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"Once Upon a Time" Appalachian State Homecoming to include College of Arts & Sciences Open House
Sep 29, 2015

Appalachian Sate is no different from any other school, in that there are important collegiate rituals and traditions. Homecoming may be at the pinnac...

Professor receives NIH grant to study the relationships between mood and memory
Sep 24, 2015

BOONE—A little memory loss as you age might be a good thing.Lisa Emery, an associate professor in Appalachian State University’s Department of Psy...

Fermentation Sciences Program research could revolutionize how chocolate is made
Sep 22, 2015

BOONE — What do wine, yogurt, beer, sourdough, crème fraîche, soy sauce, worcestershire sauce, sour cream, whisky and kombucha all have in common ...

Kirkpatrick receives Brockman-Campbell Book Award for her Irish-themed poetry collection
Sep 21, 2015

BOONE—Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne haunted Kathryn Kirkpatrick’s creative thoughts for more than a dozen years.A poet and professor in Appalachi...

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak to speak at Appalachian Sept. 24
Sep 18, 2015

BOONE—Professor Gayatri Spivak will speak Sept. 24 at 4 p.m. in Appalachian State University’s Rosen Concert Hall in Broyhill Music Center. The ti...

Appalachian alumna, Keana Tripplett, awarded North Carolina Teacher of the Year
Sep 16, 2015

Keana Tripplett wanted to be a teacher since the first day of Kindergarten, but it wasn't until she received the North Carolina Teaching Fellows schol...

Appalachian State University receives $1.1 million grant to support mathematics and science teacher preparation
Sep 11, 2015

Faculty members at Appalachian State University have received a National Science Foundation grant for $1,165,039 to support a Noyce Scholarship Progra...

College of Arts & Sciences seeking December undergraduate commencement speakers
Sep 10, 2015

This fall, the College of Arts & Sciences will select one distinguished graduating senior to speak at the December Commencement Ceremony. We are s...

Humanities Council convenes symposium on voices of postcolonial peoples
Sep 9, 2015

BOONE - How the life stories of colonized peoples reclaim and transform the Humanities today, and how they affect the multicultural landscape burgeoni...

Appalachian History graduate learned to dream big all the way to success
Sep 9, 2015

Salvador Salinas was a History major at Appalachian State University in 2001. This semester he began teaching for the first time as Assistant Professo...