Nina G. Jablonski to speak on the politics of skin pigmentation at annual Dean’s Advisory Council Interdisciplinary Lecture
Feb 11, 2016
BOONE - Nina G. Jablonski, author, anthropologist and professor, will be the special guest speaker at the 6th Annual Dean’s Advisory Council Interdi...
Humanities Council welcomes the new semester with “Warm Up with the Humanities”
Feb 2, 2016
BOONE - This spring the Humanities Council will feature the works of new faculty during "Warm Up with the Humanities." The event will take place Febru...
“Plant Parenthood” class offered Jan. 30
Jan 21, 2016
BOONE—The Department of Biology at Appalachian State University will offer a free class Jan. 30 on vegetative propagation of tropical plants. The cl...
Three-minute thesis competition held Jan. 21 at Appalachian
Jan 9, 2016
BOONE—Seventeen graduate students at Appalachian State University will have three minutes to explain their research or scholarly/creative projects a...
Author and radio host Michael Eric Dyson to deliver MLK Commemoration Speech Jan. 21
Jan 4, 2016
BOONE—This event has been canceled and will be rescheduled at a later date. Michael Eric Dyson, an American academic, author and radio host, wi...
Humanities Council continues 2015-2016 lecture series with “Intersectionality: Moving from Tolerance to Solidarity,” a conversation with Ange-Marie Hancock
Nov 10, 2015
Boone - Last month the Humanities Council at Appalachian State University hosted their annual symposium. Ninety-eight people attended the day long ser...
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 ...
Black Mountain College historians to speak Oct. 27 at Appalachian
Oct 21, 2015
BOONE—The history of the innovative Black Mountain College is the focus of the Oct. 27 Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series...
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...