Professors can have a difficult time planning to co-teach a course with a colleague in another department. Imagine the audacity of Dr. Barbara Howard’s vision to team teach with a faculty member in another country. Howard wanted to remain on campus at Appalachian State University, while Dr. Natalia Ilyashenko would stay planted at her home institution … Novgorod State University in Russia.

When people speak about Shauna Caldwell, they use words like “intentional,” “caring,” “wise” and “creative.” A High Country native born in Boone and raised in Banner Elk, Shauna is an artist, herbalist and graduate student in the Appalachian Studies program at Appalachian State University.

Appalachian State University students and employees can use their university-issued identification cards as a valid photo ID card to vote in the 2020 elections, the North Carolina State Board of Elections announced Friday.

There were 32 entries from 7 different colleges. Colleges represented included: Weber State, Kendall, SCAD, Appalachian State University, University of Central Oklahoma, University of Idaho, and the University of Houston. John Lalevee of Appalachian State University won the first place award for Furniture Design.

Appalachian State University Academy at Middle Fork Elementary School celebrated Black History Month through song, dramatic play, daily trivia, door decorations, a historically black college and university research presentation, a local radio personality visit, and a living wax museum.

Salted roads can reduce accidents by 51 to 88 percent once the treatment is applied, according to The Salt Institute. Despite road salt’s seemingly essential role in keeping society mobile during harsh High Country winters, Dr. Shea Tuberty, along with other students and teachers at Appalachian State University, wondered— where does all the salt go once the snow is gone?

Cherokee High School students traveled to Green Valley Elementary School on Feb. 13 to teach a Valentine’s Day lesson by sharing the traditional Cherokee story of the first strawberries. The six CHS students who visited the school are dual-enrolled at Appalachian State University and are taking this semester’s Cherokee Culture and Leadership class taught by CHS teacher Heath Robertson and Reich College of Education Associate Professor Allen Bryant.

Appalachian State University leverages their beautiful location for an effective commercial. The 15-second spot manages, in one ad, to highlight Appalachian’s beautiful location, diversity and opportunities by effectively weaving the mountain metaphor throughout, even giving the school mascot a shout out.

Correspondence from Appalachian’s Gregg Marland: The findings of the 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change special report imply that we need to reduce global emissions of carbon dioxide within 12 years to where they were 41 years ago, to avoid a 1.5 °C increase in average Earth surface temperature. We need to make drastic changes in carbon emissions, soon. This means widespread global cooperation and unprecedented commitment.