From salon chair to theory: App State student uses feminist rhetoric to help people connect
Nov 6, 2026
BOONE, N.C. — Scissors snip close to an ear. A spray bottle hisses. Damp hair drifts onto the dorm-room tile, and the person in the chair laughs too hard to sit still.
GWS Student Profile, Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies
Slow and steady wins the winter: what is the woolly worm tradition? [faculty featured]
Oct 29, 2026
Each October, thousands gather in Banner Elk, North Carolina, to use the woolly worm to predict the winter weather.
Appalachian Studies
Faculty Author Spotlight with Tom Hansell, Appalachian Studies
Mar 13, 2019
After Coal: Stories of Survival in Appalachia and Wales
Tom Hansell - Center for Appalachian Studies
Appalachian Studies faculty member at Appalachian State University attracts global interest with film “After Coal”
Jan 5, 2018
Appalachian Studies faculty member and documentary filmmaker Tom Hansell will present, on two continents this spring, “After Coal” a f
Appalachian Studies
One student and one alum from Appalachian named Fulbright Scholars
May 11, 2017
The Office of International Education and Development (OIED) at Appalachian State University has announced that student Ryan Hellenbrand of Boone... Global Studies
Making Change How a student moved from activism to action, and changed Appalachian's business practices
Aug 5, 2016
Alaina Storch, a third-year global studies major at Appalachian State University, is on a campaign against “fast fashion” – an i
Global Studies