Helene frayed the safety net for people who use drugs. This community wove it back together. [faculty featured]
May 4, 2026
Kimberly Treadaway hoped she was prepared for the storm. Hurricane Helene was heading right for her home in Weaverville, North Carolina, and she worried about having enough food and water, and about her 5-month-old son.
Faculty & Staff, Grants & Research
29 Mountaineers honored with 2026 App State Awards of Distinction
May 4, 2026
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Alumni, Awards & Honors, Faculty & Staff, Students, University News
App State professor brings ramp research to BRAHM [faculty featured]
May 1, 2026
BLOWING ROCK — An Appalachian State University professor is using DNA science to protect ramps and help the Cherokee keep a centuries-old tradition alive in the Great Smoky Mountains.
Faculty & Staff, Grants & Research
Former students turned professors: App State alums reflect on their return to the High Country [faculty featured]
May 1, 2026
During fall break of 1999, Ralph Lentz was a new professor at Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute. One Saturday night, he received a call from Michael Wade, his former history professor at App State.
Alumni, Faculty & Staff
From seminary to studio: How losing his faith led an App State professor to a decade of exploring everyone else's [faculty featured]
May 1, 2026
BOONE — For more than 70 years, the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary has prepared devoted believers for a life of ministry. It took Conrad Ostwalt less than four years to realize it was a faith he no longer believed.
Faculty & Staff
Dr. Christine Quattro receives 2025 JAPA Emerging Scholar Award
Apr 23, 2026
The 2025 Emerging Scholar Award goes to Christine Quattro, PhD, AICP, assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at Appalachian State University, for the paper, "Zoning for Infill Development: San...
Awards & Honors, Faculty & Staff, Grants & Research
Dr. Clarice Moran earns Baden-Württemberg Mobility Grant
Apr 17, 2026
BOONE, N.C. — Two Appalachian State University faculty members have been awarded the Baden-Württemberg–North Carolina Faculty Mobility Grant, marking the first time Appalachian faculty have been selected to travel to Germany through the program.
Faculty & Staff, Global Learning, Grants & Research
The Western Front [faculty featured]
Apr 16, 2026
As a child in the 1930s and ’40s, Jacqueline Burgin could look out the living room window of her family’s home in Hot Springs and see across the French Broad River to the grassy lawn where a resort hotel had once stood.
Faculty & Staff, Grants & Research