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  • New Beginnings

    New Beginnings

    October 30

    New Catamount head basketball coaches Tim Craft and Jonathan Tsipis usher in a new era as Craft looks to build on last year’s 22-win season for the men’s program and Tsipis looks to turnaround the women’s program that won just six games last year.

  • Alumni tower in Fall

    ĢƵwaives app fee for those impacted by recent hurricanes, will assist with travel costs for Nov. 23 open house attendees

    October 30

    It has been more than a month since Hurricane Helene tore through Western North Carolina and the surrounding Appalachian Mountains, but the effects of the historic storm will be felt for months and years to come. ĢƵ is working to lessen some of the burden of impacted students and families visiting and applying to college by streamlining processes and helping to offset travel costs for those attending the Nov. 23 open house.

  • Kadence Otto

    Changing Landscape of College Athletics from Labor Market Perspective

    October 30

    While most sports fans look at the changing landscape of intercollegiate athletics – including the transfer portal and financial compensation for players – through the perspective of the impact on their favorite teams, two professors in ĢƵ’s College of Business are examining the issue from a different angle.

  • Gary Ayers has been behind the microphone for nearly 40 years

    Voice of the Cats

    October 30

    Gary Ayers has been behind the microphone for nearly 40 years

  • Spark of the Eagle Dancer collection at WCU

    ĢƵFine Art Museum exhibition wins Bronze Award

    October 29

    Denise Drury Homewood, executive director of the Bardo Arts Center at ĢƵ, believed "Spark of the Eagle Dancer: The Collecting Legacy of Lambert Wilson" exhibition was an award winner from the start.

  • Hungarian Fulbright trip

    ĢƵfaculty, staff visit Hungary through Fulbright Commission

    October 28

    Earlier this summer, Ingrid Bego, director of International Studies at ĢƵ, and Wes Milner, executive director of ĢƵGlobal, were invited by the Fulbright Commission to attend a week-long visit in Hungary to strengthen the partnership between universities in Appalachia and Hungarian higher education institutions.

  • Photo of Munene Mwaniki

    Munene Mwaniki named ĢƵinterim Global Black Studies director

    October 24

    Mwaniki, an associate professor of anthropology and sociology for the College of Arts and Sciences, was named the interim Global Black Studies director at WCU.

  • Brinson Honors College

    ĢƵstudent magazine wins first place in publications contest

    October 24

    In the fall, it starts as small as a story pitch. In the spring? As tiny as a sketch on a piece of paper. Those little ideas turn into Imagine magazine, a publication produced by student writers and designers at ĢƵ.

  • Lisa Briggs (right) works with a HRD K-9 and handler at a ĢƵtraining.

    ĢƵhuman remains detection expert Lisa Briggs debunks false HRD K-9 information surrounding Hurricane Helene recovery efforts

    October 23

    Lisa Briggs, director of ĢƵ’s Human Remains Detection K-9 training program and Emergency Disaster Management program, and Edwin Grant, an HRD K-9 program instructor and long-time law enforcement officer, have been deployed with their HRD K-9s since the start of the recovery process for missing persons in Western North Carolina following Hurricane Helene's devastation.

  • Tammy Barron in Colombian classroom

    ĢƵprofessor shares co-instruction expertise with teachers in Colombia

    October 16

    ĢƵ has been engaged with Central and South American schools since 1978. Faculty travel and hold classes in various regions of Colombia, focusing on leadership in international schools. Tammy Barron, an associate professor in ĢƵ’s College of Education and Allied Professions, has continued that long-time relationship by taking her expertise in co-teaching and instruction abroad.