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Professor Shea Tuberty, second from left, assists Eli Fried, a student at Chapel Hill High School, with his waders. Andrew Degele, far right, a student at Cardinal Gibbons High School in Raleigh, and Salil Pai, a student in the Early College at Guilford Community College, observe. Photo by Marie Freeman

High water, higher expectations — a STEM learning experience for all ages at App State
Sep 13, 2019

For three days in mid-July, 15 North Carolina high school rising juniors and seniors enrolled in the North Carolina School of Math and Sciences’&nbs...

Dr. Brent James and Sarah Donovan. Photo submitted.

Collaboration at the border
Sep 13, 2019

This May, Dr. Brent James, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures; Sarah Donovan, Lecturer in the Department of Soci...

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Brewconomy: A documentary film about North Carolina’s craft beer movement followed by a panel discussion with filmmaker Camden Watts
Sep 11, 2019

Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.I.G. Greer AuditoriumThis event is free and open to the public.North Carolina filmmaker Camden Watts ex...

Book Cover: Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies, edited by Zackary Vernon

Rethinking the Space of Southern Studies: Dr. Zackary Vernon on Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies
Sep 11, 2019

Zackary Vernon's edited collection Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies was published last month by Louisiana State University Press. The c...

 Dr. Denise Martz. Photo by University Communications

Bookstore Faculty Author Spotlight presents Dr. Denise Martz
Sep 10, 2019

Wednesday, September 18, 20195 p.m. Plemmons Student Union, Price Lake, Room 201A.This event is free and open to the public.A program sponsored by the...

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Sanford Hall construction brings new homes to two academic departments
Sep 9, 2019

Spring and summer were full of changes for the English department and the languages, literatures and cultures department, formerly housed in Sanford H...

Heather Booth, photo submitted.

Film Marker Heather Booth Screens "Changing the World"
Sep 9, 2019

Part of the University Forum Lecture Series: Appalachian Celebrates the 19th Amendment, 125 Years of Women's SuffrageSeptember 18, 2019, 6:30-9 pm (Q ...

Appalachian alumna Hughlene Bostian Frank ’68, who died in May. Frank matched a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to fund Appalachian’s Visiting Writers Series, which is named in her honor. Photo by Marie Freeman

Hughlene Bostian Frank touched students’ lives through Appalachian’s Visiting Writers Series
Sep 6, 2019

Hughlene Bostian Frank ’68, the eponymous patron of Appalachian State University’s Visiting Writers Series, maintained that while she was an ...

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Department of Mathematical Sciences Colloquium welcomes Dr. Erica Slate Young
Sep 6, 2019

"Using Interdisciplinary Collaborations to Enhance Mathematics Teaching"Dr. Erica Slate Young, Assistant Professor, Appalachian State UniversityFriday...

Historian Dr. Leonard Rogoff author of “Gertrude Weil: Jewish Progressive in the New South” (2017) and “Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina” (2010) . Photo submitted.

Historian Dr. Leonard Rogoff will present a lecture on the Art Collecting Cone Sisters of Blowing Rock
Sep 5, 2019

“The Cones on Blowing Rock: Kultur in the High Country” Thursday, Sept. 19, 20192:30 p.m.Parkway Ballroom, Room 420, Plemmons Student UnionThis ev...