App State faculty and staff routinely receive grant funding from state, regional and national organizations, as well as business and industry sponsors, in support of their research, creative and/or scholarly endeavors. These projects span a variety of disciplines — STEM, the arts and humanities, and business, to name a few — and have far-reaching impact.
In fiscal year 2023, App State’s external funding from grants and contracts totaled $22.3 million — the second highest amount in university history.
Browse externally awarded grants/contracts in the table below and use the search field to filter awarded grants/contracts by campus unit.
To read more about externally funded projects at App State, visit Appalachian Today, the university’s news and events website.
2021-2022
Awardee | Project Title | College/School/Division | Award Amount | Sponsor | Date Awarded | |
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Dr. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan |
14th Southeast German Studies Workshop: The Haskalah and European Enlightenment Revisited; Teaching German and German-Jewish Studies in the Twenty-First Century; Democracy: Past, Present, Future |
College of Arts and Sciences Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies (former employee) |
$700 |
Council for European Studies |
February 2022 | |
Dr. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan |
Southeastern German Studies Workshop 2022 - AFAvH Alumni Council Grant |
College of Arts and Sciences Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies (former employee) |
$750 |
American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation |
February 2022 | |
Dr. Shawn Bergman |
Partnership to Build Safety Analytics |
College of Arts and Sciences Department of Psychology |
$10,355 |
Elevate Textiles Inc. |
February 2022 | |
Dr. Owen Ash Morgan |
Economic Impact of Blowing Rock Annual Horse Show |
Center for Economic Research and Policy Analysis |
$12,250 |
Blowing Rock Horse Show Foundation |
February 2022 | |
Dr. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan |
14th Southeast German Studies Consortium Workshop |
College of Arts and Sciences Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies (former employee) |
$500 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
February 2022 | |
Dr. Andrea Anderson |
Child and Adult Care Food Program - Lucy Brock Child Development Food Program |
Reich College of Education Lucy Brock Child Development Laboratory Program |
$853 |
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services |
February 2022 | |
Dr. Amy Dellinger Page |
Support for Appalachian Senior Programs-Senior Companion Program |
College of Arts and Sciences Department of Sociology |
$8,820 |
United Way of Wilkes County |
February 2022 | |
Dr. Christine Hendren |
AccelNet Implementation: International Network For Researching, Advancing and Assessing Materials for Environmental Sustainability (INFRAMES) |
Research Institute for Environment, Energy and Economics |
$9,410 |
Duke University |
February 2022 | |
Dr. Colin Kelley |
Connecting West Africa Users to Cutting Edge Resources: Integrating Satellite Observations and Sub-Seasonal Climate Forecasts to Enhance Agricultural and Pastoral Water-Management Decision-Making Using 21st Century Agro-Pastoral Water Deficit Predictions |
College of Arts and Sciences Department of Geography and Planning |
$25,775 |
University of California at Santa Barbara |
February 2022 | |
Dr. Maggie Sugg |
A Causal Analysis of the Complex Mental Health Impacts of the Climate Crisis in Young People |
College of Arts and Sciences Department of Geography and Planning |
$413,598 |
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences |
February 2022 |