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    Western Carolina Power receives Public Power Awards of Excellence

    September 2

    Western Carolina Power, the university-owned electric utility serving parts of ĢƵ and surrounding customers, has been named one of 23 public power communities across North Carolina to receive a 2024 Public Power Award of Excellence.

  • PRSSA ĢƵmembers with Janet Oppenheimer and Betty Farmer

    Retired PR professional creates endowment to support ĢƵstudents

    Bill Studenc
    September 2

    A public relations professional who has served as a mentor in the Department of Communication at ĢƵ is now providing support to students in a different way by establishing a new endowment fund to enhance access to extracurricular and professional development activities.

  • 2025 ĢƵOrientation student staff

    Students Kate Taylor, Jay Brown help new students adjust to life at WCU

    Cam Adams
    August 28

    What does it mean to be a Catamount? It’s not necessarily someone from Cullowhee. It’s not always someone who’s stepped foot on campus. It’s when someone calls ĢƵ home — and much more.

  • Bethany Davidson, a faculty member in the entrepreneurship program at ĢƵ, serves as mentor for a group project.

    Retired professor creates faculty mentorship endowment in College of Business

    Bill Studenc
    August 28

    A retired professor in ĢƵ’s College of Business has created an endowment fund that will provide resources for mentorship programs for current faculty members within the college.

  • Partners in a regional effort to enhance the use of broadband across Western North Carolina meet at Lake Junaluska. From left are Becca Scott of the Southwestern Commission, Sarah Thompson of Dogwood Health Trust and Tonya Snider of ĢƵ’s College of Business.

    ĢƵplaying role in regional effort to improve broadband access, training in WNC

    Bill Studenc
    August 27

    A faculty member in ĢƵ’s College of Business is facilitating a yearlong effort to provide increased access to broadband and the training needed to take full advantage of the technological resources to underserved populations of rural Western North Carolina.

  • ĢƵAlumna Kara McMullen

    A Wild Beginning: Alumna Kara McMullen on a career in Panthertown

    Shane Ryden
    August 25

    When ĢƵ alumna Kara McMullen stands on the wet stone of Salt Rock Gap, thousands of acres of chirping forest span before her, a sprawling network of trails buried just beneath.

  • Brett Riggs at the Watauga Mound archaeology site in 2023

    WCU’s Brett Riggs named honorary member of EBCI

    Cam Adams
    August 20

    Brett Riggs is heavily involved with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, so when the tribal librarian asked him to come to council to support a resolution for the library, no questions were asked.

  • Luca Brunetti and Raul Rodriguez Chapieski

    From Curitiba to Cullowhee: A Brazilian reunion at WCU

    Shane Ryden
    August 20

    “Impressive how we find Brazilians everywhere, right?” The words, spoken in Portuguese, broke Luca Brunetti’s concentration. He ended his phone call with his family and looked more closely at the young man standing before him.

  • Sara Snyder Hopkins

    WCU's ECHT project receives $450K grant from NEH

    Cam Adams
    August 19

    Unearthing history is nothing new to Cherokee Language Program director and associate professor Sara Snyder Hopkins. Thanks to a federal grant, she and a group of colleagues will continue to do so.

  • The College of Engineering and Technology is launching a a new bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a new industrial engineering concentration.

    ĢƵlaunches mechanical engineering degree, industrial engineering concentration

    Teresa Tate
    August 15

    ĢƵ’s College of Engineering and Technology is expanding its engineering programs again this fall with the launch of a new bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a new industrial engineering concentration.

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