
Black Mountain College Semester 2018 - - Sustaining Culture of Place
Feb 2, 2018
Black Mountain College was founded in North Carolina’s Swannanoa Valley in 1933 by a band of academic dissidents, led by John Andrew Rice (whose pap...

New Exhibit in Belk Library Special Collections: Black Mountain College Writers & Artists in Printed Word
Feb 2, 2018
A new Special Collections exhibit, “Black Mountain College Writers & Artists in Printed Word,” provides just a glimpse of the numero...

Elect Her: A Training Program for Student Government
Feb 1, 2018
The Department of Government and Justice Studies, housed in the College of Arts & Sciences will present Elect Her, a program offered through Runni...

Healing With Herbs, a Natural Conclusion
Jan 31, 2018
Holly Bellebuono has earned a bachelor’s degree in creative writing and a master’s in public administration. But it was a job on a landscaping cre...

Anti-Semitism in the Chartist Movement: Rife or Rare?
Jan 30, 2018
The 6th Annual Appalachian Lecture in British History with Dr. Denis Paz from the University of North Texas will be held Thursday, April 26, 2018 at 7...

Welcome to the new Environmental Sciences Director, Dr. Cynthia Liutkus-Pierce
Jan 29, 2018
The Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences is pleased to announce that after an internal search Dr. Cynthia Liutkus-Pierce has accepted t...

Digital Timeline goes LIVE: the Resource for Black Mountain College Semester at Appalachian
Jan 29, 2018
The Black Mountain College Semester digital timeline is organized by the Center for Appalachian Studies as a space of collaboration among researchers,...

With biomass energy, weighing forest restoration and carbon emissions
Jan 29, 2018
When state utility regulators held a workshop last month about increasing the use of forest biomass for power, one topic did not make it into the disc...

“The Murderers Are Among Us” with Professor Thomas Kuhne, Director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Jan 25, 2018
Monday, Feb. 12, Professor Thomas Kühne, the Strassler Chair in the Study of Holocaust History and the Director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust...

Q&A with Dana Powell, author of Landscapes of Power
Jan 24, 2018
Dana Powell, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Appalachian State University, examines the rise and fall of the controversial Desert Rock Power Pl...