Stories

View an engaging, interactive online exhibit that highlights Chancellor Kenneth E. Peacock’s 10-year legacy as Appalachian’s sixth leader.

A student’s therapeutic glove design to improve dexterity and grip strength wins second place in a national business plan competition.

Appalachian values this activity because it benefits students and the region. One young researcher explains why.

A professor’s longtime relationship with a Guatemalan town helps sustain and revitalize its indigenous culture.

Geologist Johnny Waters studies the relationship between climate change and changes in the ecosystem. As co-leader of a United Nations-sponsored research team, he and others have found evidence in Central Asia for catastrophic oceanographic events associated with climate change and a mass extinction that devastated tropical marine ecosystems 375 million years ago.

Winter Alternative Service Experience (ASE) Programs at Appalachian State University allow students to use the long holiday to explore and serve a different community. Programs vary in length and cost, but provide the same components of service, learning and exploration found in Alternative Service Experience programs during fall and spring breaks.

The Patterson Scholarship turns the dream of going to college into reality for 16 education majors.