Faculty & Staff

Wilkes with his beekeeping suit on, shows the club where the queen of the hive is.

ASU Beekeepers Unveil First On-Campus Hive
May 2, 2017

On April 21 a small crowd gathered at the LLC Gardens to celebrate the opening of the first on-campus beehive. The event was created and sponsore...

Dr. Rahman Tashakkori, named the Chair of the Department of Computer Science. Dr. Eric Marland, named the Chair of the Department of Mathematical Sciences and Dr. Zack E. Murrell, named the Chair of the Department of Biology at Appalachian State University.

New Department Chairs named in Appalachian State University’s College of Arts and Sciences
May 2, 2017

Dr. Rahman Tashakkori, currently the Lowe’s Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Appalachian State University has been n...

Dr. Sarah Carmichael, associate professor in the Department of Geology at Appalachian State University, is shown with her husband, Tom Hansell, documentary filmmaker in the Center for Appalachian Studies, in the Ellis Island Immigration Museum for the 113th Explorers Club Annual Dinner. Carmichael was recently received as a Fellow in The Explorers Club. Photo by Felix Kunze

Appalachian’s Sarah Carmichael joins John Glenn, Sally Ride, Jane Goodall and other well-known explorers in prestigious society
Apr 27, 2017

Sarah Carmichael, associate professor in Appalachian State University’s Department of Geology, was received as a Fellow in The Explorers Club, headq...

Dr. Neva J. Specht

Specht named dean of Appalachian’s College of Arts and Sciences
Mar 27, 2017

Dr. Neva J. Specht has been named dean of Appalachian State University’s College of Arts and Sciences after a national search. She begins her duties...

Hi-Phi Nation

Philosophy faculty member featured in recent Hi-Phi Nation podcast
Mar 27, 2017

Dr. Christopher Bartel, an associate professor of philosophy at Appalachian State University, has contributed to “The Cops of Pop,” the fifth epis...

Dr. Andrew Monroe with his research assistants in Appalachian State University’s Department of Psychology. Photo by Marie Freeman

Thinking about your future may make you less trusting and more critical of others
Mar 22, 2017

Appalachian State University’s Dr. Andrew Monroe is a psychologist in the College of Arts and Sciences who studies people’s moral and social judgm...

Dr. Susan Lappan of the Department of Anthropology at Appalachian State University

Dr. Susan Lappan awarded Fulbright grant for primate research in Southeast Asia
Mar 13, 2017

Dr. Susan Lappan of the Department of Anthropology at Appalachian State University received a Fulbright award for her forthcoming research on primate ...

Dr. Sarah Carmichael looks for manganese oxide coatings on speleothems in Worley’s Cave in Tennessee. Carmichael, associate professor of geology at Appalachian, will be received as a Fellow in The Explorers Club in New York City, March 24. Photo courtesy of Sarah Carmichael

Appalachian’s Sarah Carmichael to be inducted into The Explorers Club
Mar 6, 2017

Geochemist joins John Glenn, Sally Ride, Sir Edmund Hillary, Jane Goodall and other well-known explorers in this prestigious society.The cave was cool...

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General Benjamin Butler, Politics, Warfare and Masculinity in the Civil War North
Mar 1, 2017

Boone, N.C. - The Appalachian State University History Department will host its second guest in a new speaker series on the Civil War. Dr. Michael Tho...

Catherine Edwards

An Appalachian State faculty and student take on honorable roles of participation in the North Carolina School of Psychology Association (NCSPA)
Feb 14, 2017

Catherine Edwards, Greenville, N.C., MA/SSP School Psychology graduate program, class of 2018, has been admitted as the Student Representative on the ...