Amy Kunst, an earth sciences education student, is the first recipient of a scholarship started by geology professor Steve Yurkovich for geology and earth sciences education students.
Armed with a year’s worth of research conducted by one of the nation’s leading higher education marketing firms, Western Carolina University unveiled a new institutional branding campaign Wednesday, Oct. 1, with faculty and staff the first to see new concepts for university marketing and promotions.
Western Carolina University paid tribute Saturday, Oct. 4, to five highly distinguished alumni – a national award-winning after-school programs director, a recently appointed college vice president, an international business leader for Pfizer Inc., and a couple who are longtime supporters of WCU.
Ronald A. Johnson, dean of the College of Business at Western Carolina University, will lead a team of business faculty members in a presentation about the current national economic crisis from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7, in the Grandroom of the A.K. Hinds University Center.
Western Carolina University crowned Jessica Steel, a senior from Concord, the queen and Andrew Bishop, a junior from Penrose, the king of the 2008 Homecoming Court during halftime activities at Western’s football game against the Samford University Bulldogs on Saturday, Oct. 4.
Twenty-six top high school marching bands from five states will assemble for Western Carolina University’s eighth annual Tournament of Champions, an invitational competition hosted by Western’s Pride of the Mountains Marching Band at E.J. Whitmire Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 11.
Rather than spending fall break relaxing at home or traveling leisurely, 14 students from Western Carolina University will visit Atlanta to help children and the homeless, volunteering with community-service agencies from Thursday, Oct. 9, to Monday, Oct. 13.
The Western Carolina University Wind Ensemble will feature music of the 1920s during its season-opening concert at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7, at WCU’s Fine and Performing Arts Center.
The dean of Western Carolina University’s Honors College is ready to hang up his cycling shorts after completing his seventh and final bicycle ride to raise pledges for the college’s student scholarship fund.
Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Day, held Sept. 27 on the campus in Cullowhee, gave local residents a chance to show off their foot speed, chain saw prowess and other skills in a variety of contests.
The department of social work at Western Carolina University will hold an open house for prospective students from 2 until 3 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15.
Western Carolina University will offer a SAT preparation workshop from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 16, in Room 137 of the Cordelia Camp Building.
If you hold Mountain Heritage Day, they will come. Despite a gasoline crunch and forecasts for a rainy day, a healthy crowd turned out Saturday (Sept. 27) for the 34th edition of Mountain Heritage Day, Western Carolina University’s annual celebration of Appalachian culture.
Western Carolina University presented its Mountain Heritage Awards for 2008 on Saturday (Sept. 27) to a fiddle and guitar duo that performs “Appalachian swing” and to a clogging troupe that has been kicking up its heels in its own unique style for 37 years.
A team of students from the master’s degree program in nurse anesthesia at Western Carolina University recently took first place in the 2008 North Carolina State Anesthesia College Bowl, beating teams from five other N.C. schools for the title.
There is reason to be extra afraid this Halloween season as Martians invade the Earth when Western Carolina University presents a historically accurate re-creation of the radio drama “The War of the Worlds” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30, in Western’s Fine and Performing Arts Center.
Western Carolina University will offer a “Youth Swim Review” course for children ages 5 and above from 5:45 to 6:45 p.m. Oct. 20-23 in Breese Gym.
Western Carolina University is among 302 public four-year colleges and universities taking part in a new initiative designed to provide high school students, parents and guidance counselors with access to basic, comparable information about student characteristics, costs, student experience and learning outcomes, presented in a user-friendly online format.
Images of extensive damage to the Texas Gulf Coast by Hurricane Ike captured by Western Carolina University’s Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines are now available for online public viewing.
Forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, the best-selling author whose mystery novels inspired the hit Fox television series “Bones,” will visit Western Carolina University in November as part of the 2008-09 Chancellor’s Speaker Series.
Western Carolina University has announced its three winners for the 2008 U.S. Constitution Day Essay Contest.
A Western Carolina University undergraduate student will present his research paper at the 80th annual Southern Political Science Association conference.
Western Carolina University’s School of Art and Design will continue its fall 2008 Visiting Artist and Event Series with featured artists’ lectures throughout October.
Western Carolina University Chancellor John Bardo announced today that classes and offices are open for business as usual, in spite of the severe gas shortage in the western part of the state.
Twenty-five Western Carolina University student teams are among a total of 578 Western North Carolina college students participating in Juicy Ideas, a collegiate competition that challenges students to combine entrepreneurship with environmental responsibility.
Western Carolina University students are invited to participate in a campuswide project to create works of original art intended to raise awareness about the importance of registering and voting in the November election.
Mark Rogers, a Western Carolina University senior, recently represented the Kappa Alpha Order, a national men’s fraternity headquartered in Roanoke, Va., when he presented a check totaling $165,931 to the Muscular Dystrophy Association during its 43rd annual Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon.
Western Carolina University alumna Beth Tyson Lofquist, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, has been named the university’s associate provost.
If there’s a silver lining to be found in the lack of rain clouds during an extended period of dry weather across the mountains of Western North Carolina this spring and summer, it may come in the form of above-average leaf color this fall.
Western Carolina University’s in-house mosquito expert is warning residents of some Western North Carolina counties to be on the lookout for a species of mosquito known for its painful and persistent bites.
