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  • 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.

  • ALS and the Brain Drain of Higher Education [faculty opinion]
    ALS and the Brain Drain of Higher Education [faculty opinion]
    Inside Higher Education
    Oct. 17, 2019

    We can help win the battle against the disease in the classroom with our students, in our research and in our service, writes Dane Ward, dean of libraries at App State.

  • Appalachian Police Academy celebrates second graduating class
    Appalachian Police Academy celebrates second graduating class
    Watauga Democrat
    Oct. 15, 2019

    Fifteen recruits graduated from the Appalachian State University Police Academy in August and all passed the examination to become certified North Carolina police officers. This marks the academy’s second graduating class. Of last year’s graduating class, 100 percent are employed or pursuing further education.

  • Ten Must-See Spots on the Blue Ridge Parkway [faculty quoted]
    Ten Must-See Spots on the Blue Ridge Parkway [faculty quoted]
    Garden & Gun
    Oct. 14, 2019

    Already one of the most scenic roads in America, the Blue Ridge Parkway becomes a cherished Southern spectacle come October. To make the most of what the parkway has to offer, Appalachian State University biology professor Howard S. Neufeld, better known as the “Fall Color Guy,” shares his favorite spots along the way.

  • 9th Annual Spooky Duke Race Returns To Benefit Local Parent-to-Parent Organization Oct. 26
    9th Annual Spooky Duke Race Returns To Benefit Local Parent-to-Parent Organization Oct. 26
    High Country Press
    Oct. 14, 2019

    The “Spooky Duke” is a certified 5K and 10K race with a free Costume March and Contest where children, adults and pets can all show off their unique costumes and share in the fund. The 5k starts at 9 a.m. with those who preregister paying $20 to participate and others $25 on race day.

  • North Carolina's Fall Colors Are Delayed. But Here's When - And Where - To Find Them [faculty quoted]
    North Carolina's Fall Colors Are Delayed. But Here's When - And Where - To Find Them [faculty quoted]
    WFAE 90.7
    Oct. 11, 2019

    The onset of North Carolina's famously vibrant fall colors has been delayed by an unseasonably hot start to fall and drought conditions. But Howard Neufeld, a biologist at Appalachian State University known as the "Fall Color Guy," says there's still a good chance for rich color this year – especially since cooler weather has begun.

  • The Leaves, They Are a Changin'... But Why? [faculty quoted]
    The Leaves, They Are a Changin'... But Why? [faculty quoted]
    North Carolina Climate Office
    Oct. 11, 2019

    Few people in North Carolina know more about what makes trees tick than Dr. Howard Neufeld, a professor of biology at Appalachian State University. To his thousands of online followers, Neufeld is better known as the "Fall Color Guy" because of the weekly updates he shares this time of the year. According to Neufeld, North Carolina hasn't always had the same variety and vibrancy of fall color.

  • ASU, Boone, conservancy discuss Boone Creek daylighting proposal
    ASU, Boone, conservancy discuss Boone Creek daylighting proposal
    Watauga Democrat
    Oct. 9, 2019

    Visions of daylighting Boone Creek along Rivers Street are progressing into plans, and Appalachian State University, town of Boone and New River Conservancy representatives say the project could alleviate frequent flooding in the area.

  • Battleground 2020: North Carolina Suburbs [faculty quoted]
    Battleground 2020: North Carolina Suburbs [faculty quoted]
    Spectrum News
    Oct. 4, 2019

    Dr. Karl Campbell, as associate professor of history at Appalachian, is quoted about the role of suburban voters in North Carolina's 2020 presidential election.

  • 36 Hours in Boone, N.C. (and Environs)
    36 Hours in Boone, N.C. (and Environs)
    The New York Times
    Oct. 3, 2019

    In this travel piece on the local area, the New York Times calls Appalachian State University “the source of Boone’s youthful energy.”

  • Fall foliage delayed: As the hot, dry weather drags on in WNC, when will fall color peak? [faculty quoted]
    Fall foliage delayed: As the hot, dry weather drags on in WNC, when will fall color peak? [faculty quoted]
    Asheville Citizen-Times
    Oct. 2, 2019

    Dr. Howard Neufeld at Appalachian State University, who manages the “Fall Color Guy” Facebook page, said the high ridges are starting to show some color, but many trees are already dropping their leaves before turning color because of the drought conditions.

  • Fall Color Guy Gives Latest Update on Leaf Colors as Drought Continues But Conditions Improve
    Fall Color Guy Gives Latest Update on Leaf Colors as Drought Continues But Conditions Improve
    High Country Press
    Sep. 30, 2019

    Around this time of year when the color starts to change in the trees, we pay attention. Most of us watch the leaves turn in real time. Others work to skip ahead, to predict when exactly we’ll see our fall colors, how vividly, and how long. One such person is Dr. Howard Neufeld, a professor of biology at Appalachian State University. Better known by the public as the Fall Color Guy, he monitors the weather, temperature, and color activity here in the mountains, and makes predictions accordingly.

  • New River Conservancy is “ReWilding” Elk Shoals
    New River Conservancy is “ReWilding” Elk Shoals
    Winston-Salem Journal
    Sep. 25, 2019

    The New River Conservancy and New River State Park are working to reopen Elk Shoals to the public through a plan they are calling ReWilding Elk Shoals. A team from Appalachian State University's Appalachian Studies program participated in planting native trees in the flood plain at Elk Shoals on Sept. 20.

  • Fidel’s Cuba is long gone [faculty opinion]
    Fidel’s Cuba is long gone [faculty opinion]
    The Conversation
    Sep. 24, 2019

    Cuba is no longer the Americas’ lonely outpost of communism. The Caribbean island has become a nation of entrepreneurship, democratic aspiration, even pro-Americanism, according to Dr. Joseph J. Gonzalez, associate professor in Appalachian’s Department of Interdisciplinary Studies.

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