“Power of Design” is an annual event that brings together students, faculty and members of the professional community in disciplines such as interior design, graphic design, industrial design, architectural design, theater design and photography.

The film explores the history of Western North Carolina’s worst natural disaster. One hundred years ago this past July, 22 inches of rain fell in a 24-hour period, raising the French Broad River 17 feet above flood stage and causing extensive flooding throughout the western part of the state.

The symposium will feature two plenary speakers: Dr. Christopher Teuton, who chairs the American Indian Studies department at the University of Washington; and Dr. Janice Willis, a professor emerita of religion at Wesleyan University.

Both Sage and Small are first-year computer science majors. Each receives a $4,000 per year scholarship in addition to $500 each year for materials such as software or a computer application for research, which the ECRS scholarship promotes.

Dr. Alicia Chapman, oboe and English horn, and Dr. Karen Robertson, horn, will be featured in a faculty concert.

The inductees were Dr. Kim Blackburn-Morrison ’93 ’10, Bob M. Mauldin ’61 and Dawn B. Wooten ’89.

Alumna Betty S. Telford shares memories of Boone, Appalachian State University and her aunt, Nurse Mary S. Shook.

The Appalachian Wind Ensemble will present “A Concert in Celebration of Life” for Dr. William A. Gora, its former music director.