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  • Appalachian offers physical education program for home schooled children
    Appalachian offers physical education program for home schooled children
    Aug. 17, 2015

    Area home school students are eligible to participate in physical education activities being offered by the physical education program in Appalachian State University’s Beaver College of Health Sciences.

  • Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on choosing to preserve our assets
    Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on choosing to preserve our assets
    Aug. 14, 2015

    The keynote speaker for the 2015 Appalachian Energy Summit, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., dropped by our studio to talk about ways to measure value in economic systems, how to effect lasting change in order to preserve the assets of communities across the world, and offered some advice to students for building their skills for success.

  • Registration for Girls on the Run begins Aug. 10
    Registration for Girls on the Run begins Aug. 10
    Aug. 5, 2015

    Local girls in grades 3 through 8 are invited to participate in Girls on the Run of the High Country (GOTR-HC). Registration for the fall semester will begin online Aug.10 at http://gotr.appstate.edu and the program will begin the week of Sept. 8.

  • Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation awards $100,000 to Appalachian to support math education
    Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation awards $100,000 to Appalachian to support math education
    Aug. 5, 2015

    Trustees of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation have awarded a two-year $100,000 grant to Appalachian State University’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction to provide Math Recovery® training and coach approximately 35 elementary mathematics teacher leaders who will in turn support their colleagues in Alleghany, Avery, Burke and Wilkes counties.

  • Researchers use tree-ring science to study area log cabins
    Researchers use tree-ring science to study area log cabins
    Aug. 3, 2015

    Saskia van de Gevel looks closely at the ends of logs used to construct two cabins located in the Bear Paw State Natural Area in Watauga County.

  • Early registration draws near for the High Country Half Marathon
    Early registration draws near for the High Country Half Marathon
    July 29, 2015

    This is the second race in the High Country Triple Crown series and all proceeds benefit Girls on the Run of the High Country, a self-confidence building program for girls in the 3rd-8th grade. The presenting sponsor for The High Country Half Marathon is Mast General Store.

  • Rhododendron Society inducts Beasley, Rhinehart and Richards
    Rhododendron Society inducts Beasley, Rhinehart and Richards
    July 28, 2015

    Three leaders in public education and in their communities are the latest inductees into The Rhododendron Society at Appalachian State University.

  • Appalachian’s Community Music School opens online registration Aug. 3
    Appalachian’s Community Music School opens online registration Aug. 3
    July 28, 2015

    The Community Music School provides non-credit music instruction for youth and adults in the local community as well as surrounding Western North Carolina counties.

  • Appalachian business professors help develop N.C.’s Foster Care Family Act
    Appalachian business professors help develop N.C.’s Foster Care Family Act
    July 17, 2015

    David C. Marlett has been a department chair, college professor and insurance industry professional, but it’s his recent work in foster care advocacy that he says has been most rewarding.

  • Beaver College of Health Sciences receives grant to expand rural healthcare
    Beaver College of Health Sciences receives grant to expand rural healthcare
    July 13, 2015

    The Beaver College of Health Sciences at Appalachian State University has received a $175,000 grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation to support development of telehealth technology and programming to increase rural health training opportunities for future healthcare providers and improve the health and well-being of medically underserved rural communities.

  • Participants sought for research about nonresident fathers of children
    Participants sought for research about nonresident fathers of children
    July 1, 2015

    Researchers from Appalachian State University’s Department of Recreation Management and Physical Education are conducting research about nonresident fathers’ interaction recreationally with their children.

  • Appalachian will seek UNC Board of Governors approval to expand its millennial campus
    Appalachian will seek UNC Board of Governors approval to expand its millennial campus
    June 29, 2015

    Since 2002, a portion of Appalachian State University’s campus has been designated as a millennial campus – a 2.3 acre tract of land where University Hall is located off Blowing Rock Road.

  • Lettuce Learn Project to host professional development workshop for educators
    Lettuce Learn Project to host professional development workshop for educators

    Goal is to use the garden as a tool for learning

    June 11, 2015

    Appalachian State University and a Boone-based organization are offering a three-day workshop to help educators incorporate gardening into their curriculum.

  • Memorial Day Ceremony at Appalachian, May 25, 2015
    Memorial Day Ceremony at Appalachian, May 25, 2015
    May 26, 2015

    On May 25, 2105, Appalachian State University held a Memorial Day ceremony at the Veterans Memorial located adjacent to the Dougherty Administration Building on campus.

  • Memorial Day 2015: Remarks by Lt. Col. David Cox ’90
    Memorial Day 2015: Remarks by Lt. Col. David Cox ’90
    May 26, 2015

    On May 25, 2105, Appalachian State University held a Memorial Day ceremony at the Veterans Memorial located adjacent to the Dougherty Administration Building on campus. (Audio only)

  • Memorial Day Ceremony at Appalachian, May 25, 2015
    Memorial Day Ceremony at Appalachian, May 25, 2015
    May 26, 2015

    On the morning of Monday, May 25, 2015, Appalachian State University faculty, staff and students joined members of the public at the Veterans Memorial located adjacent to the Dougherty Administration Building for a Memorial Day ceremony. Students from the Reserve Officer Training Corps program performed the ceremonial raising of the flag, followed by remarks from Lt. Col. David Cox ’90, professor of military science of the Reserve Officer Training Corps.

  • Appalachian State University launches original programming on student-run AppTV
    Appalachian State University launches original programming on student-run AppTV
    May 26, 2015

    AppTV is Appalachian’s student-run television station featuring original and acquired programming. It can be viewed on channel 23.3 on Appalachian’s campus, Charter Cable channel 198 in North Carolina’s High Country and Johnson County, Tennessee, and via http://www.watchapptv.com.

  • Registration opens for the High Country Triple Crown running series
    Registration opens for the High Country Triple Crown running series
    May 22, 2015

    The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Institute for Health and Human Services (IHHS) at Appalachian State University announces the High Country Triple Crown, a series of three challenging and fun races covering beautiful mountain terrain.

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