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Fall 2022 term brings curricular changes, new faces, in App State’s Walker College of Business

Fall 2022 term brings curricular changes, new faces, in App State’s Walker College of Business
Aug 20, 2022

The 2022-23 academic year brings new educational offerings to students in Appalachian State University’s Walker College of Business.According to Dr....

The Walker College welcomes new business faculty for Fall 2022

The Walker College welcomes new business faculty for Fall 2022
Aug 19, 2022

The Walker College of Business at Appalachian State University announces the appointments of new faculty members to begin the Fall 2022 semester.Accou...

Economic insight from Harry Davis featured in Boone Chamber's Q2 Economic Indicators Report

Economic insight from Harry Davis featured in Boone Chamber's Q2 Economic Indicators Report
Aug 8, 2022

A report from the Boone Chamber of Commerce, offering insight on the local economy, features a summary by Dr. Harry Davis, Appalachian State Univ...

'Startup Factory' series offers permanent competitive advantage for budding entrepreneurs

'Startup Factory' series offers permanent competitive advantage for budding entrepreneurs
Aug 4, 2022

Appalachian State University's TI Center for Entrepreneurship (CFE) will once again host the Startup Factory -- a 10-part series that teaches and prom...

Members of the first Business For Good Residential Learning Center (RLC) are pictured in Peacock Hall’s Department of Management

App State business students live and learn in Business for Good community
Aug 3, 2022

First-generation college students, in particular, face barriers in the early years of their higher education journeys.To help retain these important m...

Pictured, from left to right, are App State’s Dr. Steven Leon, Dr. Lakshmi Iyer and Dr. Jason Xiong.

5 faculty teams awarded 2022 Chancellor’s Innovation grants for projects at App State
Jul 26, 2022

BOONE, N.C. — The 2022 Chancellor’s Innovation Scholars have been announced, with five teams of Appalachian State University faculty receiving up ...

Dawn Medlin, center, with colleagues and mentees (from left) MSADA Director Jason Xiong, CIS Lecturer Laura Brewer, Doris Medlin, Dawn Medlin, Victoria Fowler, Dean Sandra Vannoy and Executive Director of Development Kyle Allen

Medlin, Sparks honored as college-level alumni
Jul 22, 2022

Appalachian State University honored 11 of its alumni on Saturday, July 16 during the 2022 Alumni Association Awards Gala.Among the hon...

A small cadre of Mountaineer families have fostered a legacy of consistent giving to Appalachian State University for approximately 50 years. Pictured, an aerial view of Founders Plaza, with statues of two of App State’s co-founders, B.B. Dougherty and Lillie Shull Dougherty, and Founders Bell Pavilion.

50 years of giving: App State families change lives, build legacies
Jul 14, 2022

BOONE, N.C. — Appalachian State University alumni have often said that once you become part of the Mountaineer community, you never truly leave. Whi...

Grace Waugh, a senior sustainable technology major from Chapel Hill, far left, and Summer Gee ’20, a graduate student from Wrightsville Beach, center, were part of a multidisciplinary team of App State undergraduate and graduate students that won second place in its division in the 2021–22 U.S. Department of Energy Solar District Cup. Waugh and Gee are pictured holding the trophy that the team received and with the team’s faculty adviser, Dr. Jaewon Oh...

App State students score 2nd-place divisional win in national solar competition
Jul 12, 2022

The student team was recognized for its solar power system, designed to meet the renewable energy needs of a campus communityFourteen students at Appa...

Five earn professorships in Walker College of Business

Five earn professorships in Walker College of Business
Jun 30, 2022

Five faculty members at Appalachian State University have been appointed to professorships in the Walker College of Business, and six have been reappo...