A group of Western Carolina University students brought a high-tech twist this summer to the 200th anniversary celebration of the Lewis and Clark journey by using modern materials and technologies to re-create the type of canoe the famed expeditionary team used to explore the Louisiana Purchase. The 11 students, working […]
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Stem Cell Research – AGAINST
Ever since the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, people everywhere have questioned the morals and ethics of creating living creatures from non-living things. This novel was very controversial as Shelley was way ahead of her time. Such attempts at playing God created more bad than good in this story, as […]
Stem Cell Research – FOR
The idea of human stem cell cloning has proponents inciting images of pop cult icons like Frankenstein and ranting Michael Stipe lyrics claiming, “It’s the end of the world as we know it.” Perhaps we are too close on the heels of “Attack of the Clones” for people to distance […]
wc_news | LAST CALL FOR ARTS AND CRAFTS VENDORS FOR WCU’S 2003 SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL
The second annual CulloWHEE! ArtsFest, Western Carolina University’s summer celebration of live music and fine arts, still has a limited number of spaces available for an art exhibition and sale to take place as part of the two-day festival. The outdoor festival is scheduled for Friday, June 20, and Saturday, […]
wc_news | WCU THEATRE FACULTY, STUDENTS OFF-BROADWAY BOUND IN AUGUST
A musical comedy penned by Laurel Vartabedian, assistant professor of communication and theatre arts at Western Carolina University, has been accepted for FringeNYC, the seventh annual New York International Fringe Festival. Often called the largest multi-arts festival in North America, Fringe NYC attracted some 48,000 people last year. Vartabedian’s play, […]
Stem Cells: A White House Primer
(www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/08/print/20010809-1.html) Embryonic stem cells- Embryonic stem cells, which come from the inner cell mass of a human embryo, have the potential to develop into all or nearly all of the tissues in the body. The scientific term for this characteristic is “pluripotentiality.” Adult stem cells- Adult stem cells are unspecialized, […]
wc_news | WCU OFFERS SPECIAL COURSE IN BIOSAFETY, BIOTERRORISM
Western Carolina University will offer a special graduate-level environmental health course this summer covering the timely issues of biosafety and bioterrorism. The course, “Biosafety, Bioterrorism and Public Health,” will be taught by Burton Ogle, a new faculty member in Western’s program in environmental health. It will be offered as a […]
wc_news | WESTERN CAROLINA STAGE COMPANY ISSUES CASTING CALL
Western Carolina Stage Company, the newly formed summer theatre troupe at Western Carolina University, will hold open auditions for an original musical comedy that will run at Western before traveling to New York City for FringeNYC, the seventh annual New York International Fringe Festival. Titled “Mother Divine,” the play was […]
