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Appalachian welcomes alumni, celebrates students during Homecoming 2016
Senior Pooja Adial of Four Oaks named ‘Top of the Rock’ student
Oct. 25, 2016
During Appalachian State University’s 2016 Homecoming celebration, alumni and families joined students, faculty and staff for a weeklong celebration. Pooja Adial, a senior cellular/molecular biology major, was named the inaugural “Top of the Rock” recipient.
Appalachian alumni from Boone, Salisbury and Charlotte honored Oct. 21
Oct. 21, 2016
Susan M. Branch ’99 of Charlotte was awarded the university’s Young Alumni Award; the Outstanding Service Award was presented to D. Kenan Smith ’84 and E. Hayes Smith ’82 of Salisbury; and James M. Deal Jr. ’71 of Boone was granted the Distinguished Alumni Award.
Appalachian State University to celebrate homecoming week Oct. 17-22
Oct. 14, 2016
Appalachian State University will welcome alumni and friends to join in a week of homecoming festivities.
Coopers, Maness receive Honorary Alumni Awards at Appalachian State University
Oct. 11, 2016
Appalachian State University presented the Alumni Association’s Honorary Alumni Award to Faye and John Cooper of Valle Crucis and The Honorable Roy James Maness of Troy during a Sept. 30 celebration at the university’s Appalachian House.
What previous Chancellor’s Scholars are doing now
Oct. 10, 2016
Here is a look at where recent graduates of Appalachian State University’s Chancellor’s Scholarship have headed after graduation.
Charlotte skyline a steady beacon for Carolina Panthers coach Wilks ’92
Oct. 6, 2016
From Mountaineer football to the Carolina Panthers, Steve Wilks ’92 steps from center field to the sidelines as defensive backs coach in the NFL.
Susan M. Branch ’99
Distinguished Young Alumna
Oct. 6, 2016
According to Branch, a successful attorney who serves on the university’s Board of Trustees, “I took advantage of everything Appalachian had to offer.”
Educators inducted into Reich College of Education Rhododendron Society
Oct. 4, 2016
The inductees were Dr. Kim Blackburn-Morrison ’93 ’10, Bob M. Mauldin ’61 and Dawn B. Wooten ’89.
Connell sets her eye on Beaver College of Health Sciences master’s program
Aug. 26, 2016
In May, Leah Connell ’16 accepted her diploma, a bachelor’s degree in communications sciences and disorders from the Beaver College of Health Sciences. She said her experience at the university exceeded expectations.
Oncology nurse Sheets ’14 returns to serve Boone
Running her own show
Aug. 25, 2016
ACCESS alumna Hannah Sheets Adams ’14 joins Watauga Medical Center’s radiation oncology department. “Giving my patients my all is a big deal to me.”
Alumnus Profile: Joshua Whitehead ’17
Aug. 5, 2016
As a student, Whitehead won Appalachian’s Truman Capote Literary Trust Award in Creative Writing. Now, he’s in the Master of Fine Arts program at McNeese State University.
Appalachian alumna named N.C. French Teacher of the Year
July 14, 2016
Laura Parker, a 2011 graduate of Appalachian State University’s Master of Arts program in romance languages, was recently named the North Carolina French Teacher of the Year by the North Carolina Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French (NC-AATF). Parker teaches French at Burns High School in Lawndale.
Appalachian alumnus follows vigorous path to Johns Hopkins Hospital clinical cardiac electrophysiology fellowship
July 12, 2016
The rigors of balancing academics and athletics as an undergraduate gave Dr. Zachary Hollis ’02 the foundation to make well-informed career decisions, he said. The mental toughness he developed served him well during the past 14 years as he forged an advanced medical career to become a clinical cardiac electrophysiology fellow at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Mob Museum: Breaking Bad Installation
July 4, 2016
In recognition of Breaking Bad, a modern-day saga of organized crime, The Mob Museum will ... debut a permanent display of a yellow hazmat suit worn by series star Bryan Cranston — in scenes where Walter White was cooking meth — plus a pair of gas masks and a rubber apron used in the show.
Making History at the Mob Museum
Appalachian State University history majors find dream jobs in Vegas discover a fellow Mountaineer, just a cubicle away
July 4, 2016
Are there jobs for a history major? You bet! The opportunities are rife. Learn how two Appalachian graduates from the Department of History found dream jobs and a fellow Mountaineer at the Las Vegas Mob Museum.
Step inside the Mob Museum
Take a photographic tour of the Las Vegas Mob Museum courtesy of two Appalachian State University grads who live and breathe mob history.
July 4, 2016
Against all odds and unbeknownst to each other, two Appalachian State University grads landed leadership jobs at the Las Vegas Mob Museum, a unique collection of mob culture and history. Take a visual tour here of the museum exhibits and read more about their careers here.
Welcome to the Mob Museum - Two Appalachian grads take you behind the scenes
July 4, 2016
Las Vegas Mob Museum is a repository of the extraordinary and unexpected. The actual wall that caught the bullets from the 1929 St. Valentine’s Day massacre is there. So is the hazmat suit Bryan Cranston wore in his role as Walter White in the hit AMC series “Breaking Bad.” A larger-than-life Dick Tracy cutout, complete with yellow hat and drawn Colt .45, stands guard over one of the exhibits, a pixelated reminder that crime does not pay. But the capper, the big surprise? Against all odds, even in a betting town, two public history majors from Appalachian State University – 2,500 miles to the east – discovered each other working just two cubicles apart.
Alumna Rebecca Jones turned her Appalachian degrees into a position with filmmaker Ken Burns
May 26, 2016
Alumna Rebecca Jones turned her time in Appalachian’s Department of Communication and Center for Appalachian Studies into a position with filmmaker Ken Burns.