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oet Bianca Spriggs will appear March 30 in the Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series at Appalachian State University. Photo by Bianca Spriggs

Visiting Writer Series: Bianca Lynne Spriggs Reading
Mar 8, 2017

When Bianca Spriggs appears March 30 in the Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series at Appalachian State University, the occasion will draw att...

Hunter Stark, an Appalachian State University sophomore from Charlotte, along with James Howe of Southwestern Community College, won best undergraduate student paper from the North Carolina Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers. Photo by David Sitar

Cross-institutional research in physics and astronomy leads to best undergraduate student paper
Mar 8, 2017

Hunter Stark, an Appalachian State University sophomore communication major from Charlotte, and James Howe, a Southwestern Community College senior an...

Dr. Sarah Carmichael looks for manganese oxide coatings on speleothems in Worley’s Cave in Tennessee. Carmichael, associate professor of geology at Appalachian, will be received as a Fellow in The Explorers Club in New York City, March 24. Photo courtesy of Sarah Carmichael

Appalachian’s Sarah Carmichael to be inducted into The Explorers Club
Mar 6, 2017

Geochemist joins John Glenn, Sally Ride, Sir Edmund Hillary, Jane Goodall and other well-known explorers in this prestigious society.The cave was cool...

Morgan Lecture with Dr. Michael Brown on Planet 9

Planet Nine from Outer Space and Tales of the Outer Solar System
Mar 1, 2017

The Morgan Lecture Series of Science will host Dr. Michael Brown, a solar-system astronomer and professor of planetary astronomy from California Insti...

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General Benjamin Butler, Politics, Warfare and Masculinity in the Civil War North
Mar 1, 2017

Boone, N.C. - The Appalachian State University History Department will host its second guest in a new speaker series on the Civil War. Dr. Michael Tho...

Dark Skies: Celestial Events Panel Discussion

Dark Skies: Celestial Events and Humanity Discussion with Dr. Anthony Aveni
Feb 28, 2017

On Tuesday, March 28, 2017, there will be a panel discussion on “Dark Skies: Celestial Events and Humanity” discussing the links between astronomy...

Fulbright Scholars

Five Appalachian students are semi-finalists for Fulbright Scholars program
Feb 28, 2017

The Office of International Education and Development (OIED) announces five out of eight Appalachian students who applied for Fulbright Awards were ch...

College and University Section Virtual Conference: Feb 24, 2017
Feb 23, 2017

The College and University Section of the North Carolina Library Association in partnership with Appalachian State University’s Center for Academic ...

Dr. Anthony Aveni

Night in Day: The Great American Eclipse of 2017 and Its Predecessors with Dr. Anthony F. Aveni, Professor of Astronomy, Anthropology, and Native American Studies
Feb 21, 2017

Boone, N.C. - On Monday, March 27, 2017 the College of Arts and Sciences will host Dr. Anthony Aveni, a Russell Colgate Distinguished University Profe...

Germans in Jamaica: Wars, Spies and Camps
Feb 21, 2017

Appalachian State University faculty member and documentary filmmaker Kevin Kennedy will present his film “Germans in Jamaica: War, Spies and Camps...