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App State opens new Lactation Lounge in Plemmons Student Union
July 18, 2019
Appalachian recently opened its new Lactation Lounge in the Plemmons Student Union. The space is available to faculty, staff, students and campus visitors who are breastfeeding and/or expressing milk.
App State’s Jordan Moore pursues dream of global anesthesiology career
July 9, 2019
Chemistry major Jordan Moore aspires to take her talents abroad — providing medical care in developing nations.
App State alumna helps the medical community understand Appalachian culture
July 8, 2019
Robyn Seamon ’11 ’18 combines a B.S. in nursing (RN–BSN) with an M.A. in Appalachian studies to provide a specialized service to the medical community.
App State's Boren Scholar could ultimately bolster US security
July 3, 2019
Through her Boren Scholarship, Hannah Godfrey, a senior psychology major from Cary, will travel to Indonesia during the 2019–20 academic year to study Bahasa.
Joseph Bathanti wins Lee Smith Award for his literary contributions to Appalachian culture
July 2, 2019
Bathanti, professor of creative writing and the McFarlane Family Distinguished Professor of Interdisciplinary Education at Appalachian, was recognized for his work to preserve and promote Appalachian culture.
Girls on the Run-High Country announces open registration for its new summer camp
June 10, 2019
The three-week 2019 Camp GOTR will offer rising third through fifth grade girls the opportunity to develop self-confidence and learn various life skills through physical activity, group games, interactive workshops and individual reflection.
For App State student, leadership award may pave the way for public service
June 6, 2019
Travian Smith is the first recipient of Appalachian’s newly established National Pan-Hellenic Council Leadership Award.
Jordanians worry that the ‘deal of the century’ will come at their expense
Washington Post
June 1, 2019
The recent visit of Jared Kushner to Amman left many Jordanians worried that the Kushner plan, or President Trump’s alleged “deal of the century,” will try to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at Jordan’s expense. Appalachian State University professor Dr. Curtis R. Ryan examines why the Kushner peace plan causes alarm in Jordan.
Picture Yourself as an Earth Scientist
App State receives funding for K–12 geosciences outreach project
May 30, 2019
Appalachian’s Marta Toran has received grant funding from the American Geophysical Union to update the university’s PYES mobile photo booth — an outreach project designed to raise awareness for geoscience careers and the importance of earth science literacy.
For Memorial Day: Poet Joseph Bathanti’s ‘Saint Francis’s Satyr Butterfly’
May 24, 2019
For Memorial Day, Appalachian professor Joseph Bathanti — former poet laureate of North Carolina — shares his “Saint Francis’s Satyr Butterfly.”
‘The High Country Meets the Middle Kingdom’
Appalachian’s STARTALK Program immerses students in Chinese language, culture
May 7, 2019
Through the three-week program at Appalachian, 20 students from regional high schools will explore Chinese language and culture in and beyond a structured classroom setting.
Appalachian awarded funding for second STARTALK Program — an immersion in Chinese language, culture
May 7, 2019
The three-week program — to take place July 8–26 on Appalachian’s campus — is open to rising ninth through 12th grade students in the High Country area with limited or no previous exposure to Chinese.
Learn a language, expand your worldview
Q&A with Dr. Wendy Xie
May 7, 2019
Appalachian’s Dr. Wendy Xie teaches Chinese. She talks about the value and importance of learning another language.
Dr. Cameron Gokee awarded NSF grant to conduct archaeological research in Bandafassi — a West African ‘shatter zone’
May 6, 2019
Gokee will spend the next two academic years leading archaeological research in the Bandafassi region of eastern Senegal to study how the Atlantic slave trade impacted social life in this West African “shatter zone.”
Intertwining triple majors open the door to a doctorate for Appalachian graduating senior
May 6, 2019
A childhood passion for Pokémon led this graduating senior’s path toward Asian studies and comparative literature.
Appalachian sets new record with 4 Fulbright U.S. Student Program finalists
April 30, 2019
Appalachian alumni Megan Holt-Smith ’15 ’16, John Kennedy ’16 and Emma Labovitz ’18, along with senior psychology major Caroline Webb, will use their Fulbright awards to study, conduct research and teach abroad during the 2019–20 academic year.
Bernice King talks to ASU crowd about inclusion, injustice
Watauga Democrat
April 16, 2019
Generations-long conflicts won’t have five-minute solutions, King Center CEO Bernice King said in a speech on Appalachian State University’s campus on April 11. King — CEO of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, minister and the daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King — urged her audience during a luncheon held at Appalachian to find ways to compromise and strive for inclusion.
Dancing with words at Appalachian
Alumna and author Dr. Meredith McCarroll shares her interdisciplinary Appalachian Experience — on the page and the stage
March 29, 2019
McCarroll, director of writing and rhetoric at Bowdoin College and author of “Appalachian Reckoning,” said the balance between dance and English kept her “healthy and happy” while learning to be an educator at Appalachian.

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