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  • Appalachian’s Team Sunergy ties for second place in 2018 American Solar Challenge
    Appalachian’s Team Sunergy ties for second place in 2018 American Solar Challenge
    July 24, 2018

    Appalachian’s solar vehicle team has secured a second-place tie in the 2018 American Solar Challenge (ASC), an international solar vehicle distance road race held biennially by the Innovators Educational Foundation (IEF).

  • Appalachian’s Team Sunergy wins podium spot in Formula Sun Grand Prix
    Appalachian’s Team Sunergy wins podium spot in Formula Sun Grand Prix
    July 24, 2018

    Appalachian’s Team Sunergy secured a podium spot for the third year running in the Formula Sun Grand Prix (FSGP), an annual competition presented by the Innovators Educational Foundation (IEF), in which teams race solar-powered vehicles for eight hours each day over a three-day period.

  • Cafe Appalachia: Locally sourced menu bringing hope to formerly addicted
    Cafe Appalachia: Locally sourced menu bringing hope to formerly addicted
    WOWK-TV
    July 23, 2018

    Cafe Appalachia, in South Charleston, W.Va., is just as innovative, as the menu is delicious. With a pay what you can, farm to table, format, the open kitchen is staffed with folks who are recovering from addiction. Cheryl Laws modeled the cafe after one that she spent much of her time in while she was getting her master’s degree from Appalachian State University.

  • Cool off with hot fun in the high country
    Cool off with hot fun in the high country
    Relish
    July 23, 2018

    Last weekend, the weather in Boone was just was it was supposed to be — 10 degrees cooler than Winston-Salem. So some Winston-Salemites headed up U.S. 421 to cool down and enjoy a few of the awesome offerings at Appalachian Summer Festival.

  • New Police Officer Development Program to train the ‘policing leaders of tomorrow’ at Appalachian
    New Police Officer Development Program to train the ‘policing leaders of tomorrow’ at Appalachian
    July 19, 2018

    The Appalachian Police Officer Development Program — the second of its kind in the nation — begins training student police cadets in summer 2018.

  • Say ‘hello’ to Appalachian’s chief of police
    Say ‘hello’ to Appalachian’s chief of police
    July 19, 2018

    Building trust and changing minds are key to Appalachian State University Police Chief Andy Stephenson’s goal to become the model for policing in the United States.

  • Reoxcyn Innovation Group funds Appalachian research into possible health benefits of flavonoid supplements after strenuous activity
    Reoxcyn Innovation Group funds Appalachian research into possible health benefits of flavonoid supplements after strenuous activity
    July 18, 2018

    Appalachian’s Drs. David Nieman and Jennifer McBride will pit mixed flavonoid against placebo supplementation to study the effects of each on the immune system, oxidative stress and inflammation of individuals following strenuous exercise.

  • Appalachian industrial design students craft furniture for Moses Cone Manor minitheater
    Appalachian industrial design students craft furniture for Moses Cone Manor minitheater
    July 18, 2018

    Students in Cameron Van Dyke’s spring 2018 Preliminary Design Studio course designed and built the furniture from scratch. The minitheater, which seats 15 and is handicapped-accessible, will screen Appalachian video productions.

  • Becky Gosky wins Appalachian’s second Staff Shout Out quarterly drawing
    Becky Gosky wins Appalachian’s second Staff Shout Out quarterly drawing
    July 18, 2018

    As the winner of the Staff Shout Out program’s second quarterly drawing, Becky Gosky, coordinator in Appalachian’s Office of Relocation and Dual Career Assistance, won a University Bookstore gift and a YETI brand tumbler.

  • Summer Reading Adventures
    Summer Reading Adventures

    Teachers working one-on-one with students at Appalachian State University Academy at Middle Fork

    Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools
    July 18, 2018

    For Logan Marie Poplin, learning to read hasn’t been easy. When her mother heard about the Summer Reading Clinic at Appalachian State University Academy at Middle Fork, she thought it would be good to have her daughter participate. Logan Marie’s opinion of reading is definitely changing for the better.

  • ‘Bee’ part of Appalachian’s honeybee monitoring system research
    ‘Bee’ part of Appalachian’s honeybee monitoring system research

    The local community is invited to view and submit observations of the Department of Computer Science’s Beemon system

    July 17, 2018

    Beemon — a honeybee hive monitoring system created by faculty and students in Appalachian’s Department of Computer Science — is being used by beekeepers and researchers to assess/monitor the health of local hives.

  • Alumnus Craig Phillips ’93 works to restore musical legacy of The Revelers
    Alumnus Craig Phillips ’93 works to restore musical legacy of The Revelers
    July 17, 2018

    An attic stash of more than 500 unpublished song arrangements allows Craig Phillips ’93 to revive the groundbreaking work of the 1920s singing group.

  • Appalachian’s College of Arts and Sciences welcomes a new associate dean for 2018–19
    Appalachian’s College of Arts and Sciences welcomes a new associate dean for 2018–19
    July 17, 2018

    Dr. Mark D. Bradbury, professor of public administration in Appalachian’s Department of Government and Justice Studies, becomes an associate dean.

  • NC OSHERC funds Appalachian study on individual-level temperatures in cold work environments
    NC OSHERC funds Appalachian study on individual-level temperatures in cold work environments
    July 17, 2018

    Drs. Maggie Sugg and Jennifer Runkle, the grant recipients, said they plan to translate the study’s findings into new prevention strategies that would ensure optimal worker performance and protection in such environments.

  • The Paleontological Society funds Appalachian research into what role a lack of oxygen played in the Late Devonian mass extinction
    The Paleontological Society funds Appalachian research into what role a lack of oxygen played in the Late Devonian mass extinction
    July 17, 2018

    Appalachian’s Dr. Cole Edwards and his team of researchers are testing rock samples collected from the western U.S. for anoxia — or the absence of oxygen — which may have contributed to the Late Devonian extinction.

  • Rumple Memorial Presbyterian Church supports Parent to Parent FSN-HC fund for medically fragile infants and children
    Rumple Memorial Presbyterian Church supports Parent to Parent FSN-HC fund for medically fragile infants and children
    July 17, 2018

    The $3,000 grant will help support Appalachian’s Sydney Powell Fund for Infants and Children who are Medically Fragile, which offers financial assistance to families in need who have a child with a serious medical condition.

  • Appalachian researchers contribute to study on protein that triggers antioxidant production
    Appalachian researchers contribute to study on protein that triggers antioxidant production
    July 16, 2018

    A study co-authored by Appalachian’s Dr. Brooke Christian and alumna Samantha Steyl examines the role of a protein called ATM that senses damaging reactive oxygen species and responds by triggering the production of antioxidants.

  • Solar-powered vehicles start 1700-mile race in Omaha
    Solar-powered vehicles start 1700-mile race in Omaha

    Appalachian State University’s Team Sunergy is one of the participants in the American Solar Challenge

    KETV NewsWatch 7
    July 15, 2018

    It's a race with no fuel, because the cars are powered by solar energy. Saturday morning teams began their 1,700-mile race, starting at the Lewis and Clark Trail in Omaha. Fourteen solar-powered vehicles race through four states and finish in Omaha. National and international schools compete in the American Solar Challenge with two different classes and a variety of styles and techniques.

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