BOONE—A highly successful program that provides in-school behavioral health services to students at Watauga High School is the basis for a plan to establish similar services in other counties beginning with Ashe and Alleghany counties and possibly Caldwell County in the near future. [more]

BOONE—The College of Health Sciences at Appalachian State University has received a $300,000 grant to begin steps that could lead to creation of a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) degree program that would be offered off campus, including Caldwell County. [more]

BOONE—Professors at Appalachian State University are part of the search for signs of life across the galaxy. [more]

BOONE — Angel Cordero-Collins has received the John Foster West Scholarship in Poetry presented at Appalachian State University. Jesse Oates has received the Marian Coe Scholarship in Prose. [more]

BOONE – Appalachian State University’s Outdoor Programs received the David J. Webb Program Excellence Award at the recent Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education (AORE) National Conference held in in San Antonio, Texas. The award is presented annually to a non-profit outdoor program which has made outstanding and noteworthy contributions to, and achievements in, the field of outdoor recreation and education. [more]

BOONE—Commuters riding AppalCart in the Town of Boone or drivers following certain buses have seen a water conservation message thanks to graphic design students in the Department of Art at Appalachian State University. [more]

BOONE—Verizon Foundation has awarded $23,000 to the Parent to Parent Family Support Network-High Country, a grant and donor supported program serving Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Mitchell, Watauga, Wilkes and Yancey counties. [more]

BOONE—A $50,000 gift from Reznick Group in Charlotte will support research activities of faculty in the Department of Accounting at Appalachian State University. [more]

BOONE—Dr. Willie C. Fleming is responsible for a lot of firsts at Appalachian State University.

He was the first minority student advisor and director of African-American Students, founder of the Appalachian Gospel Choir and the Black Student Association, and a founding member of the Black Faculty and Staff Association. Fleming also was instrumental in bringing Black Greek Life to Appalachian and was a charter member of the Pi Nu Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. [more]