Western Carolina University's Staff Forum raised $10,000 to start an annual scholarship and awarded the first $500 scholarship to the daughter of a staff member.
The Catamount Club’s Second Annual Western Carolina University Basketball Rouser will tip-off Thursday, Oct. 11, at 6 p.m. at Broadmoor Golf Links in Fletcher.
Twenty-three top high school marching bands from four states will assemble for WCU's seventh annual Tournament of Champions, an invitational competition hosted by Western’s Pride of the Mountains Marching Band at E.J. Whitmire Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 13.
WCU is home to a new institute that will bring together scientists, policymakers, economic development experts, natural resource managers and other interested parties in an effort to preserve regional water resources while trying to ensure economic prosperity.
Asheville photographer and author Tim Barnwell will discuss his latest book, “On Earth’s Furrowed Brow: The Appalachian Farm in Photographs,” as the 2007-08 edition of the Appalachian Cultural Lunchtime Series continues Wednesday, Oct. 3, at Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center.
WCU's Hunter Library will present “A Celebration of Librarians in Film” in honor of Banned Books Week, which will be held from Saturday, Sept. 29, to Saturday, Oct. 6.
Professors at Western are part of a multi-institutional research team organized to develop tools for improving water quality in South Africa.
The American Red Cross will be holding a blood drive on the WCU campus Monday, Oct. 8, through Wednesday, Oct. 10, in the A.K. Hinds University Center multipurpose room.
Three choral ensembles from Western Carolina University will be performing across the state on a fall tour, including stops in Waynesville, Gastonia and Hendersonville.
Western Carolina University’s Tech Thursdays series will feature “Powerful Presentations” from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 11, in Room 137 of the Cordelia Camp Building. The workshop will offer a combination of PowerPoint techniques and presentation tips that will help participants improve their presentations.
Brent Kinser, assistant professor of English, is the coordinating editor of the recently launched online version of one of the most comprehensive literary archives of the 19th century – “The Carlyle Letters Online: A Victorian Cultural Reference.”
The Western Carolina University Wind Ensemble will present its first concert of the season at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 2 in the Fine and Performing Arts Center.
The Western Carolina Women’s Coalition honored Sara Stoltenburg, director of Women’s Programs and the Women’s Center at WCU, as one of four “Women to Match Our Mountains” honorees for 2007.
Western Carolina University will host a series of Constitution Day events, including a debate on foreign policy issues and a re-enactment of the signing of the Constitution.
The University Players of Western Carolina University will open the 2007-08 theatre season with Larry Shue’s comedy “The Nerd” Sept. 26-30.
A varety of hardcover and paperback books will be on sale at Hunter Library on Tuesday, Oct. 2, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Western Carolina University will offer “Technology Thursdays,” a series of community and small business oriented computer workshops this fall.
Western Carolina University’s Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines is organizing a fundraising drive for relief efforts on the coast of Nicaragua, devastated by Hurricane Felix, a Category 5 storm that swept ashore Tuesday, Sept. 4.
Student Aaron Putnam's spoof “Cosmo of 1932” carried off nine of the possible 19 awards at the recent 48 Hour Film Festival, including the Best Film Award and Audience Award.
Performance and event schedules have been announced for Mountain Heritage Day, Western Carolina University’s annual celebration of mountain culture coming up Saturday, Sept. 29.
The Honors College at Western Carolina University presented its inaugural Honors Medallion for special service to award-winning Asheville author Charles Frazier and his wife, Katherine.
WCU will be hitting the road Sept. 24-27, distributing information about undergraduate and graduate admission as well as the variety of programs and degrees offered on-campus and through distance learning.
A long spell of dry weather during the spring and summer could provide some of the most brilliant colors seen in several years for leaf-lookers headed to the mountains of Western North Carolina this autumn.
Music of a traditional tone will be echoing around the Western Carolina University campus on Mountain Heritage Weekend – Friday and Saturday, Sept. 28-29 – as an acoustic music legend pays a visit for a concert at the Ramsey Center and the university holds its 33rd annual Mountain Heritage Day festival.
“The Prince of Dark Corners,” the new film adaptation of a play written by Sylva’s Gary Carden, will be premiered at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 23, at Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center.
Rare glimpses of the African-American experience in Appalachia are featured in “Let the Thunder Roar: A Pictorial History of African-Americans of Jackson County, N.C.,” a new exhibit on display through Wednesday, Oct. 17, at Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center.
Overall student enrollment at Western Carolina University has topped 9,000 for the first time, with significant growth in the number of community college transfers and graduate students.
A 5-kilometer foot race and 1-mile “Fun Run” will be held on the Western Carolina University campus Saturday, Sept. 29, as part of festivities at WCU’s 33rd annual Mountain Heritage Day.
Local 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.
The University Chorus will present an evening of choral and vocal music at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, in the recital hall of Coulter Building at Western Carolina University.
A physical wall representing the “wall of oppression” built by discrimination, racism, sexism and other “isms” will be built and then torn down on the A.K. Hinds University Center lawn as part of Western Carolina University's eighth annual Diversity Week.
Western Carolina University is offering aqua aerobics classes in the Reid Gymnasium pool through Thursday, Dec. 6.
Western Carolina University recently received its first delivery of biodiesel –1,480 gallons for a tank that fuels some Cat Tran shuttle vehicles, electric utility trucks, dump trucks, trash trucks and heavy equipment.
Western Carolina University will offer the second session of a grant-writing workshop, titled “Let’s Get a Grant,” from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, in Room 143 of the Cordelia Camp Building.
The University of North Carolina Tomorrow Commission will host 11 community listening forums across North Carolina during September and October to discuss how the multi-campus University can best meet the changing needs of the state and its people over the next 20 years.
Prospective college students who want to find out what college life is all about will have an opportunity to get their questions answered as Western Carolina University holds Open House on Saturday, Sept. 15.
The Smoky Mountain Brass Quintet, the resident brass quintet of Western Carolina University, will perform a benefit “Sunday in the Park” concert on Sunday, Sept. 16, to help raise funds for Alzheimer’s disease research.
The fall “Living With the Land” folk life series will begin at Western Carolina University on Tuesday, Sept. 11, with a presentation by Dave Cooper, a Lexington, Ky., resident who travels across the nation educating communities about the effects of the mountaintop removal involved in coal extraction.
Undergraduate students at Western Carolina University are sharing their innovative product, process and service ideas in a competition that began Wednesday, Sept. 5.
Joan MacNeill of Webster is the new chair of the board of trustees at WCU. The newest board member is Teresa H. Williams of Huntersville.
