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Topic: Alumni

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  • Educators inducted into Reich College of Education Rhododendron Society
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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.

  • Alumnus Trevor McKenzie turned his childhood interest in Appalachia into a career
    Alumnus Trevor McKenzie turned his childhood interest in Appalachia into a career
    May 26, 2016

    Trevor McKenzie ’10 ’12 earned degrees in history and Appalachian studies and now works as an archivist at Appalachian State University.

  • May 2016 Commencement Video
    May 2016 Commencement Video
    May 19, 2016

    Appalachian State University is known for close collaboration between faculty and students, and superb faculty mentorship. In this piece from May 2016 Commencement, students share their memories of their favorite professors, and faculty share why they are passionate about imparting knowledge.

  • May 2016 Commencement Photos
    May 2016 Commencement Photos
    May 19, 2016

    A total of 3,088 undergraduate students and 329 graduate students received degrees during Appalachian State University’s May 2016 Commencement. Chancellor Sheri N. Everts told them, “Thank you for being part of our Appalachian community. Please know you will always be a part of this great university, as you are our most enduring legacy.”

  • Commencement remarks focus on memories and what’s next
    Commencement remarks focus on memories and what’s next
    May 14, 2016

    Appalachian State University’s six commencement ceremonies began Friday, May 13, with Chancellor Sheri N. Everts telling graduates, “Thank you for being part of our Appalachian community. Please know you will always be a part of this great university, as you are our most enduring legacy.”

  • Ready to lead: Appalachian students commissioned as military officers
    Ready to lead: Appalachian students commissioned as military officers
    May 13, 2016

    Thirteen cadets were commissioned as second lieutenants at a ceremony held May 13 on campus. The students are members of Appalachian State University’s Mountaineer Battalion, the Department of Military Science and Leadership’s ROTC program.

  • Appalachian alumnus David Furr nominated for Tony Award
    Appalachian alumnus David Furr nominated for Tony Award
    May 9, 2016

    David Furr, a 1994 graduate of Appalachian State University who is originally from Greensboro, is a 2016 Tony Award nominee for his performance in “Noises Off,” a Broadway comedy by English playwright Michael Frayn.

  • Commencement ceremonies to be held May 13 and 14
    Commencement ceremonies to be held May 13 and 14
    May 2, 2016

    Commencement ceremonies will be held at Appalachian State University Friday, May 13, and Saturday, May 14, in six separate events.

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