Those who worked with the late Malcolm Loughlin miss the Wales native’s “Bye, love!” and how he went the extra mile – no, miles – for others and for education. To honor him, Pat Brown, dean of educational outreach, chose to participate in The Campaign for Western through supporting the Malcolm J. Loughlin Scholarship Fund.
An information session will be held in Asheville on Thursday, April 12, for individuals interested in graduate studies in business and management through WCU.
Tickets are on sale now for an upcoming concert by rock ‘n’ roll band Hinder at WCU's Ramsey Center.The concert line-up, presented by Last Minute Productions, is set for 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 14, and will include a special guest performance by rock band Puddle of Mudd.
The “Galaxy of Stars: Legends on Stage” continues at WCU's Fine and Performing Arts Center on Sunday, April 15, with “Amadeus,” a performance by the Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada, at 7:30 p.m.
Bob Buckner, director of athletic bands for Western, has been invited by the MENC: The National Association for Music Education to help launch the first-ever, high-school All-American Marching Band and serve as show coordinator and director of the ensemble.
WCU will launch the Half Frame Film Festival, a daylong celebration of documentary filmmaking, on Monday, April 9, featuring Laura Poitras, director of the Academy Award-nominated “My Country, My Country.”
Western Carolina University’s most unusual musical group, the Low Tech Ensemble, will perform a concert of “gamelan” music on Wednesday, April 11, at 8 p.m.
The “Telling Mountain Stories” folk life series will continue at WCU on Wednesday, April 4, with a presentation by Cherokee language traditionalist Nannie Taylor.
Western Carolina University’s fourth annual Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Faire to be held April 2-3 will center on “Making Connections.”
Relay for Life of Western Carolina University will be held on the A.K. Hinds University Center lawn Friday, April 13, at 6 p.m. and will proceed until 6 a.m. Saturday, April 14.
Western Carolina University’s Teacher Support Program recently launched a regional search to find teachers of students who are both deaf and blind to extend free support services to those teachers.
Regis M. Gilman, formerly director of the Appalachian Transition to Teaching Program at Appalachian State University and member of the ASU leadership and educational studies graduate faculty, is WCU's new associate dean of the Division of Educational Outreach.
The Smoky Mountain Brass Quintet, the resident brass quintet of Western Carolina University, will be performing a recital at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 3, as part of the Catamount Concert Series.
The WCU Concert Choir and the Western Carolina Community Chorus will be joined by the WCU Artist-in-Residence Orchestra at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 1, for a performance of Bach’s Lenten cantata, “Christ Lay in the Bonds of Death,” and Beethoven’s oratorio on the passion of Christ, “Christ on the Mount of Olives.”
The WCU board of trustees recently approved an agreement with one of the nation’s largest wireless telecommunications companies that will mean fewer dropped calls for its Cullowhee-area customers and an additional $15,000 annually in university coffers.
It just became more expensive – and more risky – for scofflaws who regularly ignore campus parking policies at WCU. The WCU board of trustees unanimously approved changes to campus parking and traffic regulations, toughening the penalties imposed upon repeat offenders.
A student art exhibition and sale will take place at WCU's Fine Art Museum, with an opening reception and awards ceremony Thursday, March 29, from 4 until 6 p.m.
WCU will host the sixth annual Gender Research Conference from 9 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 28, in A.K. Hinds University Center, with activities focusing on the theme “Gender in the Arts.”
Research conducted by WCU's undergraduate students, along with other examples of students’ creative talents, will be on display Monday, March 26, through Thursday, March 29, as WCU’s Honors College sponsors Undergraduate Expo 2007.
WCU senior Sacha Witt was recently selected to participate in the Eastern Trombone Workshop’s national solo competition.
Sir Harold Kroto, winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for chemistry, will visit WCU on Monday, April 2, to help scientists and laymen alike better understand their respective responsibilities to wisely use the tools of modern technology while preserving the world’s natural resources.
WCU's Catamount Chamber Singers and Instrumental Ensemble will present a program of jazz, popular song standards and Broadway tunes at 8 p.m. Monday, April 2, in the recital hall of the Coulter Building. The concert is free and open to the public.
Residents of the Mountain Trace Nursing Center took a trip down memory lane Friday, March 16, when students from WCU’s Recreational Therapy Association organized a “senior prom” as part of a service learning project.
Bill Gradison, a member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, a non-profit corporation created by Congress in 2002 following a series of high-profile accounting and bankruptcy scandals, will deliver a pair of presentations in the region on Wednesday, March 28, as a part of the speaker series of WCU's College of Business.
About 375 high school students from across Western North Carolina and northeastern Georgia gathered at WCU on Thursday, March 15, to test their knowledge of French and Spanish in the university’s 25th annual Foreign Language Contest.
Award-winning writer Charles Baxter, whose novella “The Feast of Love” inspired a movie to be released this fall starring Morgan Freeman, Alexa Davalos and Greg Kinnear, joins authors who will be featured at WCU's Spring Literary Festival.
About 40 students from five Western North Carolina high schools will gather Tuesday, March 27, for Western Carolina University’s 18th annual Computer Science Programming Contest.
More than 500 Jackson County students recently entered their artwork in WCU's exhibition in celebration of the annual Jackson County Youth Art Month and the National Youth Art Month. The artwork will be on display in the Fine and Performing Arts Center’s north hallway through Friday, March 30.
WCU will host its 37th Annual High School Mathematics Contest Thursday, March 29, with more than 500 of the region’s top high school and junior high school mathematics students competing.
Western Carolina University will offer the popular Tiny Tot Swim Program and the Youth Swim program throughout spring and summer.
Western Carolina University will offer an opportunity for adults to learn to swim from 6-6:50 p.m. April 1-5, in the university’s Breese Gymnasium pool.
John N. Gardner, an educator and student retention specialist, will talk about the challenges and issues facing first-year college students Tuesday, March 27, at 7 p.m. in the Grandroom of the University Center.
Virginia Tech scored nine-straight points as a part of a 22-to-6 run to grab a game-high, 16-point advantage en route to downing the Lady Catamounts, 74-64, Saturday night (March 17) at the Cassell Coliseum in the second round of the Women's National Invitation Tournament.
Western Carolina University’s communication and media relations efforts recently received several awards of recognition from a national higher education organization.
The Public Relations Student Society of America chapter at WCU will hold its annual Crisis Communication Day on Friday, March 23. The event will take place from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. on the third floor of A.K. Hinds University Center.
Western Carolina University and Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College are teaming up to prepare more teachers for the area’s elementary and middle school classrooms.
WCU's annual Jazz Festival will take place Friday, March 23, and Saturday, March 24, with several jazz clinics during the weekend led by guest saxophonist Chris Cheek and guest trumpeter Rich Willey.
A task force conducting an in-depth examination of the WCU football program will hold its first meetings Tuesday, March 20, to seek input from anyone interested in Catamount football.
Nationally known financial analyst Gina Martin of Wachovia Bank will present the keynote address during a March 20-22 “Banking Kickoff” planned at WCU to celebrate a new banking concentration in WCU’s College of Business.
The scholarly research of WCU's graduate students will be showcased during the university’s 15th annual Graduate Research Symposium on Thursday, March 22, at A.K. Hinds University Center.
The board of trustees of Western Carolina University will hold its quarterly meeting at 9:30 a.m. Friday, March 23, in the Multipurpose Room of the A.K. Hinds University Center.
A historian of mathematics who researched a Harvard professor’s role in discovering the planet Neptune will deliver the keynote address at the third annual Smoky Mountain Undergraduate Research Conference on the History of Mathematics at WCU on Saturday, March 31.
Student teams from Fairview Elementary and Reynolds High schools in Buncombe County and Andrews Middle School in Cherokee County came out ahead of the pack by winning two first-place awards each during the Schuncke Memorial Odyssey of the Mind Tournament held Saturday, March 3, at WCU.
Sparked by an early 14-0 run and a season-best 54 first-half points, the Western Carolina Lady Catamounts raced to a double-digit lead six minutes into last night's game (March 15) and never let up, advancing to the second round of the Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) with a 91-63 thrashing of the East Tennessee State Buccaneers.
Students from area school systems recently took top honors at WCU's regional Science Fair and Festival and earned the right to advance to the North Carolina State Science Fair in Raleigh on Saturday, March 24.
Regular season Southern Conference champion Western Carolina (23-9) will host former SoCon foe East Tennessee State (20-11) this Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Ramsey Center in the first round of the Postseason Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT).
More than 375 high school students from across Western North Carolina will test their knowledge of French and Spanish on Thursday, March 15, in WCU’s 25th Annual Foreign Language Contest.
WCU's Mountain Heritage Center will offer a program combo on Sunday, March 18 – a presentation on “The Scottish Presence in Southern Samplers” and a program designed for families titled “What’s With the Weather?”
Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, assistant to the principal chief for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, will give a presentation about a new Cherokee writing project as the Appalachian Cultural Lunchtime Series continues Wednesday, March 21, at WCU’s Mountain Heritage Center.
The music department at Western Carolina University will continue with its Catamount Concert Series on Tuesday, March 27, featuring the Bremen Clarinet Quartet.
The “Telling Mountain Stories” folk life series will continue at Western Carolina University on Tuesday, March 13, with a presentation by Cherokee storyteller Tom Hill.
Area minority students interested in learning about the educational opportunities available at WCU are invited to visit the campus for “Experience Western” on Saturday, March 17, and Sunday, March 18.
A team of WCU students is currently ranked eighth among the nation's colleges in the number of student abstracts that have been accepted for presentation at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research.
WCU's College of Education and Allied Profession’s Center for Mathematics and Science Education is now offering a Pre-College Program for students in grades six through 12.
Rather than spending spring break at the beach, a group of WCU students are heading to Philadelphia to combat hunger and homelessness.
Thirteen undergraduate and graduate students from WCU recently participated in the annual spring auditions for the North Carolina chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing.
A team of four WCU students recently recorded a third-place finish in a competition that tested the skills of emergency medical service providers from college campuses across the United States and Canada.
Western Carolina University graduate student Laurel Fisher won first place in the graduate division auditions of the Charlotte Opera Guild on Saturday, Feb. 24.
Paul Basler, professor of music at the University of Florida, will present a recital on horn at Western Carolina University on Wednesday, March 14.
Two of the eight acclaimed authors to gather at Western Carolina University for the fifth annual Spring Literary Festival, set for March 26-29, have close ties to the university.
WCU's Spring Literary Festival will host a free writing workshop centered on capturing local and personal histories on Saturday, March 10, and Saturday, March 17, from 1-3 p.m. in the meeting room of the Jackson County Public Library, 755 W. Main St., Sylva.
Twenty-one seniors in the Fine Arts Program at WCU will present a thesis exhibition in the areas of ceramics, painting, printmaking, photography and sculpture from Thursday, March 1, through Saturday, March 24, in the Fine Arts Museum.
WCU will be celebrating the annual Jackson County Youth Art Month with an exhibit of student work beginning on Monday, March 12, and continuing until Friday, March 30.
The winter series of old-time and bluegrass music jam sessions sponsored by WCU's Mountain Heritage Center will conclude when local musicians get together to pick and sing on Thursday, March 15.
Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center will offer a basket-making workshop with Cherokee basketmaker Katrina Maney from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Sunday, March 25.
