App State biology interns spend summer in Wilson Creek’s ‘natural playground’
Jun 29, 2022
Catching fish, salamanders and an occasional water snake is all in a day’s work for Appalachian State University biology students Nick Campany and Carson Scott — interns this summer for nonprofit organization ACleanWilsonCreek.org (ACWC).
College News, Grants & Research, Outreach & Community Engagement, Students, SustainabilityFood physicist offers Earth Day cooking tips
Jun 9, 2022
Cooking may never be the same.
That, at least, is the hope of food physicist and educator Carla Ramsdell of the Department of Physics and Astronomy in Appalachian State University’s College of Arts and Sciences.
College News, Faculty & Staff, SustainabilityStudent Spotlight: Mailyn Greig-Ratz
Apr 20, 2022
Mailyn Greig-Ratz is a senior majoring in food outreach studies and minoring in public health, American Sign Language and photography. She is originally from Münster, Germany, grew up in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico and moved to the US in 2010.
College News, Students, Sustainability, Outreach & Community EngagementA critical perspective on food from the classroom to the community
Feb 2, 2022
Eighteen of Appalachian State University’s Watauga Residential College students participated in the 21st annual Appalachian Teaching Project (ATP) Symposium, a regional economic development conference sponsored by the&nbs...
College News, Students, Outreach & Community Engagement, Grants & Research, Sustainability, SupportApp State research team examines ancient evidence in mass extinctions
Jan 12, 2022
Appalachian State University’s Dr. Sarah Carmichael describes her job as similar to that of a crime scene investigator — and the evidence she examines is more than 350 million years old.
College News, Faculty & Staff, Students, Grants & Research, SustainabilityApp State leads climate research at the top of the world
Dec 16, 2021
Appalachian State University has stepped onto the world stage as the lead institution to coordinate the operation and maintenance of weather stations at the highest elevation on the planet — Mount Everest.
College News, Faculty & Staff, Sustainability, Global Learning, Grants & Research, StudentsDr. Sarah Evans, App State students to explore how water patterns in melting permafrost affect climate change
Nov 4, 2021
Small trickles of water traveling through Alaska’s permafrost — subsurface soil that remains frozen throughout the year — carry clues that could unlock a greater understanding of climate change and its advancement.
College News, Faculty & Staff, Grants & Research, Students, SustainabilityRural Resilience and Innovation Inaugural Seed Grants
Nov 3, 2021
The Department of Rural Resilience and Innovation (RRI) in partnership with Research Institute for Environment, Energy, and Economics (RIEEE) has awarded seed grants to five collaborative research projects.
College News, Faculty & Staff, Grants & Research, Outreach & Community Engagement, SustainabilityApp State joins NSF research effort to reduce phosphorus dependence, losses
Sep 22, 2021
Phosphorus is an essential element and a critical nutrient in global food systems, where it is used in fertilizers to improve crop yields. But “the current phosphorus cycle is linear and broken on both ends,” said Dr.
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