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From Farm to Table
Appalachian donates fresh produce to local organizations for residents in need
Sept. 9, 2017
Appalachian donates fresh produce to local organizations for residents in need.
From Farm to Table
Sept. 6, 2017
Appalachian State University’s Goodnight Family Department of Sustainable Development has forged a partnership with Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture (BRWIA) to donate excess food harvested at the university’s Blackburn Vannoy Teaching and Research Farm and campus gardens to families in need.
Author Susan Rivers to speak Sept. 7, proceeds support University Libraries’ Student Employee Scholarship Program
Aug. 30, 2017
Back by popular demand, the University Libraries at Appalachian State University will sponsor “A Novel Experience” fundraising dinner with award-winning playwright Susan Rivers.
Hankins’ first book garners Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise
Aug. 14, 2017
Dr. Davis Hankins of Appalachian State University is one of 10 winners of the Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise this year. He received this award for his work “The Book of Job and the Immanent Genesis of Transcendence” (Northwestern University Press, 2015).
SECU continues to fund Appalachian internships; 10 students complete 2017 summer internships
Aug. 4, 2017
Ten students from Appalachian State University completed 2017 summer internships in public sector and nonprofit entities of rural and underserved regions of North Carolina as part of a program called the State Employees’ Credit Union (SECU) Public Service Fellows.
Visual history archive with 55,000 testimonies of genocide survivors and witnesses will be accessible this fall through Appalachian’s Belk Library and Information Commons
Aug. 2, 2017
This fall semester, Appalachian State University will become one of 79 sites to provide full access to the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive. The archive contains 55,000 testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust, the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda (1994), the Nanjing Massacre (1937), the Guatemalan Genocide (1978-1996), the Armenian Genocide (1915-1923) and the Cambodian Genocide (1975-1979).
Meet the 2017 Chancellor’s Scholars
This is Appalachian’s oldest and most academically competitive merit-based scholarship
Aug. 2, 2017
Ten incoming freshmen have been awarded the prestigious Chancellor’s Scholarship for the 2017-18 academic year.
High Country Half Marathon Announces New Route for 2017 Race
July 28, 2017
As the second race in the High Country Triple Crown series, the High Country Half Marathon is celebrating its seventh annual race. All proceeds benefit Girls on the Run of the High Country, a self-confidence building program for girls in the third through eighth grades.
Summer Symposium Aug. 5-10 will focus on global history and complex connections in remembering the Holocaust and crises today
July 18, 2017
The 16th Annual Martin and Doris Rosen Summer Symposium on “Remembering the Holocaust” will put a particular emphasis on the Holocaust as an event in global history and explores the complex connections between the Jewish refugee crisis of the 1930s and early 1940s with the present refugee crises around the world.
Appalachian student receives scholarship from the USA Cycling Foundation, engages community in biking
July 11, 2017
Annie Pharr, who helped organize the first women’s cycling event in the Boone area in the summer of 2016 has been awarded the women’s Joshua Kuck Memorial Scholarship from the USA Cycling Foundation.
Appalachian awards four Fleming Scholarships for 2017-18
June 29, 2017
The scholarship recipients are Jonathan Winbush of Winston-Salem; Tamia Gowens of Greensboro; Ayah Hatcher of Raleigh; and Jordan Moore of Indian Trail. The scholarship is named for Dr. Willie C. Fleming, Appalachian’s chief diversity officer.
Workers celebrated in ‘topping ceremony’ for Appalachian’s Beaver College of Health Sciences building
June 27, 2017
Appalachian State University’s Beaver College of Health Sciences celebrates half-way mark, honors workers with topping ceremony.
Appalachian's Beaver College of Health Sciences celebrates a milestone for High Country health care
June 27, 2017
Appalachian State University’s Beaver College of Health Sciences celebrated the half-way mark on construction of its new facility and honored workers with a topping ceremony in early June.
Two Appalachian faculty members named Fulbright Scholars
June 13, 2017
Dr. Anatoli Ignatov, assistant professor in the Sustainable Development Department and Dr. Susan Lappan, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, both at Appalachian State University, were honored with prestigious Fulbright Scholar Awards this spring.
Workers celebrated in ‘topping ceremony’ for Beaver College of Health Sciences building
June 13, 2017
More than 100 craftworkers looked upward, many with visible pride, as the final steel beam was lifted by crane to the top of Appalachian’s Beaver College of Health Sciences (BCHS) facility June 8. The building is slated to open in August of 2018.
Meet the 2017 Wilson Scholars
The Wilson Scholarship is Appalachian’s most prestigious scholarship program
June 7, 2017
Among the six new Wilson Scholars at Appalachian State University this year are a published author, the founder of a non-profit charity and an advocate for women’s empowerment. One recipient has worked to relieve hunger in his community. Another has promoted community involvement and drug- and alcohol-free schools, while yet another is passionate about environmental advocacy.
Appalachian’s 2017 Fulbright awards
June 5, 2017
Fulbright Scholar awards send Appalachian faculty to Ghana and Malaysia, while the Fulbright U.S. Student Program creates opportunities in Austria and Germany for one alumna and one graduating senior.
$100K grant from National Endowment for the Humanities provides funds to explore war and its effects through art
May 23, 2017
Part of the NEH’s “Dialogues on the Experience of War” program, this grant project was developed by Dr. Valerie Wieskamp, Department of Communication; Dr. Lynn Searfoss, Department of English; and Dr. Clark Maddux, Watauga Residential College.