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Warm Up With the Humanities: A Celebration of New Faculty Research
Feb 17, 2020

Warm Up With the Humanities: A Celebration of New Faculty Research
Friday, February 21, 2020
Belk Library and Information Commons, Room 421

This event is free and open to the public.

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App State’s Common Reading Program announces ‘Rising’ as 2020–21 book selection

App State’s Common Reading Program announces ‘Rising’ as 2020–21 book selection
Feb 17, 2020

BOONE, N.C. — The Common Reading Program at Appalachian State University announces its 2020–21 book selection: “Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore” (Milkweed Editions, 2018) by Elizabeth Rush — a 2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist in general nonfiction.

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App State named a top producer of Fulbright students in 2019–20
Feb 14, 2020

Appalachian State University has been named a top producing institution for Fulbright students among master’s institutions for the 2019–20 grant year. This is the first time Appalachian has made the list for the number of students and/or alumni selected for the U.S.

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Novelist Kayla Rae Whitaker. Photo by Mark-Bennington

Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series presents Novelist Kayla Rae Whitaker
Feb 13, 2020

Thursday, February 27, 2020
Craft Talk: on Publishing:  Five Things You Need to Know Before You Publish
3:30-4:45 pm  Attic Window Room 137C, Plemmons Student Union
Reading: 7:30 pm in Three Top Room 169

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Marian Coe, John Foster West and Marjorie Idol 2020 Scholarship Winners

Marian Coe, John Foster West and Marjorie Idol 2020 Scholarship Winners
Feb 11, 2020

The fall scholarship creative writing competition: poetry and prose was open to all full-time students attending Appalachian State University and four students were awarded scholarships for the 2020 academic year.

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23rd Annual Celebration of Student Research and Creative Endeavors

23rd Annual Celebration of Student Research and Creative Endeavors Abstract Submissions
Feb 10, 2020

Thursday, April 16, 2020
9 a.m.- 4 p.m.
Plemmons Student Union, 4th floor

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 Two Paid Internships Available with the National Park Service

Two Paid Internships Available with the National Park Service
Feb 7, 2020

The Kings Mountain National Military Park, near Blacksburg, South Carolina is seeking Appalachin State Universitystudents or recent graduates with a background in communication, history, education, Spanish and/or web design.

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Sarah Beth Hopton Presents to High Country Writers

Sarah Beth Hopton Presents to High Country Writers
Feb 6, 2020

High Country Writers welcomes Sarah Beth Hopton as presenter at our meeting of Thursday, February 13th at the Watauga County Library at 10 a.m.

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Dr. Joe Jakubek Presentation on W.E.B. Du Bois

Dr. Joe Jakubek Presentation on W.E.B. Du Bois
Feb 6, 2020

Dr. Jakubek will discuss his nationally-recognized research and how it is among the first scholarly attempts to re-cast W.E.B. Du Bois as among the earliest founders of American rural sociology.   Join Dr.

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