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  • New Hispanic/Latino faculty and staff association forms
    New Hispanic/Latino faculty and staff association forms
    Jan. 22, 2018

    Appalachian@s Hispanic/Latino Faculty and Staff Association has received official recognition as an employee organization of Appalachian.

  • Q&A with Dana Powell, Author of ‘Landscapes of Power’
    Q&A with Dana Powell, Author of ‘Landscapes of Power’
    Duke University Press
    Jan. 22, 2018

    Duke University Press spoke with Dana Powell, an assistant professor of anthropology at Appalachian State University, about her new book Landscapes of Power: Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation. Powell examines the rise and fall of the controversial Desert Rock Power Plant initiative in New Mexico, tracing the political conflicts surrounding native sovereignty and energy development on Navajo (Diné) Nation land and emphasizing the potential of Navajo resistance to articulate a vision of autonomy in the face of colonial conditions.

  • Find Your Sustain Ability: Adam Hege on Social Justice and Food Insecurity in rural Appalachia
    Find Your Sustain Ability: Adam Hege on Social Justice and Food Insecurity in rural Appalachia
    Jan. 19, 2018

    Appalachian's Director of Sustainability, Dr. Lee Ball sits down with Assistant Professor of Public Health, Adam Hege to discuss his journey from studying exercise science to addressing issues like poverty and food security.

  • Appalachian’s Dr. Melissa Weddell receives 2017 Excellence in Research Award
    Appalachian’s Dr. Melissa Weddell receives 2017 Excellence in Research Award
    Jan. 19, 2018

    Appalachian State University’s Dr. Melissa Weddell wins 2017 Excellence in Research Award from the Resort and Commercial Recreation Association (RCRA) for her contributions to the study “Nomadtopia: Emerging Tourism Markets.”

  • Simon & Schuster announces the publication of Appalachian professor Mark Powell's ‘Small Treasons’
    Simon & Schuster announces the publication of Appalachian professor Mark Powell's ‘Small Treasons’
    Jan. 12, 2018

    Simon & Schuster announces the publication of “Small Treasons,” the fifth novel by Mark Powell, assistant professor of creative writing and contemporary fiction in Appalachian's Department of English. “Small Treasons” tells the story of an American marriage on the verge of rupture, spinning an all-too-current tale of the world we live in and the world we fear—and how we may not be able to tell the two apart.

  • Appalachian’s Dr. Zach Farris interviewed by BBC
    Appalachian’s Dr. Zach Farris interviewed by BBC
    Jan. 11, 2018

    Recently, Appalachian’s Dr. Zach Farris was part of an interview conducted by the BBC about dogs and their special relationship with human beings. Farris and some of his colleagues founded the Mad Dog Initiative, a nonprofit that provides free veterinary services and facilitates veterinarian training.

  • Political scientist weighs in on North Carolina redistricting ruling
    Political scientist weighs in on North Carolina redistricting ruling
    Jan. 10, 2018

    Dr. William Hicks says the decision puts increasing pressure on the U.S. Supreme Court to make “a clearer ruling” about gerrymandering.

  • Music educator Joe Phelps has died
    Music educator Joe Phelps has died
    GoBlueRidge.net
    Jan. 10, 2018

    Long time music educator and director of bands at Appalachian State University, Joe Phelps passed away Jan. 6, 2018 at the age 73. Phelps, of Vilas, was Professor of Trumpet and became Assistant Director of Bands at Appalachian in 1971 and enjoyed a full-time career of 30 years supplemented with part-time teaching through the fall of 2017.

  • With biomass energy, weighing forest restoration and carbon emissions
    With biomass energy, weighing forest restoration and carbon emissions
    Arizona Daily Sun
    Jan. 5, 2018

    Gregg Marland, a research professor with the Research Institute for Environment, Energy and Economics at Appalachian State University, weighs in on the subject of using forest biomass to produce power.

  • Violence a matter of scale, not quantity or time period, researchers show
    Violence a matter of scale, not quantity or time period, researchers show
    Dec. 13, 2017

    Anthropologists have debated for decades whether humans, living in tribal communities thousands of years ago, were more or less violent than societies today. Researchers at Appalachian State University, the University of Notre Dame and the University of Wisconsin-Madison wonder if the question of more or less violence is the wrong one — what if it’s a matter of scale?

  • Appalachian alumnus and lecturer Aaron Ballance receives 2017 Linda Flowers Literary Award from the North Carolina Humanities Council
    Appalachian alumnus and lecturer Aaron Ballance receives 2017 Linda Flowers Literary Award from the North Carolina Humanities Council
    Dec. 11, 2017

    Aaron Ballance ’04, lecturer in the Appalachian State University’s Department of English, is the recipient of the North Carolina Humanities Council’s 2017 Linda Flowers Literary Award for his poems “Sugarfoot,” “Old Trouble,” “The Peaks,” “One-Eyed Jenny,” “The Brink,” “Leading Flash to the Barn — January” and “Rust.”

  • Stand in the Gap
    Stand in the Gap
    Dec. 5, 2017

    Jordan and his guest Sarah Levine discuss the death of their fathers, Roscoe Jordan and Marty Levine. They share what their fathers taught them during their time on earth, as well as what they have learned by living without them. This episode is dedicated to Roscoe and Marty.

  • North Carolina Humanities Council Announces 2017 Linda Flowers Literary Award Recipient
    North Carolina Humanities Council Announces 2017 Linda Flowers Literary Award Recipient
    North Carolina Humanities Council
    Dec. 4, 2017

    On November 4, 2017 the North Carolina Humanities Council announced Mr. Aaron Ballance as the recipient of its 2017 Linda Flowers Literary Award for his entries of “Sugarfoot,” “Old Trouble,” “The Peaks,” “One-Eyed Jenny,” “The Brink,” “Leading Flash to the Barn – January,” and “Rust.”

  • Light pollution
    Light pollution

    Adverse impact of excessive artificial nighttime lighting on natural systems is worldwide

    Wilkes Journal-Patriot
    Dec. 1, 2017

    Dr. Daniel Caton, a professor in Appalachian’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, has worked with local governments in Wilkes and other counties to seek ordinances regulating outdoor lighting.

  • AMPC Announces Jurors for 15th Annual Competition
    AMPC Announces Jurors for 15th Annual Competition

    Appalachian's Garner Dewey, Craig Dillenbeck and Cheryl Zibisky selected to judge 15th Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition

    High Country Press
    Nov. 28, 2017

    A partnership between Appalachian State University Outdoor Programs, the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, and Virtual Blue Ridge, AMPC celebrates the unique people, places, and pursuits that distinguish the Southern Appalachians and attracts entries from across the United States.

  • Local resident’s research honored
    Local resident’s research honored

    Dr. Cynthia Liutkus-Pierce studies human origins in Africa

    Wilkes Journal-Patriot
    Nov. 28, 2017

    Children sometimes flip through National Geographic magazines just to look at the photos, but not Dr. Cynthia Liutkus-Pierce when she was growing up.

  • Oxygen Surge 400 Million Years Ago Helped Trigger an Explosion in Biodiversity
    Oxygen Surge 400 Million Years Ago Helped Trigger an Explosion in Biodiversity

    The life-giving gas.

    ScienceAlert
    Nov. 25, 2017

    Scientists, including Appalachian's Cole Edwards, have linked a surge in Earth's oxygen levels some 455 million years ago with an explosion in biodiversity on the planet, as nature took advantage of the extra breathing space to transform marine life and develop new species.

  • Appalachian researcher helps link oxygen increase to biodiversity growth
    Appalachian researcher helps link oxygen increase to biodiversity growth
    Nov. 22, 2017

    A team of researchers, including Appalachian's Dr. Cole Edwards, found that oxygen levels appear to increase at about the same time as a three-fold increase in biodiversity during the Ordovician Period, between 445 and 485 million years ago, according to a study published Nov. 20 in Nature Geoscience, a periodical that covers all aspects of the Earth sciences.

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