Appalachian State

ASHEVILLE—Regional college students can turn a piece of trash into cash in a new competition designed to tap their imagination, innovation and collaboration.
The Creative Juice Collegiate Competition challenges student teams to create value out of a throwaway item and communicate a message of environmental responsibility. Teams will chronicle their experiences on video and upload it [...]

BOONE—Mezzo-soprano Priscilla Porterfield will present a recital Wednesday, Sept.10, at 8 p.m. in Broyhill Music Center’s Rosen Concert Hall at Appalachian State University. Admission is free.
Porterfield will be accompanied by Bair Shagdaron on piano and harpsichord. Porterfield and Shagdaron are members of the Hayes School of Music faculty at Appalachian.
Porterfield will perform works by Handel, [...]

BOONE—Bassoonist John Heard presents a guest recital Sept. 11 at Appalachian State University’s Hayes School of Music. Susan Slingland will provide piano accompaniment.
His performance begins at 8 p.m. in Broyhill Music Center’s Recital Hall. Admission is free.
Heard will perform works by Giovanni Antonio Bertoli, Francois Devienne, William Grant Still and Bentsion Eliezer.
Heard is a former [...]

BOONE—The Annual Elk Knob Headwaters Community Day will be held Sept. 13 beginning at 11:45 a.m. at Elk Knob State Park.
Billed as the region’s largest potluck, the event includes performances by local musicians, cultural demonstrations and activities, including hikes to the Elk Knob summit.
Admission is a covered dish and attendees are encouraged to bring [...]

Freshman Move in Day was Aug. 22 at Appalachian State University. With an expected freshman enrollment of 2,775 students, the university enlisted the help of students, alumni, parents and community members to help students move their belongings to their assigned residence hall room. Volunteers Bill Agle, left, and Thad McKinnon secured a load headed [...]

BOONE—The Women’s Studies Program at Appalachian State University will present a series of lectures fall semester focusing on women’s and gender studies.
The series “Distinguished Lectures on Women, Sex, and Gender” will feature talks by scholars from various disciplines who will explore issues such as teenage girls and Internet predators, women and careers in information [...]

BOONE–Campus safety is the focus of activities Tuesday, Sept. 2, at Appalachian State University.
In conjunction with the 19th annual Walk for Awareness, a safety fair will be held on Sanford Mall from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The fair will provide information about university programs and activities designed to enhance personal safety, such as the [...]

BOONE—Appalachian State University rose to the No. 9 spot in the “Best Universities-Master’s in the South” category in U.S. News & World Report’s 2009 America’s Best Colleges Guide.  Appalachian tied with the College of Charleston for the ninth-place ranking.
The university also climbed to fourth place in the magazine’s South’s top public master-degree granting universities category, [...]

BOONE—Best-selling author Jeannette Walls is the guest speaker for convocation Sept. 4 at Appalachian State University. Activities begin at 10 a.m. in the Holmes Convocation Center on campus. The public is invited.
Walls also will participate in a panel discussion at 2 p.m.in I.G. Greer Auditorium. She will kick off the university’s Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting [...]

BOONE—Daniel Boone Days, Boone’s newest festival, will be held Sept. 4-6 at various locations throughout the Town of Boone.
Activities include the inaugural Daniel Boone Days Symposium, featuring bestselling author and historian Robert Morgan. Morgan is the author of “Gap Creek” and “Boone: A Biography.”
He will join faculty from Appalachian State University in a discussion about [...]

BOONE— Cold Mountain Review, the literary journal housed in the Department of English at Appalachian State University, has released its spring 2008 issue.
The issue contains the work of artists with links to and an interest in the region and its culture, including Joseph Bathanti, Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Robert Morgan, Tim Peeler and Mark Vogel.
Bathanti, a professor [...]

Students in a commercial design class at Appalachian State University shared proposals for a bathroom facility at the Daniel Boone Native Gardens that include a changing area for wedding parties using the gardens, and storage for garden tools. The class, led by assistant professor Chad Everhart in Appalachian’s Department of Technology, gave students practical experience [...]

BOONE—Western North Carolina’s economy remains weak, but June provided good news for the region. Economic activity, as measured by the Western North Carolina Economic Index and Report, increased 0.4 percent in June. In addition, the region’s economy rebounded in the second quarter of 2008 after two consecutive quarters of non-growth.
While the regional economy performed better [...]

BOONE - Bob White, executive director and foreign student advisor of International Education and Development was leading a group of 11 students and faculty on a study abroad trip in Chengdu China, when one of the largest earthquakes in this century hit the region on May 12. 
On Appalachian State University’s cable television program, “Appalachian [...]

BOONE—Kevin Balling, a lecturer in electronic media/broadcasting in the Department of Communication at Appalachian State University, has received a Visual Artist Fellowship in Video/Film from the North Carolina Arts Council.
The $10,000 fellowship was awarded for Balling’s current documentary film project tentatively titled “Bathanti,” which profiles the writing and life of writer Joseph Bathanti. Bathanti writes [...]