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Culturally-Based Native Health Program holding lab for area students

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The keynote speaker will be Dr. Jerri McLemore, a professor of pathology at Wake Forest University and medical examiner for Western North Carolina, who is also from the Creek Nation of Oklahoma.

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‘Sustainability and the Environment’ takes over as 2019-20 campus learning theme

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Sustainability is something that affects everyone in some way. During WCU’s 2019-20 academic year, it will affect students as the new campus learning theme.

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Rays strive to bring students, STEM together through scholarship support

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They were engineers in the making whose lives eventually merged as undergraduate students at Tennessee Technological University.

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Career center’s work earns ‘College of Distinction’ honors for WCU

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The university is one of four higher education institutions in the state and among 48 in the nation selected for the recognition.

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‘I Love WCU’ month wraps up March 1 with food, fun, door prizes

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Attendees can enjoy a light buffet lunch and maybe take home a door prize donated by local businesses that support the Faculty Staff Giving Champions initiative.

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