Students to showcase their work at 14th annual Controlled Chaos Film Festival

The event will take place in the Bardo Arts Center May 5 at 7:30 p.m.  

Campus priorities identified for inaugural ‘One Day For Western’

Western Carolina University is making plans for its inaugural all-in day of giving to the institution, a 24-hour fundraising event to be held March 29.  

Science classroom named in honor of Jackson County’s first family of dentistry

A classroom in Apodaca Science Building has a new name in recognition of a couple’s three-decade record of financial support.  

‘I Love WCU Month’ features new weekend of service

Members of the extended Western Carolina University community took time throughout February to express their affection for WCU.  

Abigail Gulley | Day in the Life

Abigail is a student at WCU in the interior design program. Tag along with her as she shares her experience as a student at WCU!  

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Chemistry and biology programs boast several doctoral acceptances

Chemistry and biology programs in the College of Arts and Sciences are tallying up doctoral acceptances at universities across the country, including Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.   

Chancellor portraits will be digitized for online viewing

The portraits of each WCU chancellor or president that has served at the university will be removed from the library stairwell walls to be digitized for an online chancellor’s portrait gallery.  

Mountain Heritage Center to host traveling Smithsonian exhibit highlighting rural America

The Mountain Heritage Center has been selected by North Carolina Humanities to host the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service’s exhibit “Crossroads: Change in Rural America.”  

BaShaun Smith

Manifestation is the conscious creation of circumstances and outcomes that make for a fulfilling life. Raised in a single-parent household of four out of inner-city Cleveland, Ohio, BaShaun Smith understood at a young age what hard work looked like. “I learned early on that I didn’t have to run through a brick wall to know it hurts,” Smith said.