Boxcarr Handmade Cheeses
Oct 10, 2017
Samantha will discuss what goes into running a small production business and what makes Boxcarr successful. She has been a part of the NC cheese industry since she was 22, ask her about it! We do encourage people to bring a dedicated tasting notebook.
College News, Events
Appalachian’s Team Sunergy travels to World Solar Challenge in Australia to advise Chilean team
Oct 5, 2017
Members of Appalachian’s solar vehicle team left Boone Friday, Sept. 29, for more than two weeks Down Under. They will advise the Chilean team on electrical engineering challenges while also learning about the race, in which Team Sunergy hopes to compete in 2019.
College News, Students, Grants & Research
An ECRS donation makes GPU programming possible in the Department of Computer Science at Appalachian
Oct 4, 2017
Nearly all computers have a graphics processing unit (GPU) that generates two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) graphics, images and video for graphical user interfaces, video games, visual imaging applications and video.
College News, Grants & Research
Gender Swapping and Political Identity in Video Games
Oct 3, 2017
Wednesday, October 18
Dr. Chris Bartel, Associate Professor of Philosophy
"Gender Swapping and Political Identity in Video Games"
PRESERVING A REGION
Oct 3, 2017
There are those who would say that the Southern Appalachian region is the most beautiful area in the country. In order to preserve that beauty, the delicate ecosystem and plant-life of western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee must be studied and catalogued.
College News, Grants & Research
Craft Talk: Issues of Voice
Oct 2, 2017
The Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series resumes Oct. 5 with Susan Ludvigson at Appalachian State University with readings and craft talks. The event will begin at 6p.m. with a prereading, followed by the full reading at 7:30p.m.
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Appalachian’s Truman Capote scholarship winner and runner-up announced
Sep 28, 2017
Madelyn Marie Kittle, a senior majoring in English with a concentration in creative writing and film studies, has been awarded Appalachian State University’s 2017-18 Truman Capote Literary Trust Award for Creative Writing.
College News, Awards & Honors
Appalachian’s NSF-funded scanning electron microscope supports undergraduate research
Sep 25, 2017
The National Science Foundation, through a major research instrumentation program grant, awarded the College of Arts and Sciences’ Dewel Microscopy Facility at Appalachian State University $562,842 for a new scanning electron microscope (SEM).
College News, Awards & Honors
Four book discussions centered around Timothy Snyder’s, ‘On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century’
Sep 20, 2017
In conjunction with the Fall Humanities Council Symposium on Sept. 29, the Council will host a four-part series of book discussions on Timothy Snyder’s most recent work, “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.”
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Appalachian’s Humanities Council Symposium ‘Sustaining Democracy: Existence, Persistence, Resistance’ Sept. 29
Sep 20, 2017
The Humanities Council under the College of Arts and Sciences at Appalachian State University will present a symposium titled “Sustaining Democracy: Existence, Persistence, Resistance” from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., Friday, Sept.
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