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	<title>Appalachian State University News &#187; Gifts &amp; Grants</title>
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		<title>Appalachian professors to write book on Civil War history from a new perspective</title>
		<link>http://www.news.appstate.edu/2013/05/08/civil-war-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 20:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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By Jane Nicholson
BOONE—With more than 55,000 books in print about the Civil War, one  might assume that there is no new information to be gleaned about the  event that separated states, communities and families. But there is a  topic that has received scant attention – the environmental history of  the Civil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schaefer Center renovations progressing on schedule</title>
		<link>http://www.news.appstate.edu/2013/04/04/schaefer-center-2/</link>
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BOONE—The transformation of Farthing Auditorium into The Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts at Appalachian State University is on schedule, with a completion date projected for early summer. The facility is anticipated to be open for the 2013 season of An Appalachian Summer Festival, to be presented in July.

The building renovations are being funded privately [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alumni pledge $3 million to Appalachian</title>
		<link>http://www.news.appstate.edu/2013/03/22/alumni-pledge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commitment is largest gift made to the university by graduates
BOONE—Brad and Carole Wilson of Raleigh have pledged $3 million to Appalachian State University and the Campaign for Appalachian. Their commitment is the largest made to the university by alumni. The Wilsons, both members of the Class of 1975, are co-chairs of Appalachian’s comprehensive fundraising campaign.

Their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Department of Computer Science receives nearly $500,000 to enhance STEM education</title>
		<link>http://www.news.appstate.edu/2013/03/18/research-experience-for-teachers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOONE—High school and community college mathematics and science teachers in the region will learn new ways to excite their students about computer science by using data analysis and mining, visualization and image processing during a six-week summer program at Appalachian State University.
The program will equip select teachers to create course modules involving sound, images, videos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Campus Polar Plunge nets more than $6,800 for Watauga County Special Olympics</title>
		<link>http://www.news.appstate.edu/2013/02/25/polar-plunge-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
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BOONE—A 38-degree water temperature plus 142 hearty souls equaled $6,881.06 for Watauga County Special Olympics.

The occasion was the 15th Annual Polar Plunge held at the duck pond at Appalachian State University. Since it began, the polar plunge has raised more than $98,000 for the local Special Olympics organization.
Individuals paid a $25 entry fee and groups [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building materials donated to Habitat for Humanity ReStore</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
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Balfour Beatty Construction recently made a donation worth $18,000 in building materials to the Watauga County Habitat for Humanity ReStore.  The donation included bags of concrete, brooms, shovels, snow shovels, insulation, wood and rebar.

The materials came from the recently completed $56 million Center for Student Leadership project at Appalachian State University. The project was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gifts from accounting firm support scholarships and faculty development at Appalachian</title>
		<link>http://www.news.appstate.edu/2013/01/09/gifts-from-accounting-firm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOONE—Gifts totaling $94,900 have been made by the accounting firm of Dixon Hughes Goodman to Appalachian State University’s Walker College of Business. The gifts provide continuing support of the college’s Department of Accounting, discretionary funds available to the dean of the college, and have established the Dixon Hughes Goodman/Brooks Ferrell Memorial Scholarship endowment fund.
“With this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Students initiate new grant program for renewable energy research</title>
		<link>http://www.news.appstate.edu/2013/01/02/renewable-energy-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
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BOONE—Students at Appalachian State University believe so strongly in reducing their environmental impact while on campus that they charge themselves a fee to support renewable energy projects. Now, they have begun using some of that revenue to support faculty research related to renewable energy.
Solar thermal water heating systems atop campus buildings are among alternative energy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$60,000 grant will support women science faculty at Appalachian</title>
		<link>http://www.news.appstate.edu/2012/12/13/women-science-faculty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOONE—Women faculty often choose to work at smaller universities which are considered family friendly and provide a better balance between academic and family life.
However, these faculty members may have heavier teaching loads, receive smaller salaries, have less access to internal funding for professional travel and early-career research and have limited opportunities for networking and mentoring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Professors receive NSF grant to study sleep restriction and decision making</title>
		<link>http://www.news.appstate.edu/2012/10/17/sleep-restriction-and-decision-making/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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BOONE—Running on autopilot. How many times has that described your work or school day after a sleepless night – or week?
Two professors at Appalachian State University have received a $405,628 National Science Foundation award to study how sleep restriction and disruption of the circadian rhythm, or natural sleep cycle, impacts decision making.
Dr. David L. Dickinson, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NIH-funded project to study effects of Tai Chi on anxiety and sleep in young adults</title>
		<link>http://www.news.appstate.edu/2012/09/26/tai-chi-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOONE—Stress, anxiety and sleep difficulties are pressing problems facing today’s college students.
Dr. Karen Caldwell, a professor in the Department of Human Development and Psychological Counseling in Appalachian State University’s Reich College of Education, thinks practicing the art of Tai Chi can help students improve their quality of sleep and reduce stress.
She is the lead researcher [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appalachian receives $266,197 grant to implement an exchange program between Watauga and Pakistani schools</title>
		<link>http://www.news.appstate.edu/2012/08/23/pakistan-exchange-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 20:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
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BOONE—Appalachian State University has received a $266,197 grant from the Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad to implement a one-year exchange project between three schools in Watauga County and three schools in Taxila, Pakistan.
The partner schools are Hardin Park Elementary, Green Valley Elementary School and Watauga High school, all in Watauga County, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appalachian professor receives grant for project in Asheville</title>
		<link>http://www.news.appstate.edu/2012/07/27/rosie-tighe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
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BOONE—Dr. J. Rosie Tighe, a geography and planning professor at Appalachian State University, has received a $10,000 grant from Oak Ridge Associated Universities for a project examining Asheville’s current major redevelopment plans in contrast to urban renewal programs in the past.

The project focuses on Asheville’s East Riverside neighborhood, which is relatively poor and predominantly African-American.
“During [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Equipment gift will provide access to developing technology in the field of fermentation science</title>
		<link>http://www.news.appstate.edu/2012/07/18/bioreactor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 19:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
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BOONE—The latest piece of equipment to be added to the fermentation science program at Appalachian State University arrived on the flatbed of the donor’s pickup truck.
Chuck Davis, chairman of TMD Technology Group of South Carolina, delivered a six-foot, flow-through bioreactor as part of a partnership that he and College of Arts and Sciences Dean Anthony [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Author James Patterson creates scholarship at Appalachian for future teachers</title>
		<link>http://www.news.appstate.edu/2012/06/11/james-patterson-scholarship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOONE—Best-selling author James Patterson is creating a scholarship program at Appalachian State University to help prepare teachers for North Carolina. His gift to the Reich College of Education will provide $60,000 to fund eight scholarships for freshmen who have declared their intent to pursue a career in teaching.
Students receiving the scholarship will be called Patterson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Westglow owners make gift to enhance the arts</title>
		<link>http://www.news.appstate.edu/2012/06/08/schaefer-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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BOONE—A $7 million commitment from Bonnie and Jamie Schaefer, residents of Boca Raton, Fla., who own Westglow Resort &#38; Spa in Blowing Rock, will greatly enhance the arts at Appalachian State University. Their gift will support the refurbishing of Farthing Auditorium and provide continued resources for the popular music series during An Appalachian Summer Festival.
Chancellor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reception honoring university benefactors held June 7 at Appalachian</title>
		<link>http://www.news.appstate.edu/2012/05/31/aspire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 20:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
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BOONE—A reception honoring Irwin “Ike” and Carol Belk of Charlotte will be held Thursday, June 7, at 4:30 p.m. on Sanford Mall at Appalachian State University.
The event will honor the Belks for their recent donation of art, a 24-foot foot metal sculpture titled “Aspire” by sculptor Jon Hair. It’s the second work of Hair’s to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Professor to study effects of energy-efficiency measures on indoor air quality</title>
		<link>http://www.news.appstate.edu/2012/05/21/indoor-air-quality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 19:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOONE—Weatherization improves a building’s energy efficiency by keeping cold air out in the winter and hot humid air out in the summer. But do these measures affect indoor air quality?
That’s what a team from Appalachian State University plans to find out.
Dr. Susan C. Doll, an assistant professor in the building science program in the Department [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NASA dream becomes reality for two Appalachian students</title>
		<link>http://www.news.appstate.edu/2012/05/16/nasa-dream-becomes-reality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 18:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOONE—It has been 51 years since President John F. Kennedy challenged the nation to set its sight on a lunar landing.
The idea of space exploration held by many public school and university students continues today, especially for two Appalachian State University students who have received funding to work at NASA this summer.
Appalachian received $90,000 from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senior Class Gift will help the Appalachian Fund</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 16:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
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BOONE—As a way to help create a tradition of student giving, Appalachian State University&#8217;s Class of 2012 has started a Senior Class Gift. Seniors Tommy Ratliff and Glenn Steadman are co-chairs for the initiative.
Senior psychology major and May graduate Stefanie Gonzales, left, speaks with fellow students Farah Quabin and Sarah Gulledge about donating to the [...]]]></description>
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