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Engineer Your Own Future

Cristian Trujillo Tavera is a senior in Western Carolina University's College of Engineering and Technology majoring in mechanical engineering.  

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Engineering honor society Tau Beta Pi chapter installed at WCU

The College of Engineering and Technology is now officially part of the national Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society.  

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Annual Tuck River Cleanup slated for April 15

The annual Tuck River Cleanup will be held on Saturday, April 15, with registration being held from 9-11 a.m. at Western Carolina University’s Alumni Tower.  

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Amber C. Albert named director of the Mountain Heritage Center

On March 1, WCU named Amber Clawson Albert as the director of the Mountain Heritage Center following the retirement of Pam Meister in December 2022.   

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Environmental Health Sciences program partners with local health departments for summer internships

This summer, students from the Environmental Health Sciences program will get the opportunity to get hands-on experience in health departments in eight of North Carolina’s westernmost counties.  

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New sculpture coming to WCU’s Apodaca Science Building

The outside of Western Carolina University’s Apodaca Science Building will soon feature a new sculpture.  

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WCU's first chief diversity officer appointed senior vice chancellor for diversity, equity and inclusion; chief diversity officer at SUNY

Ricardo Nazario-Colón, WCU’s inaugural chief diversity officer, has been appointed by the State University of New York’s Board of Trustees as the senior vice chancellor for diversity, equity and inclusion and chief diversity officer.  

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News writing course part of effort to keep local newspapers in circulation

Students in Katerina Spasovska’s News Writing II course are getting real-world experience writing stories for the local newspaper, the Sylva Herald.  

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Jim Costa publishes book celebrating work of scientist and humanitarian Alfred Russel Wallace

In Costa’s book, “Radical by Nature – The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace,” he dives into scholarly research, journals, notebooks and letters to help bring Wallace’s fascinating history to life.  

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