Tickets go on sale Monday, Nov. 30, for an appearance at Western Carolina University by Garrison Keillor, host of the popular public radio show “A Prairie Home Companion.”
James Costa, professor of biology at Western Carolina University and director of the Highlands Biological Station, will read from and discuss his new book “The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of ‘On the Origin of Species’” at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 23, in the Canterbury House of St. David’s Episcopal Church in Cullowhee.
A Western Carolina University student team placed third nationally and won “Outstanding New School Award” at the 10th annual Intercollegiate Mediation Tournament recently held in Chicago.
Western Carolina University’s School of Music will present its annual “Sounds of the Season” holiday concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6, in the concert hall of WCU’s Fine and Performing Arts Center.
Western Carolina University’s First Thursday Old-Time and Bluegrass Jam Session Series for 2009-10 will continue Thursday, Dec. 3, with a concert by 16-year-old fiddler Danielle Bishop, followed by a jam session in which local musicians are invited to participate.
Catamounts could be seen running along the Blue Ridge Parkway over the weekend of Nov. 14-15, but these weren’t of the four-legged variety. It was a contingent from Western Carolina University’s athletic training program completing the second annual Mountain Jug Run for Research.
Western Carolina University will participate in two community service projects, a film show, guest presentations and discussions, and a potluck dinner as part of National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, which is Nov. 15-21.
The North Carolina Symphony will get the season started with a concert of holiday pops at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 11, at the Fine and Performing Arts Center on the campus of Western Carolina University.
Everything’s coming up roses for Western Carolina University’s marching band these days, as the 360 members of WCU’s Pride of the Mountains learned Saturday, Oct. 24, that the band has been selected to participate in the 2011 Tournament of Roses Parade.
An eyewitness to the oppressive apartheid system of South Africa will be the featured speaker as Western Carolina University’s Office of International Programs and Services sponsors a series of events during International Education Week, Monday through Friday, Nov. 16-20.
Anna Fariello of Hunter Library's Craft Revival Project has written a book on Cherokee basketry.
Shawna Hipps, a Western Carolina University senior, is a recipient of the North Carolina Campus Compact Community Impact Student Award for 2009.
Justin Caudell, a junior at Western Carolina University and editor-in-chief of the Western Carolinian student newspaper, has been appointed to Global Newswire’s U.S. national editorial board.
Officials at Western Carolina University today (Thursday, Oct. 15) announced that the first comprehensive fundraising campaign in university history has netted a grand total of – drumroll, please – $51,826,915 in private giving for endowed scholarships, professorships and programmatic support.
The board of trustees of Western Carolina University will hold its quarterly meeting at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 2, in the board room of H.F. Robinson Administration Building.
The Western Carolina University Communication Student Organization is assisting the Jackson County Motorcycle Association with the third annual Toy Run Parade to benefit the Jackson County Christmas Store.
Record enrollments at Western Carolina University in recent years have produced corresponding increases in graduating students, and now university officials have set a strategy of holding three spring commencement ceremonies as a way to deal with crowd capacity issues at Ramsey Regional Activity Center.
With the help of Western Carolina University’s Small Business and Technology Development Center, The Chalet Inn near Dillsboro was able to acquire a loan sufficient to double its size.
Plans are under way for the 2010 edition of the Western Carolina University Alumni Directory, and representatives of the Harris publishing company soon will be contacting WCU alumni seeking updated information for the popular resource book.
As the cold weather advances this autumn and many people think about Halloween costumes and Thanksgiving traditions, folks at Western Carolina University have turned their minds toward the holiday season.
The Carl Harrison High School marching band of Kennesaw, Ga., is grand champion of Western Carolina University’s 2009 Tournament of Champions.
Western Carolina University will receive $420,000 in federal funding over three years to develop a center that synergizes and expands efforts at WCU to help innovators and companies transform their ideas into marketable products.
Western Carolina University’s master’s degree program in social work has received full accreditation from the Council on Social Work Education, a nonprofit national association that is recognized as the sole accrediting agency for social work education in the nation.
Western Carolina University honored three distinguished alumni – a geological researcher, the chief operating officer of a grocery store chain and an award-winning pharmaceutical sales representative – and recognized the contributions of a former trustee as part of 2009 Homecoming activities Saturday, Oct. 17.
The campus community at Western Carolina University is pitching in to raise money for a family whose child is sick with cancer.
A series of information sessions will be held in Asheville this fall to allow prospective students to learn about Western Carolina University’s newly revised master’s degree program in business administration.
Western Carolina University students Elizabeth Camp and Elaine Tolbert were recently announced as 2009-10 Emerging Scholars for the university’s chapter of Phi Kappa Phi honor society.
Western Carolina University crowned Brittany Gleaves, a senior secondary chemistry education major from Fayetteville, as queen and Nick Frenette, a junior business law major from Winston-Salem, as king of the 2009 Homecoming Court during halftime activities at WCU’s football game against the The Citadel on Saturday, Oct. 17.
The American Society for Engineering Education has appointed Ken Burbank, head of the department of engineering and technology at Western Carolina University, to serve as an interim director of the national Engineering Technology Council.
Western Carolina University’s Kimmel School of Construction Management and Technology recently established a materials microscopy research laboratory made possible by a donation from the US Conec Corporation in Hickory.
Western Carolina University will sponsor its fifth annual Mountain Dulcimer Winter Weekend beginning Thursday, Jan. 7, and continuing through Sunday, Jan. 10, at the Terrace Hotel in Lake Junaluska.
Retired Greensboro businessman Wesley R. Elingburg, a 1978 graduate of Western Carolina University whose $250,000 contribution to the university in 2006 enabled the creation of a new endowed professorship in business innovation, has issued a gift challenge to fellow benefactors.
Five newly elected members of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors, and one almost-new member of the board, visited Western Carolina University recently to learn about university initiatives from Chancellor John W. Bardo and tour the campus.
A book published recently by The Princeton Review lists Western Carolina University’s College of Business as among the nation’s best schools at which to earn a master’s degree in business administration.
A new exhibit focusing on the legendary Plott hound hunting dogs of Haywood County is now on display at Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center.
Western Carolina University’s Public Policy Institute is sponsoring a collaborative effort to recruit more students and citizens with diverse backgrounds to serve as poll workers in county elections.
A book co-authored by Ron C. Michaelis, a faculty member in the biology department at Western Carolina University, was cited multiple times in a recent opinion by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.
Western Carolina University presented its 2009 Mountain Heritage Awards on Saturday (Sept. 26) to Amanda Swimmer, a Cherokee woman who has demonstrated traditional pottery making for more than 40 years, and to Great Smoky Mountains National Park – specifically, to the National Park Service and the thousands of individual who have helped create and preserve the park throughout the decades.
The National League for Nursing’s Foundation for Nursing Education recently selected Linda Comer, assistant professor of nursing at Western Carolina University, as a protégé for its Johnson & Johnson Faculty Leadership and Mentoring Program.
Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Day, held Sept. 26 on the campus in Cullowhee, gave local residents a chance to show off their foot speed, chain saw prowess and other skills in a variety of contests.
Fans of traditional mountain culture from around Western North Carolina and adjacent states gathered at Western Carolina University on Saturday (Sept. 26) to get a taste – make that a “wet” taste – of Southern Appalachian music, dance, food, and arts and crafts.
Bob Buckner, director of Western Carolina University’s Pride of the Mountains Marching Band, is one of the first two recipients of the Award for Excellence in Marching Music Education presented by MENC: The National Association for Music Education and Drum Corps International.
Brad Ulrich, trumpet professor at Western Carolina University, will return to Russia in October to teach and perform and to recruit students for a week of study at WCU this spring.
A contribution of $10,000 from Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice and part-time resident of Waynesville, has created a Western Carolina University scholarship fund.
Six Western Carolina University students majoring in environmental health have been selected to present their research at the regional American Society of Safety Engineers professional development conference in Myrtle Beach in late September.
Western Carolina University’s student body has grown to 9,429 students – the largest total student enrollment in the university’s history and a 4 percent increase from last year.
Against an acoustic backdrop of bulldozers and bagpipes, Western Carolina University officially “broke ground” Thursday, Sept. 3, for its new $46 million health sciences building scheduled to open in 2012.
The latest U.S. News & World Report guide to “America’s Best Colleges” ranks Western Carolina University 10th among public universities in the South that offer master’s degrees.
A low-enrollment, high-expense program in the School of Health Sciences previously slated for curtailment as part of Western Carolina University’s response to the North Carolina budget crisis instead will be temporarily placed in a holding pattern.
Several of the historic photographs that will be shown in the six-part Ken Burns series on American's national parks are from the Special Collections of Hunter Library at Western Carolina University.
An article by Jennifer Doyle-Corn, a graduate student in the English literature program at Western Carolina University, has been accepted for publication in the 2009-10 issue of the Sigma Tau Delta Review, a journal of the prestigious international English honor society Sigma Tau Delta.
Jack Summers, assistant professor of chemistry at Western Carolina University, has been working with the Asheville-based Bent Creek Institute for the past two years in a study hoping to identify compounds from Appalachian plant life that help in fighting cancer.
A special project designed at Western Carolina University to help economic development professionals approach their jobs from a regional perspective was featured at the National Meeting of Economic Developers Aug. 29-Sept.1.
Western Carolina University graduate student Tracy Bochnak Kirchmann recently received an honorable mention in the 2009 Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture competition from the International Sculpture Center. The competition featured 441 students from more than 176 college and university sculpture programs in North America and abroad.
Asheville attorney Steve Warren is back behind the gavel as chair of the board of trustees at Western Carolina University.
Thanks to a contribution of $20,000 from the Barstow Foundation, Western Carolina University has created a scholarship and fellowship fund in tribute to the late Bob Zahner, former trustee of Highlands Biological Station.
David Westling and Karena Cooper-Duffy, professors of human services, recently received an $800,000 grant from the Department of Education to increase the quantity and quality of special education teachers of students with severe disabilities in Western North Carolina.
Western Carolina University will offer a SAT preparation workshop from 6 until 9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1, in Room 137 of the Cordelia Camp Building.
A new luncheon series being launched this fall by Western Carolina University is designed to give alumni and friends in the Asheville and Hendersonville areas an opportunity to hear about the latest developments at the university – straight from the people who are directly involved.
Western Carolina University has been named a top “military-friendly school” for 2010 by G.I. Jobs magazine and will be listed in the magazine’s Guide to Military Friendly Schools, to be published in September.
Western Carolina University must refocus on helping North Carolina recover from a lingering economic downturn. As part of that effort, the university will marshal its resources to provide additional assistance to the nearby municipality of Dillsboro, suffering after the recent departure of the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad.
Brittany Hill, a senior clinical laboratory sciences major at Western Carolina University from Waynesville, has won the Dorothy Morrison Memorial Scholarship from the national Alpha Mu Tau fraternity for clinical laboratory sciences professionals.
The Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers returns to Western Carolina University at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24, with “Let Them Know: The Story of Youth Brigade and BYO Records,” a trip into Los Angeles’ underground punk scene in the late 1970s.
Western Carolina University’s 2009-10 Lectures, Concerts and Exhibitions Series brings the world to Cullowhee with a diverse selection of jazz, contemporary dance, a seminar on Appalachian culture, slam poetry, and the music and theater of Shakespeare.
The chief executive officer of a Haywood County financial institution, a former Cherokee County economic development official, and a Cherokee tribal leader are the three newest members of the Western Carolina University board of trustees.
A new endowed scholarship fund will benefit Western Carolina University students in educational leadership and foreign language programs, and honor the memory of beloved professors Dixie L. and Miles S. McGinty.
The 2009-10 Lectures, Concerts and Exhibitions Series at Western Carolina University is expanding its popular Foreign Film Series with six more films than last year, featuring overseas classics such as 1979’s “Picnic at Hanging Rock” from Australia and the 1987 French motion picture, “Au Revoir les Enfants.”
Western Carolina University professor Rob Young and his friend and mentor from Duke University, Orrin H. Pilkey, have an “urgent message” for society about the threat posed by global sea-level rise.
Although Western Carolina University is weeks away from holding an official groundbreaking celebration to mark the beginning of construction on its $46 million health sciences building, the project already is attracting the attention of possible partners from the health care industry.
One of the nation’s top experts in the area of adult neurological communication disorders, Nancy Helm-Estabrooks, has been appointed the first Catherine Brewer Smith Distinguished Professor of Communication Disorders at Western Carolina University.
Western Carolina University will offer the workshop “Learning for Fun: Stained Glass” from 6 to 9 p.m. on Thursdays, Aug. 27 through Oct. 1, in the south lobby of Cordelia Camp Building.
The department of stage and screen is kicking off Western Carolina University’s 2009-10 “Mainstage” theater season with the hip, dark comedy “Manuscript.” This season also will feature productions of Shakespeare’s classic “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning “A Chorus Line” and the futuristic “Natural Selections.”
Tad Daggerhart, a 2008 graduate of Western Carolina University, has been awarded an Annenberg Graduate Fellowship to continue his studies in the writing program at the University of Southern California Film School.
Western Carolina University will offer an aqua fitness class Aug. 31 through Dec.10. Participants will engage in a variety of aqua exercises designed to increase cardiovascular endurance.
Students enrolled in entrepreneurship and civil engineering technology programs at Southwestern Community College will be able to transfer seamlessly to complete related bachelor’s degree programs at Western Carolina University in just two years of study under a pair of articulation agreements recently signed by leaders of the two institutions.
Western Carolina University has made academic course and housing provisions to meet the needs of 1,600 first-year students – a freshman class more than 30 percent larger than last year’s.
Robert J. Conley, the Sequoyah Distinguished Professor of Cherokee Studies at Western Carolina University, is the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award winner from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas.
Brenda H. Manning and Dr. Donald C. Mullen were welcomed as new members of the Western Carolina University Honors College Advisory Board as the board met recently for a luncheon at Highlands Falls Country Club near Highlands.
The American Council for Construction Education recently awarded Western Carolina University’s construction management program full accreditation.
Western Carolina University has been recognized by the Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars for the “extraordinary strength” of its civic engagement initiatives.
Western North Carolina high school students bicycled 300 miles to the nation’s Capitol on one trip and canoed along the route of Lewis and Clark on another as part summer activities sponsored by Talent Search at Western Carolina University.
The Fine Art Museum at Western Carolina University will present the student- and faculty-curated exhibit “George Masa (1881-1933): Vision of the Mountains” Aug. 1 through Sept. 18 in conjunction with the 75th anniversary celebration of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Western Carolina University joined Duke University and the University of North Carolina – Charlotte in a collaborative project to develop strategies to integrate innovative educational technologies into each institution’s nursing programs.
The spring edition of The Magazine of Western Carolina University will be available only in electronic format, one of several cost-savings steps taken by the university in response to the state’s budget crisis as the 2008-09 fiscal year is winding down.
Craig A. Fowler, an information technology executive with more than 20 years of private-sector experience with several Fortune 500 companies, is Western Carolina University’s next chief information officer.
A Stanback fellow assisting the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Western Carolina University this summer has been identifying funding sources for a coastal management project in Long Island, N.Y., updating a comprehensive beach nourishment database and analyzing coastal project statistics.
The Fine Art Museum at Western Carolina University launches its 2009-10 season with three exhibits that, while grounded in Western North Carolina, demonstrate a wide scope. The exhibits will run from Saturday, Aug. 1, through Friday, Sept. 18.
Western Carolina University senior Patricia Graham of Whittier has been awarded a 2009-2010 Triangle Club Scholarship from the Alpha Sigma Lambda National Honor Society.
John E. Wells, studio engineer with Western Carolina University’s School of Music, was part of a team that won an Emmy award for coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Ron Rash, the Parris Distinguished Professor of Appalachian Culture at Western Carolina University, is winner of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance book award in the category of fiction for his novel “Serena.”
Ron Davis, Western Carolina University assistant professor of geosciences and natural resources management, received a grant of $3,250 from Balsam Mountain Preserve to continue data collection on wildlife species, including eastern box turtles and rattlesnakes.
A group of Western Carolina University filmmakers and actors won five awards including Best Film and Best Directing at the Asheville 48 Hour Film Project.
Western Carolina University’s Pride of the Mountains Marching Band is the 2009 recipient of the prestigious Sudler Trophy, the nation’s highest and most-coveted award for college and university marching bands.
Guests of Western Carolina University’s Fine and Performing Arts Center can savor the relaxed feel of the Sunday matinee with the 2009-10 Galaxy of Stars Series, presented by the College of Fine and Performing Arts.
Western Carolina University’s Cherokee Language Program received a $199,540 grant to continue its efforts in developing and revising Cherokee language coursework.
Former Western Carolina junior defensive back Ja'Quayvin Smalls, who died suddenly following a voluntary off-season workout last week, was laid to rest on Monday afternoon (July 13) in his hometown of Mount Pleasant, S.C.
The Western Carolina Catamount football family met Thursday, July 9, as it continued to cope with the sudden loss of Ja'Quayvin Smalls. The junior defensive back collapsed during a voluntary workout session on Wednesday evening and passed away at the Harris Regional Hospital in Sylva.
The Cherokee Preservation Foundation recently awarded $87,700 to Western Carolina University’s Craft Revival Project to continue the university’s Cherokee crafts documentation project.
The Small Business and Technology Development Center at Western Carolina University recently announced that Clark Fields has been appointed to the position of government procurement counselor with the North Carolina Procurement Technical Assistance Center.
Two recent graduates of Western Carolina University, Robert Brown and Sam Venable, have been accepted into one of only seven electro-optics programs in the United States at the University of Dayton in Ohio.
Western Carolina University has been awarded $299,593 through the NC QUEST grant program for a project to build a strong network of teacher leadership for mathematics and science.
The Partnership for Defense Innovation opened an office at Western Carolina University on Thursday, May 28, as part of a growing collaboration between PDI and WCU on research, development and testing for projects that have applications in the defense and security industries.
Catherine Carter, an assistant professor of English at Western Carolina University, has won the 2009 Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition, sponsored by the North Carolina Writers’ Network.
The Mountain Heritage Center, Western Carolina University’s museum of Appalachian culture and history, recently implemented a new schedule of visiting hours that includes being open on Saturdays for five months of the year.
Brenda Mills, a student in Western Carolina University’s master’s degree program in public affairs, has been named to NC Magazine’s 2009 list of exceptional women leaders.
A log cabin auctioned off as surplus property by Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center will be put to new use in a Tennessee museum that depicts the life of the legendary Cherokee statesman Sequoyah.
Evan Daniel Clapsaddle, a graduate of Western Carolina University, is the winner of a prestigious 2009 James Madison Fellowship, a national award he will use to return to the university and pursue graduate-level academic work.
The Western Carolina University board of trustees welcomed Josh Cotton, president of the WCU Student Government Association, as its newest member and said goodbye to three departing trustees as part of the board’s quarterly meeting Friday, June 5.
Work by recent graduates of Haywood Community College’s professional craft program will be on exhibit from Friday, May 22, through Saturday, July 25, at the Fine Art Museum at Western Carolina University.
What do Heath Ledger and Ben Harper have to do with Western Carolina University? They both were artistic partners in the creative team that designed a new Web site for the Beachcare program, located at WCU.
Twenty Western Carolina University students recently were inducted into Sigma Tau Delta, an international English honor society.
Sean O’Connell, associate professor of microbiology at Western Carolina University, has been named one of the best teachers in the University of North Carolina system for the creative ways he transforms students into not only scientists but also citizens aware of the world’s delicate environmental balance.
Western Carolina University will donate a set of used books to Better World Books and the Friends of the Library in Sylva as part of a service-learning project.
Rainy skies outside didn’t dampen the enthusiasm inside Western Carolina University’s Ramsey Regional Activity Center as the university held a pair of commencement ceremonies to honor a record-breaking spring class of approximately 1,150 graduating students, and another group of about 100 students who will complete requirements for their degrees later this summer.
Western Carolina University recently announced winners in a contest in which students created videos to illustrate how WCU provides opportunities for students to change their world.
Two teams of Western Carolina University seniors majoring in computer information systems recently worked with local organizations to solve information technology problems as a part of a service learning-based capstone class, “Applications Development.”
Western Carolina Athletic Director Chip Smith today (May 15) announced Karen Middleton, who has served the past two seasons as an assistant coach at Illinois, as the 10th Head Coach of the Western Carolina women's basketball program.
A collaborative Western Carolina University program that encourages high school students to further their education and consider careers as teachers is one of 16 projects that N.C. Bev Perdue has recommended for funding from the Appalachian Regional Commission.
Beginning in the fall 2009 semester, Western Carolina University’s Office of International Programs and Services will offer an intensive English program for international students and non-native speakers.
An exhibition of gelatin silver photographs chronicling the early days of rock ‘n’ roll music that debuted at Western Carolina University’s Fine Art Museum was recently named best cultural exhibition by Northern Ohio Live during its 2009 Awards of Achievement celebration in Cleveland.
A poem by professor Catherine Carter will enjoy a new life as a musical creation on the London stage this summer.
Western Carolina recently presented its top faculty and staff awards for teaching, research and service for the 2008-09 academic year.
A group of Western Carolina University students and faculty members will bicycle 870 miles to visit 88 Buddhist temples this summer during an educational pilgrimage on the island of Shikoku in Japan.
Western Carolina University student Leeanne Deaver will intern with five-time Tony Award-winning costume designer William Ivey Long on Broadway this summer.
Western Carolina University graduate student Tonya Carroll is among a prestigious group of scholars chosen to participate in the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts’ summer institute in Winston-Salem this July.
Thanks to nearly $1.5 million in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Western Carolina University and the Charles George VA Medical Center in Asheville are establishing a new partnership to provide more nurses qualified to serve the region and its veteran population.
Amber Jones practiced her Spanish, which she was studying in a Western Carolina University course, and spoke in English as she helped a Cullowhee Valley School first-grader from a Spanish-speaking family with her reading and writing skills.
Vicki Szabo, associate professor of history at Western Carolina University, was recently awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to continue creating a database to identify whale species from artifacts and examine historical whale-hunting patterns.
Installation of groundwater wells at three sites at Western Carolina University as part of the state’s Groundwater Resource Evaluation Program could begin as early as this summer.
The Great Life Series, a collaboration between Western Carolina University and Pardee Hospital, will offer “Getting a Good Night’s Sleep: Understanding the Risk of Sleep Apnea” from 9:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., Tuesday, May 12.
Western Carolina University junior music education major Andrew Blair recently was accepted to a prestigious percussion class to be held in New York later this spring under the direction of the world’s foremost marimba virtuoso.
The photographs of three Western Carolina University students will be on display from Monday, May 4, through Saturday, Aug. 1, in the media center of Hunter Library on the WCU campus. The exhibit will launch with a reception from 4 to 6 p.m. May 4 at Hunter Library.
Western Carolina University will offer “Catamount Adventure Camps” for students in grades six through nine this summer, with activities including kayaking, whitewater rafting, hiking and rock climbing.
Twenty-five contestants from five colleges competed for top honors on April 25 at the 2009 Cullowhee Rock & Rumble Fest hosted by Western Carolina University’s Base Camp Cullowhee program at the Campus Recreation Center’s climbing wall.
Fred Hinson, senior associate vice chancellor for academic affairs at Western Carolina University, was named an honorary member of the Mu Epsilon chapter of Alpha Sigma Lambda national honor society during the annual induction ceremony, held recently at WCU’s A.K. Hinds University Center.
Eighteen Western Carolina University students majoring interior design, along with four Smoky Mountain High School students and three adults, will travel to Greece, Spain and Italy for 12 days in May.
The Western Carolina University School of Music faculty reached into their pockets to the tune of $3,200 for the School of Music Faculty Scholarship Fund.
Western Carolina University will offer a special evening program in beginning swimming for children Monday through Friday, May 11-22.
“Decoration Day in the Mountains," a major exhibit at Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center that explores the area’s “decoration day” tradition, is now open for public viewing.
Travis Halbrook, a business administration major from Cornelia, Ga., has been named this year’s recipient of Western Carolina University’s Malcolm J. Loughlin Scholarship Award.
Students with an interest in learning how to integrate technical knowledge and the skills necessary to improve and manage technology intensive systems are invited to join Western Carolina University faculty for two upcoming information sessions.
Six students from Western Carolina University were among 15 students from across the nation selected to present case studies during the 2009 Southeastern Athletic Training Student Symposium recently held in Atlanta.
Jim Costa, biology professor at Western Carolina University and director of Highlands Biological Station, has authored an annotated edition of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” that is now available from Harvard University Press.
Western Carolina University students recently helped deputies with the Macon County Sheriff’s Office learn and practice basic “survival Spanish” phrases that could help them on the job.
For the sixth time since 2006, a Western Carolina University broadcasting student has been selected to attend the prestigious Media Sales Institute at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University.
Western Carolina University ceramics students will donate to the Community Table’s annual “Empty Bowl” fundraising event from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, April 24.
The 11 student members of Western Carolina University’s Trumpet Ensemble have been selected by taped audition to perform the prelude to the Washington Symphonic Brass Concert at the 2009 International Trumpet Guild Conference in Harrisburg, Pa., in May.
The popular Tiny Tot and Youth swim programs will be offered throughout spring and summer at Western Carolina University.
A faculty member in Western Carolina University’s department of communication who is a much-sought-after expert on outlaw motorcycle clubs will be featured in two upcoming programs on the National Geographic Channel.
Twelve Western Carolina University graduate students were honored for the quality of their research during a recent competition held in conjunction with the university’s annual Graduate Research Symposium.
A physical limitation doesn’t have to mean life without competitive and recreational sports, majors in Western Carolina University’s recreational therapy program learned during a workshop in March.
Members of the Tribal Council of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians recently welcomed publication of a new book, titled “Spearfinger,” based on a traditional Cherokee story and intended to bolster revitalization of the Cherokee language.
For the second year in a row, Ron Rash, Parris Distinguished Professor of Appalachian Culture at Western Carolina University, has been named one of four finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the largest peer-juried prize for fiction in the United States.
Paul Dezendorf, an instructor in Western Carolina University’s master’s degree program in public affairs, won a J. William Fulbright Scholarship grant to conduct research and teach two courses at the State University-Higher School of Economics in Moscow in the fall.
Western Carolina University student Daniel Davis Brown II of Durham recently received one of three North Carolina Athletic Trainers’ Association Presidential Scholarships for Leadership.
Students studying Spanish through Western Carolina University’s modern foreign languages department are working in partnership with the Macon County Public Health Center to reach out and help bridge the communication gap with the Hispanic population.
Residents of Western North Carolina who want to experience the wild areas of the region while learning new skills will have a chance to do that later this spring as Western Carolina University offers a course in kayaking and a Wilderness Education Association Steward expedition course.
With a record number of applications for the freshman class for the 2009 fall semester in hand, Western Carolina University’s enrollment management office is instituting a “wait list” to enable admissions counselors to properly evaluate every prospective student.
Some 200 high school students from across Western North Carolina and from two schools in northeastern Georgia gathered at Western Carolina University on Tuesday, March 24, to test their knowledge of French and Spanish in the university’s 27th annual Foreign Language Contest.
Western Carolina University will offer a series of workshops titled “HIV/AIDS and Other Communicable Diseases and Ethics” for social workers and other professionals beginning in April.
Two Western Carolina University psychology professors have partnered with Isaac Dickson Elementary School in Asheville on a project that will feature “courageous conversations” about race relations in the community.
Students from several Western North Carolina school systems recently took top honors at Western Carolina University’s annual Western Regional Science Fair and are on their way to the state competition in March.
Western Carolina University’s summer commencement ceremony scheduled for Aug. 7 has been suspended in preparation for projected cuts in state-appropriated funding for the 2009-10 fiscal year.
The Corporation for National and Community Service has named Western Carolina University to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction for “exemplary commitment to service and civic engagement” on WCU’s campus and beyond.
Western Carolina University’s Center for the Support of Beginning Teachers recently received a $50,000 grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation to help expand an online support program for beginning educators to include second- and third-year teachers in Western North Carolina.
More than 200 middle school students from across Western North Carolina were introduced to the teaching profession Tuesday, Feb. 10, as Western Carolina University hosted its annual Middle School Teachers of Tomorrow Conference.
Staff members in Western Carolina University’s Office of Public Relations have been honored by a national higher education organization for their work in producing the university magazine and a video titled “What is a Catamount?”
Jill Manners, associate professor and clinical education coordinator for Western Carolina University’s athletic training program, has been named the 2009 North Carolina Athletic Training Educator of the Year by the North Carolina Athletic Trainers’ Association.
Robert Conley, the Sequoyah Distinguished Professor of Cherokee Studies at Western Carolina University, is winner of the 2009 Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the Oklahoma Center for the Book.
As North Carolina attempts to deal with a chronic shortage of child welfare social workers, Western Carolina University has received a boost in helping to alleviate that problem with its inclusion in the state’s Child Welfare Education Collaborative.
Twenty-six high school seniors from Smoky Mountain High School and Cherokee High School recently attended a College Access mini-conference at Western Carolina University where they met WCU student mentors who will collaborate with them on their graduation or senior projects, and learned about opportunities at WCU.
Western Carolina University’s Center for Mathematics and Science Education will hold professional development workshops throughout the spring semester for kindergarten to high school teachers.
A poem by Catherine Carter, director of Western Carolina University’s English education program, was recently selected to be published in “The Best American Poetry 2009.”
Rob Young, director of Western Carolina University’s Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines, has been appointed to serve on the N.C. General Assembly’s Offshore Energy Exploration Study Committee.
To borrow a phrase from the U.S. Navy, for junior Kelli Baer, finding employment as a student caller for the Loyalty Fund Phonathon is more than just a job. It’s an adventure.
Kenneth E. Flynt, longtime banking executive and former governor’s economic adviser, was recently appointed to the new position of associate dean of advancement in Western Carolina University’s College of Business.
Louis E. Buck, director of Western Carolina University’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, has announced the appointment of business executives David Woodcock and Michael Bradshaw to leadership positions on the center’s advisory board.
“Inside/Inside Out: A Profile of Awareness,” a solo exhibition by ceramicist James L. Tanner, and “Inspired Design: Jacquard and Entrepreneurial Textiles," a traveling exhibit comprising national and international artists, will run from Thursday, Jan. 22, through Saturday, March 7, at the Fine Art Museum at Western Carolina University.
Michael Hubble, director of the emergency medical care program at Western Carolina University, recently received a $91,510 grant to conduct an assessment and analysis of North Carolina’s emergency medical services workforce and provide recommendations to improve recruitment and retention.
Western Carolina University evening classes at all Asheville locations are canceled today, Wednesday, Feb. 4.
Free concerts planned for the seventh annual Western Carolina University Trumpet Festival will feature performers including jazz musician Bobby Shew, recording artist Malcolm McNab and Paul Merkelo, principal trumpet of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.
Western Carolina University will broadcast Inauguration Day activities from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 20, in the theater, Grandroom and multipurpose room of A.K. Hinds University Center.
“Tales of Trickery,” a play for young audiences featuring gamelan music and three Indonesian folktales that explore the importance of honesty and respect, will stage Wednesday, Jan. 21, and Thursday, Jan. 22, in Niggli Theatre at Western Carolina University.
The musical theater program at Western Carolina University will stage the “The Last Five Years" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22, through Saturday, Jan. 24, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 25, in the studio theater of the Fine and Performing Arts Center.
Western Carolina University will host the Syzygy Duo, a classical saxophone and guitar twosome from Ohio’s Oberlin Conservatory of Music, at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 28, in the recital hall of Coulter Building.
Western Carolina University will host the fourth annual Community Service-Learning Fair from 1 to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 27, in the Grandroom of A.K. Hinds University Center.
Western Carolina University will host a film festival, live music, state energy speaker and an eco-fair designed to spark dialogue about global warming as part of the National Teach-In on Global Warming Solutions on Thursday, Feb 5.
At 22, rock ’n’ roller Buddy Holly was a youngster when he died in a 1959 airplane crash. Now new generations of fans can experience Holly through the musical celebration “Rave On!” A performance of “Rave On!” will begin at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6, at the Fine and Performing Arts Center at Western Carolina University.
The 2008-09 old-time and bluegrass music concert/jam session series at Western Carolina University will continue Thursday, Feb. 5, with a concert featuring multi-instrumentalist Vance Trull, followed by a jam session in which local musicians are invited to participate.
Women’s Center and Women’s Programs at Western Carolina University will present “The Vagina Monologues” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 10, and Wednesday, Feb. 11, in the performance hall of the Fine and Performing Arts Center.
Two free public concerts will be on the agenda at Western Carolina University on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 13-14, as the university welcomes more than 350 middle and high school band students from 13 Western North Carolina counties to the Western Region All-District Band clinic.
Western Carolina University will offer an opportunity for young artists to experience the art and craft of musical theater performance with Broadway stars Terrence Mann and Charlotte d’Amboise this summer during the Triple Arts Broadway Series, to be held Sunday, July 19, through Sunday, Aug. 2.
Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center will host a public reception from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12, to celebrate the opening of a new exhibit that showcases Haywood County history.
Western Carolina University will host “Buying a Home in Today’s Market,” presented by Western Carolina Properties and Macon Bank, at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 17, in Room 143 of the Cordelia Camp Building.
The Great Life Series, a collaboration between Western Carolina University and Pardee Hospital, will offer “Nutrition and Brain Health as You Age” from 9:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 17.
The complicated nature of human relations, including love and betrayal, are at the heart of “Closer,” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, Feb. 18-21, at Niggli Theatre. The show, which includes adult themes, strong language and sexual content, is intended for mature audiences only.
More than 600 students from across Western North Carolina will gather at Western Carolina University’s Ramsey Regional Activity Center for the Western Regional Science Fair on Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 18-19.
Western Carolina University will offer “Cullowhee Creativity Colloquium,” a daylong workshop for teachers and professionals who work with gifted and talented students, from 9 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20, in Room 143 of the Cordelia Camp Building.
Western Carolina University will host a presentation for students and a workshop for faculty led by consultants who are helping WCU expand and promote undergraduate research.
Western Carolina University will host an evening of hip-hop and electronic music by Thavius Beck and K-the-I??? beginning at 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 23, in Club Illusions, located on the third floor of the A.K. Hinds University Center.
Fresh from its European tour, the internationally renowned Parsons Dance Company will perform its contemporary dance artistry in a recital as part of Western Carolina University’s Lectures, Concerts and Exhibitions Series.
Western Carolina University vocal ensembles will present a recital featuring various styles of choral music at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, as part of the Catamount Concert Series.
The accountancy program in Western Carolina University’s Graduate School and College of Business and will hold its annual “Meet the Firms Night” from 6 until 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, at the Owen Conference Center on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Asheville.
Western Carolina University will host the annual Southeast Horn Workshop, one of the largest events of its kind, Friday, March 6, through Sunday, March 8.
The Great Life Series, a collaboration between Western Carolina University and Pardee Hospital, will offer “Improving Your Balance, Avoiding Falls” from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Saturday, March 7, at the Pardee Health Education Center at the Blue Ridge Mall, 1800 Four Seasons Blvd., Hendersonville.
Western Carolina University and several regional emergency response agencies will conduct a disaster preparedness drill on the Cullowhee campus Tuesday, March 3.
The 2008-09 old-time and bluegrass music concert/jam session series at Western Carolina University will continue Thursday, March 5, with a concert by Ken Bloom, followed by a jam session in which local musicians are invited to participate.
Nationally recognized grant writer Jack Smith will offer insider tips for finding and securing government and foundation funding for projects and programs during two March workshops at Western Carolina University.
Guest clarinetist Nathan Williams will perform in concert at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, in the recital hall of the Coulter Building on the campus of Western Carolina University.
It took three overtimes, 101 points and clutch free throws down the stretch, but Western Carolina women’s basketball weathered it all, to capture the 2009 Southern Conference tournament title.
The Great Life Series, a collaboration between Western Carolina University and Pardee Hospital, will offer “Financial Health and Aging: Challenges and Opportunities” from 9 to 11:45 a.m. Friday, March 13, in Hendersonville.
The Western Carolina University Symphony Band will perform a variety of old and new concert band music during a free performance at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 12, at WCU’s Fine and Performing Arts Center.
Western Carolina University will welcome visiting scholar Seppo Tella, a foreign language professor with expertise in educational technology from the University of Helsinki, who will offer the public two seminars in March.
When a dozen Western Carolina University students and staff members head off for spring break, March 2-6, in Nashville, Tenn., they won’t be in “Music City USA” to see the sights and meet the stars. Instead, the group will spend time volunteering with local community agencies over the five-day period as part of an alternative spring break service project.
Western Carolina University’s Office of Career Services will hold an “ask the experts” panel discussion Thursday, March 12, to help job-seekers during the current economic conditions.
The board of trustees of Western Carolina University will meet Friday, March 13, in the H.F. Robinson Administration Building.
Conceptual artist Mel Chin will deliver a talk at 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 17, in Room 130 of the Fine and Performing Arts Center at Western Carolina University. A reception will follow in the FAPAC Star Lobby.
The Great Life Series, a collaboration between Western Carolina University and Pardee Hospital, will offer “Managing Your Health and Medical Safety as You Age” from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 18, in Hendersonville.
Western Carolina women's basketball drew its highest seed in school history, with a 13 seed, in the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament. The Lady Catamounts will face No. 4 seed and 14th ranked Vanderbilt at 8 p.m. Eastern Saturday, March 21, in Albuquerque, New Mexico (in the Raleigh region) in The Pit/Bob King Court.
Ceramic/mixed media sculptor John Byrd, whose highly crafted work explores the concept of value by drawing from perceived “low” cultural productions such as taxidermy mounts, Lucite objects and chalkware figurines, will visit Western Carolina University on Tuesday, March 24, as part of the School of Art and Design’s Artist-in-Residence Program.
James Hendrix, co-author of “Green Jobs: A Guide to Eco-friendly Employment,” will speak at 9 a.m. Wednesday, March 25, in the auditorium of the Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University.
Environmental historian Paul Sutter will deliver a public lecture titled “Georgia’s ‘Little Grand Canyon’ and Soil Erosion in the South” at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 25, in the auditorium of Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center.
Some 200 high school students from Western North Carolina and northeastern Georgia will test their knowledge of French and Spanish on Tuesday, March 24, in Western Carolina University’s 27th annual Foreign Language Contest.
Tennessee poet Linda Parsons Marion will speak about her work during a presentation set for 12:20 p.m. Wednesday, March 25, at Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center.
Student research will take center stage at Western Carolina University in late March as the university holds it two big annual research exhibitions – the Undergraduate Expo and the Graduate Research Symposium.
The Great Life Series, a collaboration between Western Carolina University and Pardee Hospital, will offer “Cool, Calm and Resilient: Dealing with Stress and Anxiety as You Age” from 9:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., Thursday, March 26, in Hendersonville.
Western Carolina University will offer three sessions of youth swim review this spring in the Breese Gymnasium pool.
The Great Life Series, a collaboration between Western Carolina University and Pardee Hospital, will offer “Spring Excursion: ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ and Dinner” on Sunday, March 29.
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Western Carolina University will honor the diverse cultures of international students, faculty and members of the community at its 30th annual International Festival. The event will be held on the A.K. Hinds University Center lawn from 10 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 1.
Western Carolina University will recognize March as Women’s History Month with a variety of activities sharing the theme “taking the lead to save our planet” with the National Women’s History Project.
The Smoky Mountain Brass Quintet, quintet-in-residence at Western Carolina University, will give a free recital at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 31. The performance, part of the Catamount Concert Series, will be held in the recital hall of the Coulter Building on the WCU campus.
As part of Western Carolina University’s celebration of Women’s History Month, the Center for Service Learning and the Women’s Center are organizing an improvement project at the Monteith Farmstead in Dillsboro from 2 until 5 p.m. Saturday, March 28.
John Wright, a nationally recognized criminologist from the University of Cincinnati, will visit Western Carolina University on Monday, March 30, for a Visiting Scholars Series presentation examining the role of biology and life experiences on criminal behavior.
Abraham Lincoln wasn’t born in it, but staff members at Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center hope a log cabin they have for sale will attract a big bid that will provide the museum with some much-needed funding.
Nature essayist and environmental activist Jan DeBlieu, national best-seller Jeffrey Lent and newspaperman and National Public Radio contributor Scott Huler will be among the panel of noted authors featured at Western Carolina University’s seventh annual Spring Literary Festival March 30-April 2.
The Public Relations Student Society of America chapter at Western Carolina University will hold its annual Crisis Communication Day from 10 a.m. until 3:15 p.m. Friday, April 3, in the Ramsey Regional Activity Center, with registration and hospitality beginning at 10 a.m.
Western Carolina University will host its 39th annual High School Mathematics Contest Thursday, April 2, with 608 of the region’s top high school and junior high school mathematics students competing.
The 2008-09 old-time and bluegrass music concert/jam session series at Western Carolina University will conclude Thursday, April 2, with a concert by the Hominy Valley Boys, followed by a jam session in which local musicians are invited to participate.
Western Carolina University’s Pride of the Mountains Marching Band will be one of five to be featured at a video performance session at the College Band Directors National Association’s conference on Friday, March 27, in Austin, Texas.
Western Carolina University will offer an opportunity for adults to learn to swim during a weeklong course Monday, March 30, through Friday, April 3, in the Breese Gymnasium pool.
Middle- and high-school students will work with Western Carolina University students to write, introduce and debate legislation on Saturday, April 4, at the ninth annual American Youth Congress on WCU’s campus.
Ninety student musicians from more than 30 high schools across the state and region will gather at Western Carolina University to participate in the 29th annual Honor Band Weekend on Friday and Saturday, April 3-4.
Western Carolina University’s music department will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the formation of its gamelan ensemble with a special concert at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 7.
Western Carolina University will present the opera “Rigoletto,” produced by the Asheville Lyric Opera, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 14, in the main performance hall of the Fine and Performing Arts Center, with three WCU music students in supporting roles.
Maryanne Maisano, a visiting assistant professor of elementary and middle grades education at Western Carolina University, will present “Connecting Worlds! Inspiring Innovation, Vision, Communication and Motivation Using a Virtual Classroom” on Tuesday, April 14.
Representatives from Invisible Children Inc. return to Western Carolina University as part of a world tour on Monday, April 13, to screen documentaries about tragedies faced by children in northern Uganda, the Republic of Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and efforts to help them.
For a quarter of a century students, faculty and staff at Western Carolina University and residents of the surrounding community have come together once a year to clean up one of Jackson County’s natural treasures – the Tuckaseigee River.
Western Carolina University’s annual Jazz Festival will take place Thursday, April 16, through Saturday, April 18, with jazz clinics focusing on voice, guitar and improvisation.
For the fourth year in a row, Western Carolina University students rank among the nation’s leaders in the number of research projects accepted for presentation at the country’s most prestigious undergraduate research conference.
Abstract painter Gina Werfel will hold an artist’s talk at 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, March 31, in Room 130 of WCU's Fine and Performing Arts Center. The Juried Student Art Exhibition will run Thursday, April 2, through Saturday, May 2, at the Fine Art Museum.
A Western Carolina University student will receive a national award for radio production work from the Broadcast Education Association Convention Festival of Media Arts to be held in Las Vegas.
Western Carolina University’s School of Music will host the Georgia Guitar Quartet at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 25, in the recital hall of Coulter Building on WCU’s campus.
The classic musical “Fiddler on the Roof” will show at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, March 26-28, and 3 p.m. Sunday, March 29, at the Fine and Performing Arts Center on the campus of Western Carolina University.
Western Carolina University’s all-student percussion ensemble will perform a concert at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 21, in the recital hall of Coulter Building.
Large color photographs of objects once belonging to artist Jody Servon's deceased loved ones will be on exhibit from Tuesday, Jan. 27, through Saturday, March 7, at the Fine Art Museum at Western Carolina University. Servon will speak about her work at 4 p.m. Jan. 27 in Room 130 of the Fine and Performing Arts Center, with a reception and gallery talk to follow in the museum.
Western Carolina University and its College of Business are partnering with Clear Channel Asheville and the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area to sponsor an Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce “Business After Hours” event Thursday, April 23, at the new Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center.
The writers and editors who worked on a forthcoming volume, “The History of Haywood County,” will be featured during a panel presentation set for 12:20 p.m. Wednesday, April 22, at Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center.
The Great Life Series, a collaboration between Western Carolina University and Pardee Hospital, will offer “Working as You Age: Retooling, Finding and Landing the Right Job,” from 9:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., Wednesday, April 22.
There will be a reception to celebrate the publication of the book “Spearfinger” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 23, at Hunter Library on the campus of Western Carolina University.
Western Carolina University will present Service-Learning Partnership Awards to a Jackson County nursing home, three administrators of Jackson County Public Schools and a Clay County social services supervisor in recognition of effective collaboration with university faculty and students on community service projects linked to the curriculum.
The Western Carolina University Concert Choir and University Chorus will be joined by the Western Carolina Community Chorus and the WCU Artist-in-Residence Orchestra to perform Franz Joseph Haydn’s “The Creation,” a choral-orchestral work from the 18th century.
The surprising nature of love is the theme of “Almost Maine,” on stage Wednesday through Sunday, April 22 through 26, at Western Carolina University's Hoey Auditorium.
The Great Life Series, a collaboration between Western Carolina University and Pardee Hospital, will offer a daytrip to WCU’s campus for a performance of the acclaimed romantic comedy “Almost Maine” and dinner on Sunday, April 26.
The inaugural Controlled Chaos Film Festival will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 27, in Niggli Theatre on the campus of Western Carolina University.
The Base Camp Cullowhee outdoor program and climbing team at Western Carolina University will host the 2009 Cullowhee Rock & Rumble Fest intercollegiate bouldering competition Saturday, April 25.
An information session on Tuesday, April 28, will provide an opportunity for Western Carolina University students and faculty, and prospective students, to learn about the changes made to WCU’s newly revised master’s degree program in business administration.
Banks Hinshaw, an osteoporosis researcher and clinician, will present an in-depth workshop on bone fragility when Western Carolina University and Pardee Hospital’s Great Life Series continues with “Osteoporosis: The Latest Advice on Diagnosis, Treatment and Avoiding Fractures.”
Western Carolina University’s department of stage and screen will present its spring dance showcase at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 1, in the Fine and Performing Arts Center.
The Western Carolina University Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band will present a concert featuring student conductors and soloists at 8 p.m. Monday, April 27, in the Fine and Performing Arts Center.
The Women’s Center at Western Carolina University will screen the documentary “Broken Social Contracts” and host a discussion with the filmmaker, Laura Rahman, on Monday, April 27.
Western Carolina University will offer a workshop in personal self-defense from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, April 30, in Room 143 of the Cordelia Camp Building.
Western Carolina University will offer a crisis communication workshop 9 a.m. to noon Friday, May 1, in Room 143 of the Camp Building.
Western Carolina University will hold two spring commencement ceremonies to accommodate the largest graduating class in university history, with activities set for Friday, May 8, and Saturday, May 9, at the Ramsey Regional Activity Center.
Western Carolina University’s police department will implement a special traffic flow plan on campus Saturday, May 9, to deal with the large number of visitors expected to attend the university’s undergraduate commencement, which is scheduled for 2 p.m. that day.
Entertainer Linda Gentille, whom the late Liberace called the “piano princess,” will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 8, in the Fine and Performing Arts Center on the campus of Western Carolina University.
The Great Life Series, a collaboration between Western Carolina University and Pardee Hospital, will offer a daytrip to WCU’s campus for a performance of the acclaimed romantic comedy “Almost Maine” and dinner on Sunday, April 26.
Western Carolina men's track and field team wins the 2009 Southern Conference Championship and the women's team places second.
Western Carolina University’s Small Business and Technology Development Center and its Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation together will offer a seminar titled “Search Engine Marketing” from 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday, May 21, at Pack Memorial Library in Asheville.
The Oconaluftee Institute for Cultural Arts, an academic partner of Western Carolina University, will host an open house from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, May 21, to celebrate its new location at 70 Bingo Loop in Cherokee.
History buffs, educators and appreciators of the region’s crafts tradition will celebrate the official launch of the Craft Revival Project online collection Friday and Saturday, May 22-23, at the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
The board of trustees of Western Carolina University will hold its quarterly meeting at 12:30 p.m. Friday, June 5, in the board room of H.F. Robinson Administration Building.
Western Carolina University will offer a new series of workshops for active seniors, beginning with “Senior Expressions: Ceramics” and “Senior Expressions: Watercolor Painting.”
“Responding to the Challenges and Opportunities for Engagement” will be the theme of the fifth annual Symposium on Service Learning and Civic Engagement at Western Carolina University from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, June 11.
“Moon Over Buffalo,” a comedic farce about a couple immersed in the world of theater and presented by the Kudzu Community Players, will show June 12-14 and June 18-20 on the campus of Western Carolina University.
Western Carolina University is accepting registrations for its 10th annual Mountain Dulcimer Week, to be held June 21-26.
Four Western Carolina University students majoring in environmental health have been selected to present their research at the National Environmental Health Association’s annual conference, which will be held in Atlanta in mid-June.
Western Carolina University’s administrative offices will be closed beginning at 3 p.m. Thursday, July 2, until 8 a.m. Tuesday, July 7, after a decision by university leaders to schedule 10 hours of state-mandated furlough time to coincide with the July Fourth holiday.
Musical theatre students and faculty from Western Carolina University’s College of Fine and Performing Arts will perform a star-spangled variety show as part of the Fourth of July celebration at the Roanoke Island Festival Park.
Musical theatre students and faculty from Western Carolina University’s College of Fine and Performing Arts will perform a star-spangled variety show at two locations in Western North Carolina in advance of a Fourth of July concert at the Roanoke Island Festival Park.
Western Carolina University will offer a one-day camp, “My Buddy and Me: Geocaching,” from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday, July 9.
“Speakers for the Stones,” a presentation focusing on the ancient stone fishing weirs that can be found in Western North Carolina rivers, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday, July 10, at Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center.
Western Carolina University will offer a “Hike with a Botanist” workshop from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, July 16.
Youngsters can explore the world of theater this summer during WCU's weeklong Theatre Summer Camp, for children ages 8 to 13 years old.
Maintenance to the telephone service on the campus of Western Carolina University scheduled for Friday, July 24, has been canceled. No phone outages are expected.
Western Carolina University’s Last Minute Productions will host a series of free concerts Thursdays this summer on the lawn of the A.K. Hinds University Center.
Telephone service on the campus of Western Carolina University will be interrupted sporadically for brief periods during the evening of Thursday, Aug. 6, as workers perform routine maintenance on the system.
Western Carolina University will hold a science fair workshop for science teachers of grades six through 12 from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 12, in Room 143 of the Camp Building.
A series of information sessions will be held in Asheville this summer to allow prospective students to learn about Western Carolina University’s newly revised master’s degree program in business administration.
Prospective students can learn about more than 100 courses that Western Carolina University will offer in Asheville during the upcoming fall semester as the university holds an information and registration session from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 20.
Western Carolina University will hold an “Introduction to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)” workshop from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 25, in Room 143 of the Camp Building.
The ladies of “Grits: The Musical” will take the stage at Western Carolina University’s Fine and Performing Arts Center at 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 30, to open the 2009-10 Galaxy of Stars Series.
Former U.S. Rep. Glen Browder, D-Ala., will discuss his new book, “The South’s New Racial Politics,” beginning at 5 p.m. Monday, Aug. 31, in the Catamount Room of A.K. Hinds University Center at Western Carolina University.
Crews have been rolling out the sidewalk and moving beds and desks into the newly built Balsam Hall at Western Carolina University to welcome the building's first 298 residents this week.
The groundbreaking ceremony for a $46 million, 160,000-square-foot health sciences building – the first facility to be constructed as part of Western Carolina University’s Millennial Initiative – will be held Thursday, Sept. 3, at the construction site off of Little Savannah Road.
The board of trustees of Western Carolina University will hold its quarterly meeting at 9:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 4, in the board room of H.F. Robinson Administration Building.
Western Carolina University will offer a course on buying and selling on eBay from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10, in Room 143 of the Cordelia Camp Building.
Faculty of the School of Music will present a “Faculty Showcase” at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 15, in the Recital Hall of the Coulter Building on the campus of Western Carolina University.
Western Carolina University will offer a workshop on “The Basics of Wills, Trusts and Estates” from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 15, in Room 143 of the Cordelia Camp Building.
Telephone service on the campus of Western Carolina University will be interrupted sporadically for brief periods during the evening of Friday, Sept. 18, as workers perform routine maintenance on the system.
Representatives of Western Carolina University will be hitting the road across North Carolina in September to help shed some light on the sometimes-confusing college admission process for prospective students and their families.
It’s violins gone wild when the musical group Barrage comes to the Fine and Performing Arts Center at Western Carolina University at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 20.
The Western Carolina University accountancy program will hold its annual fall banquet at 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 18, at the Gateway Club in Waynesville.
Western Carolina University’s Public Policy Institute will host an essay contest and forum in honor of the anniversary of the Sept. 17, 1787, signing of the U.S. Constitution.
Mountain Heritage Day, Western Carolina University’s annual festival of mountain culture, will be held at an alternate location on campus this Saturday, Sept. 26, because of recent heavy rains in the area.
The traditional culture of the Southern Appalachians will be celebrated on the Western Carolina University campus as the Crowe Brothers present a bluegrass performance at WCU’s Fine and Performing Arts Center on Friday, Sept. 25, and the university holds its 35th annual Mountain Heritage Day festival on Saturday, Sept. 26.
Western Carolina University’s stage and screen department presents the dark comedy “Manuscript” by Paul Grellong as the 2009-2010 season opens on Wednesday, Sept. 23. The play runs through Sunday, Sept. 27, in Hoey Auditorium on WCU’s campus.
Western Carolina University’s College of Business will launch a new speaker series with a Tuesday, Sept. 22, presentation by “serial entrepreneur” Bob Crumley.
Event and performance schedules have been announced for Mountain Heritage Day, Western Carolina University’s annual celebration of mountain life that will be held on campus Saturday, Sept. 26.
A national leader in the field of cultural and linguistic competency will visit Western Carolina University on Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 21-22, to participate in a public forum and meet with WCU students and faculty.
Tickets go on sale Tuesday, Sept. 1, for a bluegrass concert featuring the Crowe Brothers on stage at Western Carolina University’s Fine and Performing Arts Center.
Western Carolina University will offer a workshop in “Personal Self Defense” from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24, in Room 143 of the Cordelia Camp Building.
The Western Carolina University Contemporary Chamber Ensemble will perform “In C” by Terry Riley at its inaugural concert in the Coulter Building recital hall Tuesday, Sept. 22. The event, which begins at 8 p.m., is free and open to the public.
A 5-kilometer foot race and 1-mile “Fun Run” will be held on the Western Carolina University campus Saturday, Sept. 26, as part of festivities at WCU’s 35th annual Mountain Heritage Day.
The mountain rock band Cullowhee, named for the community where its sound was born, will reunite for a show at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, in the recital hall of the Coulter Building at Western Carolina University.
Area residents are invited to enter their canned, dried or baked goods in “A Gathering In,” the traditional foods competition that is just one of the contests held in conjunction with Mountain Heritage Day, Western Carolina University’s annual celebration of traditional mountain culture.
Telephone service on the campus of Western Carolina University will be interrupted for 15 minutes during the morning of Thursday, Oct. 1, as workers perform routine maintenance on the system.
Twenty-two top high school marching bands from four states will assemble for Western Carolina University’s ninth annual Tournament of Champions, an invitational competition hosted by WCU’s award-winning Pride of the Mountains Marching Band, at E.J. Whitmire Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 10.
Eldred Spell, professor of flute in Western Carolina University’s School of Music, will celebrate his 20th year as a WCU faculty member with an evening of music at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 6.
Fifteen students from Western Carolina University will participate in an alternative fall break Oct. 8 -12 in Myrtle Beach, S.C., where they will assist two social service agencies and local churches with various projects over the five-day period.
Western Carolina University will mark Conflict Resolution Day with a showing of the Clint Eastwood film “Gran Torino” and panel discussion, from 6:30 to 9:15 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15, in the movie theater of the A.K. Hinds University Center.
Western Carolina University will host a series of events Oct. 15-17 to celebrate the conclusion of The Campaign for Western Carolina, the first comprehensive fundraising campaign in the 120-year history of the university.
Country music recording artist Matt Stillwell will return to his roots Thursday, Oct. 15, for a hometown Homecoming week concert at Western Carolina University to help his alma mater celebrate a major milestone.
Faculty members from Western Carolina University’s School of Music will present “Beyond the Wall: A Chamber Music Recital” at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15, in the recital hall of WCU’s Coulter Building.
Western Carolina University fans will celebrate “purple pride” at Homecoming 2009 festivities, which take place Thursday, Oct. 15, through Sunday, Oct. 18.
Five women and five men have been selected for Western Carolina University’s 2009 Homecoming Court.
Western Carolina University’s School of Nursing will celebrate its 40-year anniversary during Homecoming weekend with two major reunion events, a tailgate party and a celebration reception.
Di-Ga-Li-I, the Native American student organization at Western Carolina University, will host the inaugural Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Alumni Celebration as part of Homecoming 2009 at WCU.
Western Carolina University’s Center for Service Learning will coordinate four community service projects on Wednesday, Oct. 14, in honor of Homecoming 2009.
Winford Gordon, assistant professor of psychology, will present “Listen Carefully in Case Life Happens” at the annual Last Lecture Series event on Friday, Oct. 16.
A visit by internationally acclaimed ceramicist Don Reitz to the campus of Western Carolina University has been postponed until this spring, but his assistants will be here to demonstrate in his stead.
A film made by Asheville resident Aaron Putnam for his senior thesis in Western Carolina University’s motion picture and television production program has been selected to screen at an annual international film festival in Spain during the first two weeks of October.
Western Carolina University’s 100-voice University Chorus will present its annual fall concert at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20, in the recital hall of the Coulter Building on the WCU campus.
Western Carolina University will host a Disc Golf Field Day for physical education teachers in Western North Carolina from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23.
Representatives of the John Philip Sousa Foundation will be on hand Saturday, Oct. 24, to present the prestigious Sudler Trophy, the nation’s highest and most-coveted award for college and university marching bands, to Western Carolina University’s Pride of the Mountains Marching Band.
“Pareidolia,” a senior exhibition featuring the work of nine Western Carolina University art students, will open with a reception in the Star Lobby of the Fine and Performing Art Center from 4 until 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22.
Western Carolina University students, faculty, staff and family members will combine their efforts on Saturday, Oct. 24, for Make a Difference Day, an annual national day of helping others initiated by USA Weekend magazine.
Western Carolina University’s College of Business will host the ninth annual seminar of the International Supply Chain Risk Management Network at Lake Junaluska and WCU on Monday, Oct. 26, and Tuesday, Oct. 27.
A man who spent more than 13 years on death row for two murders before the case was overturned and charges dismissed will be one of two guest speakers at Western Carolina University on Tuesday, Oct. 27.
Western Carolina University’s Base Camp Cullowhee and Climbing Team will host the fourth annual Reel Rock Film Tour on Tuesday, Oct. 27, in the theater of A.K. Hinds University Center.
Two Western Carolina University choral ensembles will present a series of free performances across the state during their 2009 fall tour, with stops in Sylva, Hickory, Newton, Taylorsville, East Bend and Winston-Salem.
The Smoky Mountain Brass Quintet, Western Carolina University’s quintet-in-residence, will perform as part of the Catamount Concert Series at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, in the recital hall of the Coulter Building on the WCU campus.
Amid unprecedented changes in North Carolina’s economic landscape, UNC-TV is examining the challenges and opportunities facing rural regions in the state and how their successes affect all North Carolinians, through a project called “North Carolina Rising.”
The Kappa Alpha chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority at Western Carolina University will sponsor a bone marrow donor drive from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 28, at A.K. Hinds University Center.
Mario Gaetano, professor of percussion at Western Carolina University, will present a recital of original works at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29, in the recital hall of the Coulter Building.
The Southern Circuit of Independent Filmmakers continues its series at Western Carolina University at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29, with “The Way We Get By.”
Counselors who work in schools and for mental health and substance abuse agencies across Western North Carolina will gather in Asheville on Friday, Oct. 30, as Western Carolina University’s counseling program hosts its annual Counseling Supervision Symposium.
The department of stage and screen at Western Carolina University will present “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” – a commentary on the absurdity of love – at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Oct. 29-31, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1, at the Fine and Performing Arts Center on the WCU campus.
An hour-long radio program featuring a panel discussion about the life of Josefina Niggli will air three times during the next week on WWCU-FM Power 90.5, the broadcast service of Western Carolina University.
Western Carolina University theater students will be the storytellers, guides and hosts for two evenings of “Traditional Appalachian Ghost Stories at Shook House” in Clyde on Friday, Oct. 30, and Saturday, Oct. 31.
The Western Carolina University Wind Ensemble will present its first concert of the fall at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 3, in the Fine and Performing Arts Center.
Native American artist and activist Shan Goshorn will visit Western North Carolina in November for a talk at Western Carolina University and a demonstration at the Oconaluftee Institute for Cultural Arts.
Western Carolina University’s newly christened “First Thursday Old-Time and Bluegrass Jam Session Series” for 2009-10 will get under way Thursday, Nov. 5, with a concert by versatile musician Josh Goforth, followed by a jam session in which local musicians are invited to participate.
Students from more than 30 colleges and universities will gather at Western Carolina University for the 17th annual North Carolina Campus Compact Student Conference on Saturday, Nov. 7.
Some 300 students from the mountains and piedmont of North Carolina will be judged on their theatrical skills as Western Carolina University hosts a western regional competition of the North Carolina Theatre Conference’s High School Play Festival on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 6-7.
An information session will be held in Asheville on Monday, Nov. 9, for individuals interested in earning a doctor of education degree in educational leadership through Western Carolina University.
The Fine and Performing Arts Center at Western Carolina University will be transformed at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11, into a live radio studio very similar to one used by CBS radio station KNX in Hollywood 65 years ago to broadcast the most popular Armed Forces Radio show to GIs during World War II: “Command Performance, USA!”
A Western Carolina University astrophysicist will deliver a lecture titled “What Is It About 2012? The Maya Calendar, Astronomy and the Popular Imagination” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11, in the auditorium of WCU’s Natural Sciences Building.
Western Carolina University will honor veterans with a live, historically accurate re-creation of the popular World War II radio show “Command Performance, USA!” at 7:30 p.m. on Veterans Day – Wednesday, Nov. 11.
Western Carolina University’s Division of Educational Outreach will offer “Learning for Fun: Stained Glass” from 6 to 9 p.m. on Thursdays, Oct. 22 through Dec. 3, in the south lobby of the Cordelia Camp Building.
U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler will visit Western Carolina University for a dialogue with students at 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, in the theater of A.K. Hinds University Center.
The Low Tech Ensemble at Western Carolina University will present a concert of gamelan music at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, in the recital hall of the Coulter Building on the WCU campus.
The Western Carolina University athletic training education program will take part in the second annual Mountain Jug Run for Research on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 14-15.
Author Dorothy Allison will participate in a public discussion of her novel “Bastard Out of Carolina” at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 19, in the A.K. Hinds University Center’s theater at Western Carolina University.
Western Carolina University will host a gallery of exhibits and series of presentations that explore social issues, traditions, images and values of Native American communities as part of the Native American Heritage Expo on campus Nov. 16-19.
Western Carolina University will host a workshop, “Who is Lilly Ledbetter and Why Do I Care? Current Issues in Employment Law,” from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, in Room 143 of the Camp Building.
