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  • Dollar General Bowl players give back while in Mobile
    Dollar General Bowl players give back while in Mobile
    WBRC FOX6 News
    Dec. 20, 2017

    This is Dollar General Bowl week and weekend in Mobile. But before the big game Saturday, players and coaches from both Appalachian State University and the University of Toledo visited children at the University of South Alabama's Children's and Women's Hospital.

  • Favorite Appalachian stories of 2017
    Favorite Appalachian stories of 2017
    Dec. 20, 2017

    Relive Appalachian’s great accomplishments and remarkable people of 2017 through the year’s most-read news and feature stories.

  • Appalachian State Offers Food Pantry For Students and Staff
    Appalachian State Offers Food Pantry For Students and Staff
    88.5 WFDD
    Dec. 20, 2017

    A recent survey conducted at Appalachian State University showed that about 46 percent of students had experienced food insecurity in a one-year period. The college took action by opening a food pantry, and making it available to faculty, staff and students. It’s now been operating for just over a year.

  • Appalachian named to 9th spot on Victory Media’s 2018 Military Friendly® Schools Top 10 list
    Appalachian named to 9th spot on Victory Media’s 2018 Military Friendly® Schools Top 10 list
    Dec. 19, 2017

    Since 2010, Victory Media has awarded Appalachian the designation of Military Friendly® School, which places Appalachian in the top 15 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools in the country that are doing the most to embrace military students, and to dedicate resources to ensure their success in the classroom and after graduation. This is the first year, however, that Appalachian has made Victory Media’s Top 10 list.

  • Campus emergency siren test to be conducted Jan. 3
    Campus emergency siren test to be conducted Jan. 3
    Dec. 19, 2017

    Appalachian State University will test its campus siren warning system at 11:55 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018.

  • Cpl. Matt Taylor named Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office 2017 Employee of the Year
    Cpl. Matt Taylor named Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office 2017 Employee of the Year
    Hickory Daily Record
    Dec. 18, 2017

    Cpl. Matt Taylor was recently picked by the command staff at the Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office to receive the “2017 Employee of the Year” award. Taylor graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice from Appalachian State University in 2011.

  • Appalachian senior Victoria Redmon receives North Carolina Campus Compact’s Community Impact Award for outstanding leadership and service
    Appalachian senior Victoria Redmon receives North Carolina Campus Compact’s Community Impact Award for outstanding leadership and service
    Dec. 18, 2017

    Redmon was recognized for her work with Appalachian’s Alternative Service Experience (ASE) program, where she has served as a peer leader, executive board member and now as chairperson. In this role, she oversees 35 fall, winter and spring break programs engaging over 400 students, faculty and staff, training leaders and raising funds.

  • Appalachian graduates 1,475 at December 2017 commencement ceremonies
    Appalachian graduates 1,475 at December 2017 commencement ceremonies
    Dec. 16, 2017

    More than 1,400 new graduates step into their next adventure following Appalachian’s commencement ceremonies Saturday, Dec. 16.

  • December 2017 commencement ceremonies
    December 2017 commencement ceremonies
    Dec. 16, 2017

    See photos from Appalachian State University’s commencement ceremonies Dec. 16, 2017.

  • Appalachian alumnus Brock Long leads FEMA’s mission of support
    Appalachian alumnus Brock Long leads FEMA’s mission of support
    Dec. 15, 2017

    Appalachian alumnus William Brockmann “Brock” Long ’97 ’99 serves as the administrator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

  • Appalachian State University alumnus touts power of relationships as incoming head of Thurgood Marshall College Fund
    Appalachian State University alumnus touts power of relationships as incoming head of Thurgood Marshall College Fund
    Dec. 15, 2017

    Appalachian alumnus Dr. Harry Lee Williams touts the power of relationships as incoming head of Thurgood Marshall College Fund.

  • He’s back! Armanti Edwards ’09 receives his due in Canadian Football League
    He’s back! Armanti Edwards ’09 receives his due in Canadian Football League
    Dec. 14, 2017

    Mountaineer football icon Armanti Edwards ’09 helps the CFL’s Toronto Argonauts win the 2017 Grey Cup.

  • Appalachian alumnus Wayne Sumner receives Order of the Long Leaf Pine award from N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper
    Appalachian alumnus Wayne Sumner receives Order of the Long Leaf Pine award from N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper
    Dec. 13, 2017

    Wayne Sumner ’75, president of Jackson Sumner & Associates (JSA) and alumnus of Appalachian State University, was bestowed the highly prestigious and honorable Order of the Long Leaf Pine award by North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Dec. 4, 2017, at JSA’s annual Christmas party.

  • Violence a matter of scale, not quantity or time period, researchers show
    Violence a matter of scale, not quantity or time period, researchers show
    Dec. 13, 2017

    Anthropologists have debated for decades whether humans, living in tribal communities thousands of years ago, were more or less violent than societies today. Researchers at Appalachian State University, the University of Notre Dame and the University of Wisconsin-Madison wonder if the question of more or less violence is the wrong one — what if it’s a matter of scale?

  • Dreams inspire Appalachian student’s sculptures
    Dreams inspire Appalachian student’s sculptures
    Dec. 13, 2017

    After a 20-year absence from higher education, studio art major Ireri Krueger returned to achieve a lifelong dream. She is among seniors graduating this month.

  • Artwork by Ireri Krueger ’17
    Artwork by Ireri Krueger ’17
    Dec. 13, 2017

    December 2017 graduate Ireri Krueger has had vivid dreams since she was a child growing up in Mexico City, Mexico. It wasn’t until she became a studio art major at Appalachian — more than 20 years after she first pursued higher education in the arts — that she realized she could turn her dreams into art and achieve her lifelong dream of becoming a trained artist.

  • Hodges sings about love and loss in new CD
    Hodges sings about love and loss in new CD
    Daily Advance
    Dec. 13, 2017

    Hodges, who is 18 and currently attends Appalachian State University, said that his goal is to hopefully make a career out of music. His new CD, titled "Release Me," features 11 songs written by Hodges that make the rounds between edgy folk, Americana and bluesy, driving rock, with a recurring lyrical theme of love and loss.

  • Charles Walker Releases Emo-Country Debut
    Charles Walker Releases Emo-Country Debut
    Creative Loafing
    Dec. 13, 2017

    Appalachian student Charles Walker Austin-Zimmerman's debut EP, "Whole Again" is a remarkable set of music — five songs detailing the anxieties and insecurities of moving away from home and starting college, where Austin-Zimmerman, who performs under the name Charles Walker, studies communications and sociology.

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