Appalachian State

BOONE—Submissions are being accepted for the 2008-09 Truman Capote Literary Trust Scholarship in Poetry at Appalachian State University.

Learn how you can use your degree and experience to make a difference in other people’s lives, and in your own, by attending an information session on the Peace Corps Thursday, March 6.  The session will be held from 6-7:30 p.m. in Room 421 Belk Library and Information Commons. With international work assignments in more [...]

BOONE—Professors in Appalachian State University’s Walker College of Business have embarked on a yearlong study to identify factors that impact the hiring and retention of nurses in  rural North Carolina.

Appalachian State University student David Barry juggles a few snowballs as he walks to class on Wednesday afternoon. (Photo by Marie Freeman, university photographer)
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BOONE—Nine students from Appalachian State University will work as volunteers during UNC TV’s fundraising telethon Festival 2008. The students will take financial pledges from viewers on March 1 from 2:30-7:30 p.m. and March 2 from 7-11:30 a.m.

BOONE—Appalachian State University’s Center for Entrepreneurship in partnership with the BioNetwork BioBusiness Center at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College (ABTCC) will offer programs related to technology commercialization, capital formation and intellectual property in March and April.

BOONE—Looking Glass Gallery in Appalachian State University’s Plemmons Student Union presents “Contemporary American Lifestyles: Consumption and Waste, an installation by Jennifer Livingston.  Livingston is an art management and studio art major at Appalachian.

BOONE— Appalachian State University is beginning a new free after-school science enrichment program this fall for High Country home school students and minority students from Hickory.

BOONE—Nell Irvin Painter, one of the pre-eminent historians in America today, will visit Appalachian State University Monday, March 3, as part of the university’s Forum Lecture Series. Painter’s visit will include interactions with students and faculty members, and will culminate with a public lecture at 8 p.m. titled “Creating Black Americans.” The lecture is in [...]

BOONE—Appalachian State University’s New Paradigm Percussion Quartet will perform March 2 at 4 p.m. in Broyhill Music Center’s Rosen Concert Hall. Admission is free.

BOONE—“Russian Songs and Solos” is the theme of the Faculty Recital Series March 4 presented by Appalachian State University’s Hayes School of Music. The recital features tenor Randall Outland and pianist Bair Shagdaron.

BOONE – The Department of Theatre and Dance will present the 2003 Drama Desk award-winning play “The Exonerated” March 4-8 at 8 p.m. in I.G. Greer Studio Theatre at Appalachian State University.
Tickets can be purchased at the door or by calling the Valborg Theatre Box Office at 262-3063. “The Exonerated” has some graphic language and [...]

Appalachian State University student Liz Stowe helps fill bags of groceries to be distributed through the non-profit organization Shelter Rock to impoverished people living in Appalachia. Stowe joined more than 70 Appalachian students who volunteered in the 3rd annual Leigh Lane Edwards Service Day on Sunday at Shelter Rock’s outreach ministry warehouse in Foscoe. Organized [...]

BOONE—Rebecca B. Jones, a senior at Appalachian State University, received a national audio production award from the Broadcast Education Association’s Festival of Media Arts.

The 10th annual Polar Plunge at Appalachian State University on Thursday raised more than $9,600 to benefit Watauga County Special Olympics. A total of 202 plungers participated. All of the money raised will remain in Watauga County to support local athletes. Prizes were awarded to the most extreme costume for male and female jumpers, as [...]