Spring is a time for growth and healing and that’s no different for football. Western Carolina Football team is in spring training – time for new players to learn plays and older ones to hone their skills. But for some, it is a time to recover from injuries sustained from playing. See the video story […]
Injury recovery for athletes during Spring training
May 8, 2023 by Elijah Lautzenheiser
Filed Under: COMM 352 stories, Football, Home, Sports Tagged With: football, injuries, Spring Football, WCU football
Remarkable new biomedical research at WCU
May 10, 2022 by Liam Bridgeman
WCU students working with Dr. Channa De Silva, chemistry professor, are involved in important research. Their focus is developing a method for making cancers and cancer cells visible by using nanotechnology. “It is a type of technology that deals with science and engineering aspects of materials at the nanometer region,” De Silva explains. Nanoparticles are […]
Filed Under: COMM 352 stories, Home, Multimedia Projects Tagged With: Chemistry, Nanotechnology, science
Pinnacle Park’s new therapy trail; destressor for students
May 10, 2022 by Liam Bridgeman
On March 11, 2022 Sylva’s Pinnacle Park welcomed a new trail to it’s trail system. The first of it’s kind in North Carolina, Pinnacle Park’s therapy trail is more than a hiking trail. It is for relieving stress and getting in-touch with nature. The trail models a Japanese form of therapy called “shinrin-yoku” or “forest […]
Filed Under: COMM 352 stories, Home, Multimedia Projects, Outdoors Tagged With: nature, Pinnacle Park, stress relief, Sylva, therapy trail
WCU track twins turn to football in the fall
May 8, 2022 by Scott Mitchell
The Western Carolina football team looks to build on their 2021 success with the addition of their newest recruiting class. However, this pair of athletes bring striking similarities to the football field. Javell and Javon Brown, sophomore jumpers on the WCU Track Team, will turn in their track uniforms for shoulder pads and helmets this […]
Filed Under: COMM 352 stories, Football, Multimedia Projects, Sports Tagged With: Catamount Athletics, Catamount Sports, track and field, WCU football, WCU track and field
Walking with Out of the Darkness to raise awareness to suicides
April 18, 2022 by Azalee Stancel
Suicide is the second leading cause of death for college students. In 2020 for people 15-24 years old who died, 16.9% died from suicide. In 2021 14.5% in the same age bracket died from suicide. Western Carolina University wanted to change that for their students, so a student-run organization, Out of the Darkness, was started […]
Filed Under: COMM 352 stories, Home, Multimedia Projects, News, WCU Mental Health Tagged With: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, out of the darkness walk, suicide awareness
WCU students fight for gender neutral bathrooms
April 6, 2022 by Hailey Pait
As Western Carolina University continues to push for more inclusivity and diversity on its campus, non-binary students are fighting for their voices to be among those that are represented and accounted for. Many of these students are struggling to choose which restrooms, male or female, to use in public spaces. Including a gender neutral bathroom […]
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