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GivingTuesday ’24 to focus on increasing Catamount Club membership, athletics facilities

ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ will be ramping up support for the Catamount athletics program during this year’s edition of GivingTuesday, with a series of challenge gifts designed to help expand membership in the Catamount Club and increase funding for athletics facilities.  

Isaac Jennings with SVA members

ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ nursing student, veteran Isaac Jennings shares his higher education journey

Looking back on his time before coming to ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½, nursing student Isaac Jennings, a sophomore from Franklin, was always told the most important thing was contacting his chosen college’s military services director.  

Cole Johnson demonstrating glass blowing

ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ professor, alumnus bring glass blowing demo to campus

Timm Muth, an assistant professor of practice in the College of Engineering and Technology at ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½, looks at glass differently than most. Glass is more than just the material that makes windows.  

ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ alumni award winners

Alumni return to ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ for annual homecoming celebration

Jamie Van Pelt’s drive from Florida to ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ isn’t the most riveting one. It’s several hours of rural highways, twists and turns and infamous Atlanta traffic, but when Van Pelt crests the hill south of Clayton, Georgia, he smiles.   

Alumni award winners

ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ honors four prominent alumni at Homecoming 2024

ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ paused Saturday, Nov. 2, to honor four prominent alumni – a former automotive industry executive who has supported Catamount athletics for decades, an accounting professional with extensive family ties to ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½, an award-winning educator and an up-and-coming public relations practitioner.   

Daniel J. Watts

Tony and Emmy-nominated multidisciplinary artist to perform at ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ as part of Fall Speaker Series

A Tony-nominated actor and spoken word artist will be making his way to ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½.  

RGB Portrait, a painting by Zack Schneider

Family establishes memorial scholarship fund to assist nontraditional art students at ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½

Nontraditional students working to earn a degree in an art-related major at ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ soon will have financial assistance to help them pursue their passion, thanks to a memorial scholarship fund established by the family of a recent ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ graduate who earned his degree after the age of 30.  

Noyce Scholars at ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½

NSF grant totaling more than $1.4 million helps jumpstart ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Smoky Mountain Noyce Scholars Program

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 Beginnings

New Beginnings

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.