BOONE—Composer, performer and teacher Dr. Mark Snyder will give a concert March 15 at 8 p.m. in Broyhill Music Center’s Recital Hall at Appalachian State University. Admission is free.
Using a laptop, video projector, clarinet, tuba and accordion, Snyder creates wordless, multimedia compositions that are orchestrated with live instrument processing, prerecorded sounds and video. His works [...]
BOONE—Appalachian State University and the Hayes School of Music are hosting the 40th regional conference of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of The College Music Society March 5-6.
Beginning on Friday, March 5, scholars, students and musicians from North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland will meet to present research, discuss historical perspectives of musical performance, [...]
BOONE—The Boone Chapter of the American Guild of Organists presents its annual chapter members’ recital on Sunday, March 14, at 4 p.m. in Broyhill Music Center’s Rosen Concert Hall at Appalachian State University.
The program will feature music of J.S. Bach, J.P. Sweelinck, Jean Langlais, Marcel Dupré and others, played by chapter members H. Max Smith, [...]
BOONE—Dr. Miles Taylor is the keynote speaker for the fifth annual conference in world history and economics held at Appalachian March 20. The theme of this year’s conference is “Cost and Politics of Empires.”
Taylor is director of London’s Institute of Historical Research and a world-renowned scholar of comparative social and political history as well [...]
BOONE— Ryan M. Klinger of Troutman, a senior industrial design major at Appalachian State University, has received the 2010 Student Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
The $2,500 scholarship award is presented annually by the Center for Entrepreneurship in Appalachian’s Walker College of Business to recognize exceptional entrepreneurial achievement by a student. It was presented during the [...]
Exhibition and People’s Choice Voting Open Friday, March 5
BOONE— Preliminary judging for the 7th Annual Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition (AMPS) at Appalachian State University has been completed and 47 images have been selected for exhibition from 1,116 submissions.
This year’s accepted works will be on display at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts Mezzanine [...]
BOONE—North Carolina’s changing tobacco economy will be the focus of a March 18 lecture at Appalachian State University.
Dr. Peter B. Benson, an assistant professor of sociocultural anthropology at Washington University, will discuss “Growers, Migrant Farm Workers, and the Changing Face of Big Tobacco in North Carolina.” His talk begins at 7 p.m. in room 114 [...]
BOONE—Appalachian State University’s Upward Bound program has received a $1 million grant from U.S. Department of Education to increase and augment math and science preparation for first generation, low-income students from Wilkes, Watauga, Avery, Ashe, Burke and Alleghany counties.
The four-year grant will serve as many as 50 students in the 9th-11th grades annually through the [...]
BOONE—Charna Howson has been named director of sponsored programs at Appalachian State University. She comes to Appalachian from UNC Greensboro where she was the associate director of sponsored programs. She begins her new duties March 1. She brings with her many years of experience in sponsored research as well as national recognition as a National [...]
Jesse Williams, left, and Diana Barbee load canned goods and packaged food items for delivery to the Hunger and Health Coalition. More than 760 pounds of food and other items were donated by Appalachian State University employees to the “Show That You Have a Heart” challenge that was part of a UNC system-wide initiative. Williams [...]
BOONE—The Center for Appalachian Studies at Appalachian State University is hosting a concert to benefit student scholarships on Wednesday, March 3, in I. G. Greer Auditorium on campus. The concert runs from 7-9 p.m.
Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for students. Tickets will be sold at the door. Advanced tickets are on sale in [...]
BOONE—Artist Trace O’Connor will hold a residency at Appalachian State University March 1-5.
O’Connor’s sculpture “Iscariot” won the Martin and Doris Rosen Outdoor Sculpture competition held on campus. His visit is part of the Rosen Artist Residency program.
During his residency, O’Connor will present a public lecture on Wednesday, March 3, at 7 p.m. in the Turchin [...]
BOONE—Talented student singer-songwriters from Appalachian State University will perform in MEISA’s UNPLUGGED concert Saturday, Feb. 27. The performance will take place in Broyhill Music Center’s Recital Hall at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Admission is $3.
MEISA is the Music and Entertainment Industry Student Association based in Appalachian’s Hayes School of Music. The national [...]
BOONE—The campus siren warning system at Appalachian State University will be activated Wednesday, March 3, at 11:55 a.m. The test of the siren system is normally conducted the first Wednesday of each month.
The March 3 siren test will consist of a 75-second discontinuous air horn tone followed by a pre-recorded voice message that says, “This [...]
BOONE—The Appalachian Concert Band performs Wednesday, March 3, at 8 p.m. in Broyhill Music Center’s Rosen Concert Hall. Admission is free. The band is directed by graduate student Les Turner and associate professor John Stanley Ross.
The program features works written specifically for concert band. The program opens with David R. Holsinger’s “Havendance” that features the [...]
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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