STEM graduates and workers. This includes faculty from Computer Science, Physics and Astronomy, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Mathematical Sciences and Chemistry and Fermentation Sciences. (18)
- Dr. Xiaofei Tu and Dr. Wendy Xie (Languages, Literatures and Cultures) received $89,815 from STARTALK — a project funded by the National Security Agency and administered by the National Foreign Language Center — to host a Chinese immersion program on Appalachian’s campus for high school students the second year in a row. (19)
- The Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies provided their first international travel grants to five Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies minor students for a study abroad opportunity to Israel. The students studied at Yad Vashem, the Central Zionist Archives, the Ghetto Fighters' House Museum and Archives and Hebrew University. (18)
- Dr. William Armstrong (Geological and Environmental Sciences) received more than $250,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to complete a three-year research project titled “A Half-Century of Changing Glacier Dynamics at Athabasca Glacier.” (18)
- Dr. Brooke Christian (Chemistry and Fermentation Sciences) and Dr. Gary Pielak (UNC Chapel Hill), received $70,865 in grant funding from the University of North Carolina System Office for their study on new drug storage and delivery methods, titled “Exploiting Tardigrade Stress Resistance to Develop Novel Therapeutic Delivery Strategies." (18)
- The Department of Physics and Astronomy received a $300,000 grant for increasing their number of graduate students in Appalachian's Physics Education program. (19)
- Dr. Cameron Gokee (Anthropology) has received a two-year $106,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for archaeological work in Senegal. (19)
- Dr. Kurt Michael (Psychology) is part of a team awarded $2.5 million in funding through the U.S. Department of Education (ED) for the “Rural School Mental Health Training and Service Provision in North Carolina” grant proposal. (19)
- Dr. Patricia Johann (Computer Science) received a $510,823 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project titled "SHF: Small: RUI: Semantic Complexity of Advanced Data Types." (19)
- Dr. Abdelbaset Hamza (Computer Science) received a $175,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for his pre-CAREER (pre-tenure) proposal. He plans to study wireless communication in data centers using optical signals (light). This will be more efficient and saves space as there won't be a need for wires to connect servers in a data center. Several undergraduate and graduate students are also involved in the project. (20)
- Dr. Kristan Cockerill (Interdisciplinary Studies) and Dr. Beth Davison, (Sociology and Interdisciplinary Studies) received a $2,500 RIEEE grant to produce a documentary entitled, “Documenting Environmental Change in Appalachia.” (20)
- Mike Gangloff (Biology) was awarded $24,000 from the Department of Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to conduct surveys for a freshwater mussel, Round Ebonyshell (Reginaia rotulata) in the Conecuh River, Alabama. (20)
- Dr. Brent James (Languages, Literatures and Cultures) and Dr. Felicia Arriaga (Sociology) were awarded a grant by the Chancellor’s Innovation Scholars Program 2019-20 for their collaborative Immigration Awareness and Advocacy Project. (20)
- “Supporting the STEM Pathway at Appalachian” project funded by a grant from the University of North Carolina System Office of $70,736 was awarded to Dr. Eric Marland, Dr. Katherine Mawhinney and Dr. Trina Palmer (Mathematical Sciences). Appalachian is providing a matching funds commitment of $17,458 for the project which involves offering new courses to help boost the success of calculus students. (20)
- Dr. Jennifer Burris (Physics and Astronomy), Dr. Claudia Cartaya-Marin (Chemistry and Fermentation Sciences), Dr. Willie C. Fleming (App State Chief diversity officer), Dr. Brooke Hester (Physics and Astronomy) and Dr. Andrew Bellemer (Biology) were awarded nearly $1 million in grant funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to implement ADVANCE APPALACHIAN — a program designed to promote gender equity in STEM fields at App State, with an emphasis on women from underrepresented populations.
- Dr. Tonya Coffey, PI and Dr. François Amet, co-PI (Physics and Astronomy) have been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF): Major Research Instrumentation(MRI) grant for over $40,000 for Acquisition of PeakForce KPFM package and upgrade for Dimension Icon SPM System. This grant will fund an upgrade to an existing microscopy system. The upgrade will allow users to visualize the electrical and mechanical properties of samples on the nanoscale.
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