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  • UN report on global warming carries life-or-death warning
    UN report on global warming carries life-or-death warning
    Associated Press
    Oct. 8, 2018

    Preventing an extra single degree of heat could make a life-or-death difference in the next few decades for multitudes of people and ecosystems on this fast-warming planet, an international panel of scientists reported Sunday. But they provide little hope the world will rise to the challenge.

  • Fall leaves off to a slow start due to warm weather
    Fall leaves off to a slow start due to warm weather
    GoUpstate
    Oct. 5, 2018

    Appalachian State University biology professor Howard Nuefeld, known as the “Fall Color Guy,” reported optimism last week for the upcoming leaf season. Without a drought or recent bad storm, the color should be strong, but if temperatures stay warm, it may delay the leaves turning.

  • Coal ash flooding didn’t harm Cape Fear River, NC regulators say
    Coal ash flooding didn’t harm Cape Fear River, NC regulators say
    The Herald-Sun
    Oct. 4, 2018

    Flooding from Hurricane Florence that submerged a Duke Energy coal ash storage area in Wilmington did not contaminate the Cape Fear River, according to the NC Department of Environmental Quality. Environmentalists disagree.

  • Minute to minute: Holocaust survivor shares experiences with App State crowd
    Minute to minute: Holocaust survivor shares experiences with App State crowd
    Mountain Times
    Oct. 4, 2018

    Minute to minute, hour to hour, day to day. Holocaust survivor Susan Cernyak-Spatz’ sole survival method was to focus on living to the next minute, which she credits as being the mentality that kept her alive.

  • Cara Hagan visits Gonzaga to teach in-screen dance
    Cara Hagan visits Gonzaga to teach in-screen dance
    The Gonzaga Bulletin
    Sep. 26, 2018

    Cara Hagan, assistant professor of dance studies at Appalachian, visited Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash. for a week to work with the dance program. Hagan has had guest residencies teaching dance everywhere from Thirak, India to James Madison University.

  • Trailblazing athletes: App State honors 50th anniversary of women's varsity sports
    Trailblazing athletes: App State honors 50th anniversary of women's varsity sports
    Watauga Democrat
    Sep. 26, 2018

    In recognizing the thousands of women who played varsity sports over the years, Appalachian honored the trailblazers of women’s intercollegiate varsity sports with a ceremony on Friday, Sept. 21. The ceremony was for the current and former student-athletes in women’s field hockey, track and field, cross country, volleyball, soccer, tennis, golf, basketball, softball, cheer and the discontinued varsity sports of gymnastics, swimming and rifle.

  • Did Hurricane Florence affect NC's leaf season?
    Did Hurricane Florence affect NC's leaf season?
    ABC11 WTVD
    Sep. 25, 2018

    “If this storm had come through two weeks later, it would have had a bigger impact. So, my forecast is that we're still in pretty good shape,” said Howard Neufeld in an Asheville Citizen-Times story. Neufeld is known as the “Fall Color Guy” and is a professor of biology at Appalachian State University in Boone.

  • Carol Almond set early standards for App State women's basketball
    Carol Almond set early standards for App State women's basketball
    Watauga Democrat
    Sep. 22, 2018

    Appalachian State’s athletic department celebrated 50 years of women’s athletics at the university on Sept. 21 with the Appalachian Trailblazers dinner. The first program founded was the field hockey team, but the team did not grab all of the early milestones. Carol Almond can attest to that.

  • App State marks half-century of women’s athletics
    App State marks half-century of women’s athletics
    Watauga Democrat
    Sep. 21, 2018

    This year, Appalachian State University is celebrating 50 years of women’s varsity sports. Appalachian student newspapers from the time show that the university had impressive and competitive female club and intramural teams for quite a few years before the women’s field hockey team in 1968 became the first-ever women’s intercollegiate sport in Black and Gold history.

  • What Baby Stars and Meteorites Can Tell Us About Our Solar System’s Past
    What Baby Stars and Meteorites Can Tell Us About Our Solar System’s Past
    Motherboard
    Sep. 20, 2018

    Dr. Rachel L. Smith, associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Appalachian, studies the birth of stars to better understand the origins of life on Earth, and perhaps elsewhere in the universe.

  • ASU starts Middle Fork lab school in Winston-Salem
    ASU starts Middle Fork lab school in Winston-Salem
    Watauga Democrat
    Sep. 20, 2018

    Appalachian State University is in its fourth week of school at a state-mandated laboratory school it launched in Winston-Salem this year. The Academy at Middle Fork is a public school and partnership between the Reich College of Education at ASU and Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools that serves kindergarten through fifth grades.

  • A hurricane in the mountains? Natural disasters await far from the coastal storms, and almost no one there is talking about it
    A hurricane in the mountains? Natural disasters await far from the coastal storms, and almost no one there is talking about it
    The Washington Post
    Sep. 19, 2018

    Hurricane Florence threatened areas far inland — including Appalachia — with landslides and other perilous effects. But people keep building in the mountains, apparently unfazed. “Early people, they were living away from streams and up on flat lands,” according to Dr. Ellen Cowen. “They weren’t the best views, but they were the safest to be. But now there’s nowhere to go, so the slopes have been cut.”

  • Why does FEMA’s Brock Long take Florence so seriously? Because he remembers Hugo.
    Why does FEMA’s Brock Long take Florence so seriously? Because he remembers Hugo.
    The News & Observer
    Sep. 12, 2018

    For North Carolina native and Appalachian alumnus Brock Long ’97 ’99, Hurricane Florence is personal. Long, who grew up in Newton, was 14 in 1989 the night Hurricane Hugo swept in, toppling trees and damaging buildings.

  • ‘Nothing to play with:’ FEMA chief’s Hurricane Florence alarm draws on vivid memories of Hugo
    ‘Nothing to play with:’ FEMA chief’s Hurricane Florence alarm draws on vivid memories of Hugo
    The Washington Post
    Sep. 11, 2018

    Hugo “came right over my house,” says Brock Long ’97 ’99, who grew up in Newton, N.C. The FEMA administrator, and Appalachian alumnus, says Hurricane Florence may be even more dangerous.

  • From ‘our big school in the mountains,’ App State chancellor visits Middle Fork Academy students, staff
    From ‘our big school in the mountains,’ App State chancellor visits Middle Fork Academy students, staff
    Winston-Salem Journal
    Aug. 30, 2018

    For a short time Thursday afternoon, Appalachian State University Chancellor Sheri Everts returned to a familiar scene: a K-12 classroom. Everts stopped by each classroom at Appalachian State University Academy at Middle Fork, handing out books for every student to take home with them. Her visit was meant to be both an opportunity to increase literacy options for students, as well as show the university’s support to those in the elementary school.

  • App State professor: August rain shouldn't fade fall leaves
    App State professor: August rain shouldn't fade fall leaves
    WSOC-TV
    Aug. 28, 2018

    Abundant August rains shouldn't have an impact on fall leaves showing their colors in western North Carolina, according to a university professor. Appalachian State University professor Howard Neufeld said it's an old wives' tale that if you get a lot of rainfall in the summer it dilutes the fall color, the Asheville Citizen Times reports.

  • Mother of hate crime victim addresses Appalachian's class of 2022
    Mother of hate crime victim addresses Appalachian's class of 2022
    Watauga Democrat
    Aug. 21, 2018

    Appalachian State University’s freshman class welcomed the mother of a 1998 hate crime victim with a standing ovation at the Aug. 20 Black and Gold Convocation. The new freshman class gathered at the George M. Holmes Convocation Center before the start of the 2018-19 school year — where Judy Shepard served as the event’s keynote speaker.

  • App State AD Gillin on the football gameday experience, projects and beyond
    App State AD Gillin on the football gameday experience, projects and beyond
    Winston-Salem Journal
    Aug. 4, 2018

    Appalachian State athletics is enveloped in change right now. Some of those changes are coming right away, and some will start to form in the near future. The waves of development require athletics director Doug Gillin to view progress through many different scopes.

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