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Taylor Dills, Liz Kunkel, and Ralph Lentz II

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
Dr. Ozzie Ostwalt

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
A headshot of Tammy Taylor.
Dr. Karl Campbell, professor in the Department of History, holds his Professor of the Year Goldie Award.
A headshot of Dr. Christine Quattro, AICP.

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

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
German internees built a Bavarian-style village called Old Heidelberg while detained. Photograph by Adolph Thierbach, Courtesy of the State Archives of North Carolina

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
Appalachian State University is bringing new hands-on STEM learning experiences to middle school students thousands of miles away through a partnership with the Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program. Photo by Amber Johnson

App State partnership brings hands-on STEM learning to rural Alaska students [faculty featured]
Apr 16, 2026

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Appalachian State University is bringing new hands-on STEM learning experiences to middle school students thousands of miles away through a partnership with the Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program.

Faculty & Staff, Outreach & Community Engagement
Damage inflicted by Helene to the Biltmore Village area of Asheville, pictured on Sept. 28. Credit: NCDOTcommunications

Helene exposed cracks in western NC’s health care safety net [faculty featured]
Apr 16, 2026

Tropical Storm Helene’s impact on western North Carolina was felt acutely in the days, weeks and months after the storm, including in the region’s hospitals and clinics.

Faculty & Staff, Grants & Research
A headshot of College of Arts and Sciences Advising and Support Services Hub (CASSH) Assistant Director Dusty Roberts ’20 ’22. The background is black and Roberts is wearing glasses and a dark shirt featuring white dots.