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Topic: Students

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  • Appalachian Abroad: Valencia 2012
    Appalachian Abroad: Valencia 2012
    Dec. 17, 2012

    Twelve students from the Department of Computer Information Systems (CIS), along with associate professor Dr. Charlie Chen, explored Valencia and Barcelona, Spain. The purpose of the trip was to develop future global business leaders interested in doing business in Spain.

  • Appalachian Abroad: Dublin 2012
    Appalachian Abroad: Dublin 2012
    Dec. 17, 2012

    Students in Appalachian's Honors College are required to complete an international education experience either during the summer or an academic semester to gain a broader understanding of the world and diversify their learning. The 2012 freshman class of Chancellor's Scholars, 10 students on full scholarship and members of The Honors College, took to James Joyce's Dublin for a crash course in Irish history, sports and scholarship.

  • Study abroad fosters critical and creative thinking
    Study abroad fosters critical and creative thinking
    Dec. 17, 2012

    Appalachian's undergraduate and graduate degree programs are preparing graduates to be critical, creative and global professionals.

  • Appalachian Abroad: Dublin, London and Valencia 2012
    Appalachian Abroad: Dublin, London and Valencia 2012
    Dec. 17, 2012

    Appalachian's undergraduate and graduate degree programs are preparing graduates to be critical, creative and global professionals. Here are examples of students' international explorations during fall break 2012.

  • Global Learning at Appalachian
    Global Learning at Appalachian

    ‘Multiple and varied’ experiences are central for students in new plan

    Dec. 15, 2012

    A five-year plan called “Global Learning: A World of Opportunities for Appalachian Students,” to be implemented beginning in the 2013-14 academic year, emphasizes strengthened activities which are offered both at home and abroad and earlier in a student’s college career.

  • International spring break: choose the alternative
    International spring break: choose the alternative
    Dec. 5, 2012

    Make your own chocolate at a cocoa farm in Belize, live in the rain forests of Costa Rica, hike the countryside of Ecuador, visit ancient Inca ruins in Peru, or explore indigenous cultures in Guatemala - do the "alternative" over spring break.

  • Partnership benefits Appalachian and N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences
    Partnership benefits Appalachian and N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences
    Aug. 2, 2012

    Students recover fossils in Arizona to help the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences build its Triassic collection and understand our own state's geologic record.

  • Internships Make a Difference: Tyler Branch in New York
    Internships Make a Difference: Tyler Branch in New York
    Aug. 1, 2012

    Tyler Branch '12 leveraged his lab and campus experience at Appalachian into a coveted internship with 'Saturday Night Live.'

  • Tyler Branch: Internships make a difference
    Tyler Branch: Internships make a difference
    Aug. 1, 2012

    Tyler Branch wishes more students would take risks. Not the kind of risks one might immediately think of when considering risk-taking behavior and college, but the kind that pay off—big time—like winning not one but two of New York City's most coveted television internships.

  • UNC campuses gather to develop energy savings initiatives
    UNC campuses gather to develop energy savings initiatives
    July 13, 2012

    Sustainable energy expert Amory Lovins leads UNC institutions in a better understanding of how to reduce energy consumption on their campuses.

  • Appalachian Energy Summit 2012
    Appalachian Energy Summit 2012
    July 13, 2012

    The UNC system has taken numerous strides toward addressing a state mandate to reduce energy consumption 30 percent by 2015, but greater cultural change is needed, university officials said during presentations at the Appalachian Energy Summit held July 9-11, 2012 at Appalachian State University.

  • Scientists, students and Quechua community partner to understand climate change
    Scientists, students and Quechua community partner to understand climate change
    June 28, 2012

    Every morning, 13-year old Nelson Crispin takes a short walk from his home at 13,800 feet through frosty fields to record climate data collected by instruments installed in the Cordillera Vilcanota mountain range in Peru.

  • Alternative Spring Break helps students experience different ways of service
    Alternative Spring Break helps students experience different ways of service
    June 18, 2012

    In 2012, Appalachian’s Alternative Spring Break (ASB) program engaged 322 faculty, staff and students in service opportunities in 18 U.S. locations, as well as in Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Peru and Jamaica.

  • It Gets Better
    It Gets Better
    March 8, 2012

    At Appalachian, we welcome everyone into our family. We appreciate what each unique individual brings to Appalachian, because we know it makes our community richer. Whether you choose to come to our campus or you find another place to call home, we want you to know that it really does get better.

  • Changing students' lives in Kenya
    Changing students' lives in Kenya
    Sep. 1, 2011

    An Appalachian State University graduate is helping change students' lives in Kenya through a project to distribute e-readers.

  • Appalachian students and children find artifacts
    Appalachian students and children find artifacts
    July 18, 2011

    Children who play on an athletics field at Appalachian State University’s Camp Broadstone in Valle Crucis may not realize the history that lies beneath their feet. This summer, university students in Appalachian’s archeology field school found a 4,000-year-old cooking hearth and a small vessel nearly as old about two feet underground.

  • A leader in sustainability education
    A leader in sustainability education
    April 6, 2011

    Appalachian State University has been a leader in sustainability education for more than 25 years.There are more than a dozen environmental academic program areas on campus.

  • Appalachian students experience the world
    Appalachian students experience the world
    March 28, 2011

    Appalachian's Office of International Education and Development (OIED) works with students to help them understand the many opportunities available and to help them make a plan that incorporates an international experience into their individual programs of study.

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