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’s Office of Admission has extended the tuition deposit deadline for the 2008 fall semester until Aug. 1 in response to concerns expressed by prospective freshmen and their parents in the face of an economic downturn that threatens to drag on into the summer.
A new agreement makes it easier for students in Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College's new entrepreneurship program to transfer to Western Carolina University and earn a four-year business degree.
Award-winning novelist Rick Boyer of the English department faculty is author of the newly published “The Quintessential Sherlock Holmes,” a collection of five full-length stories based upon the legendary detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Western Carolina University’s Outdoor Summer Fun Series will offer “Outdoor Photography” from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, July 31.
Cheryl Stacy, a Troutman resident enrolled in Western Carolina University’s family nurse practitioner program, is one of 22 graduate students from across the nation recently named recipients of academic scholarships by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Foundation.
Western Carolina University will bestow an honorary doctorate upon Sylva writer and storyteller Gary N. Carden as the university holds summer commencement exercises Friday, Aug. 1, at the Ramsey Regional Activity Center.
Christopher Pratt, former dean of career education at Columbia University, is the new associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Business at Western Carolina University.
The Fine Art Museum at Western Carolina University has announced winners in its exhibit “Fragile Earth: Reflections on the Environment.”
Students in programs within Western Carolina University’s department of stage and screen excelled in the Asheville leg of an international competition that gives participants two days to make a short film.
Food vendors are being sought to participate in Mountain Heritage Day, Western Carolina University’s daylong celebration of mountain culture that will be held on the WCU campus Saturday, Sept. 27.
A new book edited by two WCU political scientists examines the changing face of politics in North Carolina and revisits the state’s long-standing progressive reputation in light of transformations in Old North State politics over the past 50 years.
Western Carolina University’s Outdoor Summer Fun Series kicks off Thursday, July 10, with “Whitewater Rafting” and continues throughout the month with a series of entertaining and educational outdoor adventures.
Western Carolina University is seeking official recognition of its emphasis on community engagement and its link to engaged teaching, research and service.
For the first time since its formation, there is a changing of the guard for Western Carolina University’s Public Policy Institute as founding director Gordon Mercer hands over the reins to fellow political science and public affairs faculty member Christopher Cooper.
Gas prices are soaring, and so is enrollment in academic programs offered online by Western Carolina University.
Elizabeth Gillespie McRae, associate professor of history, has been elected to membership in the Historical Society of North Carolina.
The Western Carolina University Trumpet Ensemble recently participated in an intensive, weeklong program in Italy in connection with Orvieto Musica, an international chamber music festival.
David Dorondo, associate professor of history, has been elected as an at-large member to the board of the North Carolina Association of Historians.
WCU employees, their children and spouses are getting a financial incentive to earn degrees from the university under a recently approved scholarship program.
Western Carolina University will welcome more than 50 budding theatre performers from across the Southeast during the Triple Arts Broadway Series, to be held Sunday, July 20, through Sunday, Aug. 3.
Brill publishing house recently released the book “Monstrous Fishes and the Mead-Dark Sea: Whaling in the Medieval North Atlantic” by Vicki Szabo, associate professor of history.
More than 400 participants are expected on the campus of Western Carolina University during the 25th anniversary of the “Cullowhee Conference: Native Plants in the Landscape,” to be held Wednesday, July 23, through Saturday, July 26.
Smoking is prohibited within 50 feet of buildings on Western Carolina University’s campus under a policy that took effect Tuesday, July 1.
Chancellor John W. Bardo presented the 2008 Judy H. Dowell Outstanding Support Staff Award to university photographer Mark Haskett at a service awards luncheon.
Two students in WCU’s athletic training program recently received scholarships from the Mid-Atlantic Athletic Trainers’ Association as part of the organization’s annual symposium.
Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center is among the first facilities in the nation chosen to receive the Connecting to Collections Bookshelf, a set of books relating to artifact conservation and proper museum practices.
Western Carolina University student William Styles will get a first-hand look at the political process above and beyond what he is learning in the classroom as a senior majoring in political science when he attends the Democratic National Convention in August.
WCU has just installed and tested a new, combination siren and public address system, which features a variety of alert tones, a library of prerecorded messages that can be used to respond to natural or manmade emergencies, and a manual override to enable spoken messages from campus police.
Chancellor John Bardo on Thursday, June 5, committed Western Carolina University to joining a community-university partnership focused on revitalizing the Cherokee language.
