The studies that forensic science faculty members are planning for Western Carolina University’s new next-generation DNA sequencer could help introduce the technology into crime laboratory casework. WCU acquired and recently completed installation of a GS Junior System, an instrument that Roche Diagnostic Corp. launched globally in May. The instrument generates […]
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WCU earns national honor for civic engagement, service learning
Western Carolina University is among six universities from across the nation to be recognized by the Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars for exceptional commitment to civic engagement and service learning. The Washington Center named Western Carolina a recipient of a 2010 Higher Education Civic Engagement Award, which was […]
Before They Were Educators: Dr. Hunt Boulware
(Editor’s Note: The following is the fifth part of a series of articles looking at the lives of WCU faculty and staff before they were educators.) Which one of your history professors graduated high school in 1987, which he refers to as “history’s greatest year for fashion and hairstyles?” Western […]
Western’s future discussed in “Campus Conversations”
WCU 2020: Realizing the Vision, Planning for Our Preferred Future, is a new process that will be developed in three phases over the next few years to address where Western Carolina University is headed in the next ten years. As part of that overall process, “Campus Conversations” have taken place […]
Pride of the Mountains band director to retire after 19 years
If you once thought the famous WCU marching band director Bob Buckner would never retire, think again. After the recent booming success the Pride of the Mountains marching band has experienced, first the receiving of the Sudler Trophy then the invitation to march in the 2011 Tournament of Roses parade, […]
Chancellor Bardo announces retirement plans
(Editor’s Note: A more indepth article about Chancellor Bardo’s retirement with reaction from faculty, staff and students will appear later.) John W. Bardo, who guided Western Carolina University through a period of unprecedented growth in student enrollment, campus construction and academic stature during 15 years as the institution’s 10th […]
Our take on the Western Carolinian’s suspension by WCU
#8220;We don’t have to worry about censorship, relying on funding from the university, or the risk of being closed down,” said Erica Peel, Newsroom Advisor for The Daily Tar Heel. We used this quote on the front page of the Oct. 8 newspaper in an article about UNC System schools […]
Study sought into whether international students should pay more
64 students at Western Carolina University are looking at a possible increase in tuition fees because they are not from the United States. Bill Daughtridge, a board member for the UNC system, is preparing a study to see whether it would be “equitable” for international students to pay a higher […]
Students present at national nursing conference
Two WCU nurse anesthesia students presented their graduate student research in a conference poster at the national conference for the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists in August in Seattle. The title of their research was: “What Pharmacologic Characteristics of Propofol Contribute to its Use as Drug of Abuse?” The […]
With bed bugs on the rise, students take caution
Bed bugs have recently begun to surface all across the United States and are now being found in hotels, apartment complexes, hospitals, and even college dorms. A few years ago bed bugs were virtually non-existent and were only a part of a bedtime myth. Now, they are affecting colleges and […]
