Appalachian students team up with local community to preserve historic African-American school
Oct 22, 2015
BOONE - In the early 1900s Booker T. Washington approached philanthropist and founder of Sears and Roebuck, Julius Rosenwald, to discuss the state of education for African Americans in the south.
College News, Students, EventsCollege of Arts & Sciences infused with sustainable curriculum througout the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural and Mathematical Sciences
Oct 14, 2015
BOONE - Recently Appalachian State University was awarded the Climate Leadership Award, a recognition given by Second Nature and the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) Center for Green Schools.
College News, SustainabilityAppalachian student/faculty delegation presents at conference in Romania
Oct 13, 2015
BOONE—A delegation from the Center for Appalachian Studies at Appalachian State University traveled to Brasov, Romania, recently to present research at the Appalachians/Carpathians: Researching, Documenting, and Preserving Highland Traditions conference.
College News, Faculty & Staff, Students, Events, Global LearningUCF sociologists lecture on racial attitudes in the U.S. and motherhood in the media
Oct 13, 2015
BOONE—Two sociologists from the University of Central Florida will present lectures Oct.
College News, EventsAssistant Professor Kristen Deathridge nominated to the North Carolina State National Registry Advisory Council
Oct 12, 2015
BOONE - Professor Kristen Deathridge, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, was recently appoint
College News, Faculty & Staff, Awards & HonorsHistorian Alon Confino lectures Oct. 21 at Appalachian
Oct 8, 2015
BOONE—Professor Alon Confino of Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, and the University of Virginia will present the talk “A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide” Oct. 21 at Appalachian State University. His program will begin at 7 p.m.
College News, EventsAppalachian Anthropology professor invited to speak at Cornell conference on prisons in Honduras
Oct 7, 2015
BOONE - On October 5th, Dr.
College News, Faculty & Staff, EventsRosenberg honored by Global Science and Technology Forum
Oct 7, 2015
BOONE—Professor Ed Rosenberg, director of Appalachian State University's gerontology program, and two colleagues from Thailand were honored recently at the 5th annual Political Science, Sociology and International Relations Conference held in Bangkok.
College News, Faculty & Staff, Awards & HonorsPost-Colonial Symposium presents local and international migrant experience through art and lecture
Oct 6, 2015
Boone - Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, a founder and major voice of postcolonial thought known for her seminal text, "Can the Subaltern Speak?," recently lectured at Appalachian.
College News, Events"Once Upon a Time" Appalachian State Homecoming to include College of Arts & Sciences Open House
Sep 29, 2015
Appalachian Sate is no different from any other school, in that there are important collegiate rituals and traditions.
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