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Appalachian State University Partners with Southwestern Community College for $1.4 Million NASA Grant
Apr 13, 2016

BOONE - Appalachian State University, in partnership Southwestern Community College, has been awarded a $1.4 million dollar grant by NASA to fund the Smoky Mountain STEM Collaborative.

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Appalachian to host conference on economic history with panel from Cuba
Apr 7, 2016

The 11th Annual Appalachian Spring Conference in World History and Economics: "Institutions and Development," returns to Appalachian State University, Saturday and Sunday, April 15, 16 and 17th.

College News, Events, Global Learning

Yom HaShoah Commemorations at Appalachian to Begin with Play by Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor
Apr 6, 2016

Appalachian State University's Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies is working with a multitude of partners throughout North Carolina to organize several events around this year's Yom HaShoah commemoration.

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Appalachian professor Samuella Sigmann honored with award by the American Chemical Society
Apr 5, 2016

Samuella Sigmann, Chemistry, was recently awarded the Tillman's-Skolnick Award from the American Chemical Society's Division of Chemical Health & Safety (ACS CHAS) for her "outstanding and prolonged service to the Division".

College News, Faculty & Staff, Awards & Honors

College of Arts and Sciences’ SAFE Fund grantees awarded for 2016
Apr 4, 2016

After an extensive review process the College of Arts and Sciences has chosen nine students and seven faculty to receive funds from the newly created Student and Faculty Excellence (SAFE) Fund for the 2016 year.

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Lecture on slave impressment during the Civil War in North Carolina presented April 14
Mar 25, 2016

Civil war historian Jaime Amanda Martinez will speak April 14 at Appalachian State University on “Slave Impressment and Political Dissent in Governor Zeb Vance’s North Carolina.” Her lecture begins at 6 p.m. in room 114 Belk Library and Information Commons.

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Author of “The Vegan Studies Project” to speak April 21 at Appalachian
Mar 24, 2016

Laura Wright, author of “The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror” will speak April 21 at 5:30 p.m. in room 114 Belk Library and Information Commons at Appalachian State University.

College News, Events, Sustainability

Michael Eric Dyson to speak April 12 at Appalachian
Mar 22, 2016

Michael Eric Dyson, an American academic, author and radio host, will speak Tuesday, April 12, at 7 p.m. in the Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts at Appalachian State University. His talk, originally scheduled for Jan. 21 as part of the university's Martin Luther King Jr.

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Award-winning poet and journalist Dannye Romine Powell talks about her craft March 31
Mar 14, 2016

During her career as a book review writer and editor, Dannye Romine Powell has interviewed some of the South's most notable literary talents: James Dickey, Eudora Welty, Shelby Foote, Reynolds Price and Lee Smith to name a few. Powell will talk about her work and her poetry March 31 during

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Presentation and discussion of the global garment industry and its labor held March 17
Feb 26, 2016

A presentation and discussion of the global garment industry and the exploitation of labor will be held Thursday, March 17, at 7 p.m. in Price Lake Room in Appalachian State University’s Plemmons Student Union. The presentation is free and open to the public.

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