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  • Carbon cutback
    Carbon cutback

    County, ASU partners in landfill gas contract

    Wilkes Journal-Patriot
    Nov. 21, 2017

    Appalachian State University has agreed to buy carbon credits resulting from an old Wilkes County landfill project that prevents the release of methane gas into the atmosphere.

  • Appalachian Carbon Research Group (ACRG) Hosts Successful Forest Offset Workshop
    Appalachian Carbon Research Group (ACRG) Hosts Successful Forest Offset Workshop
    High Country Press
    Nov. 17, 2017

    Western North Carolina is home to abundant and rich forest carbon stocks, which can be placed in forest carbon offset programs to support carbon storage and sequestration, forest health and retention, enhance the recreational and intergenerational value of forest land, and provide additional income for families. On Oct. 6, 2017, the Appalachian Carbon Research Group (ACRG) hosted the Offsets for Future Forest Stewardship and Education Together (OFFSET) Workshop at Appalachian.

  • Five Appalachian students provide healthcare in Dominican Republic
    Five Appalachian students provide healthcare in Dominican Republic
    Mountain Times
    Nov. 16, 2017

    Appalachian's Global Medical Training Chapter, approved by the university in the beginning of 2017, sent five Appalachian students this summer to the Dominican Republic to provide free healthcare to rural villages.

  • Feeling Blue: Former Rider navigating Trestman’s offence
    Feeling Blue: Former Rider navigating Trestman’s offence
    Canadian Football League
    Nov. 15, 2017

    As the Toronto Argonauts get set to host Saskatchewan in this Sunday’s CFL Eastern Final, Armanti Edwards looms as an important factor, even if he is still zipping a little under the radar of many. Edwards was a superb college quarterback who made a name for himself while he was setting new standards at Appalachian State.

  • The American Health Council Welcomes Haley Love RN, OCN to Nursing Board
    The American Health Council Welcomes Haley Love RN, OCN to Nursing Board
    American Health Council
    Nov. 14, 2017

    An active nurse researcher and Nurse Case Manager, Love will be contributing her expertise in gynecology, immunotherapy, and urology to the wealth of experience on American Health Council’s Nursing Board. She is currently an RN-BSN student at Appalachian State University.

  • Visiting Teachers Bring Global Perspectives to Appalachian Towns
    Visiting Teachers Bring Global Perspectives to Appalachian Towns
    Huffington Post
    Nov. 13, 2017

    “Our students here in the Appalachian Mountains don’t have many opportunities to meet people from other countries and cultures,” says Dr. Maria Anastasiou at Appalachian State University. But a recent visit by 21 science and English teachers from 16 different countries has been changing that, both for the university and the surrounding community.

  • Ricks did not make big donation to be in spotlight
    Ricks did not make big donation to be in spotlight
    Watauga Democrat
    Nov. 10, 2017

    Mark Ricks does not seek the spotlight. Ricks, who donated a $10 million gift to his alma mater Appalachian State on Nov. 9 at the Holmes Center, would rather just stay in the background instead of be the center of attention.

  • Middle Fork to partner with App State for school conversion in 2018-19
    Middle Fork to partner with App State for school conversion in 2018-19
    Winston-Salem Journal
    Nov. 9, 2017

    In a year, Middle Fork Elementary School will have a new name and several new staff members as part of an effort to improve student literacy and overall test scores. The school was chosen as one of nine laboratory schools in North Carolina. All schools selected are low-performing K-8 schools and are partnering with a state university for five years — in Middle Fork Elementary’s situation, it will work with Appalachian State University.

  • NC attorney general hosts first collegiate council meeting to combat college opioid crisis
    NC attorney general hosts first collegiate council meeting to combat college opioid crisis
    The Daily Tar Heel
    Nov. 2, 2017

    N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein led the first of four collegiate council meetings within the UNC system to work with students on combating opioid addiction on college campuses. The meeting, held at Appalachian State University on Oct. 16, included representatives from Appalachian, Western Carolina University, UNC-Asheville, East Carolina University, N.C. State, UNC-Greensboro, UNC-Pembroke and UNC-Chapel Hill.

  • Marching band festival draws high school bands from across the region
    Marching band festival draws high school bands from across the region
    The Appalachian
    Nov. 1, 2017

    Braving cold and rainy conditions, the Rho Tau chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity hosted 20 high school bands on Saturday for the 38th annual Appalachian Marching Band Festival. Bands arrived from across the region to compete, from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina to Abingdon, Virginia.

  • App State Mountaineers Enjoy Record-Breaking Crowds at Kidd Brewer Stadium This Season
    App State Mountaineers Enjoy Record-Breaking Crowds at Kidd Brewer Stadium This Season
    High Country Press
    Oct. 26, 2017

    Crowds in excess of 30,000 are heading to the High Country to watch Appalachian State’s first-place team compete on a home field surrounded by visible stadium enhancements that have made the gameday experience in Boone even better.

  • Cleanup begins after major flooding in Boone
    Cleanup begins after major flooding in Boone
    WBTV Charlotte
    Oct. 24, 2017

    Damage assessments continue in Boone after major flash flooding hit the Winkler’s Creek section of town between the Boone Mall and WalMart. County inspectors have condemned the places that were flooded until such time as repairs can be made. It means people in at least 60 units are looking for a place to live.

  • New Study Links Climate Change To Increased Western Wildfire Activity
    New Study Links Climate Change To Increased Western Wildfire Activity
    88.5 WFDD
    Oct. 24, 2017

    A recent study out of Appalachian State University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro finds that climate change and the massive wildfires in California are related. It has to do with Arctic sea ice. That’s been monitored since 1979, and since then there’s been an 11 percent decrease in ice per decade.

  • Dr. Harry Williams Named President & CEO of Thurgood Marshall College Fund
    Dr. Harry Williams Named President & CEO of Thurgood Marshall College Fund
    Delaware State University
    Oct. 23, 2017

    The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), the nation’s largest organization exclusively representing the Black College Community, awarded Dr. Harry Lee Williams '86 '88 '95 its Educational Leadership Award and announced him as the new TMCF President and Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Williams will end his distinguished tenure as president of Delaware State University.

  • What’s so funny about math? Award-winning TV writers will explain the calculus of comedy
    What’s so funny about math? Award-winning TV writers will explain the calculus of comedy
    UCLA
    Oct. 20, 2017

    Sarah Greenwald, professor of mathematics at Appalachian State University, moderated the panel discussion “The Calculus of Comedy: Math in The Simpsons, Futurama, and The Big Bang Theory” Oct. 25, 2017 in Los Angeles. The event was sponsored by UCLA’s Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics.

  • Asheville artist Bryan Koontz: Creating a sense of place
    Asheville artist Bryan Koontz: Creating a sense of place
    Asheville Citizen-Times
    Oct. 13, 2017

    Koontz first picked up a paintbrush when he was about 8, under the guidance of his grandmother, who was a primitive painter. He went on to feed his creative spirit at Appalachian State University, where he earned a degree in commercial design.

  • Up-and-down weather is having an effect on fall color in Va. and N.C. mountains
    Up-and-down weather is having an effect on fall color in Va. and N.C. mountains
    Richmond Times-Dispatch
    Oct. 6, 2017

    Mid-October is again shaping up to be the best time for western North Carolina, according to Howard Neufeld, a professor of biology at Appalachian State University. Neufeld, who shares his weekly observations and predictions on Facebook on the “Fall Color Guy” page, said he believes the next warmup in the forecast could delay the peak a few days later than usual in western North Carolina.

  • Town commemorates unmarked graves of African-Americans
    Town commemorates unmarked graves of African-Americans
    The Appalachian
    Oct. 5, 2017

    A marker commemorating the unmarked graves of African-American residents of Boone was unveiled Sunday to a crowd of around 100 people in Boone Cemetery in an effort to preserve the long history of Boone’s traditionally black Junaluska community.

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