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Mark calendars for 35th annual Tuck River Cleanup, coming up soon

Campus and community will come together for what's believed to be the nation’s largest single-day effort to remove garbage from a waterway.  

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Six Sigma yellow belt training to be offered at Biltmore Park site

Todd Creasy, associate professor in WCU’s College of Business and Juran Institute certified master black belt in Six Sigma, will serve as instructor.   

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Staff Senate will hold monthly meeting April 10 at University Center

Employee attendance is considered work time (university service) with the appropriate approval of the individual’s supervisor.  

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Moon viewing party scheduled for April 12 at Jackson County Airport

The event, part of the 2019 North Carolina Science Festival’s Statewide Star Party, is open to the public.   

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Stage and Screen students, faculty to present 'Beauty and the Beast'

The musical premiered on Broadway in April 1994 starring Terrence Mann, WCU’s Phillips Distinguished Professor of Musical Theatre, as the Beast.  

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Connelly wins Festival of Media Arts competition for public service announcement

The PSA takes an unusual approach in warning of the dangers of paying too much attention to a mobile device instead of personal safety.  

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Triple Major Brennan Burke Goes Beyond the Numbers and Her Degrees

Following graduation in May and a summer internship in Charlotte, Western Carolina University senior Brennan Burke will have to decide what path to follow next. When it comes time to make that decision, Burke will have more options than most because of the fact that she is earning a triple major. Burke started as a mathematics major with a concentration in actuarial science, but along the way she added finance and accounting to the mix, giving her the trifecta. Not bad for someone who in high school thought she wanted to be a civil engineer.  

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Duke historian to speak on 'Campus Origins of Today's Radical Right'

Nancy MacLean’s talk will draw from her book “Democracy in Chains,” which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Current Interest.   

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Global Spotlight Series tackles drug smuggling, human trafficking

The Wednesday, April 10, event is sponsored by the Political Science and Public Affairs Department and is part of an ongoing series of panel discussions on national and international issues.   

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