While education majors drive to schools around the region for student teaching, and nursing majors commute to hospitals around the state for their clinicals, nonprofit brewery Ivory Tower is helping fermentation sciences students gain professional experience in their field while at App State.  “One of the great things about the (fermentation sciences) program is that it teaches a lot of the background...

Plans are in motion to scrap Ike Belk Track in Kidd Brewer Stadium in lieu of App State’s purchase of the old Watauga High School lot.  App State acquired the 74-acre property on the site of the former WHS, located at 400 High School Drive, off of N.C. Highway 105.  The $15.5 million purchase, whose facilities were approved by the UNC board of governors in March, makes room for further construction...