Topic: Arts and Humanities

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App State marketing professor’s book analyzes Uber’s success
March 4, 2020
In her book, “Uber,” Dr. Pia Albinsson, professor in Appalachian’s Walker College of Business, provides key insights into the inner workings of the sharing economy and delivers a comprehensive overview of Uber’s technological innovations, global expansion and business model.
Groovin’ for a cause: App State’s annual Dance Marathon raises nearly $50K
Feb. 21, 2020
The annual Dance Marathon provided fun — and funds — as students danced for 15 hours and raised nearly $50,000 for local nonprofits.
On a winning note — App State pianist advances to national competition
Feb. 20, 2020
Pianist and Appalachian music performance graduate student Molly Reid ’14 will compete in the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Young Artist Performance Competition in March for a top prize of $5,000.
Spring 2020 Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series brings acclaimed authors to App State campus
Feb. 20, 2020
The lineup for the spring series includes notable authors Kayla Rae Whitaker, Nickole Brown, Jacinta White and Graham Hoppe, who will read from and discuss their work, as well as give talks on the craft of writing.
App State alumnus applies critical thinking skills behind the lens
Feb. 19, 2020
The love of research drew this Appalachian alumnus to psychology, and now he applies critical thinking and problem-solving skills to his job as a camera operator in New York City.
App State’s Common Reading Program announces ‘Rising’ as 2020–21 book selection
Feb. 7, 2020
“Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore” by Elizabeth Rush “guides readers through some of the places where (climate) change has been most dramatic.” All incoming first-year and transfer students at Appalachian will receive a copy of the book during their Summer Orientation session.
‘An affirmation of their love’: Keepsakes memorialize people’s loved ones in new UC Irvine exhibit [faculty featured]
LA Times
Jan. 29, 2020
An exhibit titled “Saved: Objects of the Dead” — a collaboration between Appalachian State University artist Jody Servon and University of California - Irvine poet and English lecturer Lorene Delany-Ullman — explores how ordinary things can become conduits of memories of the dead.
This ASU professor combines technology and design to create 3D works of art [faculty featured]
Charlotte Observer
Jan. 27, 2020
In preparation for his solo exhibit “Structure and Void” at Central Piedmont Community College’s Overcash Gallery, App State design professor Richard Elaver explains how he got into making jewelry and functional art pieces, beginning with the Grateful Dead.
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.