Tad Daggerhart, a 2008 graduate of Western Carolina University, has been awarded an Annenberg Graduate Fellowship to continue his studies in the writing program at the University of Southern California Film School The USC Annenberg Graduate Fellowship Program provides eligible graduate students in three USC schools funding so they may […]
Author: Sarah Kucharski
WCU to Offer Specialty Classes this Fall
Western Carolina University will offer the workshop “Learning for Fun: Stained Glass” from 6 to 9 pm on Thursdays, Aug. 27 through Oct. 1, in the south lobby of Cordelia Camp Building. Appropriate for both beginners and advanced students, the course will follow the Tiffany Method of stained glass, which […]
WCU Students Win Awards at Asheville’s 48 Hour Film Project
A group of Western Carolina University filmmakers and actors won five awards including Best Film and Best Directing at the 2009 Asheville 48 Hour Film Project. This is the third year in a row that WCU students have won five or more awards at the Asheville event. The film project […]
WCU Engineering Students Accepted to Prestigious Graduate Program
Two recent graduates of Western Carolina University, Robert Brown and Sam Venable, have been accepted into one of only seven electro-optics programs in the United States at the University of Dayton in Ohio. Brown, son of Cathy and Terry Brown of Nantahala, and Venable, son of Rhonda and Samuel Venable […]
Studio Engineer Earns National Emmy for Olympics Work
John E. Wells, studio engineer for Western Carolina University’s Center for Applied Technology, recently won an Emmy award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Wells served as an edit systems maintenance engineer for an NBC team that was honored with a Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Technical […]
Blair Selected for Prestigious Percussion Seminar
Western Carolina University junior music education major Andrew Blair recently was accepted to a prestigious percussion class to be held in New York later this spring under the direction of the world’s foremost marimba virtuoso. The Leigh Howard Stevens 30th Summer Marimba Seminar is a comprehensive and intensive three-week master […]
WCU Student to Intern with Broadway Costume Designer
Western Carolina University student Leeanne Deaver will intern with five-time Tony Award-winning costume designer William Ivey Long on Broadway this summer. Deaver, who is originally from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., but attended Pisgah High School in Canton, graduated from WCU earlier this month with a bachelor’s degree in costume design. She […]
Carroll Selected for Old Salem Institute
Western Carolina University graduate student Tonya Carroll is among a prestigious group of scholars chosen to participate in the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts’ (MESDA) summer institute in Winston-Salem this July. “I am excited to attend the program and have been told that it is very demanding but also […]
WCU Literary Art Festival Will Be Held Next Week
Nature essayist and environmental activist Jan DeBlieu, national best-seller Jeffrey Lent and newspaperman and National Public Radio contributor Scott Huler will be among the panel of noted authors featured at Western Carolina University’s seventh annual Spring Literary Festival Mar. 30-Apr. 2. Over the years, the festival has included authors Pat […]
