April 2: Pickin’ Apart Bartók: How to Hear Folk Sounds in Classical Music
Nov 25, 2024
“Pickin’ Apart Bartók: How to Hear Folk Sounds in Classical Music”
Wednesday, April 2, 2025, from 5:30-7 p.m.
Jones House Cultural Center (604 West King Street, Boone, NC, 28607)
March 4: Bartók: From Opposing Ethnic Cleansing to Inventing Ethnomusicology
Nov 25, 2024
“Bartók: From Opposing Ethnic Cleansing to Inventing Ethnomusicology”
Tuesday, March 4, 2025, from 5:30-7 p.m.
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Room 1102
High Country Humanities awarded $5,000 North Carolina Humanities grant to support programming on Béla Bartók
Nov 25, 2024
High Country Humanities will design and deliver high-impact humanities programming on Béla Bartók (1881–1945), the Hungarian composer who helped bridge the divide between classical and folk music.
College News, Support
SAFE Student Spotlight: Luke Rose ’24
Nov 25, 2024
Luke Rose ’24
Fall 2023 SAFE Fund Recipient
Project: "Taxonomic Significance of Lungfish (Sarcopterygii:Dipnoi) Tooth Plates in the Lower Triassic (Olenekian) Burgersdorp Formation of Driefontein, South Africa"
2025-26 Appalachian Scholarship Application Portal (ASAP) open December 1 through February 7
Nov 25, 2024
BOONE, N.C. — The 2025-26 Appalachian Scholarship Application Portal (ASAP) opens this Sunday, December 1, 2024, and closes Friday, February 7, 2025.
College News, Support
Experts address infrastructure, economy, climate change in wake of Hurricane Helene [The Appalachian]
Nov 22, 2024
Three days before Hurricane Helene, a local weatherman wrote his daily headline: “Bring it in, nail it down, shore it up.” Two days before the hurricane, “This is not a drill.”
College News, Faculty & Staff
Appalachian Journal (vol. 52, no. 1-2) now available
Nov 20, 2024
BOONE, N.C. — The new Appalachian Journal (vol. 51, no.
Arts & Cultural, College News
February 6: “Drawing to Tell Stories” with illustrator Christine Nishiyama
Nov 18, 2024
“Drawing to Tell Stories” with Illustrator Christine Nishiyama
Thursday, February 6, 2025, from 6-7 p.m.
Blowing Rock Art and History Museum (159 Ginny Stevens Lane, Blowing Rock, NC 28605)
Meet the student employees in the CAS Dean's Office
Nov 18, 2024
BOONE, N.C. — Student employees make up an important and valuable part of the workforce at Appalachian State University. In recognition of this, Appalachian State's Career Development Center celebrates student employees each semester.
College News, Students
SAFE Student Spotlight: Joshua Crouch
Nov 14, 2024
Joshua Crouch
Fall 2023 SAFE Fund Recipient
Project: "Preliminary Taphonomy of a Revueltian (Upper Triassic: Norian) Age Coprolite Assemblage from the Homestead Site in the Garita Creek Formation, East-Central New Mexico, USA"