Thank you to all who joined us to celebrate shared progress on App State’s climate literacy goals!
Our campus community made tremendous progress on climate literacy work this academic year, including launching the Sustainability & Climate Literacy requirement in General Education, offering >150 sections of Climate Studies courses, establishing a new Climate Studies Minor, and attracting thousands of participants to co-curricular climate learning events. View our slideshow to learn more about this shared progress.
We were thrilled to present our inaugural Resilience Pathmaker Awards.
These awards recognize members of our campus community—students, faculty and staff—who have made significant contributions to advancing climate literacy and “climate response-ability,” which we define as “having the knowledge, skills and sense of efficacy to envision and implement positive climate action in our professions and our communities.” Our 2026 award recipients are:
- Reilly Cates, a senior majoring in Sustainable Development
- Asher Fazal, a senior majoring in Sustainable Business Management
- Megan Prosser, a senior majoring in Sustainable Development
- Jennifer Maxwell, Sustainability Program Director in the Office of Sustainability & Energy Management
- Elizabeth Riede, Executive Director of Campus Dining
- Brian Burke, Professor in the Department of Sustainable Development
- Marta Toran, Senior Lecturer & Outreach Coordinator in the Department of Geological & Environmental Sciences
- Carla Ramsdell, Practitioner in Residence in the Department of Physics and Astronomy
Many more Mountaineers contributed to and led climate literacy work this year, including award nominees (below) and many more. We’re grateful to ALL of you for being a part of this community and this shared progress, and we look forward to continuing to work with Mountaineers across campus in the coming years to grow our climate response-ability!
