Spanish Program News

Be persistent. Be studious. Try, and keep trying.

There is no part of Western North Carolina untouched by microplastics. No river that flows without fibers. No rain that falls without microscopic debris.

When Meghan Greenly, sitting beside her proud mother, got her offer, she couldn’t help but smile.

Our experience of the night sky is everchanging. As our eyes wander to the heavens and we gradually learn more about the moon and stars, the twinkling cosmos glow in greater detail.

Western Carolina University English professor Jeremy Jones’s byline is a bit of a mainstay in Our State magazine. His stories tend to involve history or family in some way, taking him to the family reunion of Chang and Eng Bunker, the original Siamese twins, and leading him to write a piece on how Southerners call each other food names as terms of endearment.

Home is found in the unlikeliest of places. For Bri Myles this summer, it was in Costa Rica.

A public relations professional who has served as a mentor in the Department of Communication at Western Carolina University is now providing support to students in a different way by establishing a new endowment fund to enhance access to extracurricular and professional development activities.

When Western Carolina University alumna Kara McMullen stands on the wet stone of Salt Rock Gap, thousands of acres of chirping forest span before her, a sprawling network of trails buried just beneath.

Brett Riggs is heavily involved with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, so when the tribal librarian asked him to come to council to support a resolution for the library, no questions were asked.

Unearthing history is nothing new to Cherokee Language Program director and associate professor Sara Snyder Hopkins. Thanks to a federal grant, she and a group of colleagues will continue to do so.