Appalachian State

BOONE—Music lovers are invited on a sentimental journey Feb. 2 when Appalachian State University’s music faculty perform works featured in Broadway and Hollywood musicals during the 1930s and 1940s.
The 8 p.m. performance in Broyhill Music Center’s Rosen Concert Hall is part of the Hayes School of Music’s Faculty Recital Series. Admission is free.
The vocalists are [...]

BOONE—Dr. John Bartlett, associate director for research at the Duke Global Health Institute at Duke University Medical Center, will speak on “A Life in Global Medicine: From North Carolina to Tanzania and Beyond” Jan. 29 at Appalachian State University.
The program will be presented in Belk Library and Information Commons Room 114 from 3:30-5 p.m. It [...]

BOONE—Compositions for trumpet will be performed Jan. 29 during an 8 p.m. recital in Rosen Concert Hall in Appalachian State University’s Broyhill Music Center. Admission is free.
The recital features guest artist Paul Morton, and trumpeter James Stokes, organist Joby Bell and pianist Bair Shagdaron, all faculty in the Hayes School of Music. Morton is associate [...]

BOONE—Harmonia Baroque, the Hayes School of Music’s resident early-music ensemble, will perform works from the 17th and 18th centuries Tuesday, Jan. 26, at 8 p.m. in Broyhill Music Center’s Rosen Concert Hall at Appalachian State University. Admission is free.
Ensemble members are Nancy Schneeloch-Bingham, flute; Alicia Chapman, hautbois; Priscilla Porterfield, mezzo soprano; Barbara Blaker Krumdieck, cello; [...]

BOONE—Dr. Jeff Ramsdell has been appointed director of the Appalachian Energy Center at Appalachian State University.
The Energy Center, established in 2001, is part of the university’s Research Institute for Environment, Energy and Economics (RIEEE). The center conducts energy research and outreach activities in a multi-disciplinary environment and has programs in the areas of energy efficiency, [...]

BOONE—Christopher Blaha will present a tuba recital Sunday, Jan. 24, at 2 p.m. in Broyhill Music Center’s Rosen Concert Hall at Appalachian State University. Admission is free. Blaha is a member of the Hayes School of Music faculty.
Pianist Melissa Lesbines and horn player Stephanie Blaha will provide accompaniment.
The program features Anthony Plog’s “Three Miniatures for [...]

BOONE—A film series focusing on issues related to sustainability begins Jan. 19 at Appalachian State University. The series is sponsored by Appalachian’s Office of Sustainability in conjunction with the Department of Geology.
All screenings will be held in I.G. Greer Auditorium at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted and are free and open to the public. Detailed [...]

BOONE—“Mudbound” by Hillary Jordan has been selected for the 2010 Summer Reading Program at Appalachian State University.
The book will be provided to all incoming freshmen at Appalachian and Jordan will speak to members of the campus community and others during Convocation Sept. 16 in the Holmes Center on campus.
“Appalachian’s Summer Reading Program provides an important [...]

BOONE—Faculty from Appalachian State University have received funding to collect the histories of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) population living in the Appalachian region.
The project will include interviews of members of the LGBT community, members of organizations that support that community, as well as community members and others with a story of how [...]

BOONE—The annual I Have A Dream Week will be celebrated Jan. 17-24 at Appalachian State University and in the Boone community.
Activities begin at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 17, at the Boone Unitarian Universalists located on East King Street. The program is “Commemorating our Unitarian Universalists’ Activities during the Civil Rights Movement.” Call 264-4456 for information.
The [...]

BOONE—Flutist Leslie Marrs will present a guest recital Jan. 21 at 8 p.m. in Broyhill Music Center’s Rosen Concert Hall at Appalachian State University. Admission is free.
Marrs is an assistant professor of flute at Drake University. She has performed as a chamber musician from the nation’s capital to New Delhi and Oxford, and has been [...]

BOONE—Dr. Robert “Bob” Ellison has been named director of Mary S. Shook Student Health Service at Appalachian State University. He replaces Dr. Patricia “Pat” Geiger who desired to return to full-time practice in Student Health Service.
Ellison has been a staff physician at Appalachian since 2007. He was clinic physician and medical director for the Watauga [...]

BOONE—Appalachian University has hired four new individuals to work with its Upward Bound (UB) program and its newly funded Upward Bound Math/Science (UBMS) program.
Teri Carter will direct both projects.  Kim Grater has been named program coordinator for Upward Bound and Aaron Gersonde has been named program coordinator for UBMS.  Tracey Tardiff was recently named interim [...]

BOONE—Noted Lincoln historian Harold Holzer opens University Distinguished Lecture Series Feb. 8 at Appalachian State University with the talk “Why Lincoln Matters—To History, To Our Presidents, and Us.” On March 23, NPR senior foreign correspondent Anne Garrels will speak on “From the Frontlines: Global Reports from an NPR Correspondent.” Both talks begin at 8 p.m. [...]

BOONE—The 26th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration at Appalachian State University features noted writer and activist Nikki Giovanni in a 7 p.m. talk Jan. 28 in Farthing Auditorium. The program is sponsored by Appalachian’s Office of Multicultural Student Development. Admission is free.
A reception and book signing will precede Giovanni’s talk from 5:30-6:30 p.m. [...]