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  • Appalachian’s Inclusive Excellence Team offers faculty professional development
    Appalachian’s Inclusive Excellence Team offers faculty professional development
    Aug. 28, 2018

    The faculty-driven initiative is helping bring greater elements of equity, diversity and inclusion into the classroom.

  • App State professor: August rain shouldn't fade fall leaves
    App State professor: August rain shouldn't fade fall leaves
    WSOC-TV
    Aug. 28, 2018

    Abundant August rains shouldn't have an impact on fall leaves showing their colors in western North Carolina, according to a university professor. Appalachian State University professor Howard Neufeld said it's an old wives' tale that if you get a lot of rainfall in the summer it dilutes the fall color, the Asheville Citizen Times reports.

  • Disappearing footprints in Tanzania
    Disappearing footprints in Tanzania

    Appalachian researchers use photogrammetry to quantify erosion at ancient footprint site

    Aug. 27, 2018

    Three faculty members in Appalachian’s Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences used point cloud comparison algorithms to find rates of erosion during the seven-year study.

  • Student Success at Appalachian
    Student Success at Appalachian

    Finding balance academically, financially, personally

    Aug. 24, 2018

    Appalachian has systems, personnel and strategies in place to ensure students have the help they need in all three areas of the “success stool.”

  • Financing the dream — staying fiscally afloat at Appalachian
    Financing the dream — staying fiscally afloat at Appalachian
    Aug. 24, 2018

    FAFSA. FSEOG. ACOG. Acronyms abound when exploring how to pay for college. At Appalachian, interpreters are in place to help students and their families navigate the process of securing financial aid.

  • Diana Wilcox ’91 awards NRLP scholarship she received as a student at Appalachian
    Diana Wilcox ’91 awards NRLP scholarship she received as a student at Appalachian
    Aug. 23, 2018

    A graduate of the computer science program at Appalachian, Wilcox is now the chair of the New River Light and Power scholarship committee.

  • The students are in the house! Appalachian welcomes students on first day of classes
    The students are in the house! Appalachian welcomes students on first day of classes
    Aug. 22, 2018

    Classes for the fall 2018 semester convene at Appalachian State University.

  • Dr. Beth Campbell named chair of Appalachian’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction
    Dr. Beth Campbell named chair of Appalachian’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction
    Aug. 22, 2018

    Dr. Elizabeth “Beth” Campbell began her position in July. She is also an associate professor in the department.

  • Mother of hate crime victim addresses Appalachian's class of 2022
    Mother of hate crime victim addresses Appalachian's class of 2022
    Watauga Democrat
    Aug. 21, 2018

    Appalachian State University’s freshman class welcomed the mother of a 1998 hate crime victim with a standing ovation at the Aug. 20 Black and Gold Convocation. The new freshman class gathered at the George M. Holmes Convocation Center before the start of the 2018-19 school year — where Judy Shepard served as the event’s keynote speaker.

  • Appalachian Home School Physical Education Program ‘SPARKs’ active lifestyle for local children
    Appalachian Home School Physical Education Program ‘SPARKs’ active lifestyle for local children
    Aug. 20, 2018

    Children in pre-K through middle school, along with their parents, will have the opportunity to flex their muscles through Appalachian’s 2018–19 Home School Physical Education Program.

  • Dave by the Bell: Fall Move-In 2018
    Dave by the Bell: Fall Move-In 2018
    Aug. 19, 2018

    Parents of App State's newest Mountaineers take a second with Dave to share their hopes for their students while at Appalachian.

  • Appalachian’s move-in day 2018 — a flow of first years, families and full vehicles
    Appalachian’s move-in day 2018 — a flow of first years, families and full vehicles
    Aug. 18, 2018

    Appalachian’s first-year and transfer students move in with the help of the university’s Army ROTC and many blue-shirted volunteers.

  • Mark Ricks ’89 and junior DeJon Milbourne are newest members named to Appalachian’s Board of Trustees
    Mark Ricks ’89 and junior DeJon Milbourne are newest members named to Appalachian’s Board of Trustees
    Aug. 17, 2018

    Appalachian alumnus Mark Ricks ’89 will be officially sworn in during the board’s next meeting Sept. 20–21. Appalachian junior and SGA president DeJon Milbourne became a member of the board in June.

  • US Department of State supports a world of teachers at Appalachian
    US Department of State supports a world of teachers at Appalachian

    8th annual TEA program brings educators from across the globe to Appalachian’s campus

    Aug. 17, 2018

    Teachers from four different continents will take part in Appalachian’s 2018 TEA program to enhance their skills in teaching science and English as a foreign language.

  • The graduate experience: conferences, collaboration and scaling the Andes
    The graduate experience: conferences, collaboration and scaling the Andes
    Aug. 16, 2018

    As a graduate student studying geography at Appalachian, Heather Guy did fieldwork in the remote Andes in Peru and Bolivia — far removed from her prior days spent in front of a computer screen.

  • Appalachian visiting creative writing professor authors debut ‘history-rich’ novel
    Appalachian visiting creative writing professor authors debut ‘history-rich’ novel
    Aug. 16, 2018

    Caleb Johnson is the author of “Treeborne,” a novel about “how the past gets mixed up in thoughts of the future” and “how home is a story as much as a place.”

  • Janine Benyus on 3.8 billion-year-old solutions to today's design challenges
    Janine Benyus on 3.8 billion-year-old solutions to today's design challenges
    Aug. 15, 2018

    How do we innovate solutions that will stand the test of time, and how can we measure how well they are working? The answers are all around us.

  • Mother of hate crime victim to speak at Appalachian convocation on diversity and erasing hate
    Mother of hate crime victim to speak at Appalachian convocation on diversity and erasing hate
    Aug. 13, 2018

    Judy Shepard is president of the Matthew Shepard Foundation, which works to champion those causes her late son Matthew espoused during his life, including social justice, diversity awareness and education, and equality for LGBTQ individuals.

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