She appeared on the live finale of the eighth season of American Idol on May 20, 2009, performing a duet of " Time After Time " with top-13 finalist Allison Iraheta, accompanying the song on Appalachian dulcimer.

In 2009, Armanti Edwards from Appalachian State became the first player to receive the award twice.

Appalachian State, 1995 – 1996, Eastern Washington, 2008 and 2010, and James Madison, 2001 and 2009 are the only schools to win the award twice ( 2 ).

The documentary The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia ( 2009 ) directed by Julien Nitzberg follows the White Family for one year and primarily consists of first person interviews detailing the poverty, crime, addiction and the ramifications of the coal-mining industry on Appalachian society.

On September 3, 2009, Danville won their second Appalachian League championship, again defeating the Elizabethton Twins, this time two games to zero.

In December, 2009 the U. S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission granted Appalachian Power a new license to operate the hydro-electricity plant.

The University of Richmond's final home football game at the stadium was played on December 5, 2009 against Appalachian State University in the quarterfinals of the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs.

In 2009, the National Park Service announced plans to restore the Appalachian Clubhouse and 18 cottages and outbuildings in the Appalachian Club area ( which were older and more historically significant ) and remove all other structures, including the Wonderland Annex ( the main hotel had collapsed in 2005 ).

In its 2009 Final Environmental Impact Statement for Elkmont, the National Park Service announced plans to restore the Appalachian Clubhouse and eighteen cabins in the Appalachian Club section.

To raise funds for the Share America Foundation, Inc. in April 2009, the Franks and Scott partnered on stage to present the play " An Appalachian Gathering " featuring a cast of 20 performers creating a slice of Southern life in the 1940s and present day highlighting the effects of the Medicine Show on small towns through Scott's eyes.

In February 2009, the US State Department issued a travel alert directed at college students planning spring break trips to Acapulco.

He is married to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has served as the United States Secretary of State since 2009 and was a Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009.

* 2009: Florida's Secretary of State announces Bo's induction into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame ( induction to occur during Florida Heritage Month, March 2010 ).

In May 2009, the National Federation of State High School Associations released the results of their first true high school participation study.

In March 2009 a Fulton County, Ga., State Court jury awarded $ 2. 3 million in damages to a 4-year-old boy and his mother for a botched circumcision in which too much tissue was removed causing permanent disfigurement.

Most recently, the boys ' cross country and track & field teams both claimed MHSAA State Championships during the 2009 – 10 school year.

* Department of State, Academics see the military in decline, but retaining strong influence, 23 September 2009 ( US Embassy Cables, The Guardian, 2011 )

According to the US Department of State 2009 human rights report there are hundreds of political prisoners in Ethiopia.

* 2009: Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg

* 2009: Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg

On October 7, 2009, a bronze statue of Helen Keller was added to the National Statuary Hall Collection, as a replacement for the State of Alabama's former 1908 statue of the education reformer Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry.

New Hampshire was rated the " Safest State " in the Nation in 2008 and 2009.

In 2009, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and U. S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs David Johnson inaugurated the Presidential Guard Training Center in Jericho, a $ 9. 1 million training facility for Palestinian Authority security forces built with U. S. funding.

* A brief reference to " 8 Million Stories " was made in the 2009 hit " Empire State of Mind " by Jay-Z.

U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with Libyan National Security Adviser Mutassim Gaddafi in 2009

August 2007. Youngstown State University, 17 November 2009

* 1947 – Hillary Rodham Clinton, American politician, United States Senator from New York ( 2001 – 2009 ), 67th United States Secretary of State ( since 2009 )

A trial winter ( 1 June – 31 August ) sprinkler ban was introduced in 2009 by the State Government, a move which the Government later announced would be made permanent.

On 4 May 2009, the Qatari Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Ahmad Abdullah al-Mahmud said that Chad and Sudan had agreed to end hostilities against each other and to normalise relations Qatari mediated talks in Doha.

Crowe at London premiere | film premiere for State of Play ( film ) | State of Play, 21 April 2009

According to a 2009 U. S. State Department communication by Hillary Clinton, United States Secretary of State, ( disclosed as part of the Wikileaks U. S. ' cables leaks ' controversy in 2010 ) " donors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide ".

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009.

* Dean, Bartholomew 2009 Urarina Society, Cosmology, and History in Peruvian Amazonia, Gainesville: University Press of Florida ISBN 978-0-8130-3378-5,.

On August 21, 2009 it was announced that the institution had changed its name to Crandall University in honour of Rev.

* Bartholomew, Dean Urarina Society, Cosmology, and History in Peruvian Amazonia, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009.

* The Madrigals of Alessandro Scarlatti Lecture / performance at the University of Minnesota, February 2009

* Bergman, Jay, Meeting the Demands of Reason: The Life and Thought of Andrei Sakharov, Cornell University Press, 2009.

“ Urban Decline and the Withdrawal of New York University from University Heights, The Bronx .” The Bronx County Historical Society Journal XLVI ( Spring / Fall 2009 ): 4-24.

A complete map was published in 2009 ( Flood, et al., 2009 ) using these previous results with high quality mapping obtained in 2006 ( by researchers at Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada who are project partners in this study.

), Ethnic Constructs in Antiquity: The Role of Power and Tradition ( Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2009 ) ( Amsterdam Archaeological Studies, 13 ), 219-238.

), Ethnic Constructs in Antiquity: The Role of Power and Tradition ( Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2009 ) ( Amsterdam Archaeological Studies, 13 ), 239-282.

The University of Illinois marching band, the Marching Illini, wore two baldrics as a part of their uniform until 2009, with one over each shoulder.

* Coogan, Michael D. ( 2009 ) A Brief Introduction to the Old Testament: the Hebrew Bible in its Context Oxford University Press

* William Edelglass and Jay Garfield, Buddhist Philosophy: Essential Readings, New York: Oxford University Press, 2009, ISBN 0-19-532817-5.

In 2009, researchers at the University of Texas, Austin created a monocolored light mill which has four curved vanes ; each vane forms a convex and a concave surface.

Now known as The Macaulay Honors College University Scholars Program, it graduated its first class in 2005, attracting students with a mean high school GPA of 3. 5 and SAT scores of 1365 for the Class of 2009.

President James Wright announced his retirement in February 2008 and was replaced by Harvard University professor and physician Jim Yong Kim on July 1, 2009.

Murray ( reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009 ; ISBN 978-1-108-00416-9 )

* Kampala International University-began operations in January 2009 operating from Quality Plaza along Pugu road. Currently, the University Centre is situated on a of land, at Gongo la Mboto area in Ilala District, 7 km from Mwalimu Julius Nyerere International Airport along Pugu road.

In 2009, the university had also signed the University and College Presidents ’ Climate Change Statement of Action for Canada, which commits the university to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.

Winer was born on May 2, 1955, in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Eve Winer, Ph. D., a school psychologist, and Leon Winer, Ph. D., a former professor of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business who died October 3, 2009.

Alan W. Gomes ( chairman of the department of theology at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University ) in his 2009 book Unmasking the Cults reports:

A second Canadian production by the Sock ' n Buskin Theatre Company opened on March 12, 2009 for a short run in Ottawa at Kailash Mital Theatre at Carleton University.

In December 2009, after the release of thousands of e-mails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit — a controversy that came to be known as " Climategate "— Singer wrote an opinion piece for Reuters in which he said the scientists had misused peer review, pressured editors to prevent publication of alternative views, and smeared opponents.