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Humanities Council convenes symposium on voices of postcolonial peoples
Sep 9, 2015

BOONE - How the life stories of colonized peoples reclaim and transform the Humanities today, and how they affect the multicultural landscape burgeoni...

Appalachian History graduate learned to dream big all the way to success
Sep 9, 2015

Salvador Salinas was a History major at Appalachian State University in 2001. This semester he began teaching for the first time as Assistant Professo...

Education can be life changing, speaker says
Sep 4, 2015

BOONE—Never take your college education for granted, students at Appalachian State University were told during fall convocation Sept. 3. That caveat...

Auschwitz_Birkenau survivor speaking about her suffering at the hands of Germans
Sep 3, 2015

Holocaust survivor Susan Cernyak-Spatz will give a talk titled "Perpetrators Through the Eyes of the Victims" on Thursday evening, Sept. 17, at Appala...

Noted law professor and anti-poverty advocate Gene Nichol to speak Sept. 10 at Appalachian
Sep 2, 2015

BOONE—Gene Nichol, the noted law professor and anti-poverty advocate, will speak at the Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts at Appalachian State...

Venue change for Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor speaks Sept. 17 at Appalachian
Sep 1, 2015

BOONE—Holocaust survivor Susan Cernyak-Spatz will give a talk titled “Perpetrators Through the Eyes of the Victims,” Thursday, Sept. 17, at 7 p....

Professors at Appalachian receive NSF grant to study dome formation in Georgia and Western North Carolina
Aug 21, 2015

BOONE—The Tallulah Gorge area in Georgia and Toxaway Falls in Gorges State Park in Western North Carolina are well known for their beauty and outdoo...

‘The Denim Dynasty’ documentary to be shown Sept. 10 at Appalachian
Aug 20, 2015

BOONE—Appalachian State University faculty member and documentary filmmaker Beth Davison will present her film “The Denim Dynasty” Thursday, Sep...

Researchers use tree-ring science to study area log cabins
Aug 3, 2015

BOONE—Saskia van de Gevel looks closely at the ends of logs used to construct two cabins located in the Bear Paw State Natural Area in Watauga Count...

Anonymous Donor’s vision translates to $500,000 in scholarships for Wayne County Students
Jul 24, 2015

Albert Einstein was credited with saying, “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world.  He who understands it, earns it…he who doesn...