The purpose of the meeting was two-fold: to provide an opportunity for campus emergency team members and first responders to get to know one another, and to offer the chance for safety leaders in the community to provide information that would be useful to everyone in attendance in the case of an emergency.

Each semester, the series brings four distinguished and up-and-coming creative writers of varying genres to Appalachian’s campus to read from and discuss their works. The series also features craft talks led by the author on the craft of writing. Craft talks provide aspiring writers suggestions for refining their techniques, developing sounder work habits and gaining a greater appreciation of the writing process. They also drive home lessons initially difficult to embrace and implement.

Students’ Whole Life Club encourages healthy living on campus and works toward bringing the Blue Zones Project® to Boone.

Appalachian State University’s Physical Education Program will offer the Home School Physical Education Program for the 2017-18 academic year.

Registration is open for the annual Black Saturday 5K Run/Walk. Proceeds benefit the Recreation Management Scholarship Endowment of the recreation management program in the Beaver College of Health Sciences at Appalachian State University.

Back by popular demand, the University Libraries at Appalachian State University will sponsor “A Novel Experience” fundraising dinner with award-winning playwright Susan Rivers.

Seven faculty and four staff members at Appalachian State University were honored for excellence at the Fall Semester Faculty and Staff Meeting on Aug. 25 in Plemmons Student Union.

Southern scholars Marcie Cohen Ferris and William R. Ferris of University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill will be on campus for two events. Cohen Ferris will speak about how food – as cuisine and as commodity – has expressed and shaped southern identity. William Ferris’s talk will focus on his photography and documentary film work.

As a member of the Gertrude Stein Society, English major Tommy Young was one of four scholars to present a paper on a panel titled “New Directions in Stein Studies.”