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Lessee needed to rent third bedroom in three-bedroom, two-bath house on Big Hill Road approx. 7 miles north of New Market Center in Boone. Rent is $300 plus utilities. Pets are negotiable with pet deposit. Contact Jenny Taylor at 828-773-5146 or taylorjt@appstate.edu if interested.
Used baby jogger for sale. $100 email nealdj@appstate.edu.
Jon Beebe’s (MUS) article “Rays of Light: Conversations with Ray Pizzi” was published in the Fall 2009 issue of The Double Reed, the official publication of the International Double Reed Society.
Gas range (slide-in) and matching microwave (vented for over range use). GE profile models, white. Both about 7 years old. Range is propane but can be easily converted to natural gas. Both are clean and completely functional. Range is $150, microwave (with mounting hardware) is $70. Will sell both for $200. Call Jerry or Jody Fox at 828-773-8636 or 6225.
Hunter R. Boylan (LES/NCDE) published an article entitled “Research-based techniques for developing college student literacy” in the Journal of the Japan Association for Developmental Education.
New Bern Sun Journal
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WPRI Providence RI
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South China Morning Post
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Chicago Tribune
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/preventivemedicine/chi-immune-system-27-oct27,0,3957821.column
Guitar International
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http://modernguitarist.guitarinternational.com/wpmu/2009/10/29/palmer/
CNN.com
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/11/02/late.leaf.peeping/
University Police offers training to departments, groups and organizations on how to respond to an active shooter in the workplace or on campus. The one-hour training includes response techniques and provides opportunities for questions and answers. To schedule a presentation, contact Detective K.C. Mitchell at mitchellk@appstate.edu or 6176, Lt. Todd Corley at corleywt@appstate.edu or 6439 or Detective Darrin Tolbert at tolbertld1@appstate.edu or 6581.
Neva J. Specht has been named associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Her appointment is effective Jan. 1, 2010. Specht is an associate professor and assistant department chair in Appalachian’s Department of History. She replaces Rainer H. Goetz who is returning to a full-time faculty position in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.
Specht joined the faculty at Appalachian in 1996. She is the university’s liaison with the Blue Ridge Parkway. She was campus coordinator of the UNC in Washington program from 2004-05, assistant coordinator of the University Honors Programs from 2001-04, and acting coordinator of the Department of History’s Public History Program for fall 1998.
She holds a Ph.D. in U.S. history from the University of Delaware.
A member of Appalachian’s faculty since 1990, Goetz has served in the dean’s office for 10 years, first as assistant dean then as associate dean for the past three years. In that position, Goetz was responsible for oversight of the college’s summer school operations, assisted with curriculum proposals from the college’s academic departments, and was the college’s liaison with the Office of International Education and Development.
Monica Pombo, associate professor in the electronic media/broadcasting program in the Department of Communication, has been named the department’s assistant chair. She replaces Dr. Carl Tyrie, who has served as interim assistant chair for the past two years. Tyrie will return to full time teaching in the department.
An Appalachian faculty member since 2003, Pombo holds a Ph.D. and a master of arts from the School of Telecommunications at Ohio University. Pombo received the 2008 Dwight L. Freshley “Outstanding Young Educator Award” presented by the Southern States Communication Association (SSCA) to a nominated professor who has been teaching between two and five years and has been outstanding in their teaching efforts.
Appalachian will host a Veterans Day ceremony Wednesday, Nov. 11, beginning at 7:30 a.m. The ceremony will be held at the Veterans Memorial located on the west side of Dougherty Administration Building. A continental breakfast will follow in the Dougherty Administration Building lobby. The public is invited.Guest speaker will be retired Lt. Col. Ron Branch. Branch is a former chair of the Department of Military Science and Leadership at Appalachian. He currently is general manager of University Highlands student apartments.
Dave Haney will present the lecture “Emmanuel Levinas and S.T. Coleridge: Judaic and Romantic Approaches to Ethics, Politics, and Otherness” Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12,, in Room 114 Belk Library. The lecture is free and open to the public. This event is sponsored by the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies.
Haney is the author of two books on Romanticism that draw on the work of Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. He will consider how Levinas’s post-Holocaust notion of a subjectivity based on a radical otherness can be interpreted alongside Coleridge’s struggle to formulate a new philosophical relationship between self and other in the early 19th century. Both authors, For additional information, call 2311, e-mail t holocaust@appstate.edu, or visit www.holocaust.appstate.edu
Krystal Stewart, a staff member in Advancement Service, has been approved to participate in the Voluntary Shared Leave Program. To donate vacation time (minimum four hours), send a letter or e-mail to Kathy Hamby, Human Resource Services (hambyka@appstate.edu). Include your Banner Identification Number. The deadline to donate leave is Friday, Nov. 20.
The Department of Biology will hold a class on the selection and proper care of tropical foliage plants. The class will be held Saturday, Nov. 14, at the greenhouse located at 333 Dale Street off State Farm Road. Participants can choose to attend a class from 9:30-11 a.m. or from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. The class is free and the public is invited to attend. This fun class, part of the biology department’s outreach program “High Country Gardening,” will be a continuation of a class offered in October, with a focus on less common species. The class will include a brief tour of the greenhouse conservatory and a demonstration of vegetative propagation techniques.
To register, e-mail greenhouse manager Jerry Meyer at meyerja@appstate.edu or call 262-4025 for more information.
