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Sanford Hall construction brings new homes to two academic departments
Sep 9, 2019

Spring and summer were full of changes for the English department and the languages, literatures and cultures department, formerly housed in Sanford H...

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Film Marker Heather Booth Screens "Changing the World"
Sep 9, 2019

Part of the University Forum Lecture Series: Appalachian Celebrates the 19th Amendment, 125 Years of Women's SuffrageSeptember 18, 2019, 6:30-9 pm (Q ...

Appalachian alumna Hughlene Bostian Frank ’68, who died in May. Frank matched a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to fund Appalachian’s Visiting Writers Series, which is named in her honor. Photo by Marie Freeman

Hughlene Bostian Frank touched students’ lives through Appalachian’s Visiting Writers Series
Sep 6, 2019

Hughlene Bostian Frank ’68, the eponymous patron of Appalachian State University’s Visiting Writers Series, maintained that while she was an ...

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Department of Mathematical Sciences Colloquium welcomes Dr. Erica Slate Young
Sep 6, 2019

"Using Interdisciplinary Collaborations to Enhance Mathematics Teaching"Dr. Erica Slate Young, Assistant Professor, Appalachian State UniversityFriday...

Historian Dr. Leonard Rogoff author of “Gertrude Weil: Jewish Progressive in the New South” (2017) and “Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina” (2010) . Photo submitted.

Historian Dr. Leonard Rogoff will present a lecture on the Art Collecting Cone Sisters of Blowing Rock
Sep 5, 2019

“The Cones on Blowing Rock: Kultur in the High Country” Thursday, Sept. 19, 20192:30 p.m.Parkway Ballroom, Room 420, Plemmons Student UnionThis ev...

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Department of Anthropology Announces Fall 2019 Brown Bag Series
Sep 5, 2019

The Department of Anthropology hosts brown bag lunch sessions on scheduled Wednesdays each semester. All talks are free of charge, open to the pu...

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Jessica Pittman Dale Applies Her Sociology Skills to Encourage Prevention in Our Communities
Sep 4, 2019

Jessica Pittman Dale is an Appalachian State alumnus with a mission. Graduating in 2011 with a Bachelor of Science degree in sociology with a concentr...

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Anthropology Fall 2019 Brown Bag Series presents Dr. David Orvis
Sep 3, 2019

"'…in quest of a Gang of Sodomites:' Toward New Frameworks for Interpreting Sexuality and Identity and Identity in the Early Modern English Cultural...

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LLC International Speaker Series introduces Nihad Dukhan
Sep 3, 2019

Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures (DLLC) International Speaker Series introduces“Art Starts with a Line: Foundations of Arabic/...

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Appalachian literature is highlight of App State’s fall 2019 Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series
Aug 30, 2019

The fall 2019 Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series at Appalachian State University will feature four acclaimed authors of Appalach...