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The Engare Sero footprint site in Northern Tanzania, Africa. Photo by Cynthia Liutkus-Pierce

Disappearing footprints in Tanzania
Aug 27, 2018

Appalachian researchers use photogrammetry to quantify erosion at ancient footprint site

College News, Grants & Research, Sustainability
Heather Guy ’18, an international student who recently completed Appalachian’s Master of Arts in geography program. Photo by Marie Freeman

For Heather Guy ’18, Appalachian ‘ticked all of the boxes’
Aug 22, 2018

Prior to enrolling in Appalachian State University’s geography graduate program, Heather Guy’s work experience involved computer modelling, an activity that kept her in front of a computer screen all day.

College News, Alumni
middle and secondary grad certificate

Cross-college collaboration supports graduate certificate in middle and secondary teaching
Aug 21, 2018

For the past two years, the College of Arts and Sciences has been partnering with the Reich College of Education at Appalachian State University to support a graduate certificate in middle and secondary teaching.

College News, Students
Caleb Johnson, author of the novel “Treeborne” and visiting assistant professor of creative writing at Appalachian State University. Photo by Irina Zhorov

Appalachian visiting creative writing professor authors debut ‘history-rich’ novel
Aug 17, 2018

The Department of English in Appalachian State University’s College of Arts and Sciences announces Caleb Johnson as its visiting assistant professor of creative writing.

College News, Faculty & Staff
Dr. Scott W. Hoffman

We Are Like This: Experiencing the Murder of Matthew Shepard in a Small College Town
Aug 16, 2018

Dr. Scott W. Hoffman Tuesday, August 21, 2018
8 p.m.
Living Learning Academic 205 (The Great Hall) College News, Events
Dr. Gerhard L. Weinberg, the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at UNC-Chapel Hill

Adolf Hitler and the United States: Views, Plans, and Policies and the ‘Jewish Question’
Aug 15, 2018

Internationally-noted Holocaust scholar and diplomatic historian Dr. Gerhard L. Weinberg, the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at UNC-Chapel Hill, will give an evening lecture. Weinberg escaped Nazi Germany in 1938, served in the U.S.

College News, Events
Moisés Kaufman — playwright, director and author of the 2018-19 common reading book selection, “The Laramie Project." Photo Submitted.

Moisés Kaufman: Theater in 2018 - The Vicinity of Hope
Aug 13, 2018

Moisés Kaufman — playwright, director and author of the 2018-19 common reading book selection, “The Laramie Project” — will give a public address at Appalachian State University.

CANCELLED due to weather event.

College News, Events
Appalachian alumni take different paths to careers in fermentation

Apples, Australia and vaccines
Aug 9, 2018

Three alumni from the fermentation sciences program at Appalachian State University demonstrate the diversity and versatility of career options open to students in the degree program.

College News, Alumni
Shohei Tsutsumi '18 – A Passion Steeped in Tradition

Shohei Tsutsumi ’18 experiences life-changing encounter with Appalachian music and culture
Aug 8, 2018

An international student’s decision to study old-time music at Appalachian State University has influenced not only their life but others’ as a local community begins to see itself and its traditions from a new perspective.

College News, Students
As part of the Brewing Science and Analysis course offered in the fermentation sciences degree program, students learn about brewing beer from Dr. Brett Taubman in the department’s brewing lab. Photo by Marie Freeman

Fermentation sciences program — and its opportunities — grow at Appalachian
Aug 7, 2018

The idea of crafting beer might get prospective students’ attention, but in fermentation sciences, students tap into much more than kegs.

College News, Students, Faculty & Staff