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Dr. Jon Carter, who has researched undocumented migration from Honduras for 20 years. Photo by Chase Reynolds

Appalachian’s Dr. Jon Carter offers historical context for ‘migrant caravan,’ points to U.S. free-trade policies of 1990s
Nov 5, 2018

Why are thousands of Hondurans migrating en masse to the U.S. border? Appalachian State University sociocultural anthropologist Dr.

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Poet, Toi Derricotte (The Undertaker’s Daughter; Tender; The Black Notebooks)

HBFVWS presents Toi Derricotte
Nov 2, 2018

Poet, Toi Derricotte (The Undertaker’s DaughterTenderThe Black Notebooks)

Craft Talk: Write One Poem: Change Your Life 
3:30-4:45 p.m. 
Table Rock Room

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Dr. Susan Lappan. Photo by Marie Freeman

"Ecological and social constraints on ranging behavior in siamangs (Symphalangus syndactylus) in fire-damaged habitat"
Nov 1, 2018

Dr. Susan Lappan, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Appalachian State University
Monday, Nov. 5, 2018
12 p.m.
Anne Belk Hall, Room 342

This event is free of charge and open to the campus and community.

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British Prime Minister Theresa May leaving the European Union summit in Brussels in October 2018, where the two sides failed to reach an agreement on Brexit. Image Source: Euronews

Farewell to Europe? The World after Brexit
Nov 1, 2018

Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018
5 p.m.
Belk Library and Information Commons, Room 114

The event is free and open to the campus and community.

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Ben Orlin headshot for Math with Bad Drawings

Barbarians at the Gates of Science
Oct 31, 2018

Ben Orlin
Friday, Nov. 9, 2018
3-4 p.m.
Walker Hall, Room 103A 

This talk is free and open to the public

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Dr. Abbey Bourdon headshot picture

Rational Torsion Points on CM Elliptic Curves
Oct 30, 2018

Dr. Abbey Bourdon, Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Wake Forest University
Friday, Nov. 2, 2018

3-4pm
103A Walker Hall

This talk is free and open to the public

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Dr. Ellen Cowan picture for the Geological Society of America fellowship. Photo by Troy Tuttle

Dr. Ellen Cowan is awarded Geological Society of America fellowship
Oct 30, 2018

Dr. Ellen Cowan, Professor, sedimentary record of climate change, geoarchaeology and geomorphology

Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences
College of Arts and Sciences

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Dr. Sharon DeWitte, Image from the SAGE colleges - Albany, NY

Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Emerging Infectious Diseases
Oct 29, 2018

Dr. Sharon DeWitte, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018
6-7:30 p.m.
Belk Library and Information Commons, Room 114

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Dr. Ofer Ashkenazi, the Director of the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History and a senior Lecturer in the History Department of The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Hebrew University (Jerusalem) Center Director to Speak on Jewish Filmmakers and “Heimat”
Oct 26, 2018

Monday, Nov. 5, 2018
7 p.m.
Belk Library and Information Commons, Room 114

The event is free of charge and open to the public

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CAS faculty and staff award winners for 2017-18 (l to r): Timothy J. Smith, Alice P. Wright, Dean Neva J. Specht, Allison Fredette, Heather Custer, Andrew Heckert, Sandy Hicks, German Camps-Munoz, Carmen Scoggins, Richard Gray, Joseph Gonzalez and Ellen Lamont.

College Faculty and Staff Awards 2017-18
Oct 25, 2018

Each year the College of Arts and Sciences hosts a luncheon to celebrate the many faculty and staff in the college and to recognize outstanding faculty and staff with the following awards:

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