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App State Staff Shout Out program announces Sandi Jones as June drawing winner
July 30, 2020
Jones, who serves as the senior budgeting and contracting supervisor in Appalachian’s Division of Academic Affairs, is one of more than 1,200 individual Appalachian staff members who have been recognized as of June 30 for their Shout Out-worthy service to the university.
Laura Padgett ’02 wins May drawing of App State Staff Shout Out program
July 29, 2020
Padgett, who is director of graduate enrolled student services and development in Appalachian’s Cratis D. Williams School of Graduate Studies, is one more than 1,200 individual Appalachian staff members who have been recognized as of June 30 for their Shout Out-worthy service to the university.
2 App State students receive awards for creative poetry, prose on life amid COVID-19
July 29, 2020
Appalachian senior Abigail Miles and alumna Barclay Ann Blankenship ’20 are the recipients of Appalachian’s inaugural David Hodgin English Award. They will each receive a $350 scholarship and their creative works will be published in Appalachian’s literary journal, Cold Mountain Review.
2 App State professors earn undergraduate student recognition for mentorship
July 24, 2020
Appalachian professors Dr. Howard Neufeld and Dr. Megen Culpepper, recipients of the Office of Student Research’s 2020 Undergraduate Research Mentorship Excellence Award, share the rewards of student mentoring.
‘Leading in a Time of Transformation’: 4 App State faculty selected for women’s leadership development program
July 22, 2020
Appalachian’s Dr. Megen Culpepper, Dr. Leah Hamilton, Dr. Vicky Klima and Dr. Rachel Wilson have been accepted into the 2020 BRIDGES Academic Leadership for Women program. The theme of this year’s program is “Leading in a Time of Transformation.”
Interim director named for App State’s Center for Appalachian Studies and Appalachian studies academic program
July 21, 2020
Dr. Conrad E. “Ozzie” Ostwalt, professor of religious studies at Appalachian, has been appointed interim director of the university’s Center for Appalachian Studies and Appalachian studies academic program. Ostwalt assumed his new role July 1.
‘A history told by the people’: ‘Junaluska: Oral Histories’ features Boone’s historic Black community
Watauga Democrat
July 21, 2020
Appalachian’s Belk Library and Information Commons hosted an online book talk on “Junaluska: Oral Histories of a Black Appalachian Community,” a collection of narratives from Boone’s historically Black community edited by Dr. Susan Keefe. The retired Department of Anthropology professor worked closely with the community since the 1970s.
Campus emergency siren test to be conducted Aug. 5
July 21, 2020
During the test, Appalachian uses the hi/low tone for emergencies, discontinuous air horn for tests of the system and the alert tone for all-clear signal.
3-year-old finds his voice through App State’s Communication Disorders Clinic
July 17, 2020
By working with speech-language pathologists in Appalachian’s Communication Disorders Clinic, a 3-year-old child diagnosed with severe childhood apraxia of speech is learning to communicate. The speech therapy has given him the ability to call his mother “mama” for the first time.
App State’s NRLP awarded $1.1M-plus in grant funding for Payne Branch restoration project
July 16, 2020
Thanks to a second awarded grant, Appalachian’s New River Light and Power has received more than $1.1 million to complete an environmental restoration project at the site of the Payne Branch dam on New River. The work will begin the week of July 20.
Learning in the High Country — beyond the classroom
July 15, 2020
Western North Carolina’s High Country region is rich with economic and environmental ecosystems, and its peaks and valleys create a living laboratory for exploration, research and fun. Read on to learn about the abundant opportunities the university’s regional setting affords Mountaineers.
New River Light and Power encourages customers to schedule services online in advance
July 15, 2020
Due to concerns related to COVID-19, Appalachian State University’s New River Light and Power (NRLP) is asking new customers and customers transferring service this summer to use its online forms to schedule a connection and/or disconnection in advance.
App State art professor awarded fellowship for book on spatial history of British colonial prisons in India
July 13, 2020
Appalachian art professor Dr. Mira Rai Waits has been named a 2020 American Council of Learned Societies Fellow for her book project “Colonial Carcerality: The Birth of the Modern Prison in India,” which explores the spatial history of British colonial prisons in India.
Former students, colleagues praise Dr. Randy Edwards in virtual retirement send-off
July 13, 2020
Appalachian State University hosts a virtual retirement send-off for Dr. Randy Edwards honoring his 37 years of service to the university and its students.
Interns Seek Solutions to Isolation During the Summer of Coronavirus [student quoted]
Wall Street Journal
July 12, 2020
Appalachian State University senior Katie Garceran is among Washington, D.C., interns quoted on their need for greater communication, and sense of unity, in this unusual experience so they don’t feel alone. The article includes five ways to improve remote internships.
Sellers joins App State’s Intercultural Student Affairs
July 10, 2020
Lamont A. Sellers, the former senior diversity officer at the University of South Dakota, is the new director of intercultural student affairs at Appalachian State University as of July 1.
App State provides meals and masks to community partners amid COVID-19 pandemic
July 10, 2020
During the COVID-19 pandemic, App State has provided meals, masks and an inventory of deployable resources to local community partners, including AppHealthCare and Watauga County Emergency Services.
App State announces appointment of senior director of admissions
July 10, 2020
Kimberly Holley, who comes to Appalachian from North Carolina State University, has 15 years of experience in college admissions. She has worked with students from marginalized populations while assisting organizations with improving their overall diversity enrollment.