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The past three years have been busy for Sloan Despeaux, professor in ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½â€™s Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, and her colleagues.

New Catamount head basketball coaches Tim Craft and Jonathan Tsipis usher in a new era as Craft looks to build on last year’s 22-win season for the men’s program and Tsipis looks to turnaround the women’s program that won just six games last year.

It has been more than a month since Hurricane Helene tore through Western North Carolina and the surrounding Appalachian Mountains, but the effects of the historic storm will be felt for months and years to come. ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ is working to lessen some of the burden of impacted students and families visiting and applying to college by streamlining processes and helping to offset travel costs for those attending the Nov. 23 open house.

While most sports fans look at the changing landscape of intercollegiate athletics – including the transfer portal and financial compensation for players – through the perspective of the impact on their favorite teams, two professors in ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½â€™s College of Business are examining the issue from a different angle.

Gary Ayers has been behind the microphone for nearly 40 years

Denise Drury Homewood, executive director of the Bardo Arts Center at ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½, believed "Spark of the Eagle Dancer: The Collecting Legacy of Lambert Wilson" exhibition was an award winner from the start.

Earlier this summer, Ingrid Bego, director of International Studies at ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½, and Wes Milner, executive director of ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Global, were invited by the Fulbright Commission to attend a week-long visit in Hungary to strengthen the partnership between universities in Appalachia and Hungarian higher education institutions.

Mwaniki, an associate professor of anthropology and sociology for the College of Arts and Sciences, was named the interim Global Black Studies director at ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½.

In the fall, it starts as small as a story pitch. In the spring? As tiny as a sketch on a piece of paper. Those little ideas turn into Imagine magazine, a publication produced by student writers and designers at ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½.

Lisa Briggs, director of ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½â€™s Human Remains Detection K-9 training program and Emergency Disaster Management program, and Edwin Grant, an HRD K-9 program instructor and long-time law enforcement officer, have been deployed with their HRD K-9s since the start of the recovery process for missing persons in Western North Carolina following Hurricane Helene's devastation.