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  • Appalachian State solar vehicle places second in international track race
    Appalachian State solar vehicle places second in international track race
    July 9, 2017

    Solar-powered Appalachian’s Team Sunergy took second place at the 2017 Formula Sun Grand Prix after hundreds of hours of preparation and three days of intense strategy and track racing. The annual race, which took place this year on the Circuit of The Americas track in Austin, Texas, is an international collegiate endurance competition that sets the standards for and tests the limits of solar vehicle technology.

  • 2017 Appalachian Energy Summit provides students opportunities to network, exchange ideas and promote their work
    2017 Appalachian Energy Summit provides students opportunities to network, exchange ideas and promote their work
    July 7, 2017

    Student attendees at 2017 Appalachian Energy Summit share ideas and network.

  • Alumnus Profile: Joseph Gannon ’16
    Alumnus Profile: Joseph Gannon ’16
    July 6, 2017

    After majoring in career and technical education, Joseph Gannon ’16 secured a teaching position in Montana. He teaches middle school, as well as high school shop/woodworking, metalworking, construction and CAD/drafting. He is also an assistant wrestling coach.

  • Appalachian will partner with Middle Fork Elementary in Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools on Laboratory School
    Appalachian will partner with Middle Fork Elementary in Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools on Laboratory School
    June 30, 2017

    Appalachian was selected as one of eight institutions within the UNC system charged with establishing a laboratory school in districts with more than 25 percent of schools identified according to state guidelines as “low performing.” The Board of Governors selected Appalachian because of the quality of its educator preparation program.

  • The new look of Apperion – Appalachian's 2017 Solar Vehicle
    The new look of Apperion – Appalachian's 2017 Solar Vehicle
    June 30, 2017

    Team Sunergy’s new “cruiser class” car for 2018 is in the design concept phase. Its development is informed by data and feedback the team has gathered and compiled from the three competitions in which Apperion has raced.

  • Runnin’ on Shine
    Runnin’ on Shine

    Team Sunergy competes in the Formula Sun Grand Prix July 3-9

    June 30, 2017

    Solar-powered Appalachian State University’s Team Sunergy took second place at the 2017 Formula Sun Grand Prix after thousands of hours of preparation and three days of intense strategy and track racing.

  • Foreman named vice chancellor and chief of staff at Appalachian State University
    Foreman named vice chancellor and chief of staff at Appalachian State University
    June 29, 2017

    Foreman will oversee the areas of University Communications, Arts Engagement (An Appalachian Summer Festival, the Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts and the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts), the Holmes Convocation Center, the Office of Sustainability, the Small Business and Technology Development Center and External Affairs and Community Relations.

  • Appalachian awards four Fleming Scholarships for 2017-18
    Appalachian awards four Fleming Scholarships for 2017-18
    June 29, 2017

    The scholarship recipients are Jonathan Winbush of Winston-Salem; Tamia Gowens of Greensboro; Ayah Hatcher of Raleigh; and Jordan Moore of Indian Trail. The scholarship is named for Dr. Willie C. Fleming, Appalachian’s chief diversity officer.

  • Shadows of Diverse Disciplines: Reflections on Solar Eclipses with Appalachian’s College of Arts and Sciences
    Shadows of Diverse Disciplines: Reflections on Solar Eclipses with Appalachian’s College of Arts and Sciences
    June 29, 2017

    As anticipation builds with the solar eclipse approaching this August, the College of Arts and Sciences at Appalachian State University will hold a panel discussion to examine the many interpretations of these events in history, from scientific to religious, and discuss the significance of an eclipse through the variety of disciplines that comprise the college.

  • Department of Mathematical Sciences hosts workshop on Sustainable Energy Consumption
    Department of Mathematical Sciences hosts workshop on Sustainable Energy Consumption
    June 28, 2017

    During the month of June, the Department of Mathematical Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at Appalachian State University welcomed faculty from around the world to Reconnect, a conference designed to evaluate mathematical and computational tools for energy efficiency and reliability of data centers.

  • 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.”

  • EPA head and urban revitalization strategist to deliver keynote addresses at Appalachian’s 2017 Appalachian Energy Summit, July 10 and 11
    EPA head and urban revitalization strategist to deliver keynote addresses at Appalachian’s 2017 Appalachian Energy Summit, July 10 and 11
    June 27, 2017

    Gina McCarthy, the former head of the EPA, and Majora Carter, an urban revitalization strategist who hosts “The Promised Land,” a Peabody Award-winning public radio series, will deliver keynote addresses during the Appalachian Energy Summit at Appalachian State University.

  • Campus emergency siren test to be conducted July 5
    Campus emergency siren test to be conducted July 5
    June 27, 2017

    Appalachian State University will test its campus siren warning system at 11:55 a.m. on Wednesday, July 5.

  • Workers celebrated in ‘topping ceremony’ for Appalachian’s Beaver College of Health Sciences building
    Workers celebrated in ‘topping ceremony’ for Appalachian’s Beaver College of Health Sciences building
    June 27, 2017

    Appalachian State University’s Beaver College of Health Sciences celebrates half-way mark, honors workers with topping ceremony.

  • Appalachian's Beaver College of Health Sciences celebrates a milestone for High Country health care
    Appalachian's Beaver College of Health Sciences celebrates a milestone for High Country health care
    June 27, 2017

    Appalachian State University’s Beaver College of Health Sciences celebrated the half-way mark on construction of its new facility and honored workers with a topping ceremony in early June.

  • 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.

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