College News

Curt Fields as General U.S. Grant

General Ulysses S. Grant: The Man Behind the Uniform with Dr. Curt Fields, Living Historian and Re-Enactor
Apr 5, 2017

As part of a continued exploration of Civil War themes this semester, the Department of History at Appalachian State University will host Dr. Curt Fie...

Dr. Neva J. Specht

Specht named dean of Appalachian’s College of Arts and Sciences
Mar 27, 2017

Dr. Neva J. Specht has been named dean of Appalachian State University’s College of Arts and Sciences after a national search. She begins her duties...

Hi-Phi Nation

Philosophy faculty member featured in recent Hi-Phi Nation podcast
Mar 27, 2017

Dr. Christopher Bartel, an associate professor of philosophy at Appalachian State University, has contributed to “The Cops of Pop,” the fifth epis...

Dr. Andrew Moravcsik, Lady Catherine Ashton and Teri Schultz for Dan German Speaker Series

Dan German Speaker Series April 4 and 12 to include Princeton professor, University of Warwick chancellor and journalist
Mar 24, 2017

The new Dan German Speaker Series at Appalachian State University has invited international experts to lead conversations in April on topics ranging f...

Sophorn Yang, prominent union activist and a delegate to the UN Conference on the Status of Women, will speak at Appalachian on Thursday, March 30, at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Cambodian labor organizer and delegate to U.N. Conference on the Status of Women to speak at Appalachian March 30
Mar 22, 2017

ophorn Yang, president of the Cambodian Alliance of Trade Unions (CATU) and a delegate to the United Nations Conference on the Status of Women, will s...

Poet Al Young will appear April 6 in the Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series at Appalachian State University. Photo by James Skulcroft

Poet Al Young to appear April 6 in Appalachian’s Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series
Mar 22, 2017

When Al Young was in the second grade, the venerable poet recalled recently, his teacher made him and his classmates recite poetry regularly....

Dr. Andrew Monroe with his research assistants in Appalachian State University’s Department of Psychology. Photo by Marie Freeman

Thinking about your future may make you less trusting and more critical of others
Mar 22, 2017

Appalachian State University’s Dr. Andrew Monroe is a psychologist in the College of Arts and Sciences who studies people’s moral and social judgm...

Planet 9 with Dr. Michael Brown

Solar system astronomer Michael Brown to give public lecture at ASU
Mar 20, 2017

For those who took hard the news of Pluto’s disqualification as the ninth planet in the solar system, strong evidence suggests that a replacement is...

Brothers Like These event

Appalachian Veterans Arts & Humanities Collective to host Vietnam vet writers
Mar 20, 2017

The Appalachian Veterans Arts & Humanities Collective at Appalachian State University is hosting a staged reading of “Brothers Like These” at ...

Dr. Michael T. Taussig, Columbia University visits Appalachian State

Public Lecture Announced with Dr. Michael T. Taussig, Columbia University
Mar 20, 2017

"Corpse Magic for Vengeance and its Curious Demise"Thursday, April 27, 2017  at 5:00pmIn the Bryce and Izoria Gordon Gathering Hall, Room 12...