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    ĢƵ grads grow community at Ochre Hill Farms

    Shane Ryden
    August 25

    Shelley 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.

  • mountain rainbow

    Meet the ĢƵ grads leading NC

    Shane Ryden
    August 24

    This July four ĢƵ graduates were chosen to serve communities across the state as Lead for North Carolina fellows. Lead for NC is a government fellowship program started in 2019 with a mission “to strengthen North Carolina’s public institutions, support its local communities and create a new generation of transformational public service leaders.”

  • Eric Hall at a booksigning for his book,

    1 Book, 50 States: ĢƵ alumnus honors late mom's love of independent bookstores

    Cam Adams
    August 21

    Eric Hall sat in his mother’s North Carolina living room with one of his proudest achievements in his hands. The ĢƵ alumnus had worked on his book for years and had no bigger supporter than his mom, Beth.

  • Amanda Turiçi with two of her kids.

    ĢƵ alumna Amanda Turiçi finds teaching home overseas

    Cam Adams
    August 19

    Amanda Turiçi, then Doll, sat in a Haywood County school desiring a change. She loved what she was doing as a student-teacher, but she knew North Carolina wasn’t where she wanted to be forever. The United States wasn’t either. She wanted to go overseas.

  • Marching band members in black and purple uniforms playing brass instruments during outdoor performance

    ĢƵ's Pride of the Mountains Headed to London for 2028 New Year's Day Parade

    Julia Duvall
    August 14

    From the mountains of Western North Carolina to the streets of London, the "Baddest Band in the Land" is preparing for its next international performance.

  • Woman in purple jacket speaking on stage with plants in foreground against dark background

    Record enrollment, transformational impact: ĢƵ Chancellor Kelli R. Brown welcomes campus community back for historic fall semester

    Julia Duvall
    August 13

    As faculty and staff gathered for Opening Assembly on Aug. 12, Brown celebrated a university experiencing unprecedented momentum.

  • A ĢƵ alumna teaches in a Swain County school.

    ĢƵ’s College of Education, Allied Professions launches new teacher pathways

    Cam Adams
    August 11

    For over a century, ĢƵ has helped put teachers in classrooms across the region and beyond. Now, looking to address the state’s ongoing teacher shortage, ĢƵ’s impact on education in North Carolina just grew stronger.

  • Alicia Littejohn, an intern on the Facility Utilization and Planning team at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, is pictured in the Office of Center Operations looking at carpet samples for an office redesign.

    ĢƵ interior design student lands internship with NASA

    Cam Adams
    August 11

    Alicia Littlejohn has always been fascinated with space, so when there was an opportunity to intern with NASA, she jumped at the chance.

  • Photo of Ben Kees wearing a navy suit and green and navy tie

    ĢƵ adds a new staff resource to assist with planned giving needs

    Bill Studenc
    August 10

    Alumni and friends interested in obtaining information about how to support ĢƵ through a planned gift have a new resource to assist them.

  • Llate ĢƵ alumnus Philip Preston Sr. (at right), shown with, from right, wife Catherine and sons Grayson and Philip Jr. (P.J.).

    Anonymous gift results in naming of coaches video balcony in stadium expansion

    Bill Studenc
    August 6

    The new coaching balcony for video operations in the expanded E.J. Whitmire Stadium at ĢƵ will be named in memory of the late Philip Preston Sr.

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