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- All Roads Lead to Rome
- Japanese Program Newsletter - Vol. 9, 2021
- From Whee to Wi
- Denise Morgan named Goodnight Distinguished Professor of Early Literacy
- NSF grant totaling more than $1.4 million helps jumpstart WCU Smoky Mountain Noyce Scholars Program
- Project Discovery celebrates, reflects on 40th anniversary
- Psychology professor lauded for teaching excellence
- Retired Jackson County educator endows scholarship for WCU math education students
- Student receives WRESA Dogwood Trust grant
- The Catamount School plans to relocate to Reid
- Call Me MiSTER program graduates its first cohort
- WCU honors four prominent alumni at Homecoming 2024
- Study: AI Helps Students with Test Prep, Interview Practice
- Changing Landscape of College Athletics from Labor Market Perspective
- Study Examines Diversity of Workplace Spirituality
- Customer sensory experiences, behaviors at cartoon-themed restaurants
- Federal Agricultural Mediation Programs Should Be Continued, Expanded
- WCU free enterprise center has new director, new focus on undergraduate research
- Marketing professor鈥檚 research indicates iconic brands may want to avoid extensive social media
- From 鈥楴ight Court鈥 to internal auditor: The impact of extraneous factors on perception of competency
- Research Examines Social Media Impact on Hospitality Industry
- New Handbook Aims to Improve Project Performance
- The Intersection of Knowledge Management and Managing Projects
- Recent Book Shines Light on International Arbitration Issue
- New study examines role of personality dimensions in project improvement teams
- Researchers at WCU, CCU investigate pitfalls of alternative financing methods in the Carolinas
- Researcher studying relationship between PTSD, organizational support systems, job performance
- New study on 鈥4% rule鈥 suggests different approaches to retirement strategies
- Sport Organizations Frequently Strike Out When Marketing to Families
- Launch of Student Financial Wellness Program
- Study of Female Management Consultants
- Abigail Gulley | Day in the Life
- Academic Success Program students visit Argentina with support from Fund for WCU
- Master's Degree in Biology Cultivates a Career
- Additional donations boost estate gift, enable patron to see impact on parks, rec students
- African American Society reunion features Greek anniversaries, return of gospel choir
- Aliya Bailey named director of development for WCU College of Health, Human Sciences
- Not Just Brick and Mortar
- Pride of the Mountain Marching Band Snare Drum Player Inspires the Next Generation
- Annie Vasquez: The Value of People
- Annual Planting Day event recognizes philanthropic impact of WCU giving societies
- Antonia Kincaid - Finding Inspiration
- The Black Fantastic - Armani Blair
- Science + Art = Winemaking
- The Black Fantastic - Asha Sr., Charlotte
- Asheville banking executive devotes gifts of time, talent, treasure to WCU
- Bank Shot
- The Black Fantastic - BaShaun Smith
- The Black Fantastic - Benny Smith
- The Black Fantastic - Brandi Hinant-Crawford
- Brinson Honors College launches new initiative through 1889 Impact Grant
- Bryant Kinney leaves leadership post confident in WCU鈥檚 strength to lead region
- Campus priorities identified for inaugural 鈥極ne Day For Western鈥
- CAPS finds way to 鈥榤eet students鈥 with award-winning videos
- Campus Fixture Carol Burton Creates Scholarship to Aid International Graduate Students
- The Black Fantastic - Carol Burton
- Catamount community gives back during annual service weekend
- Catamount crew crisscrosses Ireland for WCU travel series maiden voyage
- Catamount Philanthropy Council provides student face for donors, alumni
- Look Good, Feel Good
- Engineer Your Future
- MFA program checked all the boxes for WCU alum: culture, mountains and academic rigor
- Manifest Your Own Masterpiece
- Chancellor Kelli Brown 4-peats on Business NC Power List
- Chancellor Brown鈥檚 late mother honored with namesake scholarship
- Discover Your Own Breakthrough
- The Black Fantastic - C.J. Mitchell
- Always Business Ready
- CoB alumna uses business and sport management skills in job with Milwaukee Brewers聽
- Cody Dalton | Pride of the Mountains
- Coffee and Culture
- College of Business alumnus who appeared on 鈥楽hark Tank鈥 shares secrets of success
- College of Engineering and Technology hosts German exchange student for research collaboration
- College of Engineering and Technology to offer new concentrations this fall
- The Comeback Cats
- Conway Scholars meet benefactor, hear from NCDHHS secretary, receive nursing pins
- Catamount Resiliency: Be the Helper
- Catamount Resiliency: Buddying UP
- Catamount Resiliency: Campus Response
- Catamount Resiliency: Students and Professors Answer the Call
- Catamount Resiliency: WCU Mother-Daughter Duo Lend a Hand
- Organizing a Future
- A Decade in Review
- 2023 Graduates | Day in the Life
- Colleen Heuser | A Day In the Life
- Hayley Sexton | A Day in the Life
- Kara Jean Spindle | A Day in the Life
- Nicole Kanupp | Day in the Life
- Semaija Johnson | Day in the Life
- Vitoria Domingues | A Day in the Life
- Donors provide emergency support to WCU students, faculty, staff affected by Helene
- Due for an Upgrade
- Ed Broadwell receives doctorate of humane letters
- WCU art student leaves mark in his 鈥渄ream鈥 country
- Engineering Treats
- Engineering WNC
- English professor picked for NC Literary Hall of Fame
- Envisioning Championships
- Essential WCU
- Ex-football player makes $150K gift to WCU athletics facilities after tour reveals few upgrades in 40 years
- Faculty members on campaign steering committee encourage colleague involvement
- Family establishes memorial scholarship fund to assist nontraditional art students at WCU
- 鈥楩ill the Western Sky鈥 contributions continue Brown family legacy of support for WCU
- Fill The Western Sky
- Former Catamount kicker splits the uprights with $100k in support for fundraising effort
- Former WCU tennis player serves up $1 million fundraising campaign gift
- Fund for WCU supports cultural, educational programming to improve student retention
- Funds launched by alumnus support preprofessional health majors, marching band students
- Game Changers
- Games On
- Gardner-Webb鈥檚 Wesley Cogdill appointed director of Catamount Club
- Gift from alumnus establishes new scholarship fund to support WCU social work students
- $2.1 million gift provides scholarships for all WCU nursing students
- Gifts in honor of retired physical therapy professor support WCU program, students
- Gifts of $100,000 from communication alumnus create 2 annual scholarship funds
- Native Plants Symbolize New Giving Societies
- Global Black Studies program shines
- Explore Further. Achieve Goals
- Gratitude for education, experiences at WCU inspire decades of support for Catamount athletics
- Exploration Leads to Career Connections
- Honoring Our Promise
- Highlands Biological Station receives $150,000 gift to continue renovation of historic building
- Pride of the Mountains to Ireland
- Pride of the Mountains to Ireland: Day 4
- The Black Fantastic - Jack Eaddy
- The Black Fantastic - Jane Adams-Dunford
- The Black Fantastic - Jeff Hughes
- Kathleen de la Torre named WCU鈥檚 assistant vice chancellor for development
- Legacy Pinning ceremony honors family connections to WCU
- Lifelong love of libraries leads to couple鈥檚 philanthropic support of Hunter Library
- Live Western
- Live Western
- Macon County couple endows fund to diversify WCU Fine Art Museum collections
- Made in NC: WCU and Jackson County share deep connection
- Making Music Accessible
- Live Western
- The Black Fantastic - Munene Mwaniki
- The Black Fantastic - Myron Jackson
- NC construction management organization provides scholarship funding
- NC Innovation
- Nearly 1,150 donors make gifts to WCU on 鈥極ne Day for Western鈥
- New Beginnings
- New Faces
- New scholarship for criminal justice students honors memory of alumnus, police officer
- New Thompson Scholar program supports study-abroad for WCU Honors College students
- No Bones 91女神 It
- Notes from Chancellor Brown
- Notes from Chancellor Brown
- The Black Fantastic - Patrice Brown
- POTM to Pixar
- Roots Of Rhythm
- Retired engineer who got his start at WCU creates new scholarship fund
- Retired Jackson County educator endows scholarship for WCU math education students
- Ronnie Carr
- School of Nursing receives $2.1 million boost to launch Conway Scholars initiative
- Senior Toast celebrates student philanthropy, ongoing engagement with WCU
- The Black Fantastic - Shamella Cromartie
- Students, faculty expand literacy improvement efforts in Ecuador with support from Fund for WCU
- The Fund for WCU supports 鈥榃hee Belong鈥 gatherings for distance ed students
- Voice of the Cats
- Third annual 鈥極ne Day for Western鈥 set for March 26
- Top Cats
- Vecinos clinic receives tech upgrade through donations to Fund for WCU
- WCU launches Veterans and Military Alumni Society
- Graciella | A Day in the Life
- The Black Fantastic - Vonterius Woolbright
- Walk the Talk
- WCU alumni don鈥檛 wait until 60s to make planned gifts to help future students
- WCU alumni help recruit future students through new Cat Eyes Club
- WCU alumnus, 鈥楽hark Tank鈥 star Garrett Ozar to speak at Global Entrepreneurship Week
- WCU announces historic $100 million goal for 鈥楩ill the Western Sky鈥 fundraising campaign
- WCU chancellor, 鈥榝irst dude鈥 back the 鈥楩ill the Western Sky鈥 campaign with a $4 million estate gift
- WCU donors shatter fundraising record with more than $35.8 million in FY24
- WCU faculty, staff giving campaign nets nearly 40 new donors
- WCU honors four prominent alumni at Homecoming 2024
- WCU students plan and build outdoor steps for HOMEBASE
- WCU鈥檚 7th scholarship funded by Whitehead family pays tribute to Honors College founding dean
- Wike Scholarship to aid WCU football players, golfers seeking careers in education
- The Black Fantastic - William Moultrie
- Women鈥檚 basketball program alumnae reunion supported by Fund for WCU, 1889 Impact Grants
- 2018: A Year in Review
- Yosemite
- Zoe | A Day in the Life
- Missing All Things WCU? Download These Zoom Backgrounds!
- Elvis Perez Galarza
- Ariel Col贸n-Rodr铆guez
- Julie Miller Denesha joins WCU Advancement to support College of Engineering, Technology
- Justin Pace to lead WCU School of Accounting, Finance, Info Systems, Business LawPage Title
- WCU alumnus Julian Manrique shines as law school grad, attorney
- Highlands couple pledges estate legacy gift in excess of $10M to WCU
- Search underway for new athletics director
- WCU鈥檚 retired SID Steve White to be honored with naming of new media center
- CCESL to host MLK National Day of Service events
- Peace in action: WCU students bring Nobel ideas to San Diego
- Associate professor, students produce grant-funded documentary about Asheville-based Umoja Health, Wellness and Justice Collective
- WCU construction management students use SPOT to help local community
- Alumnus Ebenezer Gyamfi turns childhood struggles into career of care
- Partnership on the water: WCU outfitted with new Liquidlogic kayaks
- Students from WCU, Auburn collaborate in design charette
- WCU names renovated women鈥檚 basketball locker room in honor of program matriarch
- $35K URPA grant will support engineering students to develop AI manufacturing skills
- Martin Tanaka secures NCInnovation funding for new medical device
- Nearly 1,500 donors contribute $1.4 million to WCU on GivingTuesday
- King of the hills: WCU freshman Nassor Ashenafi, father go viral, persevere
- Professor鈥檚 challenging path from India to US inspires support for WCU business students
- Student philanthropists feted at fall semester Senior Toast
- WCU鈥檚 鈥極ur Natural World鈥 Camp for youngest Jackson County students ignites STEM passion in rural classrooms
- Swiss-born alumnus Simon Gugerli returns home as analyst with UBS bank
- WCU Athletics brings holiday cheer with Education Days for local students
- WCU EMS looks back on 60 years of serving campus community
- Student spotlight: Senior Alexis Shafir writes grant for local school鈥檚 printing press
- Retired professor, staff member spouse endow scholarship for psychology students
- WCU photography class restores damaged photos lost during Helene
- Scholarships help WCU economic analysis, political science major pursue career goals
- CET students build doghouses for SPOT, donate others to local animal rescue
- Call Me MiSTER welcomes new cohort for 2025-26
- Retired WCU professor brings forest therapy to Jackson County Greenway
- A new home in Poland: Boren scholar speaks on time abroad
- Alumni spanning 50 years honored at Homecoming for achievements, service
- WCU to expand student support services for STEM students
- GivingTuesday 鈥25 to focus on support for academic excellence, Catamount Club
- Student spotlight: ABSN student Sarah Matesz overcomes Helene鈥檚 challenges
- Daughter鈥檚 experience in WCU inclusive ed program leads parents to create endowment
- The Carlyle Letters Online find new home at Hunter Library
- Power of Giving
- WCU faculty, staff add their names to 鈥楩ill the Western Sky鈥 campaign donor list
- Keeping Time
- Catamounts Take the NFL
- Service through adventure: Base Camp Cullowhee鈥檚 latest and greatest student expedition
- Loving Jackson County
- The Pifer Era Begins
- Road to the Show
- Shoot Your Shot
- 2025 notes from Chancellor Brown
- A Student's View
- Homefield Makeover
- Plastic Rain
- WCU faculty member receives $9,000 to conduct autism training workshops across NC
- Making (brain) waves: WCU adds neuroscience minor
- Retired PR professional creates endowment to support WCU students
- Young alumni spotlight: Blevins helps the Hornets buzz as account executive
- Internships help pave career paths for College of Business students
- Homefield Makeover
- Student spotlight: Nursing transfer Iyomi Grinan finds home at WCU
- $1.25 M gift to athletics pushes 鈥楩ill the Western Sky鈥 campaign past its $100 M goal
- Cherokee Center to hold 50th anniversary celebration Nov. 4
- OSR, OAR each earn $1.4 million TRIO Student Support Services grants
- Economic Impact
- Recreational therapy senior Meghan Greenly selected for prestigious award
- WCU launches master鈥檚 entry program in nursing to address regional workforce needs
- College of Business chili cookoff evolves into a campus battle of bowls set for Nov. 15
- Nursing school director endows scholarship for WCU鈥檚 new master鈥檚 degree program
- MAHEC expands access to healthcare with new office in Cullowhee
- Homecoming weekend at WCU set for Nov. 7-8 with parade, parties, alumni awards
- Bardo Arts Center to host reception for Cherokee Language and Cultural Exhibition
- University launches WCU Connect, a guaranteed admission programPage Title
- The Catamount School celebrates academic growth, rising enrollment
- Nowhere but UP
- College of Engineering receives $4.17 million in software donations from Moldex3D
- WCU鈥檚 Jeremy Jones reflects one year after Helene in Our State magazine
- WCU astronomers to celebrate International Observe the Moon Night with community
- WCU to host Echoes Across the Smokies
- Looking Back: Hurricane Helene
- Living history: WCU researchers work to capture Cherokee oral histories
- Donors support Alston Awards for WCU student-athletes鈥 academic achievements
- All in the family: Legacy Pinning event celebrates generations of Catamount connections
- Western Carolina Power receives Public Power Awards of Excellence
- Mountain Heritage Days earns NC green travel designation
- Retired professor creates faculty mentorship endowment in College of Business
- Students Kate Taylor, Jay Brown help new students adjust to life at WCU
- WCU playing role in regional effort to improve broadband access, training in WNC
- A Wild Beginning: Alumna Kara McMullen on a career in Panthertown
- Bluegrass in Blue Ridge: WCU students, alumni start Upstream Rebellion band
- From Curitiba to Cullowhee: A Brazilian reunion at WCU
- WCU鈥檚 Brett Riggs named honorary member of EBCI
- Pura Vida in practice: WCU Department of World Languages immerses students in Costa Rican culture
- WCU's ECHT project receives $450K grant from NEH
- WCU launches mechanical engineering degree, industrial engineering concentration
- From the age of steam to the age of AI, WCU puts students first, serves its region as economic engine
- Randy Collins named to National Engineering Education Committee
- A gift of hope: Supporting students in their mental health journey
- WCU volunteers rally to clean up Catamount Gap
- Student journalists attend national convention with support from the Fund for WCU
- Alumna kicks off post grad life with NCDHHS internship
- Engineering makes national list of best undergraduate programs
- Welcome to the Whee!
- Roger Smoker, Jackson County Public Libraries named 2025 Mountain Heritage Award recipients
- Alec Harris named development director for College of Education, Allied Professions
- WCU Greek Challenge nets $1.5 million for Catamount Club; winners announced
- WCU launches fully online MBA program
- Reinvigorated WCU retirees association elects officers, plans activities
- WCU alumni roll out the welcome mat for new incoming studentsPage Title
- New exhibition celebrating the gifts of Connie Bostic at WCU
- The wonder of North Carolina glass comes to WCU this fall
- Tax law changes lead donors to accelerate giving plans to WCU, other nonprofits
- Mountain Heritage Days to spotlight Appalachian language, history and music
- Senior Tim Thompson makes his mark at Los Angeles studio
- More than music: Inside WCU鈥檚 Summer Symposium
- Catamount Club shatters 2,000-member goal to unlock $1 million challenge gift
- Running to help: WCU student-athlete Landey Green helps others through two internships
- CATALYST program ignites passion for research and leadership in honors students
- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark comes to Bardo Arts Center
- WCU scholars publish new book on mental illness stigma
- Students get deep dive into Chinese culture, business during WCU summer travel course
- Understanding the House v. NCAA Settlement and what it means for WCU
- Mountain Heritage Center to host Mini-Mountain Heritage Day July 17
- WCU senior Tayler Franklin helps identify fallen soldiers at Pearl Harbor
- Alumni couple establish endowment for parks, rec program
- Catamount Adventures series takes alumni, friends to Portugal, Spain
- Preservation of an endangered language
- Digging it: WCU senior Jenna Dreyer works archaeology internship in Washington state
- NC Principal Fellows program expands with supplemental funding
- WCU professor protects the Dusky Gopher Frog from extinction
- WCU instructor, local nonprofit partner on entrepreneurship camp for underserved youth
- Mountain Heritage Center invites public to explore George Masa exhibition through August 15
- Couple who met at WCU orientation make 鈥楩ill the Western Sky鈥 leadership gift to athletics
- New faces join WCU Foundation Board; departing members recognized
- WCU holds groundbreaking for renovations to E.J. Whitmire Stadium
- Mountain Heritage Awards now accepting nominations
- College of Business launches two new graduate certificates for fall semester
- Construction management student invents 鈥楧ormclaw鈥
- College of Engineering to offer ACE Machining Bootcamps this summer
- EMS holds christening event for new ambulance
- Alumnus Hank Henderson applies WCU guidance to job, pays it forward
- Student legislature takes home 鈥渂est delegation鈥 at Raleigh general assembly
- Catamounts start your engines
- Business faculty guide post-Helene recovery study for NC Arboretum
- Alumni participation sought for WCU Battle of the Bands competition
- Young alumni spotlight: Harp passes on guidance as Greek life adviser
- Josh Dobson, Nora Lynn Finch sworn in as members of the WCU Board of Trustees WCU Stories September 10, 2025
- Annual faculty-staff giving challenge resumes this fall
- WCU Mountain Heritage Center opens new Clearing the Hurdles exhibit
- 鈥楩ill the Western Sky鈥 contribution feels like a promise to Catamount couple
- WCU astronomers lead 13th annual statewide star party
- WCU鈥揅IHA partnership grows Cherokee鈥檚 next generation of healers
- Peter Koch promoted to associate director of Mountain Heritage Center
- Kyle Pifer named WCU Director of Athletics
- MHS program celebrates new graduates
- Interior design students address aging challenges through service learning
- Catamount Club to launch search for successor to assistant director C.J. Mitchell
- WCU sees strong retention rate for fall 2025, growth in total enrollment
- WCU to hold groundbreaking ceremony June 12 for stadium renovations project
- Schedule announced for WCU鈥檚 weeklong Mountain Heritage Days celebration
- UNC Board of Governors appoints Nora Lynn Finch, Tate Apodaca to Board of Trustees
- Alumna Kinley Cook brings passion to job as park guide
- Gifts from all 50 states help WCU hit 鈥極ne Day for Western鈥 goal of 1,200 donors
- RASC brings students, faculty, alumni together in scholarship celebration
- School of Stage and Screen earns NCTC award, set for spring musical
- $100k Gift from alumna to support English majors and student media organizations
- Brittany Kicklighter named director of development for athletics major gifts
- Catamount grads reflect on graduation cap decor
- From LEGO to launch: Antonson twins look back on their WCU journey
- WCU students present at National Conference on Undergraduate ResearchPage Title
- WNC teacher Lydia Sale continues WCU, education tradition in family
- WCU art student awarded first place in national ceramics exhibition
- First-generation college students reflect on journey to commencement
- Senior Toast honors philanthropy of soon-to-be graduates
- WCU earns 2025-2026 Military Friendly庐 school designation
- Bricker gets new WNC Community of Practice off the ground
- Alumnus divides gift to create scholarship honoring educator wife, support athletics upgrades
- Student spotlight: Jones, Rodriguez look forward to term as president, vice president
- University faculty, staff award winners announced for 鈥25
- A whole lot of heart: WCU softball bat boy defies odds, cheers on Catamounts
- WCU to introduce Maddie, the virtual engagement officer
- Student spotlight: Senior Cora Haste impacts others through various roles
- Play ball! WCU pitches new 鈥楤allparks and Brews Tour鈥 for alumni, friends
- Nominations are open for annual alumni awards
- Tour of WCU athletics facilities spurs fundraising campaign gift
- Athletics Gala shines spotlight on Catamount student-athletes, impact of supporters
- WCU engineering program partners with healthcare provider for sinus device patent
- College of Education and Allied Professions earns A-plus for elementary math education courses
- April Tallant named director of Coulter Faculty Commons
- African American Alumni Society endows new scholarship fund
- Asheville dentist, wife give WCU student-athletes reason to smile with 鈥楩ill the Western Sky鈥 donation
- Junior Savannah McGlothlin named to ALL IN honor roll
- WCU interior design students address health, aging challenges through service learning
- Fulk is named Kneedler Distinguished Professor in Computer Info Systems
- WCU鈥檚 School of Music to welcome Pulitzer Prize, Grammy Award-winning composer Jennifer Higdon
- NC Governor鈥檚 Advisory Committee for Western North Carolina Recovery holds first in-person meeting at WCU
- ustin Pace to lead WCU School of Accounting, Finance, Info Systems, Business Law
- Campus pets lift spirits, bring smiles to WCU
- RASC 2025: David Joy and campus research presentations
- Alex Gary to resign after nearly five years as Athletics Director at WCU
- Restoring through research: WCU professors assist law enforcement and National Weather Service
- WCU launches engineering discovery program with new director Gretchen Dietz
- Student spotlight: WCU senior Mekeila Santiago stays involved through time on campus
- Electrical engineering students create a portable energy model for Duke Energy
- Restoring through research: professors navigate floodwaters post-Helene
- An axe to grind: The timbersports athletes of WCU鈥檚 Wildlife and Forestry Club
- Young alumni spotlight: Speyer reaching for the stars as systems engineer
- The hills have eyes
- WCU grieves the loss of longtime friend, supporter, community leader Reg Moody
- Students engage in undergraduate research across disciplines
- WCU ranked No. 3 on Forbes鈥 America鈥檚 Best Midsize Employers list
- WCU mourns passing of Honors College benefactor Greg Thompson
- WCU mourns loss of former Trustee Jeanette Wallace Hyde
- Restoring through research: WCU professors help rebuild after Helene
- WCU and Vance-Granville CC sign memorandum of understanding for guaranteed admission
- WCU sees high retention rate, notable increase in enrollment for spring 2025
- WCU expands Catamount Commitment to include transfer students91女神 is expanding its Catamount Commitment program with a new initiative to support transfer students from North Carolina Community Colleges.
- WCU professor secures $3 million in scholarships for students entering nuclear engineering field
- WCU social work students engage with alumni with help from Fund for WCU
- Catamount Club announces changes to Greek Challenge fundraiser, sets membership deadlines
- WCU Cherokee Language program receives $223K grant
- WCU set to host the Catamount Climb in April
- Christopher Teuton to serve as speaker for James Cooper Memorial Lecture in Cherokee Studies at WCU
- Gibbs earns grant worth nearly $40K for sicklefin redhorse research
- Pedonti earns $175K grant for STEM summer camp
- Donations to Fund for WCU support student writing contest at annual literary festival
- Fund for WCU supports library鈥檚 student art contest; winners now on display
- WCU launches a new guarantee for transfer students
- Kathy Jaqua earns prestigious W.W. Rankin Award
- WCU鈥檚 undergraduate business degree program makes U.S. News and World Report鈥檚 list for 2025 Best Online Programs
- SECU Public Fellowships Internship Program at WCU earns grant for new year
- Fund for WCU supports symposium on intersection of policing, social work
- Author and alumnus David Joy to give keynote address at WCU Research and Scholarship Conference
- Alumna Nora Lynn Finch to be inducted into North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame
- George H. Brown to retire as dean of Belcher College of Fine and Performing Arts at WCU after a decade of leadership
- Chancellor鈥檚 Ambassadors student organization receives leadership training through Fund for WCU
- Donors to Fund for WCU support ASP student trip to Central Europe
- Young alumni: Eliana Cruz broadens her horizons, lands job with Charlotte FC
- WCU students help Durham PD solve 2023 missing person case
- Former WCU Academic All-American pays homage to retired sports communicator
- Research and Scholarship Conference announces 2026 schedule of events
- Alumnus to take advantage of tax changes allowing gifts from IRAs
- CCESL puts $2,000 grant to use with MLK Day of Service events
- WCU Mountain Heritage Center opens new 鈥楳oonshine: Spirit of Independence鈥 exhibit
- WCU alum Frisby named NC SHAPE Middle School PE Teacher of the Year
- WCU Wind Ensemble, POTM selected to appear at 2026 CBDNA Southern Division Conference
- Weiler, Grist receive $70K grant to assist NC School for the Deaf
- Young alumni panel shares advice on 鈥榳hat鈥檚 next鈥 with current WCU students
- Fourth annual 鈥極ne Day for Western鈥 set for March 25
- Pair of Catamounts compete in national cycling races, find home in sport
- Alumni Office announces starting lineup for 2026 Ballparks and Brews Tour
- Book by WCU professor examines ethical issues in the business of sport
- WCU economist finds $144 million ROI on local Medicaid, SNAP funding
- WCU staff members volunteers with Olympics
- WCU choir, community chorus to perform Mendelssohn masterwork
- Who speaks for the trees? A conversation with master arborist Andrew Thigpen
- WCU seeking Catamount Captains to advocate for 鈥極ne Day for Western鈥
- Dual-sport student-athlete Sadler Miller shows love for WCU on canvas
- WCU scholars, alumni celebrate return of Noquisiyi Mound to EBCI
- Young alumni: Christopher Childers brings stories to life as videographer
- WCU professor Brian Byrd receives 2026 BOG excellence in teaching award
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Study: AI Helps Students with Test Prep, Interview Practice
January 20A recent study by a group of 91女神 professors in the College of Business indicates that leveraging applications that utilize artificial intelligence holds promise for test preparation and job interview practice by students, with potential benefits beyond academia.
