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Topic: Arts and Humanities

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  • Freiman family donates more than $2 million to App State
    Freiman family donates more than $2 million to App State

    Gifts benefit An Appalachian Summer Festival and University Libraries

    July 5, 2022

    The Freiman family has donated more than $2 million to App State in support of An Appalachian Summer Festival and University Libraries. The gifts were given in memory of Larry Freiman — who passed away in 2021 — by his wife, Barbara, and their children and grandchildren.

  • App State commercial photography alumnus photographs Tokyo Olympics
    App State commercial photography alumnus photographs Tokyo Olympics
    May 31, 2022

    Daniel Gajda ’20 has turned his passion into a career, working as a professional freelance photographer after earning his B.S. in commercial photography from App State. He was able to put his skills to practice in summer 2021, photographing Tokyo’s Sport Climbing Olympics.

  • ‘Cold Mountain Shadow’ — App State music therapy student wins scholarship for original song
    ‘Cold Mountain Shadow’ — App State music therapy student wins scholarship for original song

    Renee Yong was one of 5 international student winners worldwide in the Make Your Mark International Scholarship Contest

    May 5, 2022

    App State music therapy student Renee Yong was one of five students worldwide to win a scholarship in the fall 2021 Make Your Mark International Scholarship Contest, for her song “Cold Mountain Shadow.” Post-graduation, she aims to research music therapy treatments for depression.

  • Ode to Appalachia: An ASU Student Led Dining Experience Partnership with The Beacon Butcher Bar
    Ode to Appalachia: An ASU Student Led Dining Experience Partnership with The Beacon Butcher Bar
    High Country Press
    April 22, 2022

    Sixteen Appalachian State University art students worked alongside The Beacon Butcher Bar to celebrate Appalachia and the Boone community by creating a shared meal and handmade tableware project.

  • Food physicist offers Earth Day cooking tips [faculty featured]
    Food physicist offers Earth Day cooking tips [faculty featured]
    Yale Climate Connections
    April 21, 2022

    Yale Climate Connections highlights Carla Ramsdell, pre-engineering advisor and practitioner in residence in App State's Department of Physics and Astronomy, and her seven-part Sustainable Food Cooking Challenge video series.

  • ‘Junaluska: Oral Histories of a Black Appalachian Community’ selected for 2022–23 Common Reading Program
    ‘Junaluska: Oral Histories of a Black Appalachian Community’ selected for 2022–23 Common Reading Program

    All incoming App State first-year and transfer students will receive a copy during orientation.

    March 23, 2022

    All incoming first-year and transfer students will receive a copy of “Junaluska: Oral Histories of a Black Appalachian Community” during their orientation sessions as part of App State’s 2022–23 Common Reading Program.

  • App State’s Dr. Reeves Shulstad receives 2022 UNC Board of Governors Excellence in Teaching Award
    App State’s Dr. Reeves Shulstad receives 2022 UNC Board of Governors Excellence in Teaching Award

    Six other faculty receive campus-based awards for innovative teaching methods

    March 23, 2022

    Dr. Reeves Shulstad continually fine-tunes her teaching to engage and transform her students through discussion-based music courses. Shulstad is the 2022 recipient of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors Excellence in Teaching Award for App State.

  • 3 renowned, NC-connected authors to visit App State this spring
    3 renowned, NC-connected authors to visit App State this spring
    March 21, 2022

    Three renowned authors — Robert Morgan, Annie Woodford and Megan Mayhew Bergman — will visit App State’s campus, in person and virtually, this spring as part of the university’s Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series.

  • C.D. Spangler Foundation’s $2M gift funds literacy professorship at App State
    C.D. Spangler Foundation’s $2M gift funds literacy professorship at App State

    Spangler Distinguished Professor of Early Child Literacy is first named professorship in Reich College of Education

    Feb. 16, 2022

    A $2 million gift from the C.D. Spangler Foundation has established the Spangler Distinguished Professorship of Early Child Literacy at Appalachian State University, the first named professorship in App State’s Reich College of Education.

  • Cut from a different cloth: App State alumnus Mitch Purgason ’15 stitches his way to fashion’s forefront
    Cut from a different cloth: App State alumnus Mitch Purgason ’15 stitches his way to fashion’s forefront
    Feb. 14, 2022

    Mountaineer alumnus Mitch Purgason ’15 stitches his way to award-winning success, designing custom clothing for professional athletes, executives and fashion influencers.

  • Pandemic experiences inspired Jeffrey Dean Foster’s latest album
    Pandemic experiences inspired Jeffrey Dean Foster’s latest album
    Sep. 24, 2021

    Musician Jeffrey Dean Foster ’82, who formed his first band while a student at Appalachian State University, has released an album inspired by the pandemic.

  • Finally, a Lot of Classical Music and Opera to Hear This Season [faculty mentioned]
    Finally, a Lot of Classical Music and Opera to Hear This Season [faculty mentioned]
    The New York Times
    Sep. 17, 2021

    This fall preview by The New York Times mentions Hayes School of Music lecturer Dr. Nicholas Cline, whose work was slated to be performed by the acclaimed choir The Crossing in Philadelphia.

  • 4 lauded Appalachian authors to visit App State as part of fall 2021 Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series
    4 lauded Appalachian authors to visit App State as part of fall 2021 Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series
    Sep. 13, 2021

    Four award-winning authors will visit App State’s campus in fall 2021 as part of the university’s Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series.

  • App State Community Music School launches new fall classes in Boone and Hudson
    App State Community Music School launches new fall classes in Boone and Hudson
    Aug. 19, 2021

    Musicians of all ages and experience levels in Boone and Hudson can enjoy music classes through App State’s Community Music School (CMS). For fall 2021, CMS is launching new group classes at two locations: App State’s Broyhill Music Center and the HUB Station Arts Center in Hudson. All private lessons are offered online.

  • App State and Cone Estate connection spans 100-plus years, yields academic and engagement opportunities
    App State and Cone Estate connection spans 100-plus years, yields academic and engagement opportunities
    Aug. 6, 2021

    App State’s location in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina opens avenues of academic and civic engagement particular to the area. The university’s partnership with the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park in Blowing Rock — spanning more than a century — is a good example.

  • App State students design and produce award-winning wine labels — cheers!
    App State students design and produce award-winning wine labels — cheers!
    July 26, 2021

    A new family of wines developed by App State students and faculty has an award-winning look, with labels designed and printed by students in the graphic communications management program. The labels won second place in the 2021 Phoenix Challenge — a college competition between graphic communications students across North America.

  • Alumna, professor and award-winning poet shares her Mountaineer journey
    Alumna, professor and award-winning poet shares her Mountaineer journey
    June 30, 2021

    App State alumna and Allegheny College professor Dr. M. Soledad Caballero ’95 shares how her Appalachian Experience prepared her for a career in academia — and a lifetime love of literature. She is the author of the award-winning debut poetry collection “I Was a Bell.”

  • Young voices harmonize amid COVID-19 during grant-supported Appalachian Youth Chorale
    Young voices harmonize amid COVID-19 during grant-supported Appalachian Youth Chorale
    June 11, 2021

    During App State’s spring 2021 Appalachian Youth Chorale (AYC), young voices across the High Country — and as far away as Georgia — joined in harmony, virtually, amid the pandemic. Through the program, supported by Watauga Arts Council grant funding, students practiced healthy vocal technique, music reading and notation, and performance skills.

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