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  • Scoreboard Construction Continues at Kidd Brewer Stadium, LED Display is 2,500 SF in Size
    Scoreboard Construction Continues at Kidd Brewer Stadium, LED Display is 2,500 SF in Size
    High Country Press
    Aug. 9, 2017

    The new gigantic scoreboard at Kidd Brewer Stadium is currently being installed. When the project is completed later this summer, Appalachian State University will be host to the largest display in the Group of Five collegiate athletic conferences.

  • Intern Series: Working for my Role Model - A Day in the Life
    Intern Series: Working for my Role Model - A Day in the Life
    whitehouse.gov
    Aug. 9, 2017

    Coming from a small town in Maryland, and attending college in an even smaller town in North Carolina, I never imagined I would end up in our Nation’s capital working with my role model, Ivanka Trump.

  • Communicating can ease everyone’s stress
    Communicating can ease everyone’s stress
    The Elkin Tribune
    Aug. 3, 2017

    Communication makes everyone’s lives easier. That was the message at a media summit held in Boone at Appalachian on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017. Attendees included police and health care providers, educational institutions and media outlets. The main message, from every direction, was communication is key.

  • Nascar diversity program no longer stuck in neutral
    Nascar diversity program no longer stuck in neutral

    Appalachian alumnus Richie Williams pursued the opportunity to participate in the NASCAR Drive for Diversity program

    Indianapolis Recorder
    Aug. 3, 2017

    Williams flourished quickly and found employment initially in 2010 with Germain Racing in the NASCAR Truck Series before joining Jack Roush Racing in 2012 for both the Cup series and the Xfinity series. Williams accepted his current position with Ganassi as a crewmember for driver Jamie McMurray’s car.

  • Community event helps students prepare for school year
    Community event helps students prepare for school year
    Mooresville Tribune
    July 19, 2017

    In less than two weeks, the annual Back to School Bash in Mooresville will holds its seventh year of preparing students for a new school year with free school supplies, shoes and other necessities. Layne Smith, director of this year’s B2SB, has been with the program since the beginning, seeing it grow under her mother’s direction when it was first founded in 2011 to now.

  • Coding camp lays groundwork for college
    Coding camp lays groundwork for college
    Asheville Citizen-Times
    July 19, 2017

    Mod Design Camp, a summer camp offered by Appalachian State University at Madison Middle School in Marshall, N.C., helped the students design and code within the popular computer game, Minecraft. Madison County Schools are in the third year of a seven-year GEAR Up grant which aims to get more local students to continue their education after high school.

  • Great American Total Solar Eclipse To Travel Through Western NC on Aug. 21
    Great American Total Solar Eclipse To Travel Through Western NC on Aug. 21
    High Country Press
    July 13, 2017

    Dan Caton, professor and director of observatories at Appalachian State University in the Department of Astronomy and Physics, encourages everyone to try to venture into that 70-mile wide path on the afternoon of Aug. 21.

  • 'Mountain of God' Volcano Preparing to Erupt
    'Mountain of God' Volcano Preparing to Erupt

    The East African peak looms over a modern city as well as three major sites featuring signs of early humans.

    National Geographic
    July 13, 2017

    An active volcano in northeastern Tanzania, known as Ol Doinyo Lengai, could threaten Engare Sero, a site of ancient Homo sapiens footprints recently studied by Appalachian State University geologist Cynthia Liutkus-Pierce.

  • Three App State Golfers Earn WGCA All-American Scholars Honors
    Three App State Golfers Earn WGCA All-American Scholars Honors
    Appalachian State Mountaineers
    July 12, 2017

    Senior Emily Stinson, junior Savanna Wood, and freshman Melany Chong were all recognized by the WGCA landing on the 2016-2017 WGCA All-American Scholar Team. The trio led a remarkable year for App State women's golf in the classroom which included a team GPA of 3.41, the third-highest among App's 18 programs and a perfect single-year and four-year APR score of 1,000.

  • Elizabethton to partner with Appalachian State on downtown parks feasibility study and master plan
    Elizabethton to partner with Appalachian State on downtown parks feasibility study and master plan
    Johnson City Press
    July 12, 2017

    The Elizabethton Parks and Recreation Department may soon be getting some help from students of Appalachian State University in planning future improvements to the Covered Bridge Park and the nearby Edwards Island Park in downtown Elizabethton.

  • Judy Asks: Is Italy Europe’s Achilles’ Heel?
    Judy Asks: Is Italy Europe’s Achilles’ Heel?
    Carnegie Europe
    June 28, 2017

    A selection of experts, including Appalachian's Federiga Bindi, answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the foreign and security policy challenges shaping Europe’s role in the world.

  • Van Ord Nominated for NCAA Woman of the Year
    Van Ord Nominated for NCAA Woman of the Year
    Appalachian State Mountaineers
    June 28, 2017

    Appalachian State University women's track and field student-athlete, Tristin Van Ord, has been nominated for the 2017 NCAA Woman of the Year award, as announced by the NCAA on Wednesday. The Woman of the Year award honors graduating female college athletes who have exhausted their eligibility and distinguished themselves throughout their collegiate careers in academics, athletics, service and leadership.

  • A Sense of Duty to Teach Climate Change
    A Sense of Duty to Teach Climate Change
    The New York Times
    June 28, 2017

    “Cooking creates an approachable platform to teach basic thermodynamic concepts. Everyone is interested in why a pizza stone results in a crispier pizza crust! Once they understand these concepts, the energy balance of the climate system is easy to understand.”

  • App State Projecting Record Enrollment for Fall Semester, Everts Announces at Trustees Meeting
    App State Projecting Record Enrollment for Fall Semester, Everts Announces at Trustees Meeting
    High Country Press
    June 26, 2017

    At Appalachian State University’s June Board of Trustees meeting, preliminary enrollment numbers were released, board members were honored, new deans were welcomed and new opportunities for university properties were considered.

  • Brad Bergman: Background of a brewing chemist
    Brad Bergman: Background of a brewing chemist
    Petoskey News-Review
    June 26, 2017

    Petoskey Brewing’s head brewer, Brad Bergman, is a “mad” scientist both in the brew house and in real life. Bergman attended college at Appalachian State University in North Carolina earning his bachelors of science degree in chemistry. During his education, a professor gained Bergman’s attention and friendship over they’re combined fondness for craft beers.

  • Women in Business Q&A: Meagan Goodspeed, Production Coordinator and Alessandra Levy, Assistant Producer, Creative Media Design
    Women in Business Q&A: Meagan Goodspeed, Production Coordinator and Alessandra Levy, Assistant Producer, Creative Media Design
    Huffington Post
    June 26, 2017

    Meagan Goodspeed originates from Orlando, Florida where she developed a passion for the Film & TV industry. While studying Electronic Media & Broadcasting at Appalachian State University, she accepted an internship at ‘The Late Show with David Letterman’ in NYC. Upon graduating in 2014, she moved to NYC to intern at ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’ and pursue a life as a freelancer.

  • NC-raised officer takes command as ‘Mayor of Fort Bragg’
    NC-raised officer takes command as ‘Mayor of Fort Bragg’
    The Fayetteville Observer
    June 15, 2017

    Col. Kyle A. Reed is no stranger to Fort Bragg, having spent a decade — nearly half of his 21-year career — on the post. From 1999 to 2010 he held a number of positions within the 82nd Airborne Division, mostly with the 1st Brigade Combat Team. He deployed with those units to Iraq and Afghanistan. And at one point in that span, he commanded the Advanced Airborne School at Fort Bragg.

  • The State of Things: There Goes the Sun
    The State of Things: There Goes the Sun
    WUNC 91.5
    June 15, 2017

    This August communities across the United States will witness a total solar eclipse for the first time almost 100 years. Host Frank Stasio talks about the science of the sun with astronomer Rachel Smith. Smith heads the Astronomy & Astrophysics Research Lab at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and is a professor of physics and astronomy at Appalachian State University.

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