A $1 million gift from the BB&T Foundation will enable the WCU College of Business to develop a program that will focus on the study of leadership, ethics and capitalism.
Western Carolina University is among American colleges and universities featured in the 2008-09 edition of “Colleges of Distinction,” a guide for prospective students that focuses on four areas of academic quality – student engagement, great teaching, vibrant communities, and successful outcomes.
Western Carolina University’s School of Music will present the holiday concert “Sounds of the Season” at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 7, at the Fine and Performing Arts Center on Western’s campus.
The verdict is in – book critics across the country are falling in love with “Serena,” the latest novel penned by Ron Rash, Western Carolina University’s Parris Distinguished Professor of Appalachian Culture.
Keith Wells, an assistant professor of health sciences in Western Carolina University’s emergency medical care program, recently won the 2008 Founders Award from the Appalachian Center for Wilderness Medicine.
The board of trustees of Western Carolina University will hold its quarterly meeting at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3, in the boardroom of H.F. Robinson Administration Building.
Western Carolina University junior Kerri Elizabeth Bernhardt has been named the Western Region Outstanding Mathematics Education Student for 2008 by the North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Western Carolina University recently named 20 top faculty members as recipients of the 2008 Chancellor’s Meritorious Award for Engaged Teaching.
Revis James, director of the Energy Technology Assessment Center of the Electric Power Research Institute, will make a presentation titled “The ElectriNet – Creating the Electricity Network of the Future” at 11 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 4, in the theater of A.K. Hinds University Center.
The thesis show by acclaimed potter Joel Queen, a Master of Fine Arts candidate at Western Carolina University, will be on view from Saturday, Dec. 6, through Wednesday, Dec. 31, at the Grove Arcade Arts & Heritage Gallery at 1 Page Ave. in downtown Asheville. A reception for Queen will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, at the gallery.
The 2008-09 old-time and bluegrass music concert/jam session series at Western Carolina University will continue Thursday, Dec. 4, with a concert by three local musicians, followed by a jam session in which local musicians are invited to participate.
Western Carolina University will offer two introductory classes in December as a part of the “Wired Workshops” training series.
Western Carolina University’s Galaxy of Stars Series will light up the winter with a high-energy musical show, hosting “A Red, Hot … & Blue! White Christmas!” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 12, at the Fine and Performing Arts Center on Western’s campus.
In response to the ongoing national economic crisis, Western Carolina University’s Institute for the Economy and the Future is launching WNC Pulse, a new Web-based initiative, to help solve regional problems by identifying Western North Carolina’s major economic, social and political issues and trends.
A WCU pennant will hang in a classroom at rival institution Appalachian State University for the rest of the semester because WCU nutrition students won a food drive competition with ASU.
Scott Higgins, dean of the Graduate School and Research at Western Carolina University, is the new president of the North Carolina Conference of Graduate Schools.
Chancellor John W. Bardo convened a town hall meeting Tuesday, Nov. 11, to discuss the impact of the economic downturn on the state of North Carolina and Western Carolina University.
A Western Carolina University faculty member and 10 of her students will use a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to travel to South America in early 2009 to work on a project testing the remote sensing applications of a new type of radar satellite technology.
Best-selling novelist Kathy Reichs shared with Western Carolina University students on Tuesday, Nov. 18, highlights of a career that has taken her from behind the scenes in crime laboratories to in front of the cameras in a cameo role in “Bones,” the popular television show inspired by her books.
Western Carolina University’s School of Music will present its final Wind Ensemble concert for the fall semester at 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4, in the performance hall of WCU's Fine and Performing Arts Center.
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.
Western Carolina University students may have played a small part in Western North Carolina’s record-breaking voter turnout for this year’s elections, with help from a 2008 North Carolina Campus Compact Vote Initiative grant the university recently received.
Two years after relocating to Western Carolina University from its longtime home at Duke University, a program known worldwide for its use of science to influence public policy affecting management of U.S. shorelines is establishing a permanent beachhead in South Carolina’s Lowcountry.
Western Carolina University’s Office of Career Services will be hosting a career poster night from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4, in the Ramsey Center concourse on Western’s campus.
Western Carolina University student Adrian Rose, a 2005 graduate of McDowell High School, is featured on a series of billboards introducing the university’s new logo and the theme, “Your climb starts here.”
If you can’t go to Broadway, bring Broadway to you. Such is the thinking behind the Western Carolina University musical theater program’s new initiative to bring working theater professionals into the classroom.
Artists from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians recently were able to harvest river cane needed for baskets through the revival of a 60-year-old agreement by staffers with the Revitalization of Traditional Cherokee Artisan Resources, an initiative operated through Western Carolina University’s Cherokee studies program.
Western Carolina University will offer “Learning for Fun: Stained Glass” from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursdays, Nov. 6 through Dec.18 in the Cordelia Camp Building.
Tickets go on sale Nov. 4 for the annual Madrigal Christmas Dinners, which will be held Friday, Dec. 5, and Saturday, Dec. 6, in the Grandroom of Western’s A.K. Hinds University Center.
The second annual Jingle Bell 5-K race, sponsored by Western Carolina University’s Sport Management Association and held on the WCU campus Tuesday, Nov. 4, raised more than $1,100, organizers said.
