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 2021, App State’s external funding from grants and contracts totaled nearly $37 million — an institutional record. App State received $19.5 million through externally funded grants and contracts in 2022, 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
2021-2022
| Awardee | Project Title | College/School/Division | Award Amount | Sponsor | Date Awarded | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Dr. Jennifer Geib |
Citizen Science Inventory of Pollinators: Flower Flies (Syrphidae) |
College of Arts and Sciences Department of Biology |
$5,000 |
National Park Service |
July 2021 | |
|
Dr. Maggie Sugg |
CAREER: The Geography of Mental Health: Understanding contextual, compositional, and external stressors Learn more |
College of Arts and Sciences Department of Geography and Planning |
$74,143 |
National Science Foundation |
October 2021 | |
|
Dr. Sarah Carmichael |
"CSI Devonian" - testing Late Devonian ocean anoxia proxies across different paleoenvironments Learn more |
College of Arts and Sciences Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences |
$459,988 |
National Science Foundation |
November 2021 | |
|
Dr. David Dickinson |
Insufficient Sleep and Dietary Choices: An Ecologically Valid Examination of the Decision Foundations of Eating Behaviors when Sleep Restricted Learn more |
Walker College of Business Department of Economics |
$142,315 |
National Science Foundation |
November 2021 | |
|
Dr. Michael Reddish |
LEAPS-MPS: Determining All the Contributions of Adrenodoxin to Cytochrome P450 Catalysis |
College of Arts and Sciences Department of Chemistry and Fermentation Sciences |
$249,840 |
National Science Foundation |
April 2022 | |
|
Dr. Michael Opata |
MRI: Acquisition of a Flow Cytometer, a Multi-User Resource at Appalachian State University |
College of Arts and Sciences Department of Biology |
$264,868 |
National Science Foundation |
September 2021 | |
|
Dr. Sarah Evans |
Collaborative Research: RUI: Zero-order to first-order: Hydrologic drivers of surface-subsurface storage dynamics in thawing permafrost landscapes Learn more |
Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences |
$276,373 |
National Science Foundation |
July 2021 | |
|
Dr. Maggie Sugg |
CAREER Learn more |
College of Arts and Sciences Department of Geography and Planning |
$6,000 |
National Science Foundation |
May 2022 | |
|
Dr. Katherine Mawhinney |
Collaborative Research: Co-Designing for Statewide Alignment of a Vision for High Quality Mathematics Instruction (VISIONS) |
College of Arts and Sciences Department of Mathematical Sciences |
$109,734 |
National Science Foundation |
July 2021 | |
|
Dr. Andrew Smith |
RUI: Collaborative Proposal: Assessments and Stances Regarding the Uncertainty of (Un)Desired Outcomes |
College of Arts and Sciences Department of Psychology |
$45,740 |
National Science Foundation - Decision, Risk and Management Sciences |
January 2022 |