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GivingTuesday ’24 to focus on increasing Catamount Club membership, athletics facilities

Western Carolina University will be ramping up support for the Catamount athletics program during this year’s edition of GivingTuesday, with a series of challenge gifts designed to help expand membership in the Catamount Club and increase funding for athletics facilities.  

Isaac Jennings with SVA members

WCU nursing student, veteran Isaac Jennings shares his higher education journey

Looking back on his time before coming to Western Carolina University, nursing student Isaac Jennings, a sophomore from Franklin, was always told the most important thing was contacting his chosen college’s military services director.  

Cole Johnson demonstrating glass blowing

WCU professor, alumnus bring glass blowing demo to campus

Timm Muth, an assistant professor of practice in the College of Engineering and Technology at Western Carolina University, looks at glass differently than most. Glass is more than just the material that makes windows.  

WCU alumni award winners

Alumni return to WCU for annual homecoming celebration

Jamie Van Pelt’s drive from Florida to Western Carolina University isn’t the most riveting one. It’s several hours of rural highways, twists and turns and infamous Atlanta traffic, but when Van Pelt crests the hill south of Clayton, Georgia, he smiles.   

Alumni award winners

WCU honors four prominent alumni at Homecoming 2024

Western Carolina University paused Saturday, Nov. 2, to honor four prominent alumni – a former automotive industry executive who has supported Catamount athletics for decades, an accounting professional with extensive family ties to WCU, an award-winning educator and an up-and-coming public relations practitioner.   

Daniel J. Watts

Tony and Emmy-nominated multidisciplinary artist to perform at WCU as part of Fall Speaker Series

A Tony-nominated actor and spoken word artist will be making his way to Western Carolina University.  

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.  

Noyce Scholars at WCU

NSF grant totaling more than $1.4 million helps jumpstart WCU Smoky Mountain Noyce Scholars Program

The past three years have been busy for Sloan Despeaux, professor in Western Carolina University’s Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, and her colleagues.  

New Beginnings

New Beginnings

New Catamount head basketball coaches Tim Craft and Jonathan Tsipis usher in a new era as Craft looks to build on last year’s 22-win season for the men’s program and Tsipis looks to turnaround the women’s program that won just six games last year.  

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