Western Carolina University’s Lectures, Concerts and Exhibitions Series will show classic movies from around the world as part of a foreign film series that runs select Thursdays from September through April. Movies begin at 7 p.m. at the A.K. Hinds University Center
Western Carolina University’s grants office recently announced more than $1.6 million in new funding for faculty and staff initiatives.
Western Carolina University’s department of modern foreign languages will present its second annual Spanish/Latin American Film Festival, which will run from Tuesday, Sept. 9, to Tuesday, Oct. 21.
Students and community members will have the opportunity to engage movie directors about their work as part of the 2008-09 Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers, the nation’s only regional tour of independent filmmakers and their films, running from September through April at Western Carolina University.
Eight students recently completed WCU's new Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program, an eight-week total immersion research experience.
Students and community members will have the opportunity to engage movie directors about their work as part of the 2008-09 Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers, the nation’s only regional tour of independent filmmakers and their films, running from September through April at Western Carolina University.
Western Carolina University graduate student Karen Dodson was just completing an ordinary assignment for an English class last spring when she transcribed and edited several Civil War-era letters, but her work soon will be published in a prestigious journal that focuses on the life and work of American literary icon Walt Whitman.
Robert J. Conley, the newly appointed Sequoyah Distinguished Professor of Cherokee Studies at Western Carolina University, has been selected to receive the 2009 American Indian Festival of Words Author Award.
Award-winning novelist Rick Boyer of the English department faculty is author of the newly published “The Quintessential Sherlock Holmes,” a collection of five full-length stories based upon the legendary detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Brill publishing house recently released the book “Monstrous Fishes and the Mead-Dark Sea: Whaling in the Medieval North Atlantic” by Vicki Szabo, associate professor of history.
A new book edited by two WCU political scientists examines the changing face of politics in North Carolina and revisits the state’s long-standing progressive reputation in light of transformations in Old North State politics over the past 50 years.
Elizabeth Gillespie McRae, associate professor of history, has been elected to membership in the Historical Society of North Carolina.
David Dorondo, associate professor of history, has been elected as an at-large member to the board of the North Carolina Association of Historians.
