Dr. Cynthia Liutkus featured in regional Women in STEAM exhibit at AMOS
Sep 8, 2026
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Appalachian State University's Dr. Cynthia Liutkus is featured in the Asheville Museum of Science's (AMOS) WORK!
Departmental News, Faculty & Staff, Grants & Research, Outreach & Community Engagement
Meet the English department’s secret soup-ciety
Sep 8, 2026
There’s a secret society here at App State. Instead of secret meetings, conspiracy theories and secretly controlling the world, they focus on one thing: Soup.
Faculty & Staff, Students
UNIZULU Strengthens Global Ties and Research Capacity Following Engagement with Fulbright Specialist Prof Jesse Lutabingwa [faculty featured]
Sep 3, 2026
The University of Zululand (UNIZULU) recently concluded a highly successful 40-day residency with visiting Fulbright Specialist, Professor Jesse Lutabingwa.
Faculty & Staff, Grants & Research
Bubbles, brews and sweet potatoes: High Country Beer Fest marks 19th year [staff featured]
Sep 3, 2026
BOONE — Thousands of beer lovers filled the Watauga County fairgrounds Saturday for the 19th annual High Country Beer Fest, sampling pours from 37 breweries under cooperating skies.
Events, Faculty & Staff
Beer, bubbles and Boone businesses come together for Beer Fest [faculty featured]
Sep 2, 2026
Despite the nation’s declining alcohol sales and general consumption, here in the High Country, the annual High Country Beer Fest kicked off Saturday with over
Events, Faculty & Staff
Anthony Love contributes to new study dating rare Mars meteorite to 1.2 billion years old
Sep 2, 2026
BOONE, N.C. — A new study in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta has dated a rare Martian meteorite to 1.27 billion years old, identifying it as an unusual shergottite from a previously unsampled, pristine source on Mars.
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Get ready: Fall color is on its way [faculty featured]
Sep 1, 2026
As summer winds down, the High Country is preparing for its busiest and most colorful season.
Faculty & Staff
App State researchers secure NSF MRI award for microscope upgrades
Sep 1, 2026
BOONE, N.C. — Faculty members in Appalachian State University's College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) have been awarded a two-year, $182,268 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to upgrade a key research instrument in the William C.
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More than 40 new faculty join CAS in 2026–27
Aug 24, 2026
BOONE, N.C. — This semester, over 40 new full-time faculty members joined the Appalachian State University College of Arts and Sciences. Keep reading to learn more about 34 of them.
College News, Faculty & Staff
Upcycling sweet potato field waste into a plant-based milk [faculty featured]
Aug 19, 2026
North Carolina grows most of the sweet potatoes in the US, which means it accumulates most of the sweet potato waste, too.
Faculty & Staff, Grants & Research