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Alumna shares her journey from percussionist to Hollywood music composer

Western Carolina University construction management students planned and built four shelters this fall for Project FIRE, which gives firewood to low-income, elderly Jackson County residents who rely on it for heat.

Every Western Carolina University pre-licensure nursing student is now receiving scholarship support through a new program established by $2.1 million from philanthropists William and Joanne Conway via their donor-assisted fund, the Bedford Falls Foundation.

Western Carolina University’s College of Business will welcome alumnus and former Catamount baseball player Garrett Ozar as a keynote speaker during Global Entrepreneurship Week.

Chancellor and husband back the ‘Fill the Western Sky’ campaign with a $4 million estate gift

Former players tip off an effort to name the women's basketball locker room after the program's matriarch

Donors are stepping up to help renovate WCU’s 50-year-old E.J. Whitmire Stadium and other athletics facilities

Western Carolina University is home to many students, alumni and friends, and it's looking to add more folks to the Catamount family.

Nearly 40 faculty and staff members now have a new title to go along with their position at Western Carolina University, and that title is “new donor.”

Western Carolina University College of Engineering and Technology professor Bora Karayaka knew it was a shot in the dark — but that shot ended up paying off.