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App State's fourth delegation to United Nations' COP

App State students join global climate action at COP 29 Dec 6, 2024

A student delegation from Appalachian State University had a front-row seat to high-stakes negotiations and international diplomacy at the...

Students, Dept - ECON, Sustainable Business, International, Front Page, Global and Civic Engagement

In the news: RC2 participants earn funding to boost rural economic development Dec 2, 2024

19 rural local governments across North Carolina will each receive $45,000 to support key economic development projects as part of the Rural Community Capacity Building (RC2) Program, 

Faculty, Dept - MGT, Centers - Center for Entrepreneurship, Sustainable Business
Ratcliffe, pictured left, is a member of the Kraut Creek Ramblers, a band are known for their traditional mountain music.
A conceptual rendering imagines the view of a daylighted Boone Creek, green space in the current Peacock parking lot and a mixed-use parking deck adjoining Peacock Hall and Howard St.

ASU, Boone, conservancy discuss Boone Creek daylighting proposal Oct 10, 2019

Visions of daylighting Boone Creek along Rivers Street are progressing into plans, and Appalachian State University, town of Boone and New River...

Sustainable Business, Front Page
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