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Trio in the African country of Chad awake to a familiar cry: ‘We need anesthesia’

Ian Hewer, Ben Woody and Jenny Della Posta travel for 52 hours on a medical mission trip and get a taste of medical improvisation.   

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‘Art Day for Kids’ offered on Jan. 21 Martin Luther King Jr. holiday

Children will work on projects that include figurative clay sculptures, portraiture in oil pastel and a large pillow-based installation project.  

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Catamount Club is going strong after 50 years

The Catamount Club is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year as the primary fundraising arm for WCU athletics.  

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Fusion Jazz Ensemble performs at jazz conference in Reno, Nevada

The Jan. 9-12 event was billed as “part music festival, part networking, part education and all inspiration.”   

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Online programs receive national rankings from US News and World Report

The publication assesses schools based on four general, weighted categories for online programs: student engagement, student services and technology, faculty credentials and training, and peer reputation.  

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Marshall's Hai-yang Chen selected as next College of Business dean

The national search was led by a campus committee chaired by Jeff Ray, dean of the College of Engineering and Technology, and completed with the assistance of the Buffkin-Baker executive search firm.  

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WCU, SCC hosting lunar eclipse viewing at Jackson County Airport

The partial eclipse will begin at 10:33 p.m. on Jan. 20, and totality will start at 11:41 p.m. and last for a little over an hour.  

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Career Center accepting applications for summer internship program

Twenty WCU students will be selected to receive $5,000 each for the 30-hours-a-week internships at various nonprofit organizations across Western North Carolina.  

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Candidate for health and human sciences dean to visit campus Jan. 15-18

WCU is conducting a national search to fill the dean’s position currently held by Douglas Keskula.  

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