Topic: Arts and Humanities

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App State grad’s theatre arts education enhanced by work ‘behind the scenes’
Jan. 24, 2020
Appalachian alumna Glenn Ramey ’19 worked as a student part time for three years at the university’s Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts. She now applies her experience and education to her position at the Explore Asheville Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Appalachian art and visual culture major illustrates the value of on-campus jobs and internship
Jan. 14, 2020
Senior Gabrielle Knight enhances her art and visual culture major with on-campus jobs and an internship at Appalachian’s art galleries.
Archaeology | Hopewells’ culture touched other native peoples throughout North America [faculty featured]
The Columbus Dispatch
Jan. 12, 2020
In her new book, “Garden Creek: the Archaeology of Interaction in Middle Woodland Appalachia,” Appalachian State University archaeologist Dr. Alice Wright offers a look at the cultural exchange and interaction of American Indians in Ohio.
Elizabethton Parks and Rec have improvement plans for new year [student project mentioned]
Johnson City Press
Jan. 7, 2020
Elizabethton Parks and Recreation Department in Tennessee has plans for the coming year, including future development of the Covered Bridge Park thanks to a detailed study by students of Appalachian State University.
Sarah Mosseller ’10 thrives at LA creative agency
Jan. 6, 2020
Meet Sarah Mosseller ’10, a triple major at Appalachian who now works at David&Goliath creative agency in Los Angeles.
Lighting up the stage: How Appalachian prepared Cat Tate Starmer ’98 for an award-winning career
Dec. 20, 2019
Hands-on experience in Appalachian’s theaters prepared Cat Tate Starmer ’98 for an award-winning career in lighting design.
Find Your Sustain Ability: Amory Lovins explains how “off-the-shelf technologies” and integrated design can achieve energy and cost efficiency
Nov. 27, 2019
“Buildings ought to create delight when entered and satisfaction, health, happiness (and) productivity when occupied. Regret when departed. They ought to look like they grew there.” — Amory Lovins, chief scientist at the Rocky Mountain Institute, on integrated design goals for the built environment.
American Council of Learned Societies funds App State anthropological research of Navajo Nation
Nov. 26, 2019
Powell, assistant professor in Appalachian’s Department of Anthropology, is using her ACLS funding to collaborate with Diné community experts in the Navajo Nation to explore human–water relationships and the impact of climate change on the region.
15 countries, 6 continents — go globe-trotting with ‘Mountaineers Abroad’
App State announces winning photos of International Education Week Photo Contest
Nov. 26, 2019
Appalachian’s Office of International Education and Development announces the winners and runners-up of its 2019 International Education Week Photo Contest. The photos, taken by Appalachian faculty, staff and students, span 15 countries and six continents.
UNC-TV to air App State documentary on Dulatown — a Caldwell County community of black and white kith and kin
Nov. 20, 2019
African American and white descendants of a slave and her white owner live as kin in a Caldwell County community known as Dulatown. A new Mountaineers-produced documentary chronicles their story.
Dr. Beverly Moser receives Honorary Life Member Award from Foreign Language Association of NC
Nov. 18, 2019
The award recognizes Moser, a professor of German and TESL/applied linguistics, for her years of service to foreign language education in North Carolina and the Appalachian region. Moser has taught at Appalachian more than 20 years.
App State poet Dr. Kathryn Kirkpatrick wins 2019 Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry
Nov. 12, 2019
Kirkpatrick received the Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry for her newest poetry collection — “The Fisher Queen.” She is a two-time winner of the award, having first won the award in 2004 for her collection “Beyond Reason.”
App State student presents Latina deportation research at national conference
Nov. 11, 2019
Anna Biache, a senior sociology major, presented findings about Latina deportation trends at the Association of Humanist Sociology’s annual conference in El Paso, Texas. Her research was conducted in collaboration with Appalachian sociology professors Dr. Felicia Arriaga and Dr. Cameron Lippard.
App State faculty earn record number of Fulbright awards for university
Nov. 1, 2019
Six nations are represented by Appalachian’s record number of Fulbright awards, which are designed to enhance global relations and problem-solving.
Creative writing professor Mark Powell awarded Fulbright for teaching and research in Romania
Nov. 1, 2019
Powell, professor of creative writing at Appalachian, will teach a course on contemporary U.S. literature at Ovidious University of Constanta, in Romania, during spring 2020, as well as conduct research for his seventh novel.
Fulbright awardee Dr. Christina Verano Sornito-Carter to conduct heritage conservation and disaster management research in the Philippines
Nov. 1, 2019
Appalachian’s Sornito-Carter, an assistant professor of anthropology, will travel to the University of the Philippines Visayas in August 2020 to complete Fulbright research on heritage conservation and disaster management in relation to climate change in the Philippines.
Appalachian State debuts vegan station [campus unit featured]
Food Management
Oct. 31, 2019
Campus Dining’s move to a totally vegan meal station in Roess Dining Hall has been a resounding success. Christened Terra Verde (“green Earth”), the station is generating double the sales of its predecessor, Healthy Select, which had menued vegan and vegetarian fare alongside other dishes that did contain animal proteins but which were still deemed healthy.
Mystery surrounds ancient toad bones found in NC mountains. Where are the heads? [faculty featured]
The News & Observer
Oct. 31, 2019
Anthropology professor Dr. Thomas Whyte solves the mystery of the headless toads.

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