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App State’s Army ROTC program celebrates 50th anniversary

Nov. 26, 2019

Appalachian State University’s Army ROTC culminated its 50th anniversary celebrations with a weekend of events that included participation in the university’s Heroes Day during the last home football game of the regular season.

The power of gratitude
Dec. 4, 2019
Appalachian nursing professor Sarah Martin offers four ways to cultivate more gratitude in your life — and ultimately more happiness.
15 countries, 6 continents — go globe-trotting with ‘Mountaineers Abroad’
App State announces winning photos of International Education Week Photo Contest
Nov. 26, 2019
Appalachian’s Office of International Education and Development announces the winners and runners-up of its 2019 International Education Week Photo Contest. The photos, taken by Appalachian faculty, staff and students, span 15 countries and six continents.
App State honors more than 120 staff members for decades of service
Nov. 21, 2019
At the inaugural Chancellor’s Service Awards Luncheon, Appalachian honored more than 120 staff members who have achieved 20 years or more of service to the university, including the longest serving staff member with 45 years of service.
Find Your Sustain Ability: Amory Lovins explains how “off-the-shelf technologies” and integrated design can achieve energy and cost efficiency
Nov. 27, 2019
“Buildings ought to create delight when entered and satisfaction, health, happiness (and) productivity when occupied. Regret when departed. They ought to look like they grew there.” — Amory Lovins, chief scientist at the Rocky Mountain Institute, on integrated design goals for the built environment.
Brothers and sisters clock 132 combined years of dedicated service to App State
Nov. 21, 2019
Brothers Randy and Terry Edwards and sisters Sheila Perry and Kathy Deas were among the more than 120 staff members recognized for their service to the university at the inaugural Chancellor’s Service Awards Luncheon held Tuesday.
8 tips for a happy healthy heart during the holidays, from an Appalachian expert
Nov. 11, 2019
Dr. Rebecca Kappus offers eight doable tips for a healthy heart – from how to reduce stress to how to minimize decision-making. You can enjoy a healthy holiday season!

An Evening with Nikki Giovanni

35th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration
Monday, Jan. 13, 2020 / 7 p.m.
Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts

Nikki Giovanni is a world-renowned poet, writer, commentator, activist and educator. Over the past 30 years, her outspokenness, in her writing and in lectures, has garnered attention from around the globe. One of the most widely-read American poets, she prides herself on being "a Black American, a daughter, a mother, a professor of English."

Events

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Film: The Wizard of Oz (1939)
CinemaVintage Film Series at Greenbriar Theater
Dec. 4 - 6, 2019
Dorothy Gale is swept away from a farm in Kansas to a magical land of Oz in a tornado and embarks on a quest with her new friends to see the Wizard who can help her return home to Kansas and help her friends as well.
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Film: Rocketman (2019)
IG Greer SuperCinema Popular Film Series
Dec. 5 - 7, 2019
A musical fantasy about the fantastical human story of Elton John's breakthrough years.
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Balanced Brains Creative Show
The Honors College
Friday, Dec. 6, 2019
6 - 8 p.m.
Come join us at 3rd Place in downtown Boone during the December Art Crawl, where Honors students will showcase their work from this semester's Balanced Brains seminar. These fabulous creatives have been balancing their brains in amazing ways throughout the semester and would love to talk with you about it.
Dec
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First Friday at the Turchin Center
Friday, Dec. 6, 2019
6 - 9 p.m.
On the first Friday of every month (excluding January), the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts (TCVA) is open late as part of the Downtown Boone Art Crawl. Residents, visitors and the Appalachian State University community are invited to TCVA to experience the exhibitions featured in its seven galleries.
Dec
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Girls on the Run of the High Country 5K
Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019
RUN, WALK, SKIP, HOP... Just MOVE FORWARD!!! The Girls on the Run of the High County 5K is celebrated twice each year as the culminating event in our 10-week GOTR curriculum. The Fall 2019 5K is scheduled in North Wilkesboro at Lowes River Edge Park. The 5k is open to the general public and of course current and past GOTR participants, coaches and families.
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An Evening with Nikki Giovanni
35th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration
Monday, Jan. 13, 2020
7 p.m.
Join us for the 35th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration featuring world-renowned poet, writer, commentator, activist and educator Nikki Giovanni.

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Trump administration kick-starts formal withdrawal from Paris climate agreement [faculty quoted]
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App State announces winning photos of International Education Week Photo Contest

Nov. 26, 2019

Appalachian’s Office of International Education and Development announces the winners and runners-up of its 2019 International Education Week Photo Contest. The photos, taken by Appalachian faculty, staff and students, span 15 countries and six continents.

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