Researchers link western wildfire activity to arctic warming
Oct 12, 2017
Are the devastating wildfires in California potentially linked to larger atmospheric processes related to human-caused climate change? Researchers at Appalachian State University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro believe there might be a connection.
Grants & Research, Sustainability
Two Students receive Scholarships from Boone-based ECRS Software Corporation
Oct 11, 2017
Junior, Diana Martinez of Rose Hill and sophomore, Joshua Jackson of Rocky Point, have been selected as recipients of the ECRS Computer Science Innovation and Entrepreneurship scholarship.
Students, Grants & Research
From turtles to town hall: SECU Public Fellows Internship at ASU
Oct 9, 2017
“There’s a one percent survival rate for hatchlings, but we give them all a chance just so maybe one of the little guys can make it. And hey, someone gave me a chance so that hopefully I can make it too.”
Students, Grants & Research
Appalachian’s Team Sunergy travels to World Solar Challenge in Australia to advise Chilean team
Oct 5, 2017
Members of Appalachian’s solar vehicle team left Boone Friday, Sept. 29, for more than two weeks Down Under. They will advise the Chilean team on electrical engineering challenges while also learning about the race, in which Team Sunergy hopes to compete in 2019.
College News, Students, Grants & Research
An ECRS donation makes GPU programming possible in the Department of Computer Science at Appalachian
Oct 4, 2017
Nearly all computers have a graphics processing unit (GPU) that generates two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) graphics, images and video for graphical user interfaces, video games, visual imaging applications and video.
College News, Grants & Research
PRESERVING A REGION
Oct 3, 2017
There are those who would say that the Southern Appalachian region is the most beautiful area in the country. In order to preserve that beauty, the delicate ecosystem and plant-life of western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee must be studied and catalogued.
College News, Grants & Research
Summer research Internship Opportunities in Angers, France
Sep 5, 2017
Learn more about summer research internship opportunities in France on Friday, September 15 at 4 p.m. in Garwood Hall room 150.
College News, Grants & Research, Global Learning
ARTISTIC LICENSE
Aug 8, 2017
UNC System institutions recieve NEA funding to further arts studies. Appalachian State University is receiving two NEA grants for the university’s Black and Global Banjo Roots program.
College News, Grants & Research
Saving the bees
Jul 19, 2017
Appalachian student and faculty researchers seek to recover declining honeybee population. Consider this fact from the U.S. Department of Agriculture: More than $15 billion in U.S.
College News, Sustainability, Grants & Research, Faculty & Staff