Dr. Baker Perry and Dr. Anton Seimon (Geography and Planning) were part of a multidisciplinary climate research expedition with National Geographic that installed the world’s two highest weather stations (at 8,430 meters and 7,945 meters), examined soil samples and glacial lakes to better understand the range of life surviving on Earth’s highest peaks, and more from Mt. Everest. (19)Roy Carroll Distinguished Professor of British History, Dr. Michael J. Turner (History) spent the academic year 2019-20 at the University of Oxford as a Visiting Research Fellow. (20)Allison Fredette (History) was elected as the Executive Secretary of the Southern Association for Women Historians. (20)Caleb Johnson (English) was a featured presenter during The Southern Foodways Alliance 2020 Fall Symposium. The event's theme was "Future of the South." His presentation was written as a letter to his unborn child. It will be published in the SFA's print quarterly, Gravy and an accompanying short documentary film will be on their website. (20)Sammye Sigmann (Chemistry and Fermentation Sciences) co-authored a chapter for the American Chemical Society (ACS) Guide to Scholarly Communication which will be noted in all publication author guidelines as the go-to reference for safety considerations in ACS publications. (20)Dr. Brooke Christian (Chemistry and Fermentation Sciences) was invited to present a talk at the prestigious Gordon Conference on Thiol-based redox regulation and signaling, in Barcelona, Spain (July 2020).Tom Hansell (Appalachian Studies) was interviewed on Public Radio International’s “Living On Earth” program about his book titled “After Coal: Stories of Survival from Appalachia and Wales.” (20)Benito del Pliego (Languages, Literatures and Cultures) was one of four international poets invited to the International Festival of Poetry and Poetics in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. (20)Alice Fisher (College of Arts and Sciences) awarded one of four Appalachian State University’s 2020 Staff Excellence Awards. Fisher is the business officer in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Office of the Dean.Dr. Sandie Gravett (Philosophy and Religion) was named winner of 2020 Academic Freedom and Faculty Governance Award from the university’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP).Dr. Cynthia M. Liutkus-Pierce and Brian W. Zimmer (Geological and Environmental Sciences) published culminating research paper on ancient human footprints found in Tanzania titled “Snapshots of human anatomy, locomotion and behavior from Late Pleistocene footprints at Engare Sero, Tanzania” in the journal Scientific Reports, published by Nature Research. (20)The Global Carbon Project (GCP) has released its annual 2020 Global Carbon Budget, which estimates CO2 emissions for the year have decreased by 2.4 billion tons — the largest drop ever recorded. More than 80 scientists from 68 institutions in 16 countries worldwide co-authored this year’s report, scientists Dr. Dennis Gilfillan ’08 and Dr. Gregg Marland (Geological and Environmental Sciences).The North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC) has now formalized the agreement with the U.S. Performance Center to work with approximately 15 Olympic teams. These athletes should be working with the Human Performance Lab and the Biochemistry Lab affiliated with the Department of Biology. Hopefully, this will help the University to forge relationships and work with more Olympic athletes. (21)Leonardo Flores, professor and chair (English), co-edited, "Antología Lit(e)Lat, Volumen 1," an anthology published in late 2020. It is the first anthology of its kind, collecting over 81 works of electronic literature from 1965-2019 written by 52 authors representing 10 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. This anthology, written in Spanish, but with some English language and multilingual works, is available as an online open-access publication. (20) Sorting: 6