The Charles Stancil Stephens-Kudzu Players Scholarship will provide financial support to qualifying full-time students who major in a School of Stage and Screen academic program.
Creating vibrant downtowns and a robust economy for North Carolina’s 26 westernmost counties was the focus of the LEAD:Tourism conference held at Western Carolina University on Tuesday, Nov. 10.
The annual Handmade Holiday Sale will be held in the Star Atrium adjacent to the Fine Art Museum at Western Carolina University from noon to 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 20.
The Western Carolina Civic Orchestra will give its fall semester performance Monday, Nov. 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the recital hall of the Coulter Building.
Wildlife and Forestry Club members joined other lumberjacks and lumberjills for competition in axe throwing, log rolling, pole climbing, and chainsaw and crosscut sawing.
Western Carolina University’s Free Enterprise Speaker Series will host Radley Balko, a journalist with the Washington Post and author of “The Rise of the Warrior Cop,” for a discussion about increased militarization of American police departments on Monday, Nov. 16.
WCU and two universities in Florida are sharing $1.8 million from the National Science Foundation to support first-generation college students majoring in STEM disciplines.
The National Park Service has awarded a $483,404 grant to WCU’s Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines to map the storm vulnerability at U.S. coastal parks.
The Western Carolina University School of Music will host a recital of flute and piano music by faculty members Eldred Spell and Lillian Pearson on Tuesday, Nov. 10.