College News

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 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...

Education can be life changing, speaker says
Sep 4, 2015

BOONE—Never take your college education for granted, students at Appalachian State University were told during fall convocation Sept. 3. That caveat...

Auschwitz_Birkenau survivor speaking about her suffering at the hands of Germans
Sep 3, 2015

Holocaust survivor Susan Cernyak-Spatz will give a talk titled "Perpetrators Through the Eyes of the Victims" on Thursday evening, Sept. 17, at Appala...

Noted law professor and anti-poverty advocate Gene Nichol to speak Sept. 10 at Appalachian
Sep 2, 2015

BOONE—Gene Nichol, the noted law professor and anti-poverty advocate, will speak at the Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts at Appalachian State...

Venue change for Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor speaks Sept. 17 at Appalachian
Sep 1, 2015

BOONE—Holocaust survivor Susan Cernyak-Spatz will give a talk titled “Perpetrators Through the Eyes of the Victims,” Thursday, Sept. 17, at 7 p....