For the second consecutive year, a student from Western Carolina University is recipient of the top prize at a regional sales competition at Ball State University in Indiana. Ashley Fender, a WCU senior from Asheville, recently won the annual competition in sales-call role playing while competing against more than 20 students from Ball State University, Indiana University, Purdue University, the University of Louisville and WCU.
Freddie Steven “Trey” White III of Hickory is the latest recipient of the Catawba County Christian Business and Professional Scholarship and is attending Western Carolina University as a freshman for the 2009-10 school year. White, the son of Steve and Marsha White, is a 2009 graduate of Hickory High School.
Western Carolina University senior Erin Wagoner spent her summer internship getting the dirt on dirty jobs for Discovery Channel show “Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe,” and two ideas she researched were filmed and aired on Tuesday, Dec. 22. The episode can still be watched in the archives section on discoverychannel.
Western Carolina University senior Jaymi Michelle Jeffery has been named the Western Region Outstanding Mathematics Education Student for 2009 by the North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Jeffery received the award at the State Mathematics Conference held in Greensboro.
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