College News

Appalachian students team up with local community to preserve historic African-American school
Oct 22, 2015

BOONE - In the early 1900s Booker T. Washington approached philanthropist and founder of Sears and Roebuck, Julius Rosenwald, to discuss the state of ...

College of Arts & Sciences infused with sustainable curriculum througout the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural and Mathematical Sciences
Oct 14, 2015

BOONE - Recently Appalachian State University was awarded the Climate Leadership Award, a recognition given by Second Nature and the U.S. Gr...

Appalachian student/faculty delegation presents at conference in Romania
Oct 13, 2015

BOONE—A delegation from the Center for Appalachian Studies at Appalachian State University traveled to Brasov, Romania, recently to present research...

UCF sociologists lecture on racial attitudes in the U.S. and motherhood in the media
Oct 13, 2015

BOONE—Two sociologists from the University of Central Florida will present lectures Oct. 20 and 21 at Appalachian State University on topics that ha...

Assistant Professor Kristen Deathridge nominated to the North Carolina State National Registry Advisory Council
Oct 12, 2015

BOONE - Professor Kristen Deathridge, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, was recently appointed to the North Carolina State National Re...

Historian Alon Confino lectures Oct. 21 at Appalachian
Oct 8, 2015

BOONE—Professor Alon Confino of Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, and the University of Virginia will present the talk “A World Without ...

Appalachian Anthropology professor invited to speak at Cornell conference on prisons in Honduras
Oct 7, 2015

BOONE - On October 5th, Dr. Jon Carter, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, traveled to Cornell University to participate in the co...

Rosenberg honored by Global Science and Technology Forum
Oct 7, 2015

BOONE—Professor Ed Rosenberg, director of Appalachian State University's gerontology program, and two colleagues from Thailand were honored recently...

Post-Colonial Symposium presents local and international migrant experience through art and lecture
Oct 6, 2015

Boone - Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, a founder and major voice of postcolonial thought known for her seminal text, "Can the Subaltern Speak?,...

"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...