Maria Kingery co-founded Southern Energy Management (SEM) with her husband Bob in 2001. Since then, she has helped pioneer the residential energy-efficiency and solar industries in North Carolina and beyond. Her lecture will be about her life on the "solar coaster". She will talk about starting very early in the solar industry to now evolving into a place where her company is very clear about who they serve and are more broadly engaged in the solar space.

The program begins on Monday evening with a screening of a film by German professor Kevin Kennedy, followed on Tuesday with a variety of presentations by Appalachian State faculty and graduate students on their language and culture related research, creative works, and pedagogy.

Dr. Thomas Matyók, the Director of the Air Force Negotiation Center and Associate Professor at Air War College, will speak on “Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Religion and Reconciliation in Civil-Military Interaction.” Matyok is not just a prominent Peace Studies scholar, he also has a distinguished career in the United States Army and is a veteran of both Iraq Wars.

Many of us incorporate visual materials of various kinds into the classroom, from 'art' in the most traditional definition, to images from advertisements, popular culture and film. This brown bag discussion will be an opportunity for faculty to share and learn with one another regarding their experiences with visual materials in the classrooms.

Dr. Richard Bedlack, a professor of neurology at Duke and director of the Duke ALS Clinic, is the leader of the international ALSUntangled program which utilizes social networking to investigate alternative and off label treatment options for patients with ALS, and leader of the ALS Reversals program which attempts to understand why some people with ALS recover from it, and to make this happen more often.

The Coastal Studies Institute (CSI), in partnership with KidWind, Jennette’s Pier and Appalachian State University, will host the 3rd Annual North Carolina KidWind Challenge at the CSI campus site in Wanchese, North Carolina. This year’s event will include new areas of competition as there will be wind turbine, solar and ocean energy competitions.

The biannual New River Symposium celebrates the ecological and social values of the New River bringing together the river’s diverse constituents, while providing a forum for partnership, research and policy development.

Chapel Hill became the first UNC campus in the state to hire a full-time Sustainability Coordinator in 2001, Cindy Shea. In this lecture Cindy will share how her role has evolved since 2001 and describe the ongoing efforts of their office to engage and educate members of the campus community, including the recent Three Zeros Environmental Initiative.

Dr. Lerna Ekmekçioğlu, McMillan-Stewart Associate Professor of History at MIT and a specialist in modern Turkish and Armenian history, will give a talk on the past and present denial of the Armenian Genocide.

The Celebration showcases meaningful research in all disciplines by undergraduates and graduate students at Appalachian.

The Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies, along with the Temple of the High Country and ASU’s Hillel and AEPi chapters, will organize a public reading of the names of European Jews murdered by the Germans and their allies during the Holocaust.

Gretchen and Steve Lotz continue to inspire, challenge, and find mystery in each other after nearly five decades of an aesthetically inspired partnership. The intertwined worlds they have fashioned find form in the organically entangled artworks they create.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5……. is an investigation into how we choose to live our lives and occupy our time. The exhibitions raises questions about how memory influences behavior and how our current behaviors continue to serve us. Do we actively participate and reflect on our lives, or do we just tick the days over, one after the other, repeating the same patterns of behavior again and again?

Images of the Old South are often sanitized views of a perfect and prosperous plantation life yet ignore the conflict, conquest, and transformation that is manifested in the changing landscape. The photographs from Beyond the Plantations: Images of the New South present the contemporary southern landscape in all of its rich complexity.