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The Spirit of LR marching band
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.
Fletcher Tove speaks at a meeting
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.
A laptop showing a nursing simulation
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.
A solar-powered sailboat
LR 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.
LR 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.
LR students Yer Vang, Chase Griffin and Lupita Sanchez Rojas in Washington, D.C.
LR 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 LR student works on building a rocket
LR Rocket Team to compete in Spaceport America Cup

The LR 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.