SAFE Grant Student Spotlight: Claire Brown, Physics and Astronomy
Feb 5, 2021
Claire Brown was awarded the SAFE Grant to work on her project titled “Sarcomere Modeling to Determine Changing Elasticity of Cardiac Muscle”.Fund...
SAFE Grant Student Spotlight: Forrest Myers, Physics and Astronomy
Feb 4, 2021
Forrest Myers was awarded the SAFE Grant to pursure his project titled "Optical trapping of gold nanoshells for studying optical binding” in Summer ...
SAFE Grant Student Spotlight: Taylor Foote '19, Physics and Astronomy
Feb 3, 2021
Now alumni, Taylor Foote worked on her project "Seasonal Dependence of Column-averaged and Near-surface Aerosol Optical Properties Measured at Appalac...
Cooking Evangelist Carla Ramsdell
Dec 2, 2020
An environmentalist, food physicist and cooking evangelist, Carla Ramsdell strives to empower others with the knowledge that taking back control of fo...
Dr. Burris Awarded OSA's 2020 Diversity and Inclusion Advocacy Recognition
Nov 12, 2020
Dr. Jennifer Burris, professor in and chair of Appalachian State University’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been recognized by ...
P&A Awarded CAS Inclusion Award
Oct 27, 2020
The Department of Physics and Astronomy has the honor of being awarded the 2019-2020 College of Arts and Sciences Inclusion Award. This award recogniz...
Undergraduate Advising Council's Excellence in Academic Advising
Oct 2, 2020
Each year, students are allowed to nominate an advisor for the Undergraduate Advising Council's Excellence in Academic Advising Award. There were thir...
App State awarded nearly $1M grant to ADVANCE APPALACHIAN women in STEM academic careers
Sep 18, 2020
"Appalachian State University has been awarded nearly $1 million in grant funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to implement AD...
Student Spotlight: Undergraduate Jaden Miller awarded N.C. Space Grant
Sep 3, 2020
"Going into his junior year at Appalachian State University, Jaden Miller has made an impression after being awarded an Undergraduate Research Sc...
Student Spotlight: Lia Phillips awarded N.C. Space Grant
Sep 1, 2020
"For North Carolina Space Grant Graduate Research Fellowship recipient, Lia Phillips, pursuing the answers to previously unanswered question...