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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.   

WCU student kayaking on the river

Partnership on the water: WCU outfitted with new Liquidlogic kayaks

Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵapp 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 Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵapp’s 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 women’s basketball locker room with donors (from left) Judy Stroud, Nora Lynn Finch and Donna Winbon.

WCU names renovated women’s basketball locker room in honor of program matriarch

Three former members of the Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵapp women’s basketball team stepped up to the line to tip off the process of raising enough philanthropic support to name the current Catamount squad’s 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 Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵapp’s College of Engineering and Technology, has received the UNC System Office’s Undergraduate Research Program Award (URPA), $35,000 grant that allows students to gain experience that will benefit their academic and professional careers.   

Martin Tanaka works with students from the College of Engineering and Technology

Martin Tanaka secures NCInnovation funding for new medical device

Martin Tanaka has a knack for making new gadgets as a biomedical engineer. He has two patents for medical devices: one to help with rotator cuff surgery and another for a surgical tool for nasal surgery.   

Jackson County students

WCU’s ‘Our Natural World’ Camp for youngest Jackson County students ignites STEM passion in rural classrooms

Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵapp professors are helping Jackson County's youngest learners embrace STEM and understand how science is embedded in rural communities.   

Santa tosses candy canes to students in the crowd

WCU Athletics brings holiday cheer with Education Days for local students

Earlier this month, Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵapp Athletics welcomed more than 1,000 Jackson County Public Schools students to campus for its annual Education Days basketball games—bringing early holiday cheer and an unforgettable afternoon of hoops.  

WCU EMS

WCU EMS looks back on 60 years of serving campus community

Every year for career day, Rhonda Summers’ high school had students write three jobs they wanted to hear about as a career. Summers only needed to write down one: pre-hospital medicine.