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Immigrant Mountaineers Movement Conference

March 24: Immigrant Mountaineers Movement Conference
Mar 15, 2023

Immigrant Mountaineers Movement ConferenceFriday, March 24, 2023, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.Leon Levine Hall of Health SciencesThis event is free and open...

Abby Farrell at work at BreakThrough Physical Therapy in Boone. Photo submitted.

Abby Farrell accepted to Doctor of Physical Therapy program at UNC
Mar 9, 2023

Abby Farrell has been accepted and plans to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC)’s Doctor of Physical Therapy...

CAS Corps member Annie Sylvester is a junior physics secondary education major from New Bern, N.C. Photo submitted.

CAS Corps Feature: Annie Sylvester
Mar 9, 2023

The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Corps are chosen to serve as representatives to all constituents of CAS and to create, promote and execute oppo...

Olivia Adams, a senior applied physics and english major from Raleigh, at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, AZ. Photo submitted.

Physics, English major Olivia Adams selected for prestigious internship in Switzerland
Mar 8, 2023

BOONE, N.C. — Olivia Adams, a senior applied physics and English major from Raleigh, has been selected for the University of Michigan - CERN Summer ...

SAFE Student Spotlight: Jacqui Foronda

SAFE Student Spotlight: Jacqui Foronda
Mar 7, 2023

Jacqui Foronda, B.S. Environmental ScienceStudent and Faculty Excellence (SAFE) Fund Recipient: Spring 2022Project: “Mapping Devonian Anoxic Events ...

Appalachian studies graduate students Camden Phillips, Kevin Freeman, Sammy Osmond, Megan Hall and Yndiana Montes met with MountainTrue's High Country Watershed Coordinator, Hannah Woodburn, as part of their microplastics project.

App State's Center for Appalachian Studies prepares for AppalachiaFest
Mar 6, 2023

BOONE, N.C. — Appalachian State University's Center for Appalachian Studies is preparing for the 46th Annual Appalachian Studies Association (ASA) C...

App State Chancellor Sheri Everts, center, and flag ceremony attendees applaud the unfurling of the flag of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina in the university’s Plemmons Student Union on Feb. 27. App State first-year student Cierra Bell, immediately to the left of the chancellor, and assistant professor Dr. Seth Grooms, pictured fourth from right, unfurled the flag. Photo by Chase Reynolds

Lumbee tribal flag now hangs in App State’s student union, honoring the Lumbee people and their history
Mar 3, 2023

BOONE, N.C. — Appalachian State University recognized and honored the nearly 60,000 members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina and their history ...

CAS Corps member Meredith Sánchez-Sánchez is a senior global studies major from Clayton, N.C. Photo submitted.

CAS Corps Feature: Meredith Sánchez-Sánchez
Mar 2, 2023

The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Corps are chosen to serve as representatives to all constituents of CAS and to create, promote and execute oppo...

App State’s Andrew Jenkins ’12, senior lecturer in the Department of Biology, displays an oak leaf while guiding App State students and local community members on a May 2022 hike in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains. Blue Ridge Conservancy photo

Since 1958, App State's Southern Appalachian plant collection has aided research, teaching and conservation
Feb 27, 2023

BOONE, N.C. — With a High Country winter settled over Boone, thousands of plant specimens rest in perpetual bloom on Appalachian State University’...

CAS Corps member Jocelyn Pelcastre-Gonzalez is a junior mathematics major from Oxford, N.C. Photo submitted.

CAS Corps Feature: Jocelyn Pelcastre-Gonzalez
Feb 23, 2023

The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Corps are chosen to serve as representatives to all constituents of CAS and to create, promote and execute oppo...