BOONE—The Western North Carolina Network for Access and Success housed at Appalachian State University has received $35,000 from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation to implement the “High School to College” faculty/teacher development project.
BOONE—Doug Peach loves to travel and learn about music from other cultures. The Appalachian State University senior has used those interests to secure a 15-week internship with the Smithsonian Institute’s Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Folkways Recordings label.
BOONE—Geographers from Appalachian State University and UNC Greensboro have found a piece of the global warming/climate change puzzle related to the occurrence of wildfires in the northern Rocky Mountains.
BOONE—Seven Appalachian State University graduates spoke during commencement ceremonies on Dec. 16. Some spoke of the support they had received from faculty and fellow students, and the exciting opportunities facing them.
Although academic activities on campus have ceased for the holidays, University Advancement staff members are available to facilitate year-end gift giving to Appalachian State University in any way convenient for the donor, said Susan Pettyjohn, Vice Chancellor for University Advancement. To make a gift online, go to www.give.appstate.edu and select from the options available.
“If the [...]
BOONE—The Appalachian Chorale continues its 32nd season with rehearsals for Ralph Vaughan Williams’s “A Sea Symphony.”
All interested singers are invited to attend rehearsals beginning Jan. 14, 2008. Rehearsals are held every Monday evening during Appalachian State University’s academic semester, except during official breaks and holidays.
BOONE—Among the more than 1,000 students receiving degrees during commencement Dec. 16 at Appalachian State University were eight new officers in the U.S. Army.
The officers were commissioned as second lieutenants by Lt. Col. Douglas G. Jett, chairman of the Department of Military Science and Leadership at Appalachian and leader of the university’s Army ROTC program.
BOONE—It has been more than 30 years since a building has been added to Camp Broadstone, but that soon will change.
A 1,500-square foot administrative building is expected to be complete by late spring or early summer 2008.
BOONE—Education has the power to influence people and help them realize their dreams, N.C. State Superintendent of Public Instruction June St. Clair Atkinson told Appalachian State University graduates during commencement on Sunday.
BOONE—The local band Do It To Julia has become the latest band to sign recording and publishing contracts with Split Rail Records. The student-run music label is based in Appalachian State University’s Hayes School of Music.
BOONE—Jim Deal, chairman of Appalachian State University’s Board of Trustees says the university should strive to build energy efficient and environmentally friendly buildings in the future.
“I think it’s important for us as a board of trustees to take the position that in all future construction, we do the most we can to have these buildings [...]
BOONE—Appalachian State University has implemented water-saving measures because of the state’s drought, even though its water system remains robust.
Greg Lovins, interim vice chancellor for business affairs, said the university no longer washes state vehicles, has stopped watering athletics fields, and has stopped or reduced watering plants. Low-flow shower heads and toilets have been installed in [...]
BOONE—The Board of Trustees at Appalachian State University will seek approval from the UNC Board of Governors to issue up to $65 million in bonds to finance two construction projects on campus and refinance bonds issued in 1998 to upgrade the campus utility system.
BOONE—A holiday concert performed by singers and musicians in Appalachian State University’s Hayes School of Music will be broadcast Dec. 19 at 8 p.m. on UNC TV.
The program, “Holiday Sounds from Appalachian,” was videotaped the week of Nov. 26 in Farthing Auditorium on campus. The broadcast is made possible by the Hayes Endowment for Musical [...]
BOONE–Karl Campbell, an associate professor in the Department of History at Appalachian State University, will be featured during the Dec. 8 “Book TV” program on C-SPAN2, which airs at 7 p.m.
Campbell, the author of “Senator Sam Ervin, Last of the Founding Fathers,” was taped at an event hosted by Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh. Campbell [...]
Appalachian State University is a public university located in Boone, North Carolina and the sixth largest institution in the University of North Carolina system. Appalachian (pronounced app-uh-LATCH-un) State is sometimes referred to as AppState, ASU, or simply App. The university has been ranked among the top 15 Southern "Masters Universities" since the U.S. News and World Report's America's Best Colleges Guide began publication in 1986. In 2001, Appalachian was recognized by TIME Magazine as a College of the Year.
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