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The Great Solar Eclipse of 2017
July 26, 2017
On Aug. 21, a solar eclipse will occur over the United States. Appalachian State University’s College of Arts and Sciences and Department of Physics and Astronomy have been working for months to share the experience with the campus and community.
Find Your Sustain Ability: Former Head of EPA Gina McCarthy
July 21, 2017
Gina McCarthy discusses what it was like to be in charge of 15,000 people at the EPA and shares why she remains hopeful about our nation and our world.
Campus emergency siren test to be conducted Aug. 2
July 21, 2017
Appalachian State University will test its campus siren warning system at 11:55 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 2.
Mandela Fellows hone leadership skills in the High Country, experience the Appalachian Community
July 21, 2017
The Mandela Washington Fellows are highly accomplished young professionals from sub-Saharan Africa who are expanding their leadership skills at Appalachian, while also inspiring the campus community.
Meet the 2017 Mandela Washington Fellows
July 20, 2017
Who are the Mandela fellows? You will discover Appalachian’s cohort of fellows are effecting innovation and positive change and their ambitions for the future are as big and diverse as the continent of Africa.
Chibutu to ‘ignite’ Boone and Washington with talk illustrating servant leadership
July 20, 2017
Mandela fellow Henry Chibutu of Zambia will deliver an “Ignite” talk during the closing group ceremonies of the 2017 Mandela Washington Fellowship at Appalachian State University.
Action plans in action
2016 Mandela Fellows share their successes and strategies
July 20, 2017
Here are two examples of the influence Appalachian State University has had on the young and promising African leaders who spend six weeks on campus as part of the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. Faith Tanui of Kenya and Dr. Issoufa Bachir Bounou of Niger participated in 2016.
Community event helps students prepare for school year
Mooresville Tribune
July 19, 2017
In less than two weeks, the annual Back to School Bash in Mooresville will holds its seventh year of preparing students for a new school year with free school supplies, shoes and other necessities. Layne Smith, director of this year’s B2SB, has been with the program since the beginning, seeing it grow under her mother’s direction when it was first founded in 2011 to now.
Coding camp lays groundwork for college
Asheville Citizen-Times
July 19, 2017
Mod Design Camp, a summer camp offered by Appalachian State University at Madison Middle School in Marshall, N.C., helped the students design and code within the popular computer game, Minecraft. Madison County Schools are in the third year of a seven-year GEAR Up grant which aims to get more local students to continue their education after high school.
Thwarting Human Traffickers
Alumni Matt and Laura Parker run a nonprofit that helps find and free slaves
July 18, 2017
Appalachian graduates’ non-profit has facilitated rescue of more than 800 slaves.
Summer Symposium Aug. 5-10 will focus on global history and complex connections in remembering the Holocaust and crises today
July 18, 2017
The 16th Annual Martin and Doris Rosen Summer Symposium on “Remembering the Holocaust” will put a particular emphasis on the Holocaust as an event in global history and explores the complex connections between the Jewish refugee crisis of the 1930s and early 1940s with the present refugee crises around the world.
Robert Netherland to present on his book ‘Southern Appalachian Farm Cooking’ July 26
July 17, 2017
Robert Netherland will share his interpretation of southern cooking in the Appalachian Mountains during a library-sponsored author talk.
Appalachian’s Rosen Sculpture Walk highlights contemporary sculpture at An Appalachian Summer Festival
July 14, 2017
Award-winning sculptor Gregory Elliot, who selected the sculptures for the 31st Rosen Sculpture Competition and Exhibition, will announce winners and offer insights into his choices when he leads the Rosen Sculpture Walk with the juror.
Alumna Profile: Erin Donohue ’17
July 14, 2017
Donohue’s summer internship after her junior year led to full-time employment with South Carolina’s Wikoff Color Corporation by the time she graduated.
Alumna Profile: McKenzie Quattlebaum ’16
July 14, 2017
A branded merchandise manager at Classic, a large commercial print company based in Charlotte, she is responsible for helping her clients find specialty advertising products that meet their business needs.
Urban revitalizationist Majora Carter champions ‘people energy’ at Appalachian Energy Summit
July 13, 2017
In her address at the 2017 Appalachian Energy Summit, Majora Carter suggested her work in urban revitalization befitted a summit on energy. She spoke about the energy of people – which she called “an incredibly powerful, renewable resource.”
Great American Total Solar Eclipse To Travel Through Western NC on Aug. 21
High Country Press
July 13, 2017
Dan Caton, professor and director of observatories at Appalachian State University in the Department of Astronomy and Physics, encourages everyone to try to venture into that 70-mile wide path on the afternoon of Aug. 21.
'Mountain of God' Volcano Preparing to Erupt
The East African peak looms over a modern city as well as three major sites featuring signs of early humans.
National Geographic
July 13, 2017
An active volcano in northeastern Tanzania, known as Ol Doinyo Lengai, could threaten Engare Sero, a site of ancient Homo sapiens footprints recently studied by Appalachian State University geologist Cynthia Liutkus-Pierce.