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WCU student Ethan Naggiar

School of Stage and Screen earns NCTC award, set for spring musical

Western Carolina University School of Stage and Screen director Tory Depew sits in her office every day with a sense of gratitude.   

Current cat eyes design

The hills have eyes

A fresh set of eyes finds a new generation of Catamounts. More than 30 years after Paws’ billboard debut, designers at Western Carolina University continue to update the much beloved symbol off U.S. 23.   

WCU students on Project CARE ski trip

Fund for WCU supports cultural, educational programming to improve student retention

With the help of $5,000 in funding from the 1889 Impact Grants Program, Western Carolina University’s Office of Intercultural Affairs increased cultural and educational programming and enhanced efforts to support student success and retention.  

WCU students pose for photo during literary festival

Donations to Fund for WCU support student writing contest at annual literary festival

Western Carolina University’s Department of English Studies hosted a creative writing competition with divisions for North Carolina high school students and WCU undergraduate and graduate students as part of its annual Spring Literary Festival.  

Student artwork

Fund for WCU supports library’s student art contest; winners now on display

Western Carolina University students participated in an art competition focused on the university’s 2023-2024 campus theme of “Community and Belonginess” hosted by Hunter Library, which now has the winning entries on display.  

George Brown

George H. Brown to retire as dean of Belcher College of Fine and Performing Arts at WCU after a decade of leadership

After ten years of serving as Western Carolina University’s dean of Belcher College of Fine and Performing Arts, George H. Brown is retiring.  

RGB Portrait, a painting by Zack Schneider

Family establishes memorial scholarship fund to assist nontraditional art students at WCU

Nontraditional students working to earn a degree in an art-related major at Western Carolina University soon will have financial assistance to help them pursue their passion, thanks to a memorial scholarship fund established by the family of a recent WCU graduate who earned his degree after the age of 30.  

Spark of the Eagle Dancer collection at WCU

WCU Fine Art Museum exhibition wins Bronze Award

Denise Drury Homewood, executive director of the Bardo Arts Center at Western Carolina University, believed "Spark of the Eagle Dancer: The Collecting Legacy of Lambert Wilson" exhibition was an award winner from the start.  

hart masa

Alumni donate George Masa Collection to Hunter Library

Hunter Library’s Special and Digital Collections received a donation from alums William “Bill” Hart, Jr., Class of 1962, and Alice Huff Hart, Class of 1961.   

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