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This is Dance/Music: New Works by Collaborative Process and Music Composition Students
Oct 20, 2025

BOONE, N.C. – Students from the Department of Theatre and Dance Collaborative Process class have paired with Hayes School of Music Composition students to create new original dances with new original music to be performed together live. An informal showing of these new collaborative dance+music...

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App State Theatre and Dance Presents the Play, “Orlando" — Sarah Ruhl’s Adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Novel Opens Oct. 29
Oct 15, 2025

“The longest and most charming love letter in literature.”

by Keith Martin
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AppTV enters agreement with Town of Boone to become an educational community channel
May 29, 2018

AppTV, Appalachian State University’s television station, has come to an agreement with the town of Boone to become its educational community...

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Retail Design Has its Place at ICFF Show [dealerscope.com]
May 25, 2018

While walking the floor of the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City this week...

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Furniture design student puts knowledge to practice with Appalachian’s Solar Vehicle Team
May 23, 2018

During the 2017–18 year, industrial design student John Lalevee had the opportunity to fulfill a childhood dream by designing the body of...

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Appalachian student awarded honorable mention in international lighting design competition
May 21, 2018

For the fifth consecutive year, an Appalachian State University student has brought home honors in the annual SOURCE awards competition, hosted...

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Documentary by Appalachian faculty receives recognition in three juried film festivals
May 11, 2018

A documentary short film directed by Chip Williams and Anne Ward, two faculty members in Appalachian State University’s College of Fine and...

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Independent study with local farmer leads Appalachian student to cultivate a “new” fruit tree
May 10, 2018

Aurora Figueroa-Benetti’s passion for sustainable agriculture led her to Appalachian State University’s Goodnight Family Department of...

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Appalachian student awarded $15,000 Windgate Fellowship
May 9, 2018

By Mary Anne Savage

Appalachian State University studio art major Dani Iris was recently awarded a $15,000 Windgate Fellowship, one of...

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Tesla and Palmetto recruit ‘successful leaders’ in sustainability at Appalachian
May 9, 2018

We need leaders and we need them now,” a representative from Tesla Inc. told students at Appalachian State University. At a recruitment event...

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Ariel Green, winner of the 2018-19 Frances Holland Black scholarship
May 3, 2018

Ariel Green, a senior from Durham, N.C. who is majoring in Studio Art at Appalachian State University, has been named the winner of the 2018-19...

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Local group working on prototype boat for electric pontoon design [Morganton News Herald]
May 1, 2018

Christian Williams has a lifelong love for Lake James and its wildlife.