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  • A Christmas Tree Thrives On Farms, Struggles In The Wild [faculty quoted]
    A Christmas Tree Thrives On Farms, Struggles In The Wild [faculty quoted]
    NPR
    Dec. 24, 2019

    North Carolina grows more Christmas trees than any other state except Oregon. It's an important, nearly $90 million industry for the state. Most of the trees are Fraser firs. But these prized Fraser firs, which millions of families put up in their homes for Christmas, have become more rare in the wild due to the balsam woolly adelgid. Appalachian’s Dr. Howard Neufeld discusses the insect’s impact.

  • Appalachian nursing professor offers ways to cultivate more gratitude in your life [faculty featured]
    Appalachian nursing professor offers ways to cultivate more gratitude in your life [faculty featured]
    Watauga Democrat
    Dec. 13, 2019

    Gratitude — the ability to be thankful for what you have or experience — carries significant weight toward our general wellbeing, according to recent research. Sarah Martin, MSN, RN, of Appalachian State University’s Beaver College of Health Sciences explains how.

  • Five-year grant aims to expand WHS mental health program to Ashe
    Five-year grant aims to expand WHS mental health program to Ashe
    Watauga Democrat
    Dec. 11, 2019

    Appalachian State University, Ashe County Schools and RTI International are collaborating as part of a five-year, rural mental health grant that has received $2.5 million from the U.S. Department of Education. Their grant proposal was titled “Rural School Mental Health Training and Service Provision in North Carolina.”

  • App Builds a Home receives match donation
    App Builds a Home receives match donation
    Watauga Democrat
    Dec. 11, 2019

    Curt and Linda Gillespie of Blowing Rock and Naples, Fla., were so inspired by the hard work at the first High Country Blitz Build, which was completed within 48 hours on Sept. 21-22 in affiliation with Watauga Habitat for Humanity and the student-led organization App Builds a Home of Appalachian State University, that they made a matching gift to the project.

  • Appalachian students give back
    Appalachian students give back
    The Courier-Tribune
    Dec. 9, 2019

    During fall break, 29 students, staff and faculty gave back to organizations in North Carolina and Georgia by participating in Alternative Service Experience (ASE) programs offered through Appalachian and the Community Together (ACT) — part of Appalachian State University’s Division of Student Affairs. Among them was Bri Carter of Randleman.

  • Siblings in service: Brothers and sisters have combined 132 years at App State [staff featured]
    Siblings in service: Brothers and sisters have combined 132 years at App State [staff featured]
    Watauga Democrat
    Nov. 29, 2019

    Two sets of siblings who have served Appalachian State University and the state of North Carolina for a collective 132 years were among more than 120 staff members recognized at the university’s inaugural Chancellor’s Service Awards Luncheon held Nov. 19 on Appalachian’s campus.

  • ASU honors staff members for decades of service [staff featured]
    ASU honors staff members for decades of service [staff featured]
    Mountain Times
    Nov. 28, 2019

    Appalachian State University honored more than 120 staff members who have served the university for 20 years or more at the inaugural Chancellor’s Service Awards Luncheon, held Tuesday on Appalachian’s campus.

  • Preserving Community Canneries [faculty featured]
    Preserving Community Canneries [faculty featured]
    Southern Foodways Alliance
    Nov. 20, 2019

    Appalachian’s Caleb Johnson, visiting creative writing professor in the Department of English, reports on community and pride in the practice of canning in this episode of Gravy podcast, presented by the Southern Foodways Alliance.

  • Animal attractions get new scrutiny from travel companies [faculty quoted]
    Animal attractions get new scrutiny from travel companies [faculty quoted]
    The Washington Post
    Nov. 20, 2019

    Airbnb, TripAdvisor and other major travel companies that have adopted policies meant to reassure customers that attractions they promote do not exploit or harm animals. Whether the policies actually slow visitation at certain attractions or force broader changes in the industry is an open question, said Carol Kline, an associate professor of tourism management at Appalachian State University.

  • Elite Athletes Are Going Vegan. Will It Help You? [faculty quoted]
    Elite Athletes Are Going Vegan. Will It Help You? [faculty quoted]
    Healthline
    Nov. 14, 2019

    Will a vegan diet make someone a better athlete? Healthline asked that question to David C. Nieman, DrPH, FACSM, a professor of health and exercise science and director of the Human Performance Laboratory at Appalachian State University in North Carolina, where he studies athletes and diet.

  • How Schools Are Using The Trump Impeachment Inquiry As A Teachable Moment – [faculty quoted]
    How Schools Are Using The Trump Impeachment Inquiry As A Teachable Moment – [faculty quoted]
    NPR
    Nov. 12, 2019

    Rwany Sibaja, who trains future social studies teachers at Appalachian State University, says teachers who avoid talking about the impeachment because it may be polarizing are missing an opportunity to help their students ask questions and be critical thinkers.

  • Trump administration kick-starts formal withdrawal from Paris climate agreement [faculty quoted]
    Trump administration kick-starts formal withdrawal from Paris climate agreement [faculty quoted]
    NBC News
    Nov. 4, 2019

    Environmental sciences professor Gregg Marland, who is part of a global effort to track carbon dioxide emissions, spoke out against the withdrawal. This Associated Press article was also picked up by TIME, ABC News, MarketWatch and other major news outlets.

  • Best new N.C. structures: 2019 Building North Carolina awards
    Best new N.C. structures: 2019 Building North Carolina awards
    Business North Carolina
    Nov. 1, 2019

    App State’s Leon Levine Hall of Health Sciences was named Best Public Project in Business North Carolina’s sixth annual Building North Carolina awards. The awards highlight some of the state’s most impressive commercial real estate projects completed between July 1, 2018, and June 30, 2019, based on design, innovation and impact on their communities.

  • Appalachian State debuts vegan station [campus unit featured]
    Appalachian State debuts vegan station [campus unit featured]
    Food Management
    Oct. 31, 2019

    Campus Dining’s move to a totally vegan meal station in Roess Dining Hall has been a resounding success. Christened Terra Verde (“green Earth”), the station is generating double the sales of its predecessor, Healthy Select, which had menued vegan and vegetarian fare alongside other dishes that did contain animal proteins but which were still deemed healthy.

  • Mystery surrounds ancient toad bones found in NC mountains. Where are the heads? [faculty featured]
    Mystery surrounds ancient toad bones found in NC mountains. Where are the heads? [faculty featured]
    The News & Observer
    Oct. 31, 2019

    Anthropology professor Dr. Thomas Whyte solves the mystery of the headless toads.

  • The Controversial Past: Allison Fredette on Teaching Difficult History [faculty featured]
    The Controversial Past: Allison Fredette on Teaching Difficult History [faculty featured]
    History Notes
    Oct. 30, 2019

    In this podcast hosted by the Greensboro History Museum, Appalachian State University’s Dr. Allison Fredette talks about the challenges of teaching controversial issues to learners in K-12 and institutions of higher learning and how she helps instructors learn to navigate and overcome the challenges encountered when touching on race, immigration, gender and other subjects. Fredette teaches in the Department of History.

  • Can You Turn Fat into Muscle? [faculty quoted]
    Can You Turn Fat into Muscle? [faculty quoted]
    Weight Watchers
    Oct. 28, 2019

    There are two primary ways that resistance training helps promote fat loss. App State’s Dr. N. Travis Triplett, a professor of exercise science and the newly elected president of the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), explains what they are and how they work.

  • Fall foliage continuing to peak through weekend [faculty quoted]
    Fall foliage continuing to peak through weekend [faculty quoted]
    WXII Channel 12
    Oct. 23, 2019

    Biology professor Dr. Howie Neufeld, the official "Fall Color Guy" of Western North Carolina, says the perfect conditions have arrived for furthering fall foliage colors.

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