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College of Arts and Sciences Faculty and Staff Awards 2016-2017, Appstate

College Faculty & Staff Awards 2016-17
Oct 25, 2017

Congratulations to all the CAS faculty and staff members nominated this year and to these winners:Richard N. Henson Outstanding Advisor AwardMatt C. E...

Appalachian State 2017 food summit, www.foodsumit.brwia.org

Appalachian State University & Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture to host The 2017 Food Summit
Oct 25, 2017

The 2017 Food Summit, a gathering of scholars, farmers and food lovers, is organized around the theme “Dynamic Traditions, Resourceful Communities.â...

Recipient of the 2016-17 College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Alumni Award is Rod (R. T.) Smith

College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Alumni Award 2016-17
Oct 25, 2017

The recipient of the 2016-17 College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Alumni Award is Rod (R. T.) Smith. Smith graduated from Appalachian State Univer...

Antebellum Periodicals and the Origins of White Nationalism with LSU Boyd Professor J. Gerald Kennedy at Appalachian State

Antebellum Periodicals and the Origins of White Nationalism with LSU Boyd Professor J. Gerald Kennedy
Oct 25, 2017

Dr. J. Gerald Kennedy, Boyd Professor of English at Louisiana State University, will give a free public lecture on antebellum periodicals and the...

Dr. Davis Hankins: Faculty Member of Distinction, College of Arts and Sciences, Assistant professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion

Dr. Davis Hankins- Assistant professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion
Oct 24, 2017

Dr. Davis Hankins studies religion from a range of personal interests: literature, art, philosophy and psychology. He attributes this resourcefulness ...

A physics and astronomy class at Appalachian State University

AIP Survey Results put Appalachian Physics & Astronomy on Top
Oct 24, 2017

The American Institute for Physics (AIP) has released their survey of enrollments and degrees among physics and astronomy departments across the Unite...

fficials say tourism is the main reason North Carolina's wine industry has grown in recent years.

Thanks, Tourists! NC Wine Is Now A $2B Industry
Oct 20, 2017

North Carolina viticulture has blossomed into a $2 billion industry. It's got tourism to thank for the growth.Whit Winslow of the North Carolina ...

BMCS events

Black Mountain College Semester Events
Oct 19, 2017

BOONE, N.C.—For Appalachian State University’s Black Mountain College (BMC) Semester in spring 2018, multiple departments across the university ar...

Crafting Stories with Poetry and Prose, Children’s Literature Symposium

Children’s Literature Symposium
Oct 16, 2017

Belk Library and the Reich College of Education will host the 4th biennial Children’s Literature Symposium October 26-28, 2017 with authors Allan Wo...

Professor Dan Michman of Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Israel at Appalachian State

Eminent Israeli Holocaust historian and Yad Vashem Institute director to speak at Appalachian
Oct 13, 2017

The Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences has hosted many distinguished scholars and historians at Appala...