Folk Revival After Helene [faculty, alumni featured]
Oct 7, 2025
On a warm Wednesday in August, the crowded patio of the Old Marshall Jail Hotel in Marshall, North Carolina, falls silent as seventh-generation ballad performer Sheila Kay Adams begins to sing. Her rich, practiced voice mingles with the flow of the French Broad River a few yards away.
Alumni, Arts & Cultural, Faculty & Staff
App State and regional artists channel Helene’s impact into creative works of hope and healing
Oct 1, 2025
BOONE, N.C. — Hurricane Helene is often remembered for scenes of destruction — but at Appalachian State University and in the surrounding community, artists have found beauty, hope and healing in the brokenness, channeling the storm’s impact into creative works.
Arts & Cultural, Alumni, Faculty & Staff, University News
Just in Time for Leaf-Peeping Season, the Blue Ridge Parkway Reopens [faculty featured]
Sep 24, 2025
Almost a year after Hurricane Helene carved a devastating path through Western North Carolina, toppling millions of trees and gutting a key tourism season for the region, the Blue Ridge Parkway is once again open, and the mountains are ready to show off.
Faculty & Staff
Dr. Leonardo Flores shares digital writing expertise with IIT Jodhpur through Fulbright Specialist Program
Sep 17, 2025
BOONE, N.C. — In August, Dr.
Awards & Honors, Faculty & Staff, Grants & Research
Howard Neufeld, 'The Fall Color Guy,' looks for a return of mountain visitors a year after Helene [faculty featured]
Sep 12, 2025
The fall foliage season is an important tourism draw for Blue Ridge Mountain communities. Helene struck just weeks before 2024’s peak, effectively putting it on hold.
Faculty & Staff
Veterinary Technology program's Rebecca Newman interviewed on The Veterinary Roundtable podcast
Sep 11, 2025
In this episode, the ladies welcome Rebecca Newman, Appalachian State University's Assistant Program Director and Wellbeing Coordinator and Bright Minds Award Winner, to discuss coping mechanisms in veterinary medicine, the most common issues among veterinary students, if veterinary schools are...
Faculty & Staff
Trees are looking 'very good' as return of fall colors nears [faculty featured]
Sep 10, 2025
HIGH COUNTRY — Starting in mid- to late-September, and ramping up in October, visitors from all over the United States flock to the High Country to see the colorful foliage that the Blue Ridge Mountains have to offer.
Faculty & Staff
What made Hurricane Helene a historic storm?
Sep 9, 2025
BOONE, N.C. — In September 2024, Hurricane Helene brought record-breaking rain and wind to the High Country, leaving a lasting impact across the region. It marked Boone’s most devastating flood event since 1940 — and before that, 1916.
Faculty & Staff, Grants & Research, University News
Two Years After Cormac McCarthy’s Death, Rare Access to His Personal Library Reveals the Man Behind the Myth [faculty featured]
Sep 5, 2025
Cormac McCarthy, one of the greatest novelists America has ever produced and one of the most private, had been dead for 13 months when I arrived at his final residence outside Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Faculty & Staff, Grants & Research