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Rebecca Lilijestrand

Changing Minds, Changing Lives: Fostering Resilience
Nov 10, 2021

Rebecca Liljestrand began her career with the Beaver College of Health Sciences as an adjunct professor in public health and nursing. This semester sh...

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App State team studies brain stimulation for ankle sprain rehab
Oct 19, 2021

BOONE, N.C. — If you’ve sprained your ankle once, it’s likely it has or will happen again....

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The Social Work Care Collaborative
Oct 7, 2021

Thanks to the support of the social work department chair, Lauren Renkert, and the expertise of Annette Ward, LCSW, the Social Work Care Collaborative...

Sarah Brown and Amelia Rhodes

Two Honors students publish stories written in departmental Honors General Education course
Sep 29, 2021

Honors students Sarah Brown and Amelia Rhodes have each turned one of their individual pieces from RC 2001.410: Introduction to Writing Across th...

How to navigate the return to in-person activities
Aug 5, 2021

BOONE, N.C. — More than a year of social isolation due to COVID-19 has caused many people to fall out of practice regarding how to be with others in...

Brett Strader

Meet Brett Strader
Jul 1, 2021

By Audrey GurkinBoone, N.C. — Brett Strader is a senior Health and Physical Education K-12 major from Annapolis, Maryland. Although he grew up livin...

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App State one of 17 US schools named a top producer of Fulbright scholars and students for 2020–21
Jun 11, 2021

Nancy Patterson ’16, of Auburn, Alabama, received a Fulbright ETA to Mexico. She earned a Bachelor of Social Work with a minor in Spanish....

Whitney Hicks

Nurse Whitney Hicks ’15 studies, teaches and serves
Jun 7, 2021

While pursuing her Ph.D. in nursing education, Whitney Hicks ’15 works as a nurse at Duke Regional Hospital and serves as a clinical instructor in A...

Jennifer Robinson

Tele-learning while telecommuting: Jennifer Robinson pursues a bachelor’s degree in nursing at App State
Jun 4, 2021

Jennifer Robinson works — and studies — from the comfort of her home office in Marion. She is a utilization review nurse with Catawba Va...

Caroline Monroe

App State’s Caroline Monroe: Providing critical care and compassion to patients
Jun 3, 2021

Caroline Monroe has spent most of the past year with COVID-19 patients in an intensive care unit (ICU) in Charlotte — while pursuing her Bachelor of...