Western Carolina University’s grants office recently announced more than $450,000 in new funding for faculty and staff initiatives.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A new community theatre company led by WCU students will stage Disney Channel’s “High School Musical” from Thursday, July 10, to Sunday, July 13, at the Swain County Center for the Arts.
Western Carolina University’s Outdoor Summer Fun Series will feature “Hike with a Botanist” Thursday, July 17, as participants will spend the day on a leisurely hike with one of the university’s botany experts to learn about plant identification and the Appalachian ecosystem.
The summer company of WCU's Theatre in Education program will perform “Dogwood’s Search” at 3 p.m. Sunday, July 20, at the Colonial Theatre in Canton and then July 25 at a national theater conference in Atlanta.
Western Carolina University’s Outdoor Summer Fun Series will offer “Outdoor Photography” from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, July 31.
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.
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.
