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VPC Builders President Matt Vincent and wife Casey (Photo: Boone Chamber of Commerce)

Finance alumnus earns community involvement award
Aug 4, 2017

Finance & Banking and Risk Management & Insurance alumnus Matt Vincent '04 has earned the 2017 Wade Brown Award for Community Involvement...

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Marketing student highlights experiences in China as a 2017 Holland Fellow
Aug 1, 2017

Appalachian State University student Matt Zothner recently compiled a video montage of his experiences  in China as a William R. Hollan...

Meznar named Associate Dean for Global and Civic Engagement
Jul 24, 2017

Dr. Martin Meznar has been named Associate Dean for Global and Civic Engagement for the Walker College of Business at Appalachian State University.Mez...

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Walker College of Business welcomes alumnus academic advisor
Jul 24, 2017

Richard "Rick" Wurth has been named an academic advisor in the Walker College of Business Undergraduate Advising Center at Appalachian State...

Appalachian State University students Sarah Willis, Trace Edmunds, Nikolas Kapetanich-Pittser, Jordan Silcox, Sloan Evans, Alex Angeli, and Walker College Associate Dean Sandra Vannoy stand in front of the iconic Ferris wheel at the site of the long-abandoned Pripyat amusement park near Chernobyl.

Students travel to Moscow, Kiev and Chernobyl, 31 years after nuclear disaster
Jul 19, 2017

Students from Appalachian State University recently visited Chernobyl, 31 years after the nuclear disaster.The group traveled to Chernobyl as part of ...

Beekeeper Dr. James Wilkes ’87, chair of Appalachian’s Department of Computer Science, manages 100 bee colonies on his family farm. His scholarly research, conducted in part with Dr. Joe Cazier and Dr. Ed Hassler, includes tracking and analyzing beekeeping management practices. Photo submitted

Saving the bees: Appalachian students and faculty researchers seek to recover declining honeybee population
Jul 14, 2017

Faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences and Walker College of Business are seeking to establish a standardized platform for consistent and reliabl...

2017 MGSI participants on the Blue Ridge Parkway near the campus of Appalachian State University. Photo Credit: Josie Benfield

Twenty-four high school students on Appalachian's campus for Martha Guy Summer Institute
Jul 12, 2017

Twenty-four of North Carolina's brightest rising high school seniors are on Appalachian's campus this July, participating in the Martha Guy Summer Ins...

2017 program participants with Daniel Heinlein '07; the group visited his employer, JRG Re.

A Q&A with David Marlett, program leader for life-changing international opportunity to Bermuda, London
Jul 12, 2017

This summer, a select group of students traveled to Bermuda to study Risk Management and Insurance (RMI), with a particular focus on risk connected to...

The Westermans in front of their home, which holds 50 solar panels and generates enough power for their family of four, with extra to share. The Westermans in front of their home, which holds 50 solar panels and generates enough power for their family of four, with extra to share.

Appalachian professors practice what they teach, operate their home at net-positive energy use with solar panels
Jul 11, 2017

Drs. Jim and Jennifer Westerman, both professors at Appalachian State University, made a decision that has saved the equivalent of 276 trees and avoid...

MBA Alumni Highlight: Jessica Epley
Jul 10, 2017

Jessica Epley '15 is a Content Development Specialist at CommScope, a leading provider of network infrastructure solutions that help companies around ...

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