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Western Carolina University will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a week of service, essays, art, a movie discussion, a theatrical performance, poetry, musical tributes and a guest speaker beginning Monday, Jan. 19. “The celebration’s theme ‘Dream Fulfilled?!…A Day to Dream, A Lifetime to Act’ challenges our campus community […]
Free concerts planned for the seventh annual Western Carolina University Trumpet Festival will feature performers including jazz musician Bobby Shew, recording artist Malcolm McNab and Paul Merkelo, principal trumpet of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. The festival, which will be held during the Jan. 16-18 Martin Luther King Jr. weekend on […]
Western Carolina University will host the fourth annual Community Service-Learning Fair from 1 to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 27, in the Grandroom of A.K. Hinds University Center. The fair, which is free and open to the public, will allow members of community organizations to inform students, faculty, staff and […]
A school supply and book drive is under way in Cullowhee, Sylva and Dillsboro as part of Western Carolina University’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day pre-celebration activities. Items collected through Saturday, Jan. 24, will benefit Jackson County schools and Friends of the Library in Sylva. Collection sites include Annie’s Bakery, […]
Prospective nursing students will have an opportunity to ask questions and discuss their futures with Western Carolina University nursing faculty from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 24, as WCU’s School of Nursing sponsors an open house on Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College’s Enka campus. Interested individuals can learn about […]
Western Carolina women’s basketball senior center Brooke Johnson has been named as one of the 30 candidates for the Lowe’s Senior Class Award – making her one of the top seniors in the nation. She becomes the first-ever Western Carolina student-athlete, male or female, to be nominated for this award […]
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Health sciences students at Western Carolina University recently contributed more than 800 nonperishable food items to the Community Table in Sylva. The donations came through the fourth annual Health Sciences Food Drive, organized by the Western Athletic Training Association, a student-run organization for athletic training majors at WCU. WATA was […]
Trevor Jones, a native of St. Cloud, Minn., is the new curator at the Mountain Heritage Center, Western Carolina University’s museum of Southern Appalachian natural and cultural history. Jones was formerly curator of history at the Neville Public Museum in Green Bay, Wis. He earned bachelor’s degrees in history and […]
Patricia Bricker, assistant professor of elementary and middle grades education, has received the 2008 Jo Duckett Wallace Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding Service in Science Education at the Elementary Level, an award given by the North Carolina Science Teachers Association. Bricker’s research interests range from integrating science and literacy to […]
