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Alumna Amy Upham earned her Master of Public Health from LR and went to work combatting the opioid crisis in Buncombe County earning a Dogwood Award from North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein.

Longtime LR coach and administrator Hanley Painter had already been shot in the arm in Saipan before taking part in the Battle of Iwo Jima where he was 1 of 3 survivors in his company of more than 240 Marines.

Neil Underwood helped bring the Spirit of LR Marching Band back from a 25-year hiatus to where it now fields more than 100 members and has been selected for national parades.

A grant funded repainting, adding ethernet drops for TVs and gaming systems, four 50-inch Roku TVs, two PlayStation 4s and two Xbox One gaming systems.

The residence hall has an updated outdoor patio area on the north side of the building to provide expanded lounge areas for students.

The National Council on Teacher Quality recognized Lenoir-Rhyne for its strong commitment to quality clinical practice experiences aimed at preparing aspiring teachers for the classroom.

Students can take as many as 12 graduate credit hours at the undergraduate rate that count toward both degrees and can shave a year off their time in graduate school.

In 10 years, Lenoir-Rhyne has gone from around 100 graduate students to more than 900. LR has added graduate programs in leadership, teaching, sustainability studies, narrative health care, exercise science, public health and more numbering 25 total.

Through the high school scholar program, students can earn a year or more of college credits at LR before enrolling in college.

LR alumnus and former football player Bobby Jackson traveled the country performing random acts of kindness. He visited the lower 48 states in 45 days doing nice things for complete strangers.

Whipple and Jackson join LR from the University of Tennessee Chattanooga (UTC) where they managed software initiatives, websites, software purchases and major infrastructure upgrades. They've already begun working on improving LR's bandwidth capabilities, as well as conversion to Microsoft 365.

The gym received a fresh coat of paint, new LR branded pads under the main basketball hoops, a new wood playing surface, new basketball hoops for side courts and a retractable batting cage with protective turf.