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Appalachian’s Jane Rex creates transfer success path
Sept. 28, 2017
As director of the Office of Transfer Services at Appalachian State University, Jane Rex knows the frustrations, insecurities and obstacles that students coming into a large university can face. She knows because she once walked in their shoes.
UNC President Spellings and new members of the UNC Board of Governors visit Appalachian campus Sept. 22
Sept. 27, 2017
As part of their continuing tour of the University of North Carolina system’s 17 campuses, the five new members of the UNC Board of Governors spent Friday afternoon, Sept. 22, touring Appalachian State University.
Dr. Nickolas Jordan on getting uncomfortable, taking risks, screwing up, and finding your truth
Sept. 27, 2017
Dr. Nickolas Jordan, Associate Dean of the Reich College of Education and licensed marriage and family therapist, gets real about getting real, taking risks, screwing up and - very importantly - staying in relationship.
From turtles to town hall: SECU Public Fellows Internship at ASU
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Sept. 27, 2017
Jordan Boles entered ASU as a fully-supported ACCESS Scholar, became an employee at ASU’s Office of International Education and Development, and is now president of the Alpha Phi sorority chapter, to name just a few of her successes. Boles has made the most of her college experience—and the same can be said of her SECU Public Fellows Internship.
Appalachian’s Truman Capote scholarship winner and runner-up announced
Sept. 25, 2017
Madelyn Marie Kittle, a senior majoring in English with a concentration in creative writing and film studies, has been awarded Appalachian State University’s 2017-18 Truman Capote Literary Trust Award for Creative Writing.
Dave by the Bell: Constitution Week and You
Sept. 21, 2017
How App State students feel about the constitution might surprise you...but then again it might not...it's 50/50. Listen and find out.
Appalachian’s NSF-funded scanning electron microscope supports undergraduate research
Sept. 21, 2017
The National Science Foundation, through a major research instrumentation program grant, awarded the College of Arts and Sciences’ Dewel Microscopy Facility at Appalachian State University $562,842 for a new scanning electron microscope (SEM).
Appalachian’s Humanities Council Symposium ‘Sustaining Democracy: Existence, Persistence, Resistance’ Sept. 29
Sept. 19, 2017
The Humanities Council under the College of Arts and Sciences at Appalachian State University will present a symposium titled “Sustaining Democracy: Existence, Persistence, Resistance.” Admission is free and the event is open to the community.
Alumna Profile: Morgan Ledford ’17
Sept. 19, 2017
This public health major is now the positive parenting implementation coordinator at AppHealthCare, the local county health department.
Author Randall Kenan speaks in Appalachian’s Visiting Writers Series
Sept. 19, 2017
The Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series at Appalachian State University will continue with two presentations by Randall Kenan. His award-winning fiction and nonfiction strives to illuminate black America in ways that challenge perceptions and bring into consideration ideas not previously considered.
Drs. Zach and Alisha Farris address conservation and health crises in Madagascar
Sept. 18, 2017
Research by Drs. Zach and Alisha Farris is sustaining ecosytems, improving animal and human health and providing learning opportunities. They are ‘living like they mean it.’
Five Appalachian legacy first-year students earn Alumni Memorial Scholarships
Sept. 15, 2017
Five first-year students at Appalachian State University have received an Alumni Memorial Scholarship (AMS), awarded by the Appalachian Alumni Association to children of the university’s graduates. The recipients are Hannah Marie Dalness, Amanda Fields, Ethan Hahn, Alexander McGuire and Michael Williams.
Appalachian senior serves as student liaison to UNC Board of Governors
Sept. 15, 2017
As the new president of the University of North Carolina Association of Student Governments (UNCASG), Appalachian State University senior Tyler Hardin hopes to use his position to bring more student voices to the UNC Board of Governors.
Jeremy Jones, nonfiction writer, to open Appalachian’s Visiting Writers Series
Sept. 15, 2017
The Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series at Appalachian State University will resume with two presentations by Jeremy B. Jones, an award-winning writer of creative nonfiction.
Appalachian music grad teaching, playing trumpet in Cairo
Sept. 15, 2017
A degree from Appalachian State University can take you anywhere you want to go. Ask Trestan Peck ’15, a music teacher and trumpeter who studied at Appalachian’s Hayes School of Music. Or, look him up the next time you visit Cairo, his home for the last couple of years.
Dr. Eric Frauman keeps education ‘relevant, engaging and memorable’
Sept. 14, 2017
Appalachian State University’s Dr. Eric Frauman engages recreation management students with literature and encourages them to be informed and affect change.
Dr. Timothy J. Smith — a teacher-scholar of Latin America
Sept. 14, 2017
Teaching and research go hand in hand. A scholar of indigenous representation and politics in Latin America, Dr. Timothy J. Smith is dedicated to both.
What two South African geographers learned from Nelson Mandela about rugby, restitution and removing monuments
Sept. 14, 2017
On this SoundAffect podcast, two South African geographers share what they learned from Nelson Mandela about rugby, restitution and removing monuments.