Famed legal scholar and best-selling author Alan Dershowitz, who has defended such controversial clients as O.J. Simpson, Mike Tyson, Michael Milken and Claus von Bulow, will visit Western Carolina University on Thursday, March 1, as part of the Chancellor’s Speaker Series for 2000-01. Dershowitz will speak on the topic “Why […]

Two hundred students from Western North Carolina will have their voices heard on a variety of issues facing local government across the region when they convene in a youth assembly Saturday, March 24, in Asheville, organized by Western Carolina University’s Public Policy Institute. The Local Government Youth Assembly, the first […]

Living and learning, personal development and communication with students will be the topics of a daylong workshop Monday, March 26, at Western Carolina University featuring medical education maverick Jeannette Norden, a neuroscientist from Vanderbilt University’s School of Medicine. The public program is part of the “Learning to Live, Living to […]