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2025-2026 Master Class - David Finckel (Cello), David Finckel

Master Classes

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170 Silent Stories: Gendered Violence Beneath The American Dream, Kayla Lockwood

Graduate & Professional Student Association Research Forum

170 Silent Stories: Gendered Violence Beneath the American Dream is a presentation drawn from my MFA thesis exhibition, read the fine print, which critically examines how postwar American domestic ideals—particularly those emerging in the 1950s—were constructed through visual culture, policy, and design. The project investigates how the American Dream promised stability, prosperity, and safety while simultaneously normalizing rigid gender roles, domestic containment, and gendered violence.

At the center of the exhibition is 170 Silent Stories (2026), an installation composed of 170 cast-aluminum high heels, each representing a documented domestic violence case in 1950s New York. The high heel, a deeply …

Senior Recital: Jennings, Double Bass; April 18, 2026, Alexandra Jennings, Grace Eom

School of Music Programs

This is the one hundred and sixty-eighth program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp recital Hall

April 18, 2026

Saturday Afternoon

3:00 p.m.

Junior Recital: Cabrero, Double Bass; April 18, 2026, Jay Cebrero, Grace Eom

School of Music Programs

This is the one hundred and seventy-first program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

April 18. 2026

Saturday Afternoon

9:00 p.m.

Graduate Recital: Mueller-Howell, Trumpet; April 18, 2026, Madison Mueller-Howell, Lu Witzig, Kyterra Waters, Jessica Wenc, Trevor Schaefer, Matthew Sourwine

School of Music Programs

This is the one hundred and sixty-ninth program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

April 18, 2026

Saturday Evening

4:30 p.m.

Graduate Recital: Stowell, Viola; April 18, 2026, Julia Stowell, Grace Eom

School of Music Programs

This is the one hundred and seventieth program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

April 18, 2026

Saturday Evening

7:30 p.m.

Senior Recital: Schmidt, Clarinet; April 18, 2026, Nicole Schimdt, Momoko Gresham

School of Music Programs

This is the one hundred and sixty-sixth program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

April 18, 2026

Saturday

Noon

Graduate Recital: Berkshier, Vibraphone; April 18, 2026, Noah Berkshier, Seth Berkshier, Adam Brown, Gareth Fullin, Darius Botley, Logan Hughes, Daniel Watkins, Charlie Machamer, Wes Anderson, Jameel Stephens

School of Music Programs

This is the one hundred and sixty-seventh program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

April 18, 2026

Saturday Afternoon

1:30 p.m.

Evaluating The Feasibility And Preliminary Effectiveness Of A Tailored Diabetes Education Program For Rural Residents, Brittany L. Smalls, Oluwatosin Leshi, Suraksha Khanal, Grejika E. Abram-Erby

Journal of Appalachian Health

Introduction: Diabetes is a top ten Rural Healthy People 2030 priority for health improvement among rural Americans. Socioeconomic, environmental, geographic and political barriers contribute to the type 2 diabetes (T2D) prevalence and its disparate impact in rural communities. However, promoting proper self-care behaviors via self-management education can help people with diabetes better manage their condition.

Purpose: To account for the social environmental factors that affect rural residents, a tailored diabetes education program was developed, and the program’s effectiveness in improving diabetes knowledge and T2D-related health outcomes was assessed.

Methods: Using data collected from Appalachian Kentucky residents enrolled in a six-week, …

Souvenirs From Southeast Asia, Kaniya A. Epps

Undergraduate Research Conference

In this paper, I will discuss my research for the Souvenirs from Southeast Asia exhibition that I curated for The W Galleries in the 2026 spring semester. I was a student worker for the Galleries at the time, and I was the first person to do in-depth research on this material. We received this artwork in 2011 from alumna Betty Fikes Copeland, who had lived in Indonesia in the 1960s. This collection consists of batik fabrics, katazome prints, and Thai temple rubbings. My exhibition included a sampling of all three art forms.

Originating in Indonesia, batik is a fabric that …

Camping On The Mountain, Chris Hoffman

Appalachia

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March Storm, Paul Willis

Appalachia

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Substance, Ben Corvo

Appalachia

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Los Quetzales, I, Marcyn Del Clements

Appalachia

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World Light, Robin Chapman

Appalachia

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Off The Back Shore, Elizabeth Bradfield

Appalachia

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A Peak Ahead, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

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Books And Media

Appalachia

Reviews of: AMC Southern New Hampshire Trail Guide, 6th Edition; Long Trail Guide, 29th Edition; Letters from the Mountain, edited by Steve Chase and Brad Meiklejohn; In My Boots, by Amanda K. Jaros; White Pines, by Jane English

News And Notes

Appalachia

Lessons from the activism that prevented a four-lane highway in New Hampshire’s Franconia Notch. U.S. Forest Service staffers navigate job uncertainty amid federal government cuts.

Research

Appalachia

Gabriella Gurney discusses fire in the ecosystems of the Northeast.

Alpina

Appalachia

Reports of mountaineering in the greater ranges in 2025 include a new record climbing Everest from sea level to summit in just under four days. A commentary on a British team using xenon gas to acclimate before leaving the United Kingdom for Everest. A partial new route on the Diamir, one of Nanga Parbat’s three gigantic faces. A team of Canadian and Australian climbers reach the summit of Ultar Sar in the Karakoram Range. Czech mountaineers achieve the southeast face of Hunza Peak in the Karakoram. Kate Kelleghan and Laura Pineau complete the first all-female Triple Crown in Yosemite National …

Accidents

Appalachia

Reports of rescues and accidents in the White Mountains of New Hampshire from the cold seasons of 2025 opens with thoughts on how fast one’s hands can freeze. An experienced man, age 75, describes getting too cold on Cannon Mountain; he evaluates his own accident, and the editors weigh in at the end of the column. Two well-equipped women lose the Jewell Trail in deep snow and call for help, later sharing a six-point list of how to be safer next time. A 28-year-old man navigating high winds and deep snow by Google in a quest to see the sunrise …

Letters

Appalachia

More musings on smartphones in the mountains. Praise for Katie Ives’s Appalachia Summer/Fall 2025 story, “Burning Solitudes.” Longtime Appalachian Mountain Club members share memories of former membership practices in response to Christine Woodside’s Appalachia Summer/Fall 2025 essay, “A Look Back at the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Long-Ago Membership Practices.”

Skyline Sketches: Captain Crunch, Douglass Teschner

Appalachia

The story of a scramble and technical climb in 1991 up the trailless peak called the Captain in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

Skyline Sketches: Wisdom From My Dad, Bill Murray, Lauren Murray

Appalachia

A woman recounts the mountain lessons she learned from her father from 1969 to 2006, and the lessons she carried forward.

Skyline Sketches: The Encounter, Gordon Dubois

Appalachia

A bushwhacker meets a weasel on Vermont’s Ryegate Mountain.

Splinter Hill: Looking Into The Maws Of Pitcher Plants, Samantha Sapp

Appalachia

A young woman discusses the environmental, regional, historic, and personal importance of Sarracenia pitcher plants.

Exploring Mount Mitchell: An Adventurer Searches For The Dispute That Named The Highest Peak East Of The Mississippi, Lisa Ballard

Appalachia

Writer Lisa Ballard hikes the trails of North Carolina's 6,684-foot Mount Mitchell and researches the history behind the mountain's name.

Strathcona: Climbers Battle Paranoia Near Canada's Elk Pass, Leath Tonino

Appalachia

A hiker reflects on memories of doubt and feeling mentally unstable experienced on a strenuous backpacking trip with friends in British Columbia.

Immersion: Learning To Share For The Sake Of Everything We Love, Shane Behler

Appalachia

The winner of this journal’s Waterman Fund Essay Contest describes a pivotal change in attitude watching children play in the water of Dupont State Forest in North Carolina.