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A packed slate of weekend events is on tap as Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ rolls out the welcome mat for alumni and friends to return to campus Nov. 7-8 for Homecoming 2025, including a parade and party in the university’s adopted hometown of Sylva.

Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ’s Bardo Arts Center will host a public reception on Tuesday, Oct. 21, from 4 to 6 p.m. in its Star Atrium, recognizing the collaborators and contributors of the Cherokee Language and Culture Exhibition, a project supported in part by the Cherokee Preservation Foundation.

The Catamount School, a lab school operated by Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ in partnership with Jackson County Public Schools, is celebrating a year of academic progress and a significant increase in student enrollment.

Admission to Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ from North Carolina community colleges just got simpler. The university is launching Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Connect, a new, guaranteed admission program that paves a smoother path to Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ for two-year college transfer students.

Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ’s College of Engineering and Technology has been given a software licensing donation from Moldex3D worth $4.17 million.

Our experience of the night sky is everchanging. As our eyes wander to the heavens and we gradually learn more about the moon and stars, the twinkling cosmos glow in greater detail.

Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ English professor Jeremy Jones’s byline is a bit of a mainstay in Our State magazine. His stories tend to involve history or family in some way, taking him to the family reunion of Chang and Eng Bunker, the original Siamese twins, and leading him to write a piece on how Southerners call each other food names as terms of endearment.

Supporters of Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ’s athletics program are finding new ways to back the Catamounts in today’s rapidly shifting intercollegiate sports environment, which now permits financial rewards in recognition of academic performance.

The history of Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ is held by its people. Though archives and images can provide a framework for the past, there is no richer or truer contribution to the story than the lived experiences of alumni, staff, faculty and students.

Sept. 27 marked the one-year anniversary of the devastating storm that tore through Western North Carolina. The Catamount community stepped up then and continues to help in the rebuilding process today.