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Jordan Young student teaches remotely from her dining room
Â鶹¹ÙÍø student teachers adapt to teaching remotely

Young was completing her undergraduate courses at Â鶹¹ÙÍø and student teaching at HM Arndt Middle School when classes in both locations moved online due to the pandemic.
A laptop showing a nursing simulation
Â鶹¹ÙÍø nursing students to simulators facing COVID-19

When classes moved to remote learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Â鶹¹ÙÍø nursing students were forced to complete their clinical rotations online using simulators.
Â鶹¹ÙÍø DNP student Wendy Rash in a helicopter as a flight nurse
Flight nurse is Â鶹¹ÙÍø student and professor

Rash has been a flight nurse for Wake Forest Baptist Health riding on helicopters to distant locations to treat injured patients.
Dr. Lesser with students around a table discussing stocks and the market
Finance students manage Â鶹¹ÙÍø investments

The university gave the investment club a $50,000 endowment to manage, which the club used to buy stock in companies such as Amazon and Gilead. At one point, the club had more than tripled the initial investment.
World War II veterans at the showing of a documentary about D-day directed by an Â鶹¹ÙÍø professor
WWII vets attend Â鶹¹ÙÍø professor's D-day documentary

Professor Mark Hager directed and produced the documentary, which featured North Carolina World War II veterans Harold Frank, James Deal and Kenneth "Rock" Merritt, and he held a showing on campus at Â鶹¹ÙÍø.
A solar-powered sailboat
Â鶹¹ÙÍø grad builds, sails solar-powered boat to Cuba

Polich and his friends built their own solar-powered sailboat and sailed to the Caribbean to explore clean energy sites and communities working toward energy independence.
Â鶹¹ÙÍø football players working in the engineering lab
NFL prospect, teammates engineer laser timer

Kyle Dugger, Demarius Hampton and Saaehim Brooks coded and engineered a laser-timed 40-yard dash machine for their research physics class project.
Â鶹¹ÙÍø students Yer Vang, Chase Griffin and Lupita Sanchez Rojas in Washington, D.C.
Â鶹¹ÙÍø students gain experience in Washington, D.C.

LCWS brings students together from across the country for experiential learning opportunities in Washington, D.C. Students intern four full days per week for 14 weeks, take classes and tour national monuments.
An Â鶹¹ÙÍø student works on building a rocket
Â鶹¹ÙÍø Rocket Team to compete in Spaceport America Cup

The Â鶹¹ÙÍø Rocket team was selected as 1 of 150 teams across the globe to compete in the 2020 Spaceport America Cup in Las Cruces, New Mexico against teams from Russia, Brazil, Pakistan, Denmark, Norway, Poland, Switzerland and more.
A Hickory police vehicle with an Â鶹¹ÙÍø decal
Â鶹¹ÙÍø partnering with Hickory Police Department

Hickory Police Department officers will join Â鶹¹ÙÍø's 10 security officers in providing 24-hour coverage to campus. The initial agreement between Â鶹¹ÙÍø and the HPD features a three-year contract with up to four HPD officers assigned full time to the Â鶹¹ÙÍø campus.
An Â鶹¹ÙÍø student teacher smiles at children
Â鶹¹ÙÍø's teacher prep program ranked Top 15 in U.S.

The National Council on Teacher Quality recognized Â鶹¹ÙÍø as 1 of 15 schools out of 1,000 nationwide, and the only in North Carolina, for its ability to produce highly qualified teachers of reading.
An Â鶹¹ÙÍø student looks in a bird box in the nature preserve
Campus nature preserve offers field opportunities

With more than 40 acres available with a wide range of habitat, biology students at Â鶹¹ÙÍø have an opportunity to gain experience in field research.