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Appalachian alumna, Keana Tripplett, awarded North Carolina Teacher of the Year
Sep 16, 2015

Keana Tripplett wanted to be a teacher since the first day of Kindergarten, but it wasn't until she received the North Carolina Teaching Fellows schol...

Appalachian State University receives $1.1 million grant to support mathematics and science teacher preparation
Sep 11, 2015

Faculty members at Appalachian State University have received a National Science Foundation grant for $1,165,039 to support a Noyce Scholarship Progra...

College of Arts & Sciences seeking December undergraduate commencement speakers
Sep 10, 2015

This fall, the College of Arts & Sciences will select one distinguished graduating senior to speak at the December Commencement Ceremony. We are s...

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...