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  • Race named university registrar at Appalachian
    Race named university registrar at Appalachian
    Jan. 9, 2015

    Debbie Race comes to the university from UNC Asheville where she had served as university registrar for seven years. She also held positions at UNCA as associate registrar, director of advising and registration services, and coordinator of advising and retention.

  • McCorkindale named PRSSA National Faculty Adviser for 2015-17
    McCorkindale named PRSSA National Faculty Adviser for 2015-17
    Jan. 5, 2015

    The Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) has announced that Dr. Tina McCorkindale, Ph.D., APR, has been elected to a two-year term as PRSSA 2015-2017 National Faculty Adviser on the National Committee, starting June 1.

  • Future teachers travel the globe for international teaching experiences
    Future teachers travel the globe for international teaching experiences
    Jan. 5, 2015

    “Almost home, forever changed” is how Emily Johnson described her international student teaching experience in Costa Rica last spring.

  • Hughes appointed to service academy nomination board
    Hughes appointed to service academy nomination board
    Jan. 5, 2015

    Dr. Vickie Hughes, an associate professor in the Department of Nursing in the College of Health Sciences at Appalachian State University, has been appointed to serve on Rep. Virginia Foxx’s Service Academy Nomination Board. Foxx represents North Carolina’s 5th Congressional District.

  • Ludwig elected to the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies Board of Directors
    Ludwig elected to the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies Board of Directors
    Jan. 5, 2015

    The Cambridge Center reaches thousands of people in need of behavioral solutions, such as helping children with autism, coping with aging or providing safer work environments in oil refineries.

  • Appalachian receives $183,000 grant to train international science and English teachers
    Appalachian receives $183,000 grant to train international science and English teachers
    June 25, 2014

    Appalachian State University has received a $183,000 Teaching Excellence and Achievement (TEA) Program grant to implement a training program designed to enhance the capacity of 20 teachers representing 17 countries to teach science and English. The TEA Fellows will come from Bangladesh, Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, Guatemala, India, Jordan, Mali, Nicaragua, Niger, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Zambia.

  • Poole named dean of Appalachian’s graduate school
    Poole named dean of Appalachian’s graduate school
    June 2, 2014

    Following a national search, Dr. Max C. Poole has been named dean of the Cratis D. Williams Graduate School at Appalachian State University. He will begin his work at Appalachian in August.

  • App State's iBackApp thank you 5-1-14
    App State's iBackApp thank you 5-1-14
    May 1, 2014

    On April 14-17, 2014 Appalachian State University students celebrated Student Philanthropy Week. They gathered together to give back to the university, and to tell donors what their gifts to Appalachian mean to students.

  • Helping sustain and revitalize Guatemala’s indigenous culture
    Helping sustain and revitalize Guatemala’s indigenous culture
    March 24, 2014

    A professor’s longtime relationship with a Guatemalan town helps sustain and revitalize its indigenous culture.

  • Pakistani and American students discover their similarities during exchange program
    Pakistani and American students discover their similarities during exchange program
    Dec. 8, 2013

    Young Pakistani students, Appalachian State University students and Watauga County public school students spent some time together recently and found they were more similar than dissimilar despite living worlds apart.

  • Appalachian receives $297,529 grant to continue Pakistani schools exchange program
    Appalachian receives $297,529 grant to continue Pakistani schools exchange program
    Aug. 23, 2013

    Appalachian State University has received a second grant totaling $297,529 from the Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, to continue an exchange project between public schools in Watauga County and Taxila, Pakistan.

  • Country singer sums up recent success as ‘almost surreal’
    Country singer sums up recent success as ‘almost surreal’
    Feb. 28, 2013

    Alumnus Eric Church ’00 won the Country Music Association’s album of the year in 2012, but before he got his break, he could be found studying between gigs at Waffle House in Lenoir.

  • Building Bridges: International language teachers study at Appalachian
    Building Bridges: International language teachers study at Appalachian
    Nov. 12, 2012

    Twenty-one teachers from 17 countries come to Appalachian to boost their skills in teaching English as a second language.

  • Appalachian receives $266,197 grant to implement an exchange program between Watauga and Pakistani schools
    Appalachian receives $266,197 grant to implement an exchange program between Watauga and Pakistani schools
    Aug. 23, 2012

    Appalachian State University has received a $266,197 grant from the Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad to implement a one-year exchange project between three schools in Watauga County and three schools in Taxila, Pakistan.

  • Smith receives Princeton University visiting fellowship
    Smith receives Princeton University visiting fellowship
    Feb. 6, 2012

    Noted Latin American scholar Dr. Timothy J. Smith has received a visiting fellowship in Princeton University’s Program in Latin American Studies. He will be a visiting research scholar and visiting assistant professor for fall 2012.

  • Professor’s project provides first-ever Guatemalan language text for Mayan students
    Professor’s project provides first-ever Guatemalan language text for Mayan students
    March 31, 2011

    Dr. Timothy J. Smith’s project grew out of a Fulbright grant Smith received in 2001 to conduct dissertation field work in Sololá, where he studied the customs, traditions and practices of the town’s indigenous government.

  • Survey of unmarked African-American graves at Boone Cemetery continues
    Survey of unmarked African-American graves at Boone Cemetery continues
    April 16, 2010

    Ground-penetrating radar and an electrical resistivity system are being used to confirm the location of African-American graves in the Boone Cemetery.

  • Group studies indigenous activism in the Upper Amazon
    Group studies indigenous activism in the Upper Amazon
    Nov. 3, 2009

    This past summer, 16 students from Appalachian State University traveled to Ecuador to study indigenous activism and language in the Upper Amazon for three weeks. They came away with a greater appreciation of the impact of oil in the Amazon and its affect on the lives of the indigenous people.

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