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From left are Josh Derienzo, Bella Carpenter, Ethan McAlonen and Matthias Von Feilitzsch. The four App State students attended GreenBiz 2024 as part of a Walker College of Business program dedicated to sustainable business.

App State students, faculty members seek hands-on, tangible solutions at Greenbiz Mar 13, 2024

Four Appalachian State University students and three Walker College of Business faculty members recently attended Greenbiz – a sustainability conference for business leaders seeking hands-on

Students, Front Page, Sustainable Business, Dept - MGT, Dept - FIN, Student-News
Sustain YOSEF Certification Levels

Walker College Dean's Office earns App State sustainability certification Dec 6, 2023

The Walker College of Business' Office of the Dean has completed Appalachian State University's Green Workplace Certification and has been certified at the highest level, Grandfather Moun...

Sustainable Business, Front Page, Staff

Global Good conference helps 'revision tourism' to be better for the planet Nov 14, 2023

On November 10, 2023, Appalachian State University's Walker College of Business hosted Global Good, a full-day conference centered around the theme of re-imagining tourism in ways that would...

Faculty, Dept - ACC, Dept - MGT, Dept - ECON, Events, Front Page, Sustainable Business, Global and Civic Engagement, International
From left, sophomore international business major Adam Garrison, sophomore management major Hannah Ross, and MBA student Michelle Jeanniton-Garrett attended the 2019 Enactus World Cup in San Jose, CA.
Grayson Farmer, of Purlear, a senior marketing major and student veteran at Appalachian, far left, with Siobhan Norris, program manager of military and veteran education for the University of North Carolina System Office, center, and Joe Wessel, student veteran and president of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington's Student Veterans Association, at the eighth annual Student Veterans of America Leadership Institute in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Tammy Kowalczyk, professor of accounting and interim director of Appalachian’s RIEEE, third from left, and Appalachian alumnus Alex Helms '13 '16, a lecturer in the Department of Accounting, second from right, work with three Appalachian international exchange students on an Impact Clinic project. The students pictured — all of whom are from Spain with double majors in business and law — are, from left to right, Soledad Jarquemada, Maria Leon Martinex Maria Leon Martinex and Angela Munoz Perez-Embid.
Walker College of Business Graduate Programs ‘Buy Boone Lunch’ AT F.A.R.M. Cafe Sept. 11
Holshouser Ethics to present lunch and learn on sustainable business topic Sept. 19

Holshouser Ethics to present lunch and learn on sustainable business topic Sept. 19 Sep 9, 2019

Sustainable Business Lunch & Learn 
Thursday, Sept. 19
12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Peacock Hall 4140,...

Events, Sustainable Business, Dept - MGT, Holshouser
Seventh Generation is closing its office to encourage employees to join the global climate strike.
Summer campers in Peacock Hall focus on innovation
Eric Cheek ’18, Quantitative Geoscience major and Carly Maas, senior, Quantitative Geoscience major, measuring stream discharge in Boone Creek. Photo by Dr. William Anderson.

Survey respondents willing to pay for stormwater management and reduce negative effects from runoff Jun 11, 2019

Using the Boone Creek watershed that runs through Appalachian State University’s campus as a laboratory, an interdisciplinary research team at...

Front Page, Dept - ECON, Research, Sustainable Business
Rows of solar panels line the south-facing side of the Horse Helpers of the High Country barn in Zionville. The panels power the barn as well as the organization’s approximately 2 acres of electric fencing.

Solar barn installed at Horse Helpers of the High Country with energy grant from App State Jun 3, 2019

BOONE, N.C. — Appalachian State University’s mission of sustainability doesn’t end at its campus borders.

Faculty, Sustainable Business
Walker College announces inaugural recipients of Dean's Club Research Prize

Walker College announces inaugural recipients of Dean's Club Research Prize May 7, 2019

During the 2019 G.A. Sywassink Day of Excellence, four Appalachian State University business professors earned the first-ever ...

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