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  • Appalachian State University geologist’s research on ancient footprints garners worldwide attention, will shed light on the roots of our origin
    Appalachian State University geologist’s research on ancient footprints garners worldwide attention, will shed light on the roots of our origin
    Oct. 21, 2016

    Dr. Cynthia Liutkus-Pierce, an associate professor in the Department of Geology, has recently published research around the age and formation of the largest assemblage of Homo sapiens footprints discovered to date, in the shadow of the Ol Doinyo L’engai volcano in Tanzania.

  • From General Education geography class to NOAA scholarship
    From General Education geography class to NOAA scholarship

    A first-year course sparks Eric Burton’s imagination, leads to research opportunities in Peru and beyond

    Oct. 7, 2016

    His imagination sparked, Eric Burton majors in geography, conducts research in Peru and lands a NOAA scholarship – in large part because of a first-year General Education course.

  • World-renowned Holocaust scholar C.R. Browning to lecture at Appalachian Sept. 25
    World-renowned Holocaust scholar C.R. Browning to lecture at Appalachian Sept. 25
    Sep. 19, 2016

    The keynote lecture of the 2016 annual meeting of the North Carolina Jewish Studies Consortium at Appalachian State University will be delivered by Dr. Christopher R. Browning. Browning’s talk is titled “Holocaust History and Survivor Testimony: The Starachowice Factory Slave Labor Camps” and is based on his recent book “Remembering Survival.”

  • Fulbright Scholar from Appalachian reflects on political unrest in Ethiopia
    Fulbright Scholar from Appalachian reflects on political unrest in Ethiopia
    Sep. 16, 2016

    Does studying abroad change the way we respond to world news? Fulbright Scholar Dr. Vachel Miller reflects on his yearlong experience in Ethiopia as violence embroils his host city.

  • Michael McNally named director of North Carolina Center for Engineering Technologies
    Michael McNally named director of North Carolina Center for Engineering Technologies
    Aug. 26, 2016

    The center’s 55,000 square-foot facility, located in Hickory, provides facilities for applied research in engineering-related fields and serves as a conduit to baccalaureate education delivered by institutions in the the University of North Carolina system.

  • Geography Professor Sugg receives award for continued research on her North Carolina heat-health vulnerability tool
    Geography Professor Sugg receives award for continued research on her North Carolina heat-health vulnerability tool
    Aug. 26, 2016

    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has awarded $10,356 to Dr. Margaret Sugg, a professor in Appalachian’s Department of Geography and Planning.

  • Racing the Sun
    Racing the Sun

    An Appalachian team seeks to change the future of transportation with a solar race car

    Aug. 17, 2016

    Take a dozen Appalachian students, three passionate faculty and an institutional commitment to sustainability and you get a race car powered by the sun that wins third place in a three-day track race and places sixth in a cross-country race lasting eight days and nearly 2,000 miles. You get innovations in sustainable technology. And, you get a roadmap to the car of the future.

  • Racing the Sun: History of Apperion
    Racing the Sun: History of Apperion
    Aug. 17, 2016

    How does a group of students end up building a solar car and entering it in an international, collegiate competition? It began with Dan Blakeley, an Army Ranger who was looking to the future, and who would become the leader of Team Sunergy. Inspired to build a solar car by his sustainable transportation instructor, Blakeley found funding and academic support to convert a golf cart from gas to solar power, build a race car prototype, and learn from everyone and every opportunity he could find.

  • Racing the Sun: The Competition
    Racing the Sun: The Competition
    Aug. 17, 2016

    What is this competition, anyway? An international event that involves designing, building and racing solar vehicles, the competition is two-fold. It is comprised of the Formula Sun Grand Prix (FSGP) and the American Solar Challenge (ASC).

  • Racing the Sun: The Team
    Racing the Sun: The Team
    Aug. 17, 2016

    Meet the Sunergy solar vehicle team led by student leader and veteran Dan Blakeley — leading, taking charge, delegating and all actively learning.

  • Racing the Sun: A Vision for the Future
    Racing the Sun: A Vision for the Future
    Aug. 17, 2016

    Dream along with Appalachian’s Team Sunergy about a cruiser class solar vehicle, the next generation for sustainable transportation.

  • Photos of Appalachian’s Apperion, ASC/FSGP sun-racing
    Photos of Appalachian’s Apperion, ASC/FSGP sun-racing
    Aug. 15, 2016

    Share the road with Team Sunergy, Appalachian State University’s solar vehicle team, as it traverses from Brecksville, Ohio, to Hot Springs, South Dakota – 1,975 miles of sun racing, wind-whistling, solar battery charging, slick-road stopping, seven-state crossing, auto-history making, nine national park honoring thrills, spills and sheer Mountaineer grit.

  • Apperion and Team Sunergy under the microscope at 2016 American Solar Challenge
    Apperion and Team Sunergy under the microscope at 2016 American Solar Challenge
    Aug. 10, 2016

    For a week before and during the 2016 American Solar Challenge at the Pittsburgh International Race Complex in Wampum, Pennsylvania, Appalachian’s solar vehicle underwent scrutineering – detailed inspections and performance trials. Apperion passed all scrutineering tests in time to begin the first day of track racing. Not all vehicles did. Some crashed during slalom testing and spent valuable time repairing; some had difficulty in the wet road brake testing; others had driver egress and communications tech challenges.

  • On the track at 2016 American Solar Challenge
    On the track at 2016 American Solar Challenge
    Aug. 10, 2016

    For a week before and during the 2016 American Solar Challenge at the Pittsburgh International Race Complex in Wampum, Pennsylvania, Appalachian’s solar vehicle drivers weaved between traffic cones in slalom handling tests, clocked times, kidded to fast stops in wet road brake tests, and jumped from their vehicles in quick egress tests; crews demonstrated solar array charging capacity, battery load bearing and capacity; and dozens of details, including driver registration, insurance and support vehicle graphics, were scrutinized or, using track vernacular, “scrutineered.” And, after hours, there was laundry to be done.

  • Third place celebration at American Solar Challenge
    Third place celebration at American Solar Challenge
    Aug. 10, 2016

    Team Sunergy leader Dan Blakeley rounds out the American Solar Challenge track race in third place, completing Apperion’s three-day run with 414 laps to Minnesota’s 386. Exiting the vehicle, he’s doused with a shower of cold water from his team.

  • Appalachian vehicle finishes in sixth place in American Solar Challenge
    Appalachian vehicle finishes in sixth place in American Solar Challenge
    Aug. 8, 2016

    Twelve students who departed the campus of Appalachian State University on July 21 completed a 17-day journey in Hot Springs, South Dakota, on Aug. 6, finishing a nearly 2,000-mile solar car race in sixth place overall and winning three international awards along the way with their solar vehicle, Apperion.

  • Appalachian’s solar vehicle team places third in the Formula Sun Grand Prix
    Appalachian’s solar vehicle team places third in the Formula Sun Grand Prix
    July 28, 2016

    Appalachian State University’s solar vehicle team, Team Sunergy, has taken third place in the Formula Sun Grand Prix at the Pittsburgh International Race Complex in Wampum, Pennsylvania. Under heavy cloud cover and some rain, the team completed the race on July 28 with a total of 414 laps.

  • Appalachian’s solar vehicle team qualifies for 2016 American Solar Challenge
    Appalachian’s solar vehicle team qualifies for 2016 American Solar Challenge
    July 27, 2016

    On the first day of a three-day qualifying race, Appalachian State University’s solar vehicle team, Team Sunergy, qualified for the American Solar Challenge Tuesday, July 26, at the Pittsburgh International Race Complex in Wampum, Pennsylvania. The team is currently in third place overall.

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