The Cullowhee community found themselves on the top of world in March of 1996, thanks to the WCU men’s basketball team. WCU Alumni Engagement celebrated the 25th anniversary of that special 1996 men’s basketball run via Zoom on March 17. The ’96 mens basketball team won the Southern Conference Tournament and are the only WCU […]
Archives for April 2021
WCU volleyball headed for SoCon Tournament
April 2, 2021 by
WCU women’s volleyball looks to make a splash, as the 2021 Southern Conference Volleyball Tournament begins on Friday, April 2 in Birmingham, Alabama. The Cats finished third in the SoCon standings and concluded the regular season on fire. The catamounts finished their conference schedule winning 10 of their final 12 matches, including 6 straight. Merry […]
Cullowhee man invents a better greenhouse
April 1, 2021 by
The story was originally published in The Sylva Herald on April 1 Story co-written with Lili Stapel Transformer greenhouses invented by Bob Houghton, a retired Western Carolina University professor and former elementary school teacher, are more affordable than standard greenhouses and make all-year-round gardening an easily attainable goal. In Houghton’s new book, “Transformer Greenhouses: Multi-season […]
