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In the Media: Hospitality professor helps elevate rural tourism across North Carolina through UPLIFT
Aug 20, 2025

UPLIFT, short for Understanding, Planning, Linking, Innovating, Financing, and Talent, is a nonprofit initiative that launched in 2021 to empower small tourism destinations through...

App State students stand in front of the BAP banner, holding a plaque indicating their Platinum status

Accounting student organization earns first-ever "Platinum" recognition
Aug 18, 2025

Appalachian State University’s Epsilon Kappa chapter of Beta Alpha Psi (BAP) has been recognized as a Platinum chapter for the first time in its...

Scholarship Recipients: Top: Jason Hopkins, Christian Honaker Bottom: Kyle McMearty

Three students earn scholarships for Master's study in Hong Kong
Jun 17, 2020

Even in the face of the global Covid-19 pandemic, the Walker College of Business (WCOB) is pushing forward with one of its stated goals of...

Rajat Panwar

Walker College sustainable business director offers five ways for corporate sustainability professionals to make strides during COVID-19
Jun 15, 2020

A new article from Dr. Rajat Panwar, Sustainable Business Director for the Walker College of Business at Appalachian State...

Top: Dr. Chen, Dr. Iyer, Dr. Whitaker ; Bottom: Dr. Dave, Dr. Hadley. Dr. Nafees

Walker College faculty support global education virtually
Jun 4, 2020

While the COVID-19 virus has traveled the world with relative ease, we humans have had to forego our travels for a time. With global education...

Marketing professor offers advice about secured credit cards
Jun 2, 2020

Appalachian State University associate professor of marketing, Dr. Neel Das, was recently quoted in a post from Finder.com about secured credit...

Carlie Smith

Holland Fellow makes the most of an international experience without travel
Jun 1, 2020

When Honors senior, Carlie Smith, was awarded the 2020 William R. Holland...

Bee researchers quotes in N&O, TechWire stories

Bee researchers quotes in N&O, TechWire stories
May 26, 2020

While bee supporters everywhere celebrated World Bee Day on May 20, 2020,  faculty members at Appalachian State University created a "...

Program leaders, Dr. Lakshmi Iyer & Dr. Dinesh Dave

App State business students and faculty reconfigure Bengaluru, India, study abroad
May 26, 2020

While a global pandemic keeps American citizens home, innovative faculty in the Walker College of Business have found a way to show students the...

Left: Dr. Tammy Kowalczyk, professor in the Department of Accounting, is one of the 2020 Innovation Scholars awardees. Right: Dr. Maureen MacNamara, assistant professor in the Department of Social Work, is one of the 2020 Innovation Scholars awardees. Photos by Chase Reynolds

2020 winners announced for Chancellor’s Innovation Scholars Program at App State
May 19, 2020

Appalachian State University recently announced the 2020 recipients of...

App State researchers estimate lost economic activity of $52.4 million due to April restaurant closures

App State researchers estimate lost economic activity of $52.4 million due to April restaurant closures
May 19, 2020

The economic impact of COVID-19-related restaurant and bar closures in April 2020, alone, is estimated as $52.4 million in lost gross regional...