Will Peebles, professor of music at Western Carolina University, has been named one of the best teachers in the University of North Carolina system, earning praise for helping students discover how to teach themselves.
Two Western Carolina University students recently received awards for their interior design entries in the first biennial Waters for Life student-design competition.
The Fine Art Museum at Western Carolina University seeks artist entries for a summer art exhibition titled “Fragile Earth: Reflections on the Environment.”
Elementary and middle school students from the Western North Carolina region are invited to attend the sixth annual Cullowhee Creativity Camp, to take place in the Killian Building on the campus of Western Carolina University from Monday, June 16, through Friday, June 20, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Madison County resident Carey Burda, a Western Carolina University senior majoring in natural resource conservation and management, recently presented a poster at the National Association of American Geographer’s meeting in Boston.
Western Carolina University is among the recipients of the state’s first Energy Efficiency Reserve Fund grants designed to help state agencies, University of North Carolina system campuses and N.C. community colleges implement power-saving projects.
Kyle R. Carter, provost of Western Carolina University, was inducted as the first honorary member of the Mu Epsilon chapter of Alpha Sigma Lambda national honor society during the annual ceremonies held recently at WCU’s A.K. Hinds University Center.
The North Carolina Small Business and Technology Development Center has tapped Western Carolina University-based disaster recovery counselor Adrianne Gordon to manage the state’s two disaster recovery loan programs.
Western Carolina University is inviting community members to join incoming freshmen this summer as they read New York Times bestseller “Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace … One School at a Time.”
Rob Young, director of WCU's Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines, was recently appointed to the advisory board of the Santa Aguila Charitable Trust, an international organization devoted to the protection and preservation of beaches around the world.
Eleven geology faculty members and students from Western Carolina University recently presented their research at the Geological Society of America’s southeastern section meeting in Charlotte.
The Catamount Academic Tutoring Center at Western Carolina University recently earned an international certification awarded to tutoring programs that meet or exceed the College Reading and Learning Association’s standards of quality.
A Western Carolina University student recently received one of 30 undergraduate scholarships from the National Athletic Trainers’ Association.
Dave Young, a senior majoring in philosophy, won the North Carolina Political Science Association’s award for best domestic politics and policy paper for his entry “Inevitable City, Inexorable Storm: How the Failure of Communication, Courage and Common Sense Doomed New Orleans.”
Stephen E. Brown, director of the honors-in-discipline program of the criminal justice and criminology department at East Tennessee State University, will become head of WCU's department of applied criminology, effective July 15.
Lynda Bates Elliott, an elementary education major from Franklin, has been named this year’s recipient of Western Carolina University’s Malcolm J. Loughlin Scholarship.
“A Quilter’s Garden,” an exhibit of traditional and non-traditional quilts, wall hangings and pillows created by Jackson County textile artist Laura Nelle Goebel, will be on display at Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center through Friday, May 23.
A number of recent contests have engaged Western Carolina University’s entrepreneurial-minded students in “real world” experiences outside the classroom.
Robert F. Mulligan, associate professor of economics, received the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s O.P. Alford III Prize in Libertarian Scholarship for “Property Rights and Time Preference,” which was published in the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics.
Thirty-six Western Carolina University students loaded up their research projects and headed to Maryland on Wednesday, April 9, to represent the university at the 22nd annual National Conference on Undergraduate Research.
Chilly April rain and wind didn’t dampen the enthusiasm Thursday (April 3) as Western Carolina University broke ground for a pair of residence halls – facilities described by WCU trustees vice chair Steve Warren as “a place where friendships are forged and the power of thought is tested.”
Jennifer Veilleux, an English graduate student at WCU, recently received a scholarship from an international English honor society.
The Western Carolina University chapter of First Book, a non-profit organization, has awarded $2,500 in Borders Books gift cards to a Jackson County school and an after-school program in Haywood County as part of a literacy promotion program.
Western Carolina University’s biology department recently awarded scholarships to six students at its awards banquet.
“Know Your Region,” an educational program developed by Western Carolina University’s Institute for the Economy and the Future, has been recognized as a national model by the U.S. Economic Development Administration and will be featured in the EDA’s 2007 annual report as one of its top investments from that year.
The popular Western North Carolina radio show “Take a Stand” will be broadcasting live from 3 until 6 p.m. Thursday, April 3, from the theater of A.K. Hinds University Center on the campus of Western Carolina University.
Western Carolina University will celebrate the cultures of its international students and faculty at its 29th annual International Festival, to be held from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 9.
The “Living with the Land” folk life series will continue at Western Carolina University on Tuesday, April 8, with the presentation “Rooting Our Mountain Existence: The Cultural and Environmental Significance of Ramps” by Buncombe County natives Bert Abrams and Erica Abrams Locklear.
An information session will be held in Asheville on Thursday, April 10, for individuals interested in Western Carolina University’s master of education degree program in college student personnel.
The Western Carolina University women’s rugby team will host a squad from Wake Forest University at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 12, in a “Prom Dress Match,” the annual end-of-season event for the WCU team.
Students from Western Carolina University’s stage and screen department will bring the world premier of “That’s What We Love About You, Hardy Boys” to Hoey Auditorium April 9-13.
Western Carolina University and the Western North Carolina Chapter of the American Society for Quality will present a seminar in value stream mapping from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 19, in Room 104 of WCU’s Belk Building.
For nearly 25 years, volunteers from Western Carolina University and the surrounding community have come together once a year to clean up one of Jackson County’s natural treasures – the Tuckaseigee River.
The School of Music at Western Carolina University will present two free concerts as it sponsors the High School Invitational Choral Clinic on Friday, April 18, and Saturday, April 19.
Philosopher, theologian and author John D. Caputo will deliver a lecture titled “What Would Jesus Deconstruct?” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 21, in Room 130 of Western Carolina University’s Fine and Performing Arts Center.
Students in the hospitality and tourism program at Western Carolina University are a force behind the town of Dillsboro’s inaugural Appalachian Growers’ Fair, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 19, at the Monteith Farmstead.
Western Carolina University will present the opera “The Barber of Seville,” produced by the Asheville Lyric Opera, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 22, in the main performance hall of the Fine and Performing Arts Center on Western’s campus.
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center curator Stuart Horodner will make a public presentation at Western Carolina University at 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 22, in Room 130 of the Fine and Performing Arts Center.
David M. Sokol, art history professor emeritus and director of museum studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will present a lecture titled “Otto Neumann and the Modern German Tradition of Art and Literature” at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, in Room 130 of the Fine and Performing Arts Center on the campus of Western Carolina University.
Western Carolina University’s eighth annual “Take Back the Night” march will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 23.
Western Carolina University will offer a series of information sessions for prospective students interested in its engineering technology degree program.
Western Carolina University will recognize two Jackson County agencies and two individuals for their effective collaborations with university students and faculty on community service projects that are linked to the curriculum.
The WCU Freshman Leadership Institute will host a 5K campus run at 4 p.m. Friday, April 25, to help kick off the annual campus spring carnival and raise money for CuRvE, the Cullowhee Revitalization Endeavour.
Western Carolina University employees and students will participate in the Torch Run for the Jackson County Special Olympics beginning at 8:30 a.m. Friday, April 25, at the Camp Building Gymnasium on the WCU campus.
Western Carolina University will present a Spring Carnival from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, April 25, outside the university’s Ramsey Regional Activity Center.
Western Carolina University’s department of stage and screen will present its spring dance showcase at 7:30 p.m. April 25 and 26 in the Fine and Performing Arts Center.
Brent E. Kinser, assistant professor of English at Western Carolina University, is the official host of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society’s 21st annual meeting in Asheville – the first to be held outside of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s home state of Florida.
The fourth annual Smoky Mountain Undergraduate Research Conference on the History of Mathematics will feature undergraduate student research presentations and keynote speaker Patti Hunter, an associate professor of mathematics at Westmont College in California.
Western Carolina University ceramics students will donate handmade bowls to help the Community Table’s annual “Empty Bowl” fundraising event from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, April 25.
Western Carolina University students will march from the Alumni Tower on the university campus to the nearest polling place, the Cullowhee Recreation Center, on Tuesday, April 29.
Western Carolina University’s Smoky Mountain Brass Quintet will give its final performance of the academic year in the recital hall of the Coulter Building at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 29.
The accountancy program in Western Carolina University’s College of Business and Graduate School will hold an annual “Meet the Firms Night” from 6 until 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 29, at the Owen Conference Center on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Asheville.
Western Carolina University and organizations from the town of Canton will hold the second “Canton Connections Faire” from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 29, at the Colonial Theater Annex in Canton.
Country music star Billy Currington will perform in a concert that begins at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 1, in Western Carolina University’s Ramsey Regional Activity Center.
Students will be featured as conductors and soloists during a performance of Western Carolina University’s Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band at 8 p.m. Thursday, May 1, in WCU’s Fine and Performing Arts Center.
The Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble will make an appearance at Western Carolina University at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 3, at the Fine and Performing Arts Center as the final event in the 2007-08 Galaxy of Stars/Something for Everyone Series.
Children will be introduced to the art of quilting during an Arti-Facts! program from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Sunday, May 4, at Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center.
Jack Sholder, professor and director of the motion picture and television production program at Western Carolina University, will be a judge and presenter at Eastern New Mexico University’s High Plains Film Festival.
Approximately 50 emergency agency personnel from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area will convene Tuesday, May 6, for the final workshop in a yearlong regional disaster planning project sponsored by Western Carolina University’s Institute for the Economy and the Future, and department of applied criminology.
Western Carolina University will offer a swing and salsa class for teens and adults from 6 to 7:30 p.m., Monday, May 5, through Wednesday, May 7, in Breese Gymnasium.
Western Carolina University has scheduled two commencement ceremonies for Saturday, May 10, to accommodate the largest graduating class in the university’s history.
Western Carolina University will host “Creating Businesses that Rock,” the first seminar in the Educational Outreach Business Lunch Series, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, May 15, in Room 143 of the Cordelia Camp Building.
A national search for the next dean of the College of Education and Allied Professions at Western Carolina University has narrowed to three finalists who will take part in a series of open sessions on campus as part of the selection process.
North Buncombe Middle, Carolina Day and Roberson High schools placed as top competitors Thursday, April 3, at Western Carolina University’s 38th Annual High School Mathematics Contest.
