Hickory Daily Record
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Six-foot, three-cushion, blue couch, $150.  Red, yellow floral slipcover available, $50.  Suitable for college apartment, basement, den, guest room.  Cherry conference table, 6′x3′, $75.  Great for home office or as craft table.  Photos available for both upon request.  Call Jeanne at 336-877-5546 or e-mail berrydj@appstate.edu.

Broyhill Attic Heirlooms computer desk/credenza and hutch. antique black. Desk/credenza includes two bi-fold doors, tower storage, pull-out work surface, pull-out keyboard/mouse tray, pull-out printer/scanner shelf, one legal file drawer, and one storage drawer.  52’’W x 21’’D x 30’’H. Hutch includes two wood doors, two adjustable wood shelves, one adjustable glass shelf, one fixed shelf, and a can light. 57”W x 21”D x 48’’H. All can be closed and hidden away when not in use. Great for dual purpose spaces – when you don’t want the space to “look” like an office. Retails for over $1,100.  Price is $250. For additional information or photos, contact smithtw@appstate.edu.

Hunter R. Boylan (LES & NCDE) received the first Service and Leadership Award from the Council of Learning Assistance and Developmental Education Associations.  The council is the coordinating body for the Association for the Tutoring Profession, the College Reading and Learning Association, the National Association for Developmental Education, and the National College Learning Center Association.  The award was presented this fall at the International Conference on Research in Access and Developmental Education held in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Faith Mountain Farm specialty cakes and baked goods. We take special orders for all of the baked goods you liked so much at the Watauga County Farmer’s Market.  We make delicious breads from freshly ground wheat along with scones, various muffins, cinnamon rolls and granola.  Also, see our Web site for the variety of cakes that we can bake for you with customized decorating.  Look out Ace of Cakes!  See www.faithmtnfarm.com or contact James or Shannon Wilkes at 336-385-3510 or e-mail wilkesjt@gmail.com.

Chancellor Kenneth E. Peacock’s remarks from the Spring 2009 faculty meeting are available at http://www.chancellor.appstate.edu/spring09facultyremarks-1.pdf.

Sunghoon Roh and Matthew Robinson (both Government & Justice Studies) have had their article “A Geographic Approach to Racial Profiling: A Micro- and Macro- Analysis of Racial Disparity in Traffic Stops” accepted to appear in Police Quarterly.

Now taking reservations for this spring. Sign up soon so we can order enough bees for your yard!  Help the bee population and get local honey from your own neighborhood.  Back Yard Bee Hive offers hives and maintenance services for one’s backyard, homeowner’s association, bed and breakfast, lodge, or farm.  In addition to getting really local honey and increasing the local bee population, participants can learn to manage bees themselves if they so desire.  Just $35 per month (March-April) after initial $45 set up fee.  Details are available at
www.backyardbeehive.com or contact James Wilkes at james@backyardbeehive.com or 828-265-6263.

Three bedrooms, three baths, plus office, den, mudroom, 1.5 car garage. 1.5 miles to campus in Kalmia Acres, SIPS/ Superior Wall Construction, ERV, passive solar, on-demand hot water, Energy Star appliances, central vacuum, stainless kitchen appliances, good view. Four years old.  $499K. Call Eric or Kim at 828-263-9251 or e-mail marlandes@appstate.edu.

International Coffee hour is every Friday from 12:30-2:30 p.m. in Plemmons Student Union’s Whitewater Café. Come for free coffee, food, entertainment and great conversation with the international community in Boone.  Each week a different group co-sponsors coffee hour.  Everyone on campus and in the community is welcome.  Coffee hour is sponsored by the Office of International Education and Development.

Harmonia Baroque will perform Tuesday, Jan. 27, at 8 p.m. in Broyhill Music Center’s Rosen Concert Hall. Admission is free. The ensemble is comprised primarily of Hayes School of Music faculty who perform Music from the 17th and 18th centuries on instruments from the period or on reproductions Performing are Nancy Schneeloch-Bingham, traverse; Alicia Chapman, hautbois; Priscilla Porterfield, mezzo soprano; Barbara Blaker Krumdieck, cello; and Michael Bell, harpsichord.

Historian Dr. Christopher Browning will deliver a lecture titled “Decisions for the Final Solution” Wednesday, Feb. 25, at 7 p.m. in Appalachian State University’ I.G. Greer Auditorium. The lecture is sponsored by Appalachian’s Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies and is free and open to the public. For additional information, call 2311, e-mail holocaust@appstate.edu, or visit www.holocaust.appstate.edu.

Browning is the Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at UNC Chapel Hill. His publications include “Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942”; “Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers”; and “Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland.”

Artists Kate Vogel and John Littleton will give a lecture Thursday, Jan. 29, at 7 p.m. in the lecture hall of the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts lecture hall. Vogel and Littleton are known for their glass creations and their bag series. The lecture will focus on the artists’ process, their influences and the evolution of their work. The lecture is sponsored by the campus Arts Management Organization.

Asheville Citizen Times
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New lab on Kannapolis campus seeks to build on Gatorade collaboration
Charlotte Business Journal
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Asheville Citizen-Times
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Lexington Dispatch
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Asheville Citizen-Times
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Winston-Salem Journal
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