Photos from industrial design's observational beehive project

Posted July 11, 2017 at 12 p.m.

Three Appalachian State University industrial design majors – Ginny Stern ’15, Cary Cook ’16 and senior Eric Antolic – researched and designed an observational beehive that has become a hit for N.C.-based company Bee Downtown.

Owner Leigh Kathryn Bonner needed some revisions to a window-ledge beehive model before she could replicate it and sell to customers. Appalachian students stepped up to challenge, creating opportunities for a regional company while helping preserve the honeybee population.

Saving the bees

Appalachian student and faculty researchers seek to recover declining honeybee population

July 13, 2017

There’s hope for declining honeybee populations thanks to Appalachian student and faculty research and special projects.

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As a premier public institution, Appalachian State University prepares students to lead purposeful lives. App State is one of 17 campuses in the University of North Carolina System, with a national reputation for innovative teaching and opening access to a high-quality, affordable education for all. The university enrolls more than 21,000 students, has a low student-to-faculty ratio and offers more than 150 undergraduate and 80 graduate majors at its Boone and Hickory campuses and through App State Online. Learn more at https://www.appstate.edu.