Research & Innovation

Steve Ellis is the first non-pharmacist to ever earn the Student Advocacy Award from the Tennessee Society of Student Pharmacists.

An ETSU scientist is studying how to naturally enhance vitamin levels in soybeans using gene activation and cutting-edge tools like machine learning.

ETSU's Center for Applied Research and Evaluation (CARE) in Women's Health has impacted maternal and child health in Appalachia and the Southeast.

Dr. Mike Stoots has been awarded the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health's prestigious Teaching Excellence Award in 2025.

ETSU students Leah Loveday and Gunnar Wolf Stewart have been selected as finalists for the prestigious 2025 Harry S. Truman Scholarship.

Researchers have identified a giant flying squirrel species at the Gray Fossil Site, offering new insights into Southern Appalachia's prehistoric wildlife.

Five ETSU students, staff and faculty made the semifinals for the 2025-2026 Fulbright Scholarships, with winners to be announced by June.

In 2024, Southern Appalachia experienced unprecedented weather extremes, including record-breaking heatwaves and catastrophic flooding from Hurricane Helene.

ETSU researchers have examined the devastating effects of the 1918 Spanish flu in Appalachia, uncovering lessons that resonate in the wake of COVID-19.

ETSU researchers are studying beaver distribution revealing how these ecosystem engineers may adapt to future environmental shifts.

Dr. Richard Prince has joined a team in discovering lipocartilage, a groundbreaking tissue with potential for regenerative medicine and tissue engineering.

A $170K grant from the “Save America’s Treasures” program will help ETSU preserve irreplaceable Appalachian history.

ETSU achieved a notable climb in the 2023 Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) rankings after a banner year for research.

The ETSU Research Corporation named Jon Wood as the new chief intellectual property officer.

The U.S. Dept. of Defense awarded the ETSU Research Corporation over $900K as part of the Defense Industrial Base Consortium.

ETSU's Dr. Andrew Herrmann published a new book on autoethnography. The Journal of Autoethnography, which he founded, received the Best New Journal Award.

ETSU researchers used funeral and obituary data to identify more than 300 excess deaths in Washington County, TN, in 2020. Over half were related to COVID-19.

Tennesseans value the importance of higher education, according to the 2024 Tennessee Poll conducted by the ASRL at ETSU.

An ETSU researcher is developing a cutting-edge dashboard using generative artificial intelligence to assist in monitoring flooding in Central Appalachia.

At its 2024 Celebration of Research, ETSU introduced five new awards to honor faculty and staff who have made outstanding contributions to advancing research.

Dr. Eric Beaumont of ETSU's Quillen College of Medicine received a $2.7M NIH grant to study vagus nerve stimulation as a potential heart failure treatment.

ETSU's Dr. Ted Olson co-produced a three-CD set celebrating the life and music of influential American singer-songwriter Steve Young.

Michael Meit of ETSU's College of Public Health co-authored a report, "Appalachian Diseases of Despair," with Megan Heffernan of NORC.

ETSU's Center for Rural Health and Research's 4th annual report highlights continued growth, including grant funding and new research initiatives.

Quillen College of Medicine researchers Chuanfu Li and Xiaohui Wang received $5.17M from NIH and others to study sepsis.

Dr. Cuihong Jia, ETSU associate professor of biomedical sciences, earned the 2024 Distinguished Faculty Award in Research.

ETSU received a HRSA Rural Health Research Center grant, providing 4 more years of funding for the ETSU/NORC Rural Health Research Center.

ETSU alumni Adrian Meronk, Poland, & Sander Gille, Belgium, will represent their countries in the Olympics. Meg Stone discusses the Olympic experience.

Dr. Audrey Depelteau, director of the ETSU Innovation Lab, attends the 2024 SelectUSA Investment Summit, which promotes foreign direct investment in the U.S.

ETSU's Dr. Aruna Kilaru, Biological Sciences, is among the American Society of Plant Biologists' top 25 inspiring women in plant biology.