Western Carolina University

Faculty and Staff Excellence Awards program canceled; winners to be notified

The annual Faculty and Staff Excellence Awards program scheduled for Friday, April 24, at which faculty and staff are recognized for outstanding teaching, scholarship and service, has been canceled.

General Assembly appoints Rebecca Brown to WCU Board of Trustees

Cary resident Rebecca Brown has been appointed to serve on the university’s Board of Trustees.

Trustees appoint Lori Anderson of Tusculum University next health, human sciences dean

WCU's Board of Trustees has approved Lori Schumacher Anderson as the next dean of the College of Health and Human Sciences.

WCU announces gradual move-out process to limit number of students, helpers on campus

Students who left personal belongings in on-campus residence halls as the university curtailed operations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic will be allowed to retrieve those items during a gradual and controlled 10-day move-out schedule.

University of Evansville's Wesley Milner selected to lead international programs at WCU

Wesley T. Milner, executive director of international programs and professor of political science and international affairs at the University of Evansville, has been named director of the Office of International Programs and Services.

Summer Undergraduate Research Program makes scholar team selections

Selections have been made for the 2020 Summer Undergraduate Research Program, an intensive eight-week scholarly activity at Western Carolina University that this year will be implemented with distance learning and online research components.

The Catamount School teachers are adjusting, but still miss their students

Rewind to pre-COVID-19 pandemic days when life was normal and one would be hard-pressed to find a middle school student who wouldn’t welcome having a month off from school. Now fast-forward to today, and what most middle school teachers are finding is that their students are not only missing their classmates, but also their teachers.

Clinical training goes virtual for School of Nursing

For nursing students, an important part of instruction are clinicals, typically performed at hospitals and other care facilities. With precautions required during the current COVID-19 pandemic, that training at the School of Nursing continues - albeit virtually - with Shadow Health software.

On eve of retirement, longtime psychology professor has 'last lecture' disrupted by COVID-19

Originally scheduled for Friday, May 1, psychology professor Bruce Henderson’s career-capping last lecture for his “History of Psychology” class was derailed by the global COVID-19 pandemic.

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