| Summary: | The Reporter is a publication produced by Western Carolina University featuring news, events, and campus community updates for faculty and staff. The publication began in August of 1970 and continues digitally today. Click on the link in the “Related Materials” field to access recent issues. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home October 13, 2010 ???????? Email This Post ???????? Print This Post ???????? Share | ACHIEVEMENTS Adams receives award for 2011 Spring Literary Festival Mary Adams, associate professor of English, recently received an award for $5,000 from the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources, to fund the 2011 Spring Literary Festival. The North Carolina Arts Council works to make North Carolina The Creative State where a robust arts industry produces a creative economy, vibrant communities, children prepared for the 21st century and lives ????????lled with discovery and learning. The Arts Council accomplishes this in partnership with artists and arts organizations, other organizations that use the arts to make their communities stronger and North Carolinians— young and old—who enjoy and participate in the arts. The Arts Council is a division of the Department of Cultural Resources. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: Beyond LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2010 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home October 6, 2010 ???????? Email This Post ???????? Print This Post ???????? Share | NOTEWORTHY NEWS AIDS Memorial Quilt returns to WCU The AIDS Memorial Quilt is coming to the Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum on Nov 17-20. WCU will be hosting nine of the quilt panels. For more information, visit the AIDS Memorial Quilt at WCU website or contact Lori Davis at ledavis@wcu.edu or 828-227-7206 or Jennifer Cooper at jacooper@wcu.edu or 828-227-2595. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: Beyond the Glass Matrix 5/29/2017 Water Portraits: Barbara Tyroler 6/9/2017 Musical Variety Show 'Livin' the Dream' 6/10/2017 Musical Variety Show 'Livin' the Dream' LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2010 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home October 13, 2010 ???????? Email This Post ???????? Print This Post ???????? Share | NOTEWORTHY NEWS Automatic e-mail forwarding to end Oct. 14 In an effort to protect certain types of data, automatic forwarding of WCU e-mail to external addresses will end Thursday, Oct. 14. This will affect all faculty and staff who have their e-mail accounts set to automatically forward to external accounts such as Yahoo! or Gmail. The change in settings already is in effect for student e-mail accounts. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2010 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home October 13, 2010 ???????? Email This Post ???????? Print This Post ???????? Share | ACHIEVEMENTS Award helps bring film series to campus South Arts awarded $1,800 to Lori Davis, assistant director for campus activities, University Center, to bring the Southern Circuit film series, a tour of independent filmmakers, to campus. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2010 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home October 6, 2010 ???????? Email This Post ???????? Print This Post ???????? Share | ACHIEVEMENTS Ben Tholkes honored for work with park service, ski patrol Ben Tholkes, associate professor of health, physical education, and recreation, recently received two awards in honor of his commitment to the National Park Service and the National Ski Patrol. Tholkes received a 1,000 hour volunteer award from the annual National Park Service volunteer recognition banquet in Gatlinburg, Tenn., for his work at the Oconaluftee Visitor Center, his adopted trail and campsites at Deep Creek, and for training park service sta???????? members in ????????rst aid, cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of automated external defibrillators. Tholkes also won the Service Recognition Award from the National Ski Patrol in honor of his dedication and humanitarian service to the skiing public for 30 years. The award was presented at the annual National Ski Patrol Southern Division Patrollers Conference in Kingsport, Tenn. He has served as a national ski patrol director and outdoor emergency care instructor for ski resorts in Minnesota, California and North Carolina. Compiled by WCU student Steven Younts CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: Beyond LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2010 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home October 26, 2010 ???????? Email This Post ???????? Print This Post ???????? Share | ACHIEVEMENTS Burton, Lofquist and Bowen present at national outreach conference Carol Burton, assistant vice chancellor for undergraduate studies, Beth Lofquist, associate provost, and Glenn Bowen, director of service learning, recently presented “Faculty Engagement and Institutional Outreach: Impact on Student Learning” at the National Outreach Scholarship Conference in Raleigh. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: Beyond LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2010 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home October 13, 2010 ???????? Email This Post ???????? Print This Post ???????? Share | Chancellor John W. Bardo meets with the Dillsboro/WCU partnership group working to help the town. TOP STORIES Chancellor announces plans to step down John W. Bardo, who guided Western Carolina University through a period of unprecedented growth in student enrollment, campus construction and academic stature during 15 years as the institution’s 10th chief executive officer, announced Monday, Oct. 11, he will leave his position as chancellor next summer. Bardo, chancellor at WCU since 1995, informed the campus community of his decision to retire from the post effective July 1, 2011, in a series of conversations with key administrators and a message to faculty and staff. Upon his retirement as chancellor, he will begin a year of research leave before taking a new role at WCU as a faculty member. Bardo, 61, said he decided now is the time to step down as chancellor so the university can be better positioned for the next leap forward in its development. “It cannot be lost on even the most casual observer that this university is poised for another major breakout in quality and impact on the people of the state,” he said. “After a great deal of soul-searching, I decided that it would be in the best interests of the university if I chose this time to announce my intent to retire from the chancellorship. This will allow a new chancellor the ability to rapidly assemble a team to lead the institution to the next level of quality,” he said. “It is bittersweet to say that I know that this university’s best days are ahead.” UNC President Erskine Bowles, who announced his own retirement plans earlier this year, commended Bardo for his years of exemplary service to the university. “John Bardo has been a truly phenomenal leader for Western Carolina University, the surrounding region and the entire state. Over the past 15 years, he has dramatically changed WCU for the better, significantly growing enrollment and academic offerings while also raising the academic quality of the student body,” Bowles said. “Throughout his long tenure, he also has worked on multiple fronts to establish WCU as a catalyst for sustainable economic development in that region of the state. In the process, the campus has attracted national recognition for its ongoing efforts to incorporate civic engagement and community outreach into the undergraduate experience,” he said. “As UNC’s most senior chancellor, Chancellor Bardo has also been a wonderful mentor to me. In countless ways, he will leave WCU stronger than he found it, and that’s quite a legacy in and of itself.” In addition to being the senior chancellor in the UNC system, Bardo is WCU’s longest-serving chancellor since 1972, when the institution joined the UNC system. The UNC Board of Governors unanimously confirmed Bardo as WCU chancellor March 17, 1995. In announcing Bardo’s appointment, then-UNC President C.D. Spangler characterized him as “exceptionally well-qualified to lead Western Carolina University in the years ahead.” Spangler went on to say, “He brings to the position of chancellor a proven commitment to scholarship and to teaching, as well as a strong desire to explore new opportunities for service to the western region of our state.” Those comments have proven remarkably prophetic, said Steve Warren, current chair of Western Carolina’s Board of Trustees and a WCU alumnus, who said it is difficult to look at his alma mater today without seeing Bardo’s fingerprints. “The place, in so many ways, bears no resemblance to the Western Carolina University he first set foot upon in 1995. Not only has the physical look of the campus changed, its spirit has changed. It is a can-do spirit. It’s an entrepreneurial spirit. It’s a spirit embodied in the language of the probable, not the possible,” Warren said. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT Chancellor John W. Bardo and his wife, Deborah, march with the band in the Homecoming Parade. Chancellor John W. Bardo, center, participates in the ribbon-cutting at Western Carolina University's Fine and Performing Arts Center, a $30 million, 122,000 showcase for the arts, on Oct. 22, 2005. WCU Chancellor John W. Bardo holds a plaque naming WCU's Pride of the Mountains Marching Band as the 2009 recipient of the Sudler Trophy, the "Heisman Trophy" of marching bands. “What I really want to convey, on behalf of the Board of Trustees, on behalf of the thousands of students who have passed under his watchful and caring eye, on behalf of the people of Western North Carolina, of which I am one, is the enduring thanks and appreciation for a job extraordinarily well done,” he said. Under Bardo’s leadership, Western Carolina has seen student enrollment grow from 6,500 to more than 9,400 today. To accommodate rising enrollment, the university has constructed or made major additions to 14 buildings, including five new residence halls, a dining hall, a campus recreation center, the Fine and Performing Arts Center and a high-tech Center for Applied Technology. The university expanded its student union facility, launched women’s soccer and softball programs, and renovated every athletics facility on campus, including the addition of west-side stands to WCU’s formerly notorious one-sided football stadium. With the 2005 acquisition of 344 acres of property across N.C. Highway 107 from the main campus as part of the Millennial Initiative, the university doubled the size of its campus. A new Health and Human Sciences Building is now under construction as the first facility of the initiative, which involves creation of neighborhoods anchored by an academic building and surrounded by related private industry and government partners. During Bardo’s tenure, the university gained national recognition for being among the first institutions in the nation to require incoming students to report to campus with their own computers and for adopting innovative tenure and promotion policies that reward faculty member for their scholarly activities that go beyond traditional teaching, research and service. Western Carolina’s Quality Enhancement Plan, which emphasizes strong links between students’ academic and extracurricular activities, has been called a national model by higher education associations. It was under Bardo’s watch that the university created the residential Honors College, which has grown to become one of the largest in the United States. Over the past 15 years, WCU has focused attention on sharply increasing admissions standards and has developed a top-ranking program in undergraduate research. This year, WCU was second in the nation in the number of student presenters at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research. Bardo oversaw the first comprehensive fundraising campaign in university history, which netted $51,826,915 in private giving for endowed scholarships, professorships and programmatic support. The tally unveiled in October 2009 was more than $11 million above the $40 million goal announced when the campaign was publicly launched in February 2007, and success was declared a year earlier than anticipated in spite of the economic downturn. Linda Seestedt-Stanford, interim provost, and Chancellor John W.Bardo participate in the 2009 groundbreaking for the $46 million Health and Human Sciences Building. Chancellor John W. Bardo and his wife, Deborah, join students to cheer on the Catamounts. During the Bardo years, the university emphasized the enhancement of student life through the development of learning communities, student leadership initiatives, model Greek life programs, and strong attention to the development and welfare of the whole student. Bardo also made it a priority to bring additional resources to Western Carolina to attract top faculty members who are nationally known experts in their fields. When he first arrived at WCU, the university had no endowed distinguished professorship. Today, Western Carolina boasts 21 that are fully funded. Prior to coming to Western Carolina, Bardo was vice president for academic affairs and provost at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts. Previously, he held various administrative and academic appointments at the University of North Florida, Southwest Texas State University and Wichita State University. He also has been a Fulbright Scholar at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and a guest visiting professor in the social policy program at the University of Wales. A native of Cincinnati, Bardo holds a doctorate in sociology from the Ohio State University, a master of arts degree in sociology from Ohio University, and a bachelor of arts degree in economics from the University of Cincinnati. He has written two books and articles for more than 70 professional publications on topics including community development, technology in education, social and psychological adjustment to migration, and higher education policy. He speaks widely on issues of technology in education and the role of higher education in economic and community development. By Bill Studenc Graduating WCU student Liz Goettee snaps a photo with Chancellor John W. Bardo at commencement. Daniel Dorsey -Daniel R. Dorsey, president, WCU Student Government Association Erin McNelis – Erin McNelis, associate professor of mathematics and computer science, and 2010-12 chair of the WCU Faculty Senate Over the past 15 years, we have been blessed to have Dr. John Bardo serving as our chancellor. He has accomplished a lot during the course of his administration. Finding a new chancellor will be a difficult task. Dr. Bardo is leaving some big shoes to fill. In the eight years since my arrival at WCU, the face of the campus has changed greatly, and we continue to grow in physical space and in enrollment. Dr. Bardo’s vision for Western Carolina University has driven that growth. During his time as chancellor, the university also has taken great strides in less physically perceptible matters as well. WCU has received national recognition as a leader in engaged learning and as one of the first universities to incorporate Boyer’s definitions for scholarship in its tenure, promotion and reappointment criteria. Dr. Bardo’s support has been key in enabling faculty, staff and administration to achieve these goals. Chancellor John W. Bardo has been a true leader to the Catamount community for the past 15 years. One only has to look at the many positive changes in the campus as well as the growth in the quality and quantity of the student body. As an alumnus and employee, I certainly appreciate all his efforts and thank both he and Deborah for their outstanding service to Western Carolina University. Chuck Wooten -Chuck Wooten, vice chancellor, Division of Administration and Finance Betty Allen -Betty Allen, president, WCU Alumni Association Dr. Bardo’s vision and leadership have moved Western Carolina from the beautiful Cullowhee valley to points throughout the country and the world. When he first came to WCU, he told us he was going to raise the bar, and he most definitely accomplished that. I know I speak for many alumni when I say we have always loved and been proud of our alma mater. Thanks to Dr. Bardo, others outside of the Western Carolina family are more aware than ever of what an outstanding university WCU is. I also am appreciative that in doing what he has done for Western Carolina, he has worked for the people of this area. His leadership, guidance and vision for WCU will be missed, but he has positioned WCU to continue to move upward and onward. © 2010 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home October 27, 2010 ???????? Email This Post ???????? Print This Post ???????? Share | Sure, you can have a piece of candy! Children are invited to trick or treat at "Haunted Moore Hall," from 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28. Beware Moore's haunted basement. NOTEWORTHY NEWS Children of faculty and staff invited to Halloween event at Moore The Moore Building gets awfully creepy this time of year. For the fourth year, faculty and students in the School of Health Sciences will host the “Haunted Moore Hall” Halloween event. “Haunted Moore Hall,” from 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28, officially is a recruitment event for health sciences programs. Representatives from the programs man stations and are available to speak to students, who are encouraged to come in costume, about different majors available. “The event is a good way for students to meet people, to learn about majors if they are still undecided, and is an opportunity to do something safe around Halloween,” said April Tallant, assistant professor in the School of Health Sciences. This year the event also doubles as a food drive, with attendees asked to bring nonperishable foods. But children of faculty and staff are welcome to attend the event as well, said Mary Teslow, assistant professor and director of the health information administration program. Dressed for Halloween, they can ride the “Tower of Terror” (aka the elevator) and trick or treat inside the building. They should enter the basement at their own risk, where ghouls lurk in dark corners as part of a “Haunted Tour” fright-fest. The basement’s tiled bathrooms, with their dripping faucets, give the “Haunted Tour” portion of the event a “ ‘Psycho’ feel,” Teslow said. Moore, completed in 1924, shares the honor of oldest building on campus with the steam plant. The building originally was a dormitory, and legend has it that a student has haunted its halls since her blood-chilling murder there in the 1920s. “We don’t absolutely know if it’s the truth, but it’s a fun story,” said Teslow, who coordinates the event. George Frizzell, university archivist, said the story falls into the category of local legend, “one that can be adapted to a particular place by altering the locale and dates to fit a particular place and give it the feel of being more ‘real.’” “The great thing about a legend like this is that you can add details specific to a place, such as Cullowhee and Moore, and make it sound very convincing,” Frizzell said. “Haunted Moore Hall” is in its final years, Teslow said. The programs housed in Moore will move to the new Health and Human Sciences Building, scheduled to open January 2012, and it’s unknown if Moore’s ghost will move with them. For more information, contact Teslow at 828-227-3513 or mteslow@wcu.edu. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2010 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home October 13, 2010 ???????? Email This Post ???????? Print This Post ???????? Share | Chancellor John W. Bardo (left) honors Chuck Wooten, vice chancellor for administration and finance, during halftime activities Saturday, Oct. 9. Wooten won WCU's Distinguished Service Award. TOP STORIES Chuck Wooten receives Distinguished Service Award Chuck Wooten, vice chancellor for administration and finance at Western Carolina University, was presented Saturday, Oct. 9, with WCU’s Distinguished Service Award. Wooten has guided critical financial and business decisions at Western Carolina for the past 30 years – a period of growth unprecedented in the history of the institution. “I’ve had the good fortune of being at the table when a master plan was developed, projects were prioritized, and designers were selected,” said Wooten. “Watching the projects move from construction to completion has been very rewarding.” During his time as vice chancellor, WCU doubled the size of its campus with the 2005 purchase of 344 acres as part of the Millennial Initiative and has undertaken more than $310 million in major capital projects. Construction since 2001 has included the Fine and Performing Arts Center, Campus Recreation Center, Courtyard Dining Hall and five residence halls, and a Health and Human Sciences Building is being built. More than 1.1 million square feet has been added. In addition, the institution has renovated every athletics facility on campus. A Statesville native, Wooten earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration in 1973 with a concentration in accounting – a decision based on his love of working with numbers – from WCU in 1973. He had heard about WCU from a neighbor. “I decided to take a look at Western Carolina, and it turned out to be the only application I submitted,” said Wooten. “I had a great experience as an undergraduate student and developed a real affinity for WCU.” After graduation, he worked as a systems accountant for the local government commission for the N.C. Department of State Treasurer and as a finance officer and county manager in Iredell County. His increasing interest in local government led him to pursue a master’s degree in political science and public administration from Appalachian State University, which he earned in 1979 after traveling to Hickory two nights a week to complete the program. A year later, he returned to WCU as controller. He was promoted to assistant vice chancellor for business affairs in 1987, promoted again to associate vice chancellor in 1996, and named vice chancellor for administration and finance in 2001. As leader of the Division of Administration and Finance, Wooten has administered the university’s financial and business services functions, including the budget office, purchasing, dining services, housing facilities, human resources, physical plant, university police and Ramsey Regional Activity Center. His awards include the 1995 Paul A. Reid Staff Distinguished Award from WCU and the 2000 N.C. state government’s Barry K. Sanders Outstanding Service Award, which is presented annually to a state employee who demonstrates exemplary performance in the area of budget, planning or agency management. Outside of his work at WCU, he has served as a member of the Tuckaseigee Water and Sewer Authority, the board of directors of Givens Estate in Asheville, the advisory board for the State Employees Credit Union in Sylva, and the Cullowhee Parks and Community Association. Chancellor John W. Bardo described the strong leadership Wooten has brought to the university in presenting the award and echoed some of the sentiments he shared in announcing Wooten’s plans to retire Jan.1. “His departure will be felt by every individual on campus,” Bardo said when he announced Wooten’s retirement to the WCU community. “We will all miss his wise counsel, knowledge and affable style. I want to personally thank Chuck for the leadership he has provided to his division, as well as to the entire institution.” In addition, WCU’s Alumni Association honored three alumnae as part of Homecoming activities. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT Carol Durham Sarah Lowell Academic Achievement Award Carol Fowler Durham, a leader in nursing education and curriculum development for more than 28 years, presents and consults nationally on teaching quality and safety in patient care and integrating human patient simulators into health-care education. Durham is a clinical professor and director of the clinical education and resource center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing. She earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Western Carolina University in1976 and worked as a nurse at C.J. Harris Hospital in Sylva and the coronary care unit at Rex Hospital in Raleigh. Her teaching career began at UNC-CH, where she completed her master’s degree in nursing in 1982. She completed a doctorate in adult and higher education at North Carolina State University in 2009. Durham was part of an award-winning project that is shifting the focus in nursing education from body mechanics to safe patient-handling and movement. She implemented the national American Nurses Association project at her university with a focus on assessing patients to select appropriate lift equipment to help transfer, reposition or move them. In addition, Durham has been a leader in incorporating human patient simulation into nursing education and also has collaborated with pharmacy and medical schools to develop interprofessional simulation experiences for students across disciplines. She was one of nine simulation experts who worked on a project sponsored by the National League of Nursing and Laerdal Medical that created a Simulation Innovation Resource Center and online modules to teach faculty how to design simulations and integrate them into their curriculum. Her awards include the Outstanding Faculty Award in 2000, the N.C. Nurses Association Nurse Educator of the Year honor in 2005, and a METI (Medical Education Technologies Inc.) Innovative Educator Award in 2007. Two years later, she received the Bayada Award from Drexel University for Technological Innovation in Nursing Education and was inducted as a fellow into the National League of Nursing’s Academy of Nursing Education. Professional Achievement Award Sarah Lowell began a physical education program in a rural elementary school with no equipment and no funding and transformed the program into a National Model Classroom of Excellence in Elementary Physical Education. Lowell has taught physical education at Cartoogechaye Elementary School in Franklin for 26 years. She also is a model clinical faculty member at Western Carolina University. A national board-certified teacher, she earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education at WCU in 1984 and 1989, respectively. At Cartoogechaye Elementary School, Lowell modeled the physical education program on a lifetime fitness curriculum that includes activities such as yoga, fishing, bicycling and hiking. Additional fitness activities have included juggling, rock climbing, riding unicycles, gymnastics and dance. Students also have used technology such as pedometers and heart-rate monitors as they work toward personal goals and to create their own exercise and instructional videos. The school was named a National Association for Sports and Physical Education STARS School of Excellence for 2006 to 2009 and recognized as having one of the top 25 physical education programs in the United States. The school recently was notified that the institution again will be recognized as a STARS School of Excellence. In addition, it is the only physical education demonstration school in North Carolina and annually hosts hundreds of teachers, college students and administrators. Lowell is a two-time recipient of both the N.C. Physical Education Teacher of the Year award and the Macon County Teacher of the Year award. She was one of the top five finalists for the national physical education teacher of the year award in 2007. Elizabeth Wall-Bassett (third from right), winner of the 2010 Young Alumna Award, is presented during halftime on Saturday, Oct. 9. She also inspires her students and raises money and awareness for organizations such as Special Olympics as an ultra runner. Nicknamed the “Polar Princess,” Lowell holds the fastest women’s time in the world for an arctic 100-mile race at 19 hours 23 minutes and is the only runner to have completed the Arctic Grand Slam – four ultra marathons in extreme arctic conditions totaling 455 miles in a 12-week span. Young Alumna Award Elizabeth Wall-Bassett has helped develop programs and initiatives that promote nutrition and food security not only in the Carolinas but also in the Commonwealth of Dominica, a mountainous Caribbean island home to about 70,000 people. Wall-Bassett is a registered dietitian, an assistant professor of nutrition and dietetics at East Carolina University, and an adjunct professor in ECU’s Brody School of Medicine. She majored in biology and economics as an undergraduate student at Western Carolina, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in 2000. She continued her education at Clemson University, where she completed a master’s degree in plant and environmental science and a doctorate in food technology. Her research presentations and publications have explored topics related to food security and nutrition program design and assessment methods. They include a technical report for Dominica’s Ministers of Government titled “Food Security in the Caribbean: A Study in Three Regions of Dominica.” For more than six years, she has worked collaboratively with Dominica’s Ministry of Health and the Environment and the Ministry of Education, Human Resource Development, Sports and Youth Affairs on initiatives ranging from developing school feeding programs to training programs for health workers that cover topics such as basic nutrition principles and food safety and sanitation techniques. Her service includes work with the N.C. Dietetic Association, the Society for Nutrition Education, Community Food Security Coalition, South Carolina Food Policy Council, American Dietetic Association and Carolina Farm Stewardship Association. ECU honored her with the Treasured Pirate Award for Effective Leadership in 2009, and the N.C. Dietetic Association recently recognized her as a 2010 Young Dietitian of the Year. By Teresa Killian Tate © 2010 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home October 20, 2010 ???????? Email This Post ???????? Print This Post ???????? Share | TOP STORIES College of Business included among Princeton Review’s ‘Best 300’ A book published recently by the Princeton Review lists Western Carolina University’s College of Business as among the nation’s best schools at which to earn a master’s degree in business administration. The educational services company features WCU in the 2011 edition of its guidebook, “The Best 300 Business Schools,” which is based on surveys of 19,000 students in business programs around the world. “We are pleased to recommend Western Carolina University to readers of our book and users of our site, www.PrincetonReview.com, as one of the best institutions they could attend to earn an MBA,” said Robert Franek, Princeton Review’s senior vice president of publishing. “We chose the 300 business schools in this book based on our high opinion of their academic programs and o????????erings, as well as our review of institutional data we collect from the schools. We also strongly consider the candid opinions of students attending the schools who rate and report on their campus experiences at their schools.” In addition to praising the MBA program, students surveyed also said WCU’s College of Business provides solid preparation in ????????nance and general management. “We are proud that our master’s degree program in business administration once again is receiving accolades from the Princeton Review. Such recognition is indicative of the high quality of teaching and learning that can be found throughout our College of Business academic programs,” said Louis E. Buck Jr., interim dean of the college. Buck noted that earlier this year the college’s online program in project management received a No. 1 national ranking in quality and a????????ordability, and the online master of entrepreneurship program is “one of the most comprehensive programs of its kind in the country.” “Honors like these make us even more confident that we are on the right track in preparing business-ready students,” Buck said. For more information about WCU’s MBA program, contact Steve Ha, director of the program, at 828-227-3008, via e-mail at iha@wcu.edu, or visit the website Master of Business Administration program/a>. By Randall Holcombe CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: Beyond LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2010 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home October 26, 2010 ???????? Email This Post ???????? Print This Post ???????? Share | ACHIEVEMENTS Collins presents at national and international conferences Shawn Collins, assistant professor of nursing and director of the nurse anesthesia program, recently presented “Model for a Reproducible Curriculum Infrastructure for Nurse Anesthesia CE in Developing Countries” as part of a peer-reviewed and invited podium presentation at the third National Doctors of Nursing Practice Conference held in San Diego. Collins also will be presenting on this topic at the peer-reviewed invited International Conference on Education, Research, and Innovation in Madrid, Spain, on Nov. 15. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: Beyond LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2010 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home October 13, 2010 ???????? Email This Post ???????? Print This Post ???????? Share | ACHIEVEMENTS Costa receives award to promote science education James T. Costa, professor and director of the Highlands Biological Station, recently received an award of $77,683 from the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources and N.C. Grassroots Science Museums Collaborative to promote science education at the Highlands Nature Center, the biological station’s public museum. This grant helps support the operations, exhibits and programming of the nature center, including school programs and collaborative efforts with other science centers and affiliates. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: Beyond LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2010 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home October 6, 2010 ???????? Email This Post ???????? Print This Post ???????? Share | The public can watch top high school bands from around the Southeast perform during the Tournament of Champions on Saturday, Oct. 16, at Western Carolina University. (Photo by WCU student Jarrett Frazier) TOP STORIES Daylong marching band contest Oct. 16 at WCU Approximately 3,500 students from 23 high schools will compete for top marching band honors during a daylong competition Saturday, Oct. 16, at Western Carolina University. The tenth annual Tournament of Champions, a showcase for elite high school marching bands, will begin with a preliminary session at 9 a.m. at E.J. Whitmire Stadium. The top 10 advancing bands will be announced at 4:30 p.m., and the evening session will begin at 7 p.m., with ????????nalists competing for the grand champion Chancellor’s Trophy. The event, hosted by WCU’s award-winning Pride of the Mountains Marching Band, “has become one of the major marching band events in the entire Southeast,” said Bob Buckner, band director and an inductee of the Bands of America Hall of Fame. “I am excited that this terrific event has reached a milestone with its 10th anniversary,” Buckner said. “We are seeing growth and improvement in our bands every season and like to think that the Tournament of Champions has had something to do with that.” The Pride of the Mountains, selected to participate in the 2011 Rose Parade on Jan. 1 in Pasadena, Calif., will perform its new halftime show, “Rock U,” at 4 p.m. and at the end of the ????????nals competition. Also on the schedule: a lunchtime concert by Soul Train, the marching band’s rock group, and a 6:45 p.m. marching band performance of the national anthem. Many of the competitors, who represent four states, are eager for evaluation by the preeminent panel of judges, said Matt Henley, assistant director of athletic bands. “We bring in the biggest names in the business to judge,” said Henley, adding that last year’s pageantry attracted about 12,000 spectators. Tickets are available for $10 per person for the preliminary session and $8 for the ????????nals session if purchased at the gate before 4 p.m. and $10 if purchased after 4 p.m. A rate of $8 per person for groups of 15 or more is available, and children 12 and younger will be admitted free when accompanied by an adult. For more information, call (828) 227-2259 or go online to www.prideofthemountains.com. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: Beyond LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2010 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home October 20, 2010 ???????? Email This Post ???????? Print This Post ???????? Share | Colleagues say Martin DeWitt, founding director and curator of WCU's Fine Art Museum, is expert at drawing visitors into exhibits and at discussing complex concepts in plain language. Here, DeWitt poses inside the museum's main gallery with a piece that renowned ceramicist Don Reitz created during a demonstration at WCU and is now part of the university's permanent collection. TOP STORIES DeWitt to step down as director of Fine Art Museum As the College of Fine and Performing Arts celebrates five years since the opening of the Fine and Performing Arts Center, looking forward, the Fine Art Museum will be under new leadership. Martin DeWitt, founding director and curator of the museum, will retire from his position Jan. 1. “I think the timing is right for changes,” said DeWitt, who signed a ????????ve-year contract in 2003. “Here it is, seven years,” he mused. As founding director, DeWitt’s role was unique. His primary objective was to get the 10,000-square-foot Fine Art Museum up and running, which he did with aplomb. He was involved in aspects of the facility’s construction, directed the museum’s permanent collection (which grew from about 400 objects to now more than 1,200), laid out the museum’s policies and procedures – a blueprint for the facility’s operation – and mapped out the museum’s inaugural exhibitions. “Martin has been an outstanding founding director of the Fine Art Museum,” said Robert Kehrberg, dean of the College of Fine and Performing Arts, which oversees the Fine and Performing Arts Center’s art museum and performance space. “It has been a pleasure to work with him. He is a visionary with vision.” Kehrberg praised DeWitt for his strength in defining a vision for the museum and cultivating it as a cultural destination. He also credited DeWitt with strengthening the university’s ties with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Elements of the center’s design reference the Cherokee culture, and exhibits over the past ????????ve years have included work by many Eastern Band members. The permanent collection also includes work by Eastern Band and other American Indian artists. And DeWitt has a genius for gallery presentation that draws participants into the space, Kehrberg said. “Martin is expert at that,” he said. In a university setting, this expertise works as a tool for teaching students how museums and galleries function. DeWitt recently worked with a group that wanted to learn more about the technical aspects of exhibiting art in the new Jackson County Library under construction. The group had contacted the museum as a resource and even was meeting in the FAPAC lobby space. “When that kind of thing happens, that means we’ve done our job,” DeWitt said. Exhibits at the museum, which comprises a main gallery and three auxiliary spaces, have included work from internationally known artists to WCU students. Accomplished regional artists have exhibited prominently at the museum, among them Eastern Band member Luzene Hill, a conceptual artist who creates mixed-media installations; Harvey K. Littleton, a pioneer of the studio glass movement and creator of the vitreograph technique of printing; Lewis Buck, who creates paintings and assemblage pieces; and glass artist Richard Ritter. A series of photographs by Mike Smith, of Tennessee, titled “Seeing Rural Appalachia: A Photographic Journal,” will open Sunday, Oct. 24, and run through Friday, Dec. 17. DeWitt and Denise Drury, curatorial specialist at the museum, recently oversaw the installation of an outdoor sculpture exhibit that will remain in the FAPAC courtyard for one year. Five artists, all from the Southeast, were narrowed from a field of more than 80. Looking ahead, Kehrberg said he hopes for the museum to increase this regional focus. He also would like to see the museum “extend its walls to the entire campus,” perhaps by exhibiting elements of its collection on other parts of campus. Hill, who met DeWitt when he contacted her about participating in the museum’s inaugural exhibit, called DeWitt “quite remarkable.” “He is so astute at judging and evaluating art and being able to give thoughtful comments and feedback to artists,” she said. “His manner is so wonderful. He’s accessible and approachable. I think he’s fantastic in his job and in his life.” Hill ultimately moved from Atlanta to Western North Carolina and earned her bachelor of ????????ne arts at WCU. She is now at work on her master’s degree here. “So many people in positions like Martin’s speak this ‘art speak,’ and he doesn’t do that,” she said. “I’m sure he’s processing all those things, because he’s well educated, but he gets to the essence in plain language and well-thought-out ways. He is just so good at that, which is wonderful in the university setting. I think students on every level get something from hearing him speak about art.” CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: Beyond the Glass Matrix 5/29/2017 Water Portraits: Barbara Tyroler 6/9/2017 Musical Variety Show 'Livin' the Dream' 6/10/2017 Musical Variety Show 'Livin' the Dream' LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT DeWitt and his wife, Sharon Sanders, a federal government employee, plan to move to Minneapolis to be closer to family. A painter and sculptor, DeWitt plans to spend time in the studio; as an art appraiser; and traveling, particularly to Mexico and Latin America, countries he loves and has long enjoyed. WCU is experiencing a wave of high-profile retirements. Chancellor John Bardo has announced his retirement e????????ective July 1, and Chuck Wooten, vice chancellor for administration and ????????nance, announced he will retire e????????ective Jan. 1. Rich Kucharski, longtime chief legal counsel for the university, retired in July. Kehrberg said an interim director will be in place as of Jan. 1 and will lead the museum until a new permanent director is hired. With the university’s budget contingent on the state, and the state in a precarious ????????nancial situation, it’s unclear when a permanent replacement will be in the museum director’s position, but the position is “too critical for the greater university to go unfilled,” Kehrberg said. By Jill Ingram Museum highlights from DeWitt’s tenure The Fine Art Museum has created nearly 100 exhibits since it opened in 2005. “Like children, they have all been favorites,” said Martin DeWitt, founding director and curator who has announced his retirement as of Jan. 1. The current ????????fth anniversary exhibits, including photos of Appalachia by Mike Smith and new outdoor sculpture, have been a highlight, as have some others from the past five years. Student work from the School of Art and Design is “always exciting, inspiring and highly creative.” The “Worldviews” exhibits, featuring ongoing selections of pieces from the permanent collection, which DeWitt has cultivated over the years. Organizing exhibits by contemporary Native American artists “has been especially rewarding.” These exhibits include “Hive” by Natalie Smith, “Pilgrimage Ribbon” by Luzene Hill, and “Reclaiming Cultural Ownership” by Shan Goshorn. Exhibits by N.C. artists, especially “Harvey K. Littleton + Friends,” works by Littleton and a “fantastic roster of guest artists”; glass master Richard Ritter; Norm Schulman’s “A Life in Clay”; and Lewis Buck’s “Beyond the Surface – Life Works in Painting and Assemblage.” Favorite photography exhibits have been “Faces of Change: Migrant Workers in Western North Carolina – A Photo Journal”; “Living with the Enemy: Photographs by Donna Ferrato”; and “Cleveland Rocks – The Birthplace of Rock and Roll,” photographs by rock ’n‘ roll photographer George Shuba. “Fragile Earth,” a competition of environmental-themed works by 40 regional artists. The George Masa photographs organized with Hunter Library’s Special Collections and curated by the Fine Art Museum’s exhibit practicum class “had an especially excellent response.” © 2010 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home October 20, 2010 ???????? Email This Post ???????? Print This Post ???????? Share | NOTEWORTHY NEWS Employee Appreciation Day set for Thursday, Oct. 21 Faculty and staff will be treated to a lunch of minestrone soup, salad, lasagna, rosemary focaccia bread, autumn vegetable sauté, green bean almondine and an oversized brownie at the 2010 Employee Appreciation Day to be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, at Ramsey Regional Activity Center. The event also features live entertainment, a vendor fair and a free gift for faculty and staff. Service honorees and retirees will be honored at a special area on the main arena floor. In addition, employees can pay $43 for a comprehensive wellness profile, which includes a complete blood count and tests that measure cholesterol and determine the risk of coronary heart disease; detect, evaluate and monitor liver disease or damage; check for thyroid gland problems; check status of kidneys; and evaluate iron metabolism. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2010 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home October 27, 2010 ???????? Email This Post ???????? Print This Post ???????? Share | WCU employees were honored for years of service milestones at Employee Appreciation Day. TOP STORIES Employees honored for years of service Western Carolina University faculty and staff recently enjoyed an Employee Appreciation Day celebration in their honor at Ramsey Regional Activity Center. At the event, employees were honored for reaching milestones in their years of service. 40+ Years of Service Joan F. Byrd, School of Art and Design (41 years of service) Sherry N. Fox, Office of the Registrar (42 years of service) Fred D. Hinson, Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (43 years of service) Shan Manickam, Mathematics and Computer Science (40 years of service) 35-39 Years of Service Richard S. Beam, Department of Stage and Screen (38 years of service) Kenneth R. Dills, Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences (35 years of service) Burton B. Fox, Educational Outreach Programs (39 years of service) Sharon Lee Jacques, School of Nursing (35 years of service) Richard L. Littrell, Residential Living (39 years of service) Arthur J. Manring, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Advancement and External Affairs (35 years of service) 30-34 Years of Service James C. Addison, English (30 years of service) Margaret Sill Ashe, Career Services (31 years of service) Wanda Gail Ashe, Sponsored Research (30 years of service) Aaron K. Ball, Engineering and Technology (32 years of service) Linda S. Bowers, Communication Sciences and Disorders (32 years of service) Lila Bryson Buchanan, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Advancement and External Affairs (32 years of service) C. Dale Carpenter, Human Services (30 years of service) CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT Lunch served to faculty and staff at Employee Appreciation Day included dishes from lasagna to oversized brownies. Henry Wong (right), director of Equal Opportunity and Diversity Programs at WCU, and Will Putnam from the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching perform live music at Employee Appreciation Day. Peggy A. Cope, Controller’s Office (32 years of service) Robert T. Edwards, Internal Audit (32 years of service) Sheila K. Frizzell, School of Music (31 years of service) Mario A. Gaetano, School of Music (30 years of service) Katherine Webb Green, Office of the Registrar (32 years of service) Bruce B. Henderson, Psychology (31 years of service) Deborah E. Justice, Office of the Chief Information Officer (33 years of service) Elizabeth Tyson Lofquist , Associate Provost (30 years of service) Dianne G. Lynch, Office of the Chancellor (33 years of service) Nancy A. Newsome, Hunter Library (33 years of service) Bethel W. McCarter, Residential Living (32 years of service) Sharon P. Painter, Office of the Registrar (32 years of service) Eleanor S. Prochaska, Math Tutoring Center (30 years of service) Charles Luther Shuler, Facilities Management (30 years of service) Vickey McDaniel Wade, Political Science and Public Affairs (33 years of service) Terry L. Welch, Office of the Chancellor (31 years of service) Carolyn B. Wiggins, Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences (32 years of service) George W. Wooten, Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance (32 years of service) 25 Years of Service Shirley Reynolds Bateman, WCU Programs in Asheville Timothy V. Carstens, Hunter Library William Lewis Carter, Facilities Management Johnnie A. Clark, Networking and Communication Services William L. Clarke, Office, Ramsey Center Renee P Corbin, Office, Dean, Education and Allied Professions Teresa C. Ensley, Hunter Library Homer Travis Harris, Facilities Management Faculty and staff learn more about services and businesses at the vendor fair at Employee Appreciation Day. Laura Yvonne Hooper, Student Financial Aid Lisa Bryson Hoyle, Office of the Dean – Educational Outreach Jon C. Jicha, School of Art and Design Dixie Lee Lawson, Office of the CIO Cecil D. Livingston, Political Science and Public Affairs Douglas Steve McClure, Health, Physical Education and Recreation Thomas E. McClure, Regional Affairs Joe A. McFalls, Residential Living Billy M. Metcalf, Residential Living Carol Ann Oxendine, Educational Leadership and Foundation Gregory B. Plemmons, Controller’s Office Dona R. Potts, Accounting David A Shapiro, Communication Sciences and Disorders Henry Desmond Wong, Office of the Chancellor 20 Years of Service Thomas R. Baker, Health, Physical Education and Recreation Alan Dennis Benson, Facilities Management Mary Joanne Bewsey, International Programs and Services Lisa Arlene Bloom, Human Services Pamela A. Bryson, Book and Supply Store Donna K. Cabe, Hunter Library Timothy S. Chapman, Residential Living Russell Clark Crisp, Application Development and Data Management Gillian D. Ellern, Hunter Library Rosemarie B. Greenwood, Facilities Management Bryant Burton Hall, Facilities Management Mary Jean Ronan Herzog, Educational Leadership and Foundation J. Casey Hurley, Educational Leadership and Foundation Eleanor S. Lieberman, Office of Athletic Programs Connie S. Mathis, Purchasing and Accounts Payable David Mark McCord, Psychology James Morse McLachlan, Philosophy and Religion William Frederick Moore, Facilities Management Leland Dale Moss, Club Sports Nancy Ann Norris, Modern Foreign Languages Nils Richard Olsson, Facilities Management Sheila M. Owen, Facilities Management Cynthia Renee Parker, Facilities Management Janie Anne Prentice, Business Administration and Law Arthur Herman Stephens, Purchasing and Accounts Payable Robert Strauss, Hunter Library Doyle Darwin Thomas, Facilities Management Roger Floyd Turk, Facilities Management P. Bradley Ulrich, School of Music Charles Lenn Wilkes, Facilities Management 15 Years of Service Nancy S. Brendell, Controller Dale R. Buchanan, Facilities Management Keith D. Buchanan, Facilities Management Constance V. Faircloth, Elementary and Middle Grade Education Ferman Allen Fortner, Facilities Management Thomas Gray Frazier, Printing Services Timothy M. Grindstaff, Facilities Management Cathy Lauren Grist, Human Services Kathy M. Jaqua, Mathematics and Computer Science Elizabeth Hunt Jones, Accounting Norman Leroy Kauffman, Accounting Jerry Lee Kinard, Management William R Kwochka, Chemistry and Physics Karen Yundt Lunnen, Physical Therapy Jeannine Arlette Madigan, Student Financial Aid Nancy W. Phillips, Controller’s Office Martin A Ramsey, Alumni Affairs Sabine Jos Rundle, Biology John Michael Stewart, Office of Auxillary Services Dina J. Towey , Office of the Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Donna S. Welch, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs 10 Years of Service Christy Ashe, Office of the Chancellor Martin N. Brow, Facilities Management Catherine W. Carter, English Tatum Beck Conley, Cat Card Donald W. Connelly, Communication Eva N. Cook, Hunter Library Roy Kevin Cope, Facilities Management Colby Tanner Deitz, IT Client Services Sharon F. Dole, Human Services Robin Denise Frizzell, Controller Angela Johnson Grube, Sport Management Danny P. Grube, Office of the Dean of Education and Allied Professions Bobby R. Hensley, Conferences/Events Ernest W. Jamison, Application Development and Data Management Jason M. Lavigne, Systems and Operations Edward Lawson, IT Client Services Kristy W. Maddy, Facilities Management Sharon McLaurin, Hunter Library Justin Menickelli, Health, Physical Education and Recreation Steven F. Pinner, Office, University Police and Traffic Services Pamela Baldwin Pittman, School of Music Jan B. Shearin, Purchasing and Accounts Payable Deborah L. Tarmann, Controller James H. Ullmer, Economics 5 Years of Service Ann Dora Adams, Residential Living Christopher J. Ammons, Facilities Management Terri E. Armfield, School of Music Cynthia Carolyn Banks, Highlands Biological Station Louis J. Barozzini, Facilities Management Wayne E. Billon, School of Health Sciences Russell Binkley, Elementary and Middle Grade Education Glenn Ainsworth Bowen, Service Learning Beverly C. Bryson, Residential Living Anita L. Buchanan, Office, University Police and Traffic Services Michael J. Burnett, Facilities Management Chad D. Burton, Facilities Management Malcolm Leholmes Cail, Facilities Management Robert Bruce Carton, Entrepreneurship Shelia Chapman, School of Nursing Kimberly L. Cherry-Beck, Advising Rena Eileen Childers, Residential Living Stephen Gilbert Christison, Systems Accounting Anna Rebecca Craft, Hunter Library Kathleen Michelle DeHart, Residential Living Andrew Craig Denson, History Stephen Lewis Derrick, Facilities Management Laura E. DeWald, Chemistry and Physics Randall Morris Dills, Office, University Police and Traffic Services Matthew J. Ellsworth, Student Financial Aid Stephen James English, Facilities Management Shirley M. Finegan, Hunter Library Teresa L. Folger, Elementary and Middle Grade Education George D. Ford, Construction Management Lynn Ray Franz, Application Development and Data Management Lisa Gaetano, Internal Audit Elizabeth Center Garrett, Facilities Management Winford A. Gordon, Psychology Ann Hallyburton, Hunter Library Georgia Hambrecht, Communication Sciences and Disorders Danielle Angel Haney, Anthropology and Sociology Russell P. Harris, Talent Search David H. Heisler, Facilities Management Brandy Cody Henning, IT Client Services Daniel K. Hooker, Office of Athletic Programs Betty Green Hopkins, Residential Living Beth Huber, English Larry E. Hunter, Office of Athletic Programs Jacqueline Jacobs, Educational Leadership and Foundation Meagan R. Karvonen, Educational Leadership and Foundation Deborah Davis Loyer, Facilities Management Alexander S. Macaulay, History Lann Alvin Malesky, Psychology Jill Ann Manners, School of Health Sciences James Sevier Mason, Facilities Management Elizabeth Anne McDonough, Hunter Library Elizabeth A. Neuenschwander, Admissions Jane Nichols, School of Art and Design Randall Keith Parris, Facilities Management Ernestine M. Plemmons, Office of the Chancellor William Douglas Poynter, Psychology Rita Gaynelle Prince, Facilities Management David Hugh Rathbone, Facilities Management Serenity K. Richards, Hunter Library Richard Quintin Ritter, IT Client Services Candace A. Roberts, School of Art and Design Julianna Brooke Roberts, Admissions Chandrika Rogers, English Reginald L. Rogers, Sponsored Research Mary Josephine Rompf, Office of the Dean of Education and Allied Professions Arthur L. Salido, Chemistry and Physics Phillip Sanger, Engineering and Technology Barbara L. Schade, Office of the Dean of Education and Allied Professions Emily Alanna Sharpe, Office of the Dean of the Honors College Susan Marie Skibbe, Residential Living Susan C. Stewart, Human Services Roxane G. Stiles, Office of Dean Graduate School Research Wesley L. Stone, Engineering and Technology David Strahan, Elementary and Middle Grade Education Tammy Lynn Sutton, Controller’s Office Basil Mark Tennant, Facilities Management Randall S. Terry , Office, University Police and Traffic Services Richard Tichich, School of Art and Design John Andrew Voelker, IT Client Services Cheryl Waters-Tormey, Geosciences and Natural Resources Joshua G. Whitmore, University Center Ami Nikkole Williams, Residential Living James Cale Wilson, Facilities Management Mesfin Arega Woldeyohannes, Chemistry and Physics Melissa H. Young, Web Services Alessia Rosanna Zanin Yost, Hunter Library Information from WCU Human Resources and prepared for publication with assistance from WCU student Steven Younts © 2010 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home October 20, 2010 ???????? Email This Post ???????? Print This Post ???????? Share | ACHIEVEMENTS Environmental Health faculty member, students present at national meeting Faculty and students from Western Carolina University’s environmental health sciences program recently presented a poster at the annual Society for Vector Ecology conference. Samantha Kunze, a senior environmental health sciences major from Santiago, Chile; Charlie Sither, a senior environmental health sciences major from Waynesville; and Brian Byrd, assistant professor in health sciences, presented “Impact of Thermal Conditions on the Relative Abundance of Aedes atropalpus and Aedes japonicus in the Southern Appalachians.” CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2010 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home October 26, 2010 ???????? Email This Post ???????? Print This Post ???????? Share | NOTEWORTHY NEWS First Year Experience launches new website A redesigned website for First Year Experience recently went live at http://fye.wcu.edu. The site features resources for students in their ????????rst year at Western Carolina University as well as for their families and faculty and sta????????. In addition, the site offers information about the EYE on FYE video contest and short video documentaries about several first-year students. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: Beyond LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2010 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home October 27, 2010 ???????? Email This Post ???????? Print This Post ???????? Share | Chancellor John Bardo and John Prokos, architect with the Gund Partnership in Massachusetts, speak about the genesis of WCU’s Fine and Performing Arts Center and what the facility represents to the community. (Video by Jill Ingram) TOP STORIES Gala brings art lovers to Cullowhee Hundreds of arts patrons turned out Oct. 22 to celebrate five years of WCU’s Fine and Performing Arts Center. About 180 people donned their finest duds and attended a cocktail reception under the open skies in the FAPAC courtyard. Chancellor John Bardo addressed guests, as did John Prokos, architect with the Gund Partnership in Massachusetts, which designed FAPAC. Terry Welch, assistant to the chancellor, performed the song “Friends” by Buzzy Linhart. The reception marked the unveiling of five sculptures recently installed in the FAPAC courtyard as part of a yearlong outdoor sculpture exhibition and a preview of the Fine Art Museum exhibit “Seeing Rural Appalachia– A Photographic Journal,” large-format photos of contemporary Appalachia by renowned photographer Mike Smith. About 650 guests watched the performance of “’S Wonderful,” a theatrical review of songs by George and Ira Gershwin. The festivities continued Sunday with a reception for the Smith exhibit and also launched “Worldviews: A Year in Collecting,” a new exhibit from WCU’s permanent collection. These exhibits will run through Friday, Dec. 17. T h e Fine and Performing Arts Center, a $30 million showcase for arts, culture and education in Western North Carolina, opened in October 2005 with a performance by comedian Jay Leno. By Jill Ingram CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2010 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subsc
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