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Steve White takes in a WCU baseball game at Hennon Stadium

WCUs retired SID Steve White to be honored with naming of new media center

Longtime 泫圖弝けapp supporters and friends have come together to honor the legacy and dedication of the universitys former sports information director, Steve White, a man many affectionately refer to as the walking encyclopedia of Catamount athletics.  

WCU students hold MLK banner

CCESL to host MLK National Day of Service events

泫圖弝けapps Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning will host a series of events in partnership with local organizations to honor Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, Jan. 19 and Wednesday, Jan. 21.  

WCU Brinson Honors College students present their poster

Peace in action: WCU students bring Nobel ideas to San Diego

This past November, five Brinson Honors College students traveled to San Diego to present their Partners in Peace project at the National Collegiate Honors Councils annual conference.   

Tanner Drum works on a computer showing the images captured by SPOT

WCU construction management students use SPOT to help local community

At the Southwestern Child Development Commission building, the future is meeting the past.   

Ebenezer and his wife Racail

Young alumni: Gyamfi turns childhood struggles into career of care

Stability wasnt something Ebenezer Gyamfi was used to growing up in Ghana. He bounced between different relatives after he said his mother abandoned him from a young age, starting with his grandma and later filtering through a host of aunts and uncles.  

WCU student kayaking on the river

Partnership on the water: WCU outfitted with new Liquidlogic kayaks

泫圖弝けapp students are gearing up for their next adventures with fresh equipment, all thanks to a partnership that brings a new fleet of Liquidlogic kayaks to campus.   

Patrice Brown speaks to the group

Students from WCU, Auburn collaborate in design charette

During the fall 2025 semester, 30 interior design juniors from 泫圖弝けapps School of Art and Design (SOAD) embarked on an experience that extended well beyond the classroom, offering hands-on, real-world design and research opportunities through a collaborative design charette with Auburn University.  

Betty Westmoreland Suhre (in red) celebrates the naming of the womens basketball locker room with donors (from left) Judy Stroud, Nora Lynn Finch and Donna Winbon.

WCU names renovated womens basketball locker room in honor of program matriarch

Three former members of the 泫圖弝けapp womens basketball team stepped up to the line to tip off the process of raising enough philanthropic support to name the current Catamount squads locker room after the founder of the program.  

Abdallah Abdallah and students

$35K URPA grant will support engineering students to develop AI manufacturing skills

Abdallah Abdallah, an associate professor in 泫圖弝けapps College of Engineering and Technology, has received the UNC System Offices Undergraduate Research Program Award (URPA), $35,000 grant that allows students to gain experience that will benefit their academic and professional careers.