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Research at Appalachian

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Research at Appalachian

Appalachian’s location in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina provides unique opportunities for research and scholarship. Passionate and creative faculty come here to stay, and students learn in academically challenging settings under their close mentorship. Small communities, access to diverse natural resources and significant weather patterns combine with a university culture that supports innovative, interdisciplinary pedagogy, making our location one that is not only stunningly beautiful, but also intellectually stimulating.

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Student and faculty research stories

What kind of research could you undertake as an Appalachian student? Read about what our students and faculty are doing in their fields, where and how they learn, and share their work.

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Office of Research

The Office of Research provides support for the research, creative and scholarly endeavors of Appalachian faculty, staff and students. The office offers assistance with finding funding, writing and submitting proposals, preparing budgets, beginning and managing projects and continued fiscal management of awarded projects.

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Research News

  • Revealing Earth’s story through the geologic record
    March 4, 2021
  • Get outside to improve health during COVID, experts say [faculty quoted]
    February 22, 2021
  • App State and Banfield Pet Hospital® Announce New Online Vet Tech Program Aimed at Addressing Veterinary Shortage
    February 10, 2021
  • App State and Banfield Pet Hospital® announce new online vet tech program aimed at addressing veterinary shortage
    February 10, 2021
  • Should I Be Double-Masking When I Run? [faculty quoted]
    February 10, 2021
  • How New River got its flow back: App State’s NRLP completes Payne Branch environmental restoration project
    January 25, 2021
  • Grant-supported App State project explores relationship between religious studies and public issues
    January 13, 2021
  • More than $1 billion in NC energy costs avoided, Appalachian Energy Summit reports
    January 8, 2021
  • Worms–crayfish relationship affects entire freshwater stream ecosystems, App State research finds
    January 8, 2021
  • Climate change and the rise of CO2: App State scientists contribute to 2020 Global Carbon Budget
    December 22, 2020

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Appalachian faculty actively engage in research

Find out more about our Research Centers and Institutes here:

  • Appalachian Energy Center
  • Center for Appalachian Studies
  • Center for Economic Research & Policy Analysis
  • Transportation Insight Center for Entrepreneurship
  • Research Institute for Environment, Energy and Economics (RIEEE)
  • Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Institute for Health and Human Services (IHHS)
  • Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies

The value of undergraduate research

Working with professors on meaningful research or creative endeavors gives Appalachian students the skills they need for career or graduate school success.

Graduate Research Associate Mentoring Program

The Cratis D. Williams School of Graduate Studies has a competitive assistantship program, which pays a stipend to graduate students who collaborate with faculty members on their research projects.

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The North Carolina Research Campus - a public-private research center

Appalachian partners with the North Carolina Research Campus, providing our students with extraordinary opportunities to engage in collaborative and multidisciplinary research in human health, nutrition and agriculture.

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Energy research

  • Appalachian Atmospheric Interdisciplinary Research (AppalAIR)
  • Appalachian Energy Center
  • Collaborative Biodiesel Project
  • North Carolina Wind Energy
  • Research Institute for Environment, Energy and Economics (RIEEE)
  • Solar Research and Teaching Lab
  • Southern Appalachian Environmental Research and Education Group
  • State Farm Solar Research Facility System

International research & development

When individuals from countries and cultures across the globe can share knowledge and experience with one another, all nations benefit. Find out more about the research in which our faculty, staff and students are engaging in crosses boundaries and borders for the betterment of all.

Resources and support

Are you a faculty member, staff member or student looking for resources for your research endeavors? Start here to find some terrific resources available to help.

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News

  • How New River got its flow back: App State’s NRLP completes Payne Branch environmental restoration project
    How New River got its flow back: App State’s NRLP completes Payne Branch environmental restoration project
    January 25, 2021

    App State’s New River Light and Power has completed its grant-funded project to remove the historic Payne Branch dam from the New River’s Middle Fork, helping to restore this river corridor to a more natural state — which includes improved water quality and enhanced habitat for the area’s aquatic wildlife. Dive in to learn more.

  • Worms–crayfish relationship affects entire freshwater stream ecosystems, App State research finds
    Worms–crayfish relationship affects entire freshwater stream ecosystems, App State research finds
    January 8, 2021

    Published research co-authored by three members of the Appalachian State University Community is the first to find that some small, aquatic worms can have ecosystem-level impacts on freshwater streams due to their relationship with crayfish. Dive in to learn more.

  • More than $1 billion in NC energy costs avoided, Appalachian Energy Summit reports
    More than $1 billion in NC energy costs avoided, Appalachian Energy Summit reports
    January 8, 2021

    The Appalachian Energy Summit reports, from 2002–03 to 2018–19, the UNC System, together with industry partners, has saved North Carolina more than $1 billion in avoided energy costs — including water use reductions. App State has realized more than $30.3 million in avoided energy and water costs over the same time period.

  • App State funded to study rare bats along Blue Ridge Parkway area, investigate disease
    App State funded to study rare bats along Blue Ridge Parkway area, investigate disease
    December 4, 2020

    Dr. Mark Spond, App State’s liaison to the National Park Service (NPS), was awarded NPS funding to conduct studies of bats along North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Parkway — data from which will help expand NPS knowledge of the area’s rare bat species and those affected by white-nose syndrome (WNS), a fatal fungal disease.

  • Meteorological factors may influence COVID-19 transmission and spread in the US, according to research by App State and NCICS
    Meteorological factors may influence COVID-19 transmission and spread in the US, according to research by App State and NCICS
    July 2, 2020

    A climate-health study conducted by Appalachian State University researchers shows a significant association between COVID-19 transmission and low humidity.

  • The wipe down on clean energy
    The wipe down on clean energy
    June 8, 2020

    Appalachian’s Dr. Jaewon Oh has collaborated with members of Arizona State University’s Photovoltaic Reliability Laboratory to analyze the soiling loss — or power loss due to dirt, dust and other particles — of six PV power plants across the U.S., including one in North Carolina.

  • Ancient footprints in Tanzania
    Ancient footprints in Tanzania
    May 15, 2020

    Two faculty members in Appalachian’s Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences have published a culminating article about ancient human footprints in the journal Scientific Reports after a decade of research. The footprints give clues to human social behavior tens of thousands of years ago.

  • App State researchers scale Mount Everest to conduct climate research as part of National Geographic expedition
    App State researchers scale Mount Everest to conduct climate research as part of National Geographic expedition
    June 14, 2019

    Dr. Baker Perry and Dr. Anton Seimon were part of a multidisciplinary expedition that installed the world’s two highest weather stations (at 8,430 meters and 7,945 meters), examined soil samples and glacial lakes to better understand the range of life surviving on Earth’s highest peaks, and more.

Events

  • Dr. Asao Inoue Lecture: “What Does It Mean to Do Antiracist Writing Assessment?”
    Mar
    10
    Dr. Asao Inoue Lecture: “What Does It Mean to Do Antiracist Writing Assessment?”
    March 10, 2021
    2:00 pm

    This talk engages with the question of what it means to assess and grade college student writing for a more antiracist classroom. It focuses not on people behaving badly or racist, but rather on the historical and structural ways that most academics judge and read language; teachers’ ways of assessing language; disciplines’ logics and ways with words; and most professions’ expectations of language use.

  • Dr. Asao Inoue Workshop: Bravely Challenging Our White Language Supremacy in Our Assessments of Student Writing
    Mar
    10
    Dr. Asao Inoue Workshop: Bravely Challenging Our White Language Supremacy in Our Assessments of Student Writing
    March 10, 2021
    3:00 pm

    This workshop will challenge participants to bravely investigate their own classroom assessment practices, particularly their orientations toward student writing as embodied in their feedback to that writing. The workshop will consider habits of White language that inform assessment practices in our own classrooms as well as several “fast thinking” mind heuristics.

  • International Workshop on German-Jewish and Forced Migration Studies Hosted by Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies
    Mar
    18
    to
    19
    International Workshop on German-Jewish and Forced Migration Studies Hosted by Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies
    March 18 - 19, 2021

    The first online Southeast German Studies workshop brings together 50 junior and senior American and German scholars from a wide variety of disciplines to discuss the latest research in German-Jewish and forced migration studies. The workshop includes a series of panels along with information meetings on how to fund research in Germany. Presented online via Zoom.

  • Berlin Center Director Prof. S. Schueler-Springorum speaks on Gender, Sex, and Violence in Nazi Germany
    Mar
    18
    Berlin Center Director Prof. S. Schueler-Springorum speaks on Gender, Sex, and Violence in Nazi Germany
    March 18, 2021
    11:15 am - 1:00 pm

    In cooperation with the Southeast German Studies Consortium, the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies invites the public to an online lecture by Prof. S. Schueler-Springorum live from Germany. A prominent scholar of German-Jewish history, Prof. Schueler-Springorum heads the renowned Center for Research on Antisemitism in Berlin. Her talk is entitled "Gender, Sex and Violence: Race Defilement in Nazi Germany." Presented online via Zoom.

  • Nirmala Erevelles: Disability, Ecoinjustice and Transnational Solidarities
    Mar
    18
    Nirmala Erevelles: Disability, Ecoinjustice and Transnational Solidarities
    March 18, 2021
    4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

    Nirmala Erevelles is a professor of social and cultural studies in education at the University of Alabama. Her teaching and research interests lie in the areas of disability studies, critical race theory, transnational feminism, sociology of education and postcolonial studies. Specifically, her research focuses on the unruly, messy, unpredictable and taboo body – a habitual outcast in educational (and social) contexts. Presented online.

  • Virtual Children’s Literature Symposium: Author Meg Medina
    Mar
    24
    Virtual Children’s Literature Symposium: Author Meg Medina
    March 24, 2021
    3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

    The symposium is designed to raise awareness of the importance and critical role of children’s and young adult literature in the lives of children, adolescents and educators. Meg Medina is an award-winning and New York Times best-selling author who writes picture books, as well as middle grade and young adult fiction.

  • Dr. Jeffrey Sachs: A Sustainable Development Strategy to Reunite the United States
    Mar
    30
    Dr. Jeffrey Sachs: A Sustainable Development Strategy to Reunite the United States
    March 30, 2021
    12:00 pm

    Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned economics professor, bestselling author, innovative educator and global leader in sustainable development. He is widely recognized for bold and effective strategies to address complex challenges including debt crises, hyperinflations, the transition from central planning to market economies, the control of AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, the escape from extreme poverty, and the battle against human-induced climate change.

  • Virtual Children’s Literature Symposium: Author/illustrator Lauren Castillo
    Mar
    31
    Virtual Children’s Literature Symposium: Author/illustrator Lauren Castillo
    March 31, 2021
    3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

    The symposium is designed to raise awareness of the importance and critical role of children’s and young adult literature in the lives of children, adolescents and educators. Lauren Castillo is an award-winning author and illustrator of picture books and the newly illustrated chapter book series, Our Friend Hedgehog.

  • Celebration of Student Research and Creative Endeavors
    Apr
    15
    Celebration of Student Research and Creative Endeavors
    April 15, 2021

    The 24th Annual Celebration of Student Research and Creative Endeavors will be held virtually. Both undergraduate and graduate students, along with their Faculty Mentors, are encouraged to submit abstracts of their current or completed work for virtual presentation at our 2021 event.

  • Retracing Audubon: Eco-Conversations with Krista Elrick
    Jun
    4
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    Nov
    6
    Retracing Audubon: Eco-Conversations with Krista Elrick
    Jun 4 - Nov 6, 2021

    Retracing Audubon: Eco-Conversations is an exhibition and book project reexamining John James Audubon’s epic life journey and the production of his beloved tome, “The Birds of America.” This exhibition features contemporary photographs made by Krista Elrick of the American landscapes in which Audubon traveled 200 years ago. Also included are quotes from Audubon’s journals and entries Elrick made in her own travel notebooks two centuries later.

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