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Kathy Pou, center, earned her BSBA degree in economics from App State's Walker College of Business in 1979. In 2025, she was named alumna of the year for the Walker College of Business. She stands with her husband, Bill, and Walker College Dean Sandra Vannoy.

Kathy Pou ’79 honored as 2025 Walker College Alumna
Jul 17, 2025

Kathryn 'Kathy' Oszmianski Pou ’79 ECO has been named alumna of the year for the Walker College of Business by Appalachian State University’s Alumni Association.
The App State Alumni Association recognized four Mountaineers at the university’s 2025 Alumni Awards Gala, held July 12 on the Boone campus. Pictured with App State Chancellor Heather Norris, center, from left to right, are Outstanding Service Award recipient Phillip Ostwalt ’83, Distinguished Alumni Award recipient Kimberly Shepherd ’97, Distinguished Alumni Award recipient Retired U.S. Army Col. Edna Cummings ’78 and Young Alumni Award recipient Bryson Stewart ’09.

4 Mountaineers honored with App State Alumni Awards
Jul 17, 2025

Phil Ostwalt '83 holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting; Bryson Stewart '09 holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing.
Davis, second from right, receives the Daughtridge Lifetime Achievement Award

Alumnus receives lifetime achievement award for industry impact
Jul 16, 2025

Appalachian State University alumnus Freddie Davis ’84 has earned the 2025 Alvin W. Daughtridge Lifetime Achievement Award by the...
Appalachian's Beta Gamma Sigma chapter earns highest honors

Appalachian's Beta Gamma Sigma chapter earns highest honors
Jul 31, 2018

Appalachian State University's chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma has been named a Highest Honors Chapter, which is the highest level of recognition...

Appalachian leads in analytics education, implements SAS Viya for students
Jul 31, 2018

Thanks to an ongoing partnership with SAS Institute, Appalachian State University is on the leading edge of analytics education and research.

Appalachian’s Team Sunergy ties for second place in 2018 American Solar Challenge
Jul 24, 2018

Appalachian State University’s solar vehicle team has secured a second-place tie in the 2018 American Solar Challenge (ASC), an international...

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Making students environment-conscious
Jul 22, 2018

An article from Dr. Rajat Panwar, associate professor of sustainable business management in the Walker College of Business at Appalachian State...

Business students travel to South America to examine sustainability
Jul 20, 2018

Eighteen Appalachian State University students visited Brazil, the Amazon Jungle and Rio de Janeiro May 13-May 24, 2018 as part of a Walker...

Sywassink Award winners from Appalachian State University’s Walker College of Business are, from left, Greg Langdon, Jamie Parson, Onur Ince, Jane Fitchlee, Dawn Medlin, Jesse Pipes and Pia Albinsson. (Photo by Sabrina Cheves)

Sywassink Awards conferred to 7 faculty and staff members in Appalachian’s Walker College of Business
Jul 17, 2018

BOONE, N.C. — Four Appalachian State University faculty members and one staff member in the Walker...

Medders named honors program director for the Walker College
From left, sustainable business minor Hunter Bristow, finance and banking major Diego Lewis, and environmental economics and policy major Kali Smith, help make up the 2018 crew of 15 taking Appalachian State University’s Cruiser Class solar car ROSE (Racing on Solar Energy)

Walker College students crew ROSE (Racing on Solar Energy)
Jul 10, 2018

Three Walker College of Business students help make up the 2018 crew of Appalachian State University's Cruiser Class solar car ROSE (Racing on...

Riley Underwood, second from left, and Kyle Hollars, third from left — both students at Mabel School in Watauga County who compose team Sunlight Foods — pose with Jonathan Carpenter, assistant director of the WCOB’s Transportation Insight Center for Entrepreneurship, far left, and Robert E. “Bob” Washburn, president and CEO of LifeStore. Underwood and Hollars won an honorable mention in the middle school category of Appalachian’s GEAR UP Pitch Competition for their idea of developing a food market in Zionvi

Innovative business ideas win regional students scholarships in Appalachian’s GEAR UP Pitch Competition
Jul 10, 2018

BOONE, N.C. — An organic, homemade sanitizer spray and a car pedal extension device took the top spots in the inaugural GEAR UP Pitch Competition...