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‘Bee’ part of Appalachian’s honeybee monitoring <span style="white-space: nowrap;">system research</span>

‘Bee’ part of Appalachian’s honeybee monitoring system research

The local community is invited to view and submit observations of the Department of Computer Science’s Beemon system

July 17, 2018

The Beemon project began in 2013 in the Department of Computer Science’s Visual and Image Processing (VIP) Lab to identify the causes and signs of colony collapse disorder (CCD). The system, which is designed to help beekeepers monitor their hives and researchers learn more about honeybees, is now operational and is being used to monitor several honeybee hives in the local Boone community.

Solar-powered vehicles start 1700-mile race in Omaha
Appalachian State University’s Team Sunergy is one of the participants in the American Solar Challenge
July 15, 2018
It's a race with no fuel, because the cars are powered by solar energy. Saturday morning teams began their 1,700-mile race, starting at the Lewis and Clark Trail in Omaha. Fourteen solar-powered vehicles race through four states and finish in Omaha. National and international schools compete in the American Solar Challenge with two different classes and a variety of styles and techniques.
Alumnus Craig Phillips ’93 works to restore musical legacy of The Revelers
July 17, 2018
An attic stash of more than 500 unpublished song arrangements allows Craig Phillips ’93 to revive the groundbreaking work of the 1920s singing group.
Appalachian researchers contribute to study on protein that triggers antioxidant production
July 16, 2018
A study co-authored by Appalachian’s Dr. Brooke Christian and alumna Samantha Steyl examines the role of a protein called ATM that senses damaging reactive oxygen species and responds by triggering the production of antioxidants.

‘From the tree to <span style="white-space: nowrap;">the public’</span>

‘From the tree to the public’

In the Conscious Furniture Design project, students create works influenced by the Japanese philosophy of Ma while communication majors document the process

July 11, 2018

Sustainably harvested lumber. The Japanese philosophy of Ma. Video documentaries. The WantedDesign showcase in New York City. All converged in an interdisciplinary Conscious Furniture Design project at Appalachian State University, involving the College of Fine and Applied Arts’ departments of Sustainable Development, Applied Design and Communication.

Events

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An Appalachian Summer Festival
Summer 2018
Presented by Appalachian State University’s Office of Arts & Cultural Programs, this annual celebration of the performing and visual arts is held every July in venues across the university campus, and features a diverse mix of music, dance, theatre, visual arts and film programming.
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2018 Martin and Doris Rosen Summer Symposium
The Holocaust and Music: Uses and Abuses
July 21 - 26, 2018
The symposium is geared toward educators, students, and community members and is free and open to the public. The purpose and goal of the Symposium is to provide public and private school teachers, university faculty, students, and community members information and insights about the victims, perpetrators, and consequences of the Nazi Holocaust.
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The Hot Sardines
An Appalachian Summer Festival
Saturday, July 21, 2018
8 p.m.
“One of the best jazz bands in New York today” (Forbes) makes its debut at Schaefer Center where they transport the audience to New York speakeasies, Parisian cabarets, and New Orleans jazz halls. Fueled by the belief that classic jazz feeds the heart and soul, the Hot Sardines are on a mission to make old sound new again with their brassy arrangements, rollicking piano melodies and smoky vocals.
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Performance of Mozart, Brahms, Schumann and Mendelssohn Bartholdy sonatas played by the Women's Orchestra at Auschwitz
2018 Martin and Doris Rosen Summer Symposium
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
7 p.m.
Faculty and students from the Hayes School of Music, Milligan College and Wake Forest University will be performing sonatas the SS forced the orchestra to play and pieces by Jewish composers the women performed as an act of spiritual resistance. Free of charge and no tickets required.
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The Women’s Orchestra at Auschwitz: Survivor Testimony with Ms. Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
2018 Martin and Doris Rosen Summer Symposium
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
10 a.m.
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch (London, England), the cellist of the Women’s Orchestra at Auschwitz, will speak about her experiences playing music in a Nazi death camp and her suffering at the hands of the Germans. At the age of 93, she is one of only a couple of survivors of the orchestra still alive today. Free of charge and no tickets required.
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A Survivor Speaks: Eugenie Mukeshimana on the 1994 Rwandan Genocide and the Abuse of Music
2018 Martin and Doris Rosen Summer Symposium
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
3:15 p.m.
Eugenie Mukeshimana will talk about the abuse of music in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, during which Hutu genocidaires killed about 800,000 of their countrywomen and –men in the course of just three months. A native of Rwanda, Mukeshimana, who was in the final stage of a pregnancy at the time, survived the mass killings by hiding under a bed in a home of local perpetrators. Permitted to the U.S. in 2001, she attended college and soon founded and serves as executive director of the Genocide Survivors Support Network, a charitable organization that works with refugees, who are genocide survivors.

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Summer Reading Adventures
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools
Solar-powered vehicles start 1700-mile race in Omaha
KETV NewsWatch 7
Counseling partnership yields positive results for WHS students
Watauga Democrat
11 Major Health and Fitness Benefits of Lifting Weights
Shape Magazine
An ATM that dispenses antioxidants
Salk Insitute for Biological Studies
Nurses attitudes are key to better compliance with infection control practices
The University of Manchester

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Appalachian’s Vietnamese Summer Academy kicks off at 5,280 feet

July 12, 2018

Middle and high school students in Appalachian’s Vietnamese Summer Academy are learning about American and Appalachian culture and improving their English language skills as they explore the region and interact with the community.

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