General Interest

Appstate Today Article Regarding Students Winning National Solar Competition
Jul 6, 2022

Appstate Today has published an article about our students winning in a national solar competition.https://today.appstate.edu/2022/06/29/solar?fbclid=...

Honors Student Denise Renteria with Dr. Yu and Dr. Shirzad

Three Honors Students Successfully Defend Their Honors Thesis
Jun 3, 2022

Reflecting back on Spring 2022 semester's end, we'd like to announce that three of our undergraduate students in the Honors program defended their Dep...

NEXUS Project NCDA grant

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 used in a research project

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 ...

3rd place trophy for the Suburban Single Family Division of the 2021 Solar Decathlon Design Challenge

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...

Building Science students working at the HVAC controls station

Harris Integrated Solutions Donates HVAC Controls Equipment for Students to Use
Mar 16, 2021

The Building Science program at Appalachian State University would like to thank Harris Integrated Solutions for their extremely generous donation of ...

Greenhouse Comparative Research Study Underway at Appalachian State’s Farm

Greenhouse Comparative Research Study Underway at Appalachian State’s Farm
Nov 2, 2020

 By Tyree Wilmoth        In 2017, ASU’s Food Services made a contract with the Sustainable Development department to purcha...

Lauren Halford and Jacob Wibbens, IDEXlab Students

IDEXlab Students Rethink Design Projects To Respond To COVID-19
Aug 26, 2020

By Amanda BrasierA global pandemic changes everything. For students in Appalachian State University’s IDEXlab this semester, it changed the entire c...

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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...

Sustainable Technology Students at Beech Mountain, NC

Continued opportunity for Sustainable Technology program students to test turbines at premier wind research center
May 15, 2020

 Students in the Sustainable Techology program in Department of Sustainable Technology and the Built Environment at Applachian State Univers...