Global Learning

Renowned Polish-Jewish Intellectual and Opposition Journalist Prof. Kostek Gebert (Warsaw, Poland) on the Shoah in German-Occupied Poland and Today's Polish Memory Politics

Center Lecture by Renowned Polish-Jewish Intellectual and Opposition Journalist Prof. Kostek Gebert
Aug 28, 2020

The Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies is exceedingly proud to invite the ASU and off-campus communities to a public online presentation ...

The 2021 Gilman Scholars: Senior Victoria Anderson, Senior Ciara Sailar, Sophomore Jemiah Williams, Senior Michael Gaines, Junior Stephany Garcia Henao and Junior Makayla Nordine. Photos submitted.

App State students awarded record number of Gilman Scholarships for 2021 study abroad
Aug 10, 2020

The Office of Nationally Competitive Scholarships (NCS), a division of University College at Appalachian State University, announces a record six...

The Center Online: A Jewish Child Survivor of the Holocaust Gives Testimony  Monday, July 27, 2020

The Center Online: A Jewish Child Survivor of the Holocaust Gives Testimony Monday, July 27, 2020
Jul 6, 2020

The Center Online: A Jewish Child Survivor of the Holocaust Gives Testimony Monday, July 27, 20207 p.m.Online Zoom-based eventThis talk is free a...

App State’s Fulbright scholars

App State’s Fulbright scholars foster international connections despite global pandemic
Jul 3, 2020

BOONE, N.C. — Many of Appalachian State University’s 2019–20 Fulbright scholars were overseas when the COVID-19 pandemic began, requir...

App State sets new record for Fulbright U.S. Student grant awardees in 2020–21

App State sets new record for Fulbright U.S. Student grant awardees in 2020–21
Jun 11, 2020

BOONE, N.C. — The Office of Nationally Competitive Scholarships (NCS), a division of University College at Appalachian State Universi...

Counting bees, because bees count — App State creates pollinator-tracking app

Counting bees, because bees count — App State creates pollinator-tracking app
Jun 4, 2020

BOONE, N.C. — “You can’t manage what you can’t measure,” is a saying attributed to Peter Drucker (1909–2005), one of the most widely known...

Katelyn McGinnis ’11, left, and Dr. Cynthia M. Liutkus-Pierce, a professor in the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, hold the Appalachian State University flag at the footprint site in Tanzania. Six undergraduate students participated in research activities related to this study, for which a culminating article has been published in the journal Scientific Reports. Photo submitted

Geological and Environmental Sciences faculty publish culminating research paper on ancient human footprints found in Tanzania
May 20, 2020

Two faculty members in Appalachian State University’s Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences and their undergraduates have wo...

Anthropology major Connor Elliott. photo submitted.

Anthropology major participates in REU project in Ethiopia
Mar 11, 2020

Connor Elliott, anthropology major (concentration in biological anthropology), had the opportunity to conduct research in Ethiopia over the 2019-2020 ...

Department of Anthropology graphic.

The Rise of Rural Populist Authoritarianism in the U.S. and Beyond
Mar 10, 2020

CANCELLED OR TO BE POSTPONED FOR A LATER DATE (3/13/20)Dr. Marc Edelman, professor of Anthropology, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City Unive...

13th Southeast German Studies Workshop: New Work in German-Jewish and Refugee Studies graphic.

International Conference in German-Jewish and refugee studies with Director of Berlin's Center for Research on Antisemitism to speak
Mar 2, 2020

CANCELLED OR TO BE POSTPONED FOR A LATER DATE (3/13/20)Thursday March 26 and Friday, March 27, 2020International Conference in German-Jewish and ...