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Appalachian State University is bringing new hands-on STEM learning experiences to middle school students thousands of miles away through a partnership with the Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program. Photo by Amber Johnson

App State partnership brings hands-on STEM learning to rural Alaska students [faculty featured]
Apr 16, 2026

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Appalachian State University is bringing new hands-on STEM learning experiences to middle school students thousands of m

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App State environmental science majors Kyia Wing, a senior from Suwanee, Georgia, left, and Kaden Cusack ’25, an App State alumnus from Cary, take a close look at the new boulder donated to the university’s rock garden by Albemarle Corp. Cusak graduated from App State in May, earning his bachelor’s degree in environmental science. Photo by Chase Reynolds
Tucker Terrell ’25, who graduated from App State in May with a bachelor’s degree in geology-environmental geology, far left, shows community members where a single headstone was located by App State researchers trying to determine the position of grave sites in an area formerly covered with brush behind the Fort Defiance site in Caldwell County. Photo by Bret Yager
Anthony Love, Research Operations and Laboratories Manager in the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences at Appalachian State University. Photo by Ellen Burnette
A student from Cove Creek Elementary School’s Eco-Raiders after-school club steps onto App State’s Geobago. Photo submitted

Dr. Sarah Evans receives prestigious NSF CAREER award
Apr 3, 2023

Congratulations to Dr Sarah Evans, who recently won the prestigious... faculty honors, faculty research, outreach

Outreach Coordinator Marta Toran in the Watauga Democrat
Feb 19, 2021

Teachers across western NC are grateful to Marta Toran and the GES outreach team's Mini... outreach

Archie the Aetosaur

Archie the Aetosaur is now at home in the Rock Garden
Sep 22, 2020

In 2016, faculty in the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences  and the Department of Art collaborated on a sculpture of Gor... outreach

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Gregg Marland quoted in Washington Post article on Amazon's efforts to cut carbon emissions
Sep 20, 2019

Dr Gregg Marland, adjunct faculy in Geological and Environmental Sciences, was... faculty research, outreach