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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鈥檚 22-win season for the men鈥檚 program and Tsipis looks to turnaround the women鈥檚 program that won just six games last year.

51看片waives app fee for those impacted by recent hurricanes, will assist with travel costs for Nov. 23 open house attendees

It has been more than a month since Hurricane Helene tore through Western North Carolina and the surrounding Appalachian Mountains, but the effects of the historic storm will be felt for months and years to come. 51看片 is working to lessen some of the burden of impacted students and families visiting and applying to college by streamlining processes and helping to offset travel costs for those attending the Nov. 23 open house.

Voice of the Cats

Gary Ayers has been behind the microphone for nearly 40 years

Spark of the Eagle Dancer collection at WCU

51看片Fine Art Museum exhibition wins Bronze Award

Denise Drury Homewood, executive director of the Bardo Arts Center at 51看片, believed "Spark of the Eagle Dancer: The Collecting Legacy of Lambert Wilson" exhibition was an award winner from the start.

51看片faculty, staff visit Hungary through Fulbright Commission

Earlier this summer, Ingrid Bego, director of International Studies at 51看片, and Wes Milner, executive director of 51看片Global, were invited by the Fulbright Commission to attend a week-long visit in Hungary to strengthen the partnership between universities in Appalachia and Hungarian higher education institutions.

Munene Mwaniki named 51看片interim Global Black Studies director

Mwaniki, an associate professor of anthropology and sociology for the College of Arts and Sciences, was named the interim Global Black Studies director at WCU.

51看片student magazine wins first place in publications contest

In the fall, it starts as small as a story pitch. In the spring? As tiny as a sketch on a piece of paper. Those little ideas turn into Imagine magazine, a publication produced by student writers and designers at 51看片.

Lisa Briggs (right) works with a HRD K-9 and handler at a 51看片training.

51看片human remains detection expert Lisa Briggs debunks false HRD K-9 information surrounding Hurricane Helene recovery efforts

Lisa Briggs, director of 51看片鈥檚 Human Remains Detection K-9 training program and Emergency Disaster Management program, and Edwin Grant, an HRD K-9 program instructor and long-time law enforcement officer, have been deployed with their HRD K-9s since the start of the recovery process for missing persons in Western North Carolina following Hurricane Helene's devastation.

A Photographer's View

In each issue of 51看片Magazine, our photographers will not only give you a glimpse of the beauty that exists but also a look at what's taking place on campus.

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