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Firefighters doing yoga on the Columbia campus

Grad student offers free yoga for first responders

Alumna Sharon Johnson developed an idea to help firefighters and other first responders destress from their job by participating in her free yoga program.

Logan Traxler installs a monitor on a NASCAR simulator

Computer science student builds simulators for NASCAR pros

Traxler builds racing simulators for enthusiasts and professional NASCAR drivers, including NASCAR Spring Cup Series and Nationwide Series champion Brad Keselowski, as well as NASCAR truck series racer Austin Hill.

Yasmine Arevalo at her desk in the career center

Internships give students hands-on experience

Lenoir-Rhyne students put their education into action through internships gaining real-world experience and earning job offers in their chosen careers.

Professor and alumnus seek to combat food deserts

The U.S. Department of Agriculture defines food deserts as areas where people cannot access affordable and nutritious foods. They are usually found in impoverished areas lacking grocery stores, farmers markets and healthy food providers.

Marching band graduates first class of seniors

The band was started back up after a 25-year hiatus and has grown to feature 100, which have competed in community events and national competitions.

Dr. Lowry pointing out information on a board to colleagues

LR grad learns the business side of being a doctor

For a class project, Lowry developed an antibiotic stewardship program to optimize the hospital's use of antibiotics, which has resulted in savings of $250,000 in the first year alone.

LR grad coordinating pandemic for Buncombe County

A lieutenant commander and surface warfare officer in the Navy, Tove returned to Asheville, North Carolina, to earn his MBA and become a preparedness and security officer for Buncombe County Health and Human Services.

Jordan Young student teaches remotely from her dining room

LR student teachers adapt to teaching remotely

Young was completing her undergraduate courses at LR and student teaching at HM Arndt Middle School when classes in both locations moved online due to the pandemic.

LR nursing students to simulators facing COVID-19

When classes moved to remote learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic, LR nursing students were forced to complete their clinical rotations online using simulators.

LR DNP student Wendy Rash in a helicopter as a flight nurse

Flight nurse is LR 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 LR 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 LR professor

WWII vets attend LR 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 LR.