BOONE—Submissions are being accepted for the 2008-09 Truman Capote Literary Trust Scholarship in Poetry at Appalachian State University. [more]

Learn how you can use your degree and experience to make a difference in other people’s lives, and in your own, by attending an information session on the Peace Corps Thursday, March 6.  The session will be held from 6-7:30 p.m. in Room 421 Belk Library and Information Commons. With international work assignments in more than 70 countries, the Peace Corps may be the job opportunity for you.

For more information, contact Kyle Laird in the Peace Corps Campus Recruitment Office at (828) 262-2180 or peacecorps@tux.appstate.edu.

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BOONE—Professors in Appalachian State University’s Walker College of Business have embarked on a yearlong study to identify factors that impact the hiring and retention of nurses in  rural North Carolina. [more]

Appalachian State University student David Barry juggles a few snowballs as he walks to class on Wednesday afternoon. (Photo by Marie Freeman, university photographer)

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BOONE—Nine students from Appalachian State University will work as volunteers during UNC TV’s fundraising telethon Festival 2008. The students will take financial pledges from viewers on March 1 from 2:30-7:30 p.m. and March 2 from 7-11:30 a.m. [more]

BOONE—Appalachian State University’s Center for Entrepreneurship in partnership with the BioNetwork BioBusiness Center at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College (ABTCC) will offer programs related to technology commercialization, capital formation and intellectual property in March and April. [more]

BOONE—Looking Glass Gallery in Appalachian State University’s Plemmons Student Union presents “Contemporary American Lifestyles: Consumption and Waste, an installation by Jennifer Livingston.  Livingston is an art management and studio art major at Appalachian. [more]