News
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Anonymous ĢƵ faculty member creates endowed scholarship for music students
September 3A new endowed scholarship fund made possible through gifts and pledges from an anonymous donor soon will be hitting all the right notes for future students in the School of Music at ĢƵ.
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ĢƵ welcomes record enrollment, largest-ever freshman class
September 3More Catamounts are prowling classrooms in person and online than ever before. ĢƵ’s Office of Institutional Planning and Effectiveness released its Fall 2026 enrollment statistics, as ĢƵ welcomed its largest freshman class and biggest student population in university history.
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ĢƵ’s annual Faculty-Staff Giving Campaign to focus on scholarship support
September 2ĢƵ has turned attention to its next philanthropic priority – seeking financial support for scholarships to help students with the cost of attendance.
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ĢƵ business students compete at FBLA national conference in Las Vegas
September 1Two ĢƵ students are back on campus for the fall semester after advancing to the Future Business Leaders of America National Leadership Conference over the summer, bringing back a little hardware for the trophy case in Forsyth Building, home to the College of Business.
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‘Fill the Western Sky’ fundraising campaign tops $100 million in support
August 29ĢƵ has concluded its ambitious “Fill the Western Sky” comprehensive fundraising campaign with more than $110 million in philanthropic support pouring in to benefit the institution’s academic, student engagement and athletics programs.
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New students’ family connections to ĢƵ to be celebrated at Sept. 19 Legacy Pinning
August 27A group of ĢƵ’s newest students will be ceremoniously welcomed as members of the Catamount family by some of their own relatives who previously attended ĢƵ as the university holds its annual Legacy Pinning event Saturday, Sept. 19.
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ĢƵ football stadium atrium named in recognition of gift from Catamount couple
August 27The new hospitality level atrium on the fourth floor of the westside stands expansion at ĢƵ’s E.J. Whitmire Stadium has been named in recognition of philanthropic support from alumni Larry and Mary Arbaugh.
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ĢƵ announces schedule for Mountain Heritage Days 2026
August 25For more than 50 years, ĢƵ’s Mountain Heritage Days has celebrated the music, stories, and traditions of Appalachia — and this year the energy is bigger than ever.
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Registration open for ĢƵ's 16th annual Rooted in the Mountains Symposium
August 25ĢƵ invites faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members to register for the 16th Annual Rooted in the Mountains Symposium, taking place September 24-25, 2026, at the Bardo Arts Center on ĢƵ's main campus.
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ĢƵ grads grow community at Ochre Hill Farms
August 25Shelley and Kevin King are the founders of Ochre Hill Farms, two ĢƵ Catamounts who first met as performers of the Pride of the Mountains Marching Band. But as they’d tell their story, Ochre Hill Farms was as much their children’s project as their own.