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Appalachian State University's High Country Humanities—with support from North Carolina Humanities—is pleased to present “Pickin’ Apart Bartók: How to Hear Folk Sounds in Classical Music” on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, from 5:30-7 p.m. at the Jones House Cultural Center, located at 604 West King Street in Boone.

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)

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Appalachian State University's High Country Humanities—with support from North Carolina Humanities—is pleased to present “Bartók: From Opposing Ethnic Cleansing to Inventing Ethnomusicology” on Tuesday, March 4, 2025, from 5:30-7 p.m. in Room 1102 of Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, located at 423 West King Street in Boone.

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

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High Country Humanities at Appalachian State University has received another grant from North Carolina Humanities, a statewide nonprofit and the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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.

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Luke Rose graduated from Appalachian in May with his bachelor's degree in geology with a concentration in paleontology. Photo submitted

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"

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The 2025-26 Appalachian Scholarship Application Portal (ASAP) opens this Sunday, December 1, 2024, and closes Friday, February 7, 2025.

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.

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The Appalachian

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
Christine Nishiyama is the author and/or illustrator of seven books, including the four book Layla and the Bots series published by Scholastic. Photo from might-could.com.

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)

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Nicole Herrera Marchena (left) and Kelley Robinson (right) are student assistants in the College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Office. Photos submitted

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
Joshua Crouch is a senior geology major from Gastonia. Photo submitted

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"

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