App State Graduate Students Receive $25,000 Award from DOE EnergyTech Competition
Mar 16, 2023
STBE graduate students Clayton Pope, Robert Conolly, and Daniel Rose participated in a national pitch competition called the Energy Tech University Pr...

Department of Sustainable Technology & the Built Environment Receives Key Designation From the DOE
Sep 28, 2022
Two programs in the Department of Sustainable Technology & the Built Environment earned the first-ever Zero Energy Design Designation from th...

NEXUS Project NCDA grant
Feb 1, 2022
The NEXUS research team has received a North Carolina Department of Agriculture Bioenergy Research Initiative grant for $76,396. This two-year p...

Adaptable Solar Shades Installed
Jan 27, 2022
Graduate students Jackson Sloan and Dani Stockman constructed adaptable solar shades for one of Dr. Foroughi's research projects. The aim is to study ...

Appalachian Students Place 3rd in Their Division at the 2021 Solar Decathlon Design Challenge
Jun 23, 2021
Building Science students were selected as finalists in the 2021 U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon Design Challenge April. Undertaking thi...

Graduate Student Looks For Ways To Help Others Access Clean Water
May 24, 2021
A brief moment observing two young Rwandan boys gathering water from a rural pond influenced Tyree Wilmoth’s decision to dedicate her future toward ...

Grad Student Draws on Love of Outdoors to Pursue Advanced Degree
Dec 9, 2020
Graduate student Sam Lee said although he was sad not to visit family, there was an upside to skipping his normal Thanksgiving gathering this year due...

IDEXlab Team among the recipients for the 2020 Chancellor's Innovation Scholars Program
May 20, 2020
BOONE, N.C. — Five winning entries by Appalachian State University faculty and staff have been announced for the 2020 Chancellor’s Innovation...

College Graduate Student Commencement Speaker Aaron Bradshaw
May 15, 2020
My name is Aaron Bradshaw and I grew up in Greenville, North Carolina. As a kid, I enjoyed spending my time in the treehouse behind my grandparents' h...

Brent Summerville takes 2nd place in 2020 Strata Solar Clean Tech contest
May 8, 2020
At the Clean Tech Summit in Chapel Hill, Feb 20-21, 2020, Brent Summerville, Practitioner-in-Residence in Sustainable Technol...