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 miles awa...
Dr. Steven Hageman to serve as macebearer for Spring 2026 CAS Commencement
Apr 13, 2026
Dr. Steven Hageman will serve as the macebearer for the 9 a.m. ceremony....
Off the map in Mongolia: App State geology students explore origins of ancient mass extinction
Apr 1, 2026
BOONE, N.C. — Humbling. Awe-inspiring. Life-altering. These are the words of students and alumni who have followed App State professor Dr. Sarah Car...
CAS alumna finds purpose in her work to understand volcanoes
Mar 23, 2026
Savannah Devine ‘22 graduated from App State with a passion for exploring the land under our feet. Because so many geological processes are buried t...
Geology major selected to present research at prestigious Explorers Club event
Mar 19, 2026
BOONE, N.C. — Vanya Dill, a senior geology major from Morrisville, has been invited to present her research at The 122nd Explorers Club Annual ...
My fault or yours — earthquake source detection gets lift from App State
Feb 27, 2026
BOONE, N.C. — Linking earthquakes with the most likely causative fault just got better, thanks to an externally-funded project by Dr. Scott Mar...
Dr. Adam Benfield Launches Past Climate and Ecosystems Research in Southern Appalachian Bogs
Jan 23, 2026
Since joining the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences at the start of the 2025–2026 academic year, Assistant Professor Dr. Adam Benf...
GES Students Head to Death Valley for Inaugural Winter Field Course
Jan 20, 2026
From December 30, 2025, to January 10, 2026, GES faculty Dr. Brandon Lutz and Morgan Baker led a group of 13 students to the remote Mojave Desert in e...
Turning point: Global greenhouse emissions will soon flatten or decline [faculty featured]
Nov 24, 2025
In July, a team of scientists assembled on a video call to study an anomalous wobble in a data curve. This blip didn’t signal a new particle decay i...
Dr. Bob Swarthout co-authors chemical analysis of USS Arizona oil leak
Nov 10, 2025
BOONE, N.C. — Dr. Bob Swarthout, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Fermentation Sciences and Department of ...