Appalachian State University’s Reich College of Education (RCOE) will partner with Middle Fork Elementary School in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School (WS/FCS) district on a new laboratory school that will open during the 2018-19 school year. Middle Fork has named Tasha Hall Powell the school’s new principal. Powell has served as assistant principal at Middle Fork …
WCU grant allows nursing students to gain valuable experience in community settings Maggie Henderson knew she wanted to be more than a nurse who only treats her patient’s symptoms in the hospital. She also wanted to be able to take the time to know them as people. Through an innovative grant program at Western Carolina …
A scant nine months after groundbreaking, NC State’s historic Build-A-Block project is nearing completion and will soon hand over the keys to six more families in need of quality affordable housing. More than 5,000 volunteers from NC State and other partners contributed some 20,000 work hours for Habitat for Humanity of Wake County’s Build-A-Block project off Lake …
An East Carolina University researcher is looking into how elementary school students view themselves as scientists and engineers when wearing lab coats. Dr. Tammy Lee, assistant professor of science education at ECU, listens as Pactolus School fifth-graders answer questions during science class. This spring, 300 fifth-graders and five teachers in four schools in Pitt County …
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, approximately one in five children have experienced a seriously debilitating mental health disorder at least some point in their lives. For school-aged children, these disorders often impact the child’s health and well-being, as well as schools, communities and other systems. Without proper support, the child and family …
UNC campuses help rural NC areas become ‘smart and connected communities’ Arcot Rajasekar knows there’s a technology gap between North Carolina’s urban and rural communities. Rajasekar, who serves as the Frances Carroll McColl Term Professor for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science, said rural grade school students …
UNC Asheville has been awarded a $700,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support an arts and educational alliance focused on public humanities and community engagement. The four-year project titled, “UNC Asheville: Leading the Public Arts and Humanities in the City of Asheville,” has four primary goals: To enrich the partnership with the …
A key feature of an outdoor tourism conference hosted by Western Carolina University on Tuesday, Feb. 28, at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort in Cherokee was the presentation of customized tourism economic fact sheets. Students in a senior-level course taught by Steve Morse, director of WCU’s Hospitality and Tourism Program, provided attendees fact sheets containing detailed …
Unique partnership puts UNC system professors, students on display at Museum of Natural Sciences For Jim Johnson, it’s one thing to discuss paleontology with his eighth grade science class at Lucas Middle School in Durham. It’s quite another for him to show his students actual paleontologists at work. On a field trip to the North …
Kendra Bragg Harding composed numerous songs before studying composition as a graduate student at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts School of Music. But her work on establishing the El Buen Pastor Proyecto Lullaby is her own baby of sorts – that she both holds tenderly to her heart and talks about …