Grants & Research

College of Arts and Sciences’ SAFE Fund grantees awarded for 2016
Apr 4, 2016

After an extensive review process the College of Arts and Sciences has chosen nine students and seven faculty to receive funds from the newly created ...

NSF grant supports new approach to teaching botany
Feb 7, 2016

BOONE—A National Science Foundation grant awarded to two faculty members at Appalachian State University will support their work to develop engaging...

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...

Key Appalachian studies publications to be made available online through NEH and Mellon grant
Jan 29, 2016

BOONE—Appalachian studies scholars and those interested in regional history will have greater access to out-of-print works thanks to a two-year Nati...

Minerals from around the world donated to Appalachian’s geology department
Jan 25, 2016

BOONE—A collection representing one man's lifetime fascination with minerals has been donated to the Department of Geology at Appalachian State Univ...

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...

Appalachian professor develops software to study tornadoes with National Geographic
Dec 10, 2015

BOONE - Each year in the spring, Dr. Anton Seimon, Research Assistant Professor at Appalachian State University in the Department of Geography and Pla...

College of Arts and Sciences develops new fund to support faculty and students
Dec 1, 2015

BOONE - This fall the College of Arts and Sciences established the Student and Faculty Excellence Fund (SAFE Fund), an endowment and annual fund born ...

What is the Microscopy Lab?
Nov 3, 2015

Boone - Dr. Guichuan Hou (Biology) came to Appalachian State University in 2006 to run the William C. and Ruth Anne Dewel Microscopy Facility. There y...