Students from WCU’s department of communication will lead an introductory workshop for senior citizens interested in learning about the popular MySpace social networking Web site.
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.
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.”
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 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.
Gordon E. Mercer, professor of political science and public affairs, has been re-elected president of Pi Gamma Mu international honor society.
Richard Starnes, head of the history department at Western Carolina University, was appointed to the North Carolina Historical Commission.
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.
Ron Rash, the Parris Distinguished Professor of Appalachian Culture at Western Carolina University, has been named recipient of the 2008 Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award for his compilation of short stories, “Chemistry and Other Stories.”
WCU’s grants office announced more than $325,000 in funding recently awarded to faculty and staff.
Students and community members will have the opportunity to engage movie directors about their work as part of the 2008-09 Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers, the nation’s only regional tour of independent filmmakers and their films, running from September through April at Western Carolina University.
David Dorondo, associate professor of history, has been elected as an at-large member to the board of the North Carolina Association of Historians.
