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  • Announcing the 2019-20 Undergrad and Graduate Researchers
    Announcing the 2019-20 Undergrad and Graduate Researchers
    North Carolina Space Grant
    May 14, 2019

    NC Space Grant is pleased to announce the award recipients of the 2019-20 Undergraduate Research Scholarships and Graduate Research Fellowships. Appalachian State University undergraduates Jordan Greene and Nathaniel Scott are among the award recipients.

  • Prehistoric Native American Woman Shot With Four Arrows Died While Pregnant
    Prehistoric Native American Woman Shot With Four Arrows Died While Pregnant
    Forbes
    May 10, 2019

    The death of a pregnant woman may have necessitated a different burial in prehistoric Pennsylvania.

  • Mitchell Wright ‘98 named WCS Teacher of the Year
    Mitchell Wright ‘98 named WCS Teacher of the Year
    Watauga Democrat
    May 10, 2019

    Valle Crucis teacher Mitchell Wright was named Watauga County Schools district-wide Teacher of the Year. Wright teaches seventh and eighth grade students at Valle Crucis. He earned a bachelor’s degree in teaching from Appalachian State University as well as a master’s degree in middle school education with concentrations in language arts and social studies, according to Valle Crucis School.

  • Can Ultras and Endurance Sports Harm Your Health?
    Can Ultras and Endurance Sports Harm Your Health?
    Men’s Journal
    May 9, 2019

    David Nieman, a professor of exercise physiology and immunology at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, used to be an ultrarunner. But he quit. The research Opens a New Window. —his research—was too compelling.

  • First-Hand Look at Next-Gen Talent
    First-Hand Look at Next-Gen Talent

    PAVE Student Design Challenge winners to be showcased at booth

    Retail Environments
    May 6, 2019

    This year’s Planning and Visual Education Partnership (PAVE) booth will give RetailX attendees fresh insight into the future talent of our industry. Students from University of Minnesota, Bellevue College, Appalachian State University, and the Fashion Institute of Technology will be partnering with suppliers such as Stylmark, S-Cube, Grand + Benedicts, and Trimco LLC to bring their designs to life.

  • Librarians Defeating ALS
    Librarians Defeating ALS

    Making a difference with information

    American Libraries Magazine
    April 29, 2019

    May is ALS Awareness Month, and librarians are well positioned to make a difference in the fight against this disease. I should know—I am dean of libraries at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, and I have ALS.

  • Dana Paran winning hearts at Asia CrossFit Championship for overcoming serious setback
    Dana Paran winning hearts at Asia CrossFit Championship for overcoming serious setback
    South China Morning Post
    April 28, 2019

    Paran, who is currently a coach at Cobra Command (she has her L1 certificate), a CrossFit box in Basehor, Kansas, said her original sport was basketball as she pursued a D1 scholarship at Appalachian State University. After burning out, she resorted to bodybuilding until she discovered CrossFit in December of 2015. Paran said initially she wasn’t sold on the sport.

  • Finding the passion in ‘Burn This’ on Broadway
    Finding the passion in ‘Burn This’ on Broadway
    Hollywood SOAPBOX
    April 28, 2019

    Furr remembers reading “Burn This,” a 1980s play, when he was a student at Appalachian State University in the early 1990s. It’s a monologue-rich show, and back when he was a student Furr was in search of a piece for an audition.

  • Future teachers visit Hickory Public Schools
    Future teachers visit Hickory Public Schools
    Hickory Daily Record
    April 27, 2019

    More than a dozen students from Appalachian State University visited Hickory Public Schools recently. As future educators, they were welcomed with enthusiasm from district speakers including HPS Superintendent Robbie Adell, Chairman of the HPS Board of Education Bryan Graham, Grandview Middle School Principal Jennifer Griffin, HPS Personnel Officer Tracy Sigmon, and HPS Director of Communications Beverly Snowden.

  • Blowing Rock hires Shane Fox as new town manager
    Blowing Rock hires Shane Fox as new town manager
    Watauga Democrat
    April 25, 2019

    A native of Granite Falls, Fox graduated from Appalachian State University with a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a major in accounting, according to the April 24 statement from Blowing Rock.

  • Storytelling is key to understanding climate change
    Storytelling is key to understanding climate change

    Dramatic, funny, and original storytelling can astonish us, challenge us, and push us to think anew about addressing climate challenges.

    Yale Climate Connections
    April 24, 2019

    On a visit to Appalachian State University, author and long-time activist Jeff Biggers worked with an incredible group of faculty and students to explore two questions: “What accounts for the gap between science and action on climate change? And what can we do to more effectively mobilize participation?”

  • Top 8 Renewable Energy Colleges You Didn’t Know About
    Top 8 Renewable Energy Colleges You Didn’t Know About
    Clean Energy Jobs List
    April 22, 2019

    Prestigious universities like Stanford, Duke, Boston University and MIT have renowned alternative energy programs with cutting-edge technology and globally recognized instructors. But there are lesser-known colleges, such as Appalachian State University, offering first-rate renewable energy programs and grooming young leaders to make a lasting impact.

  • Student death: how App State communicates after tragic events
    Student death: how App State communicates after tragic events
    The Appalachian
    April 18, 2019

    During the 2014-15 academic year, App State started to review the policy for when a student dies. That summer, App State created the Student Death Protocol.

  • Appalachian State University Design Students Show “Homework” in High Point
    Appalachian State University Design Students Show “Homework” in High Point
    Interior Design
    April 18, 2019

    Plant Seven, an emerging center for design, culture and commerce in High Point, North Carolina, furthered its reputation for cultivating innovation with Homework, an exhibition of works by undergraduates from the furniture design concentration at Appalachian State University.

  • New interprofessional clinic at ASU offers additional services to public
    New interprofessional clinic at ASU offers additional services to public
    Watauga Democrat
    April 18, 2019

    From audiology services to music therapy, the new Beaver College of Health Sciences Interprofessional Clinic at Appalachian State University offers a variety of services and programs to the public.

  • Bernice King talks to ASU crowd about inclusion, injustice
    Bernice King talks to ASU crowd about inclusion, injustice
    Watauga Democrat
    April 16, 2019

    Generations-long conflicts won’t have five-minute solutions, King Center CEO Bernice King said in a speech on Appalachian State University’s campus on April 11. King — CEO of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, minister and the daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King — urged her audience during a luncheon held at Appalachian to find ways to compromise and strive for inclusion.

  • Neighboring Notable Maggie Gettys: She's fighting back from spinal injury, wants to be remembered as someone who never gives up
    Neighboring Notable Maggie Gettys: She's fighting back from spinal injury, wants to be remembered as someone who never gives up
    Hickory Daily Record
    April 15, 2019

    Hickory native Maggie Gettys is an avid outdoorswoman graduating from Appalachian State University in May. In July 2016, her outdoor endeavors came to a halt when she was traumatically injured.

  • Young excellence
    Young excellence

    Boone Chamber of Commerce presents third annual 4 Under 40 awards

    Watauga Democrat
    April 11, 2019

    Four emerging leaders and a trusted advocate for young professionals were honored during the Boone Area Chamber of Commerce 4 Under 40 awards luncheon on Wednesday, April 10, at Harvest House of Boone.

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