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  • Study abroad fosters critical and creative thinking
    Study abroad fosters critical and creative thinking
    Dec. 17, 2012

    Appalachian's undergraduate and graduate degree programs are preparing graduates to be critical, creative and global professionals.

  • Melanie Whitaker '01: A passion for travel leads to overseas success
    Melanie Whitaker '01: A passion for travel leads to overseas success
    Dec. 17, 2012

    Melanie Whitaker '01 is the learning and development manager for the Dorchester Collection, three, five-star luxury hotels in the United Kingdom. She oversees training and development for more than 1,100 employees. A study abroad opportunity led her to discover a passion that developed her career.

  • Appalachian Abroad: Dublin, London and Valencia 2012
    Appalachian Abroad: Dublin, London and Valencia 2012
    Dec. 17, 2012

    Appalachian's undergraduate and graduate degree programs are preparing graduates to be critical, creative and global professionals. Here are examples of students' international explorations during fall break 2012.

  • Global Learning at Appalachian
    Global Learning at Appalachian

    ‘Multiple and varied’ experiences are central for students in new plan

    Dec. 15, 2012

    A five-year plan called “Global Learning: A World of Opportunities for Appalachian Students,” to be implemented beginning in the 2013-14 academic year, emphasizes strengthened activities which are offered both at home and abroad and earlier in a student’s college career.

  • Professor earns award for water research
    Professor earns award for water research
    Dec. 11, 2012

    People might assume that water in the mountains is pristine, but the local headwaters are increasingly at risk from urbanization, according to Appalachian State University’s Dr. Chuanhui Gu. He is determining to what extent local streams are harmed by pollutants and other change.

  • International spring break: choose the alternative
    International spring break: choose the alternative
    Dec. 5, 2012

    Make your own chocolate at a cocoa farm in Belize, live in the rain forests of Costa Rica, hike the countryside of Ecuador, visit ancient Inca ruins in Peru, or explore indigenous cultures in Guatemala - do the "alternative" over spring break.

  • 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.

  • New state poet laureate pens poem for veterans
    New state poet laureate pens poem for veterans
    Nov. 10, 2012

    N.C. Poet Laureate and Appalachian professor Joseph Bathanti writes a Veterans Day poem to honor those who have served.

  • 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.

  • Partnership benefits Appalachian and N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences
    Partnership benefits Appalachian and N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences
    Aug. 2, 2012

    Students recover fossils in Arizona to help the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences build its Triassic collection and understand our own state's geologic record.

  • Internships Make a Difference: Tyler Branch in New York
    Internships Make a Difference: Tyler Branch in New York
    Aug. 1, 2012

    Tyler Branch '12 leveraged his lab and campus experience at Appalachian into a coveted internship with 'Saturday Night Live.'

  • Tyler Branch: Internships make a difference
    Tyler Branch: Internships make a difference
    Aug. 1, 2012

    Tyler Branch wishes more students would take risks. Not the kind of risks one might immediately think of when considering risk-taking behavior and college, but the kind that pay off—big time—like winning not one but two of New York City's most coveted television internships.

  • UNC campuses gather to develop energy savings initiatives
    UNC campuses gather to develop energy savings initiatives
    July 13, 2012

    Sustainable energy expert Amory Lovins leads UNC institutions in a better understanding of how to reduce energy consumption on their campuses.

  • Appalachian Energy Summit 2012
    Appalachian Energy Summit 2012
    July 13, 2012

    The UNC system has taken numerous strides toward addressing a state mandate to reduce energy consumption 30 percent by 2015, but greater cultural change is needed, university officials said during presentations at the Appalachian Energy Summit held July 9-11, 2012 at Appalachian State University.

  • Energy Summit 2012 participant comments: Dr. Jamie Russell
    Energy Summit 2012 participant comments: Dr. Jamie Russell
    July 13, 2012

    The UNC system has taken numerous strides toward addressing a state mandate to reduce energy consumption 30 percent by 2015, but greater cultural change is needed, university officials said during presentations at the Appalachian Energy Summita> held July 9-11 at Appalachian State University.

  • Alternative energy and other measures help UNC system campuses reduce energy costs
    Alternative energy and other measures help UNC system campuses reduce energy costs
    July 12, 2012

    Wind energy, geothermal systems, photovoltaic systems and use of methane gas are just some of the ways UNC system campuses are reducing their energy costs.

  • Scientists, students and Quechua community partner to understand climate change
    Scientists, students and Quechua community partner to understand climate change
    June 28, 2012

    Every morning, 13-year old Nelson Crispin takes a short walk from his home at 13,800 feet through frosty fields to record climate data collected by instruments installed in the Cordillera Vilcanota mountain range in Peru.

  • Business faculty honored for excellence in teaching, research and service
    Business faculty honored for excellence in teaching, research and service
    June 20, 2012

    Four Appalachian State University faculty members in the Walker College of Business have received the college’s 2012 Sywassink Award for Excellence.

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