BOONE—Tina McCorkindale, assistant professor of communication at Appalachian State University, has been awarded a grant from the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication at Pennsylvania State University for 2013-14. The $6,000 grant will support a collaborative project that focuses on ethics in corporate social responsibility and social media. [more]

BOONE—Appalachian State University students interested in sustainability can take advantage of a half-priced workshop on distributed wind energy to be offered Saturday, June 8, at the Appalachian Enterprise Center located at 130 Poplar Grove connector in Boone. [more]

BOONE—The latest developments in hydrogen-powered railways, called hydrail, will be featured at the eighth annual International Hydrail Conference held in Toronto June 11-12. [more]

BOONE—Geologist Ellen Cowan is part of an international team of scientists that will spend two months at sea studying climate change and earth systems in the Gulf of Alaska. [more]

BOONE—After stumbling at the end of 2012, the regional economy began to regain its footing in the first quarter of the year, according to the Western North Carolina Economic Index, compiled by the Center for Economic Research and Policy Analysis at Appalachian State University. Regional economic activity increased 0.4 percent during the first quarter of 2013. [more]

By Jane Nicholson

BOONE—With more than 55,000 books in print about the Civil War, one might assume that there is no new information to be gleaned about the event that separated states, communities and families. But there is a topic that has received scant attention – the environmental history of the Civil War. [more]

BOONE—For the fourth consecutive year, an Appalachian State University student has won a national contest for a white paper highlighting research on issues facing the wholesale insurance industry. [more]

BOONE—Appalachian State University undergraduate geography majors Gordon Buckingham of Charlotte and Peter Nasuti of New London have been accepted into the competitive Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) summer program. [more]

BOONE—Dr. Todd L. Cherry, professor in the Department of Economics and director of the Center for Economic Research and Policy Analysis at Appalachian State University, has been selected to be the Rasmuson Chair of Economics in the College of Business and Public Policy at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA). The appointment is for the 2013-14 academic year. [more]