Students from Western Carolina University's Nutrition and Dietetics Program have been working with faculty and staff at Cullowhee Valley School to educate elementary students on the connection b...

Inspired by a Global Poverty Project presentation on campus, the president of Western Carolina University's Student Government Association and the wife of Chancellor David O. Belcher will eat off of $1.50 per day for five days. To help raise awareness ...

Five women and five men have been selected for Western Carolina University's 2011 Homecoming Court. The court will be presented and the king and queen crowned during halftime activities at WCU's...

Students in Western Carolina University's Criminal Justice Club will host a shoe donation drive to benefit people in need during the month of October as part of the WCU Poverty Project. Shoes of a...

On a yearly basis at WCU, students who have a hard time finding a parking spot at one time or another question where their money goes after purchasing a parking permit. For those unlucky to have received a parking fine, even more questions are pondered...

Tony 'T.J.' Eaves, president of the Student Government Association at Western Carolina University, took the oath of office Friday, June 3, as the newest member of the university's Board of Trustees. Eaves, a senior from Hamlet, was elected 2011-12 ...

Kefyn Catley has a thing about spiders and ndash; studying and appreciating them, not smashing them with newspapers or shoes. But while Catley, associate professor of biology and coordinator of the secondary science education program, has seen his share o...

Taking part in a surgical mission trip to Honduras so moved a Western Carolina University student nurse anesthetist that she and a classmate have centered their graduate research project on involving more students in international clinical rotations. ...

Western Carolina University has been honored with a national award from the American Society of Safety Engineers for best student chapter of the year, which comes with a $6,000 prize to be used for scholarships and student research. WCU's chapter w...

Twenty Western Carolina University students recently were inducted into Theta Sigma chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, an international English honor society. Sigma Tau Delta recognizes outstanding students with a major or minor in English who have a grad...

Western Carolina University student Lauren Gray was elected vice president of the Public Relations Student Society of America's national committee at the organization's recent meeting in Seattle. As vice president for 2011-12, the senior public rel...

Western Carolina University student Casey Icenhour will attend the international Student Technology Conference at Yale University in June on the Senti-Merriman Scholarship, which is awarded to one student across the country each year. Icenhour, a j...

A Western Carolina University business student claimed second place among 122 competitors in a prestigious national collegiate sales competition, while he and his WCU teammate placed seventh out of 61 schools in team competition. Nathan Hunzaker, a...

A student robotic team from Western Carolina University's Kimmel School of Construction Management and Technology recently participated in a competition at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' (IEEE) Southeastern Conference and won a ...

Western Carolina University students working to raise $50,000 to build a school in Pakistan are hosting a fundraising dinner and silent auction at Chef's Table in Waynesville on Tuesday, April 5. Tickets to the event are $50 for a three-course meal...

Western Carolina University's Base Camp Cullowhee will present the 27th annual Tuckaseigee River Cleanup on Saturday, April 16, and is looking for volunteers to help remove trash from part of the river in Jackson County. Registration for groups wil...

Western Carolina University students once again rank among the nation's leaders in the number of their research projects that have been accepted for presentation at the country's most prestigious undergraduate research conference. WCU students had ...

A new fundraising effort, the Catamount Legacy Walk, is in high gear on Western Carolina University's campus in order to raise money for a student emergency fund. The Catamount Legacy Walk initiative was launched last fall after two years of planni...

Students in Western Carolina University's School of Stage and Screen recently worked with a multiple Emmy Award-winning television writer and producer on the first reading of a play about a newly discovered work possibly written by William Shakespeare....

Emily Ball, a graduate student in Western Carolina University's master's degree program in public affairs, is gaining hands-on experience this fall through an internship with the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness. The council is the governme...