Hugh Jack, WCU’s Cass Ballenger Distinguished Professor of Engineering and director of the university’s School of Engineering and Technology, has been elected director of the American Society for Engineering Education’s Engineering Technology Council.
Lisa Briggs, director of WCU’s Emergency and Disaster Management Program, will appear on an episode of the Investigation Discovery Channel show “Disappeared” at 9 p.m. Sunday, June 3.
Forensic research taking place at Western Carolina University played a prominent role in presentations given at the recent annual meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences in Seattle.
The fourth edition of “Contemporary Project Management,” a book co-authored by Vittal Anantatmula, professor and director of WCU’s Master of Project Management Program, has been published by Cengage.
Bob Boylan, director of WCU’s Local Government Training Program and assistant director of the university’s Public Policy Institute, graduated from the Municipal and County Administration Program at the University of North Carolina School of Government on Friday, April 27.
Mark A. Kossick, professor of nursing and graduate anesthesia simulation coordinator at WCU’s Biltmore Park instructional site, was the featured speaker at an international conference held in Las Vegas on April 9.
Lane Perry, director of WCU’s Center for Service Learning, was among speakers invited to travel to Washington, D.C., to participate in the recent introduction of new legislation designed to ensure that higher education institutions are supporting student voter registration and civic engagement.
Mark A. Kossick, WCU professor of nursing and anesthesia simulation education coordinator, accepted an invitation from the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists Foundation to serve on its 2018 Scholarship Review Committee.
Three Western Carolina University faculty members will be facilitating workshops for a meeting of the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate, set for June 13-15 at Florida State University.