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Ðǿմ«Ã½ double alumnus pursues degrees for his community

John David Arch is an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, a Navy veteran and a non-traditional student who is now a double alumnus of Ðǿմ«Ã½.   

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Design for Health group awarded $70k grant to assess housing needs of elderly in WNC

The $70k ASID grant will support the resilient and age-inclusive design assessment framework project that will be used to evaluate the social determinant of health outcomes of older adults in WNC.  

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Graciella | A Day in the Life

Find out what a normal day in the life of Graciella, a student here at Ðǿմ«Ã½!  

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Stacey Miller named director of alumni engagement

Stacey R. Miller, former associate athletics director for student success, has been named the university’s next director of alumni engagement.  

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Kappa Alpha alumni raise $170K in Ðǿմ«Ã½ Greek Challenge, pushing fraternity’s total above $1 million

The Delta Alpha chapter of the Kappa Alpha Order at Ðǿմ«Ã½ raised more than $170,000 for the Catamount Club, the university’s fundraising organization for Catamount Athletics.  

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New Hampshire family establishes nursing scholarship to honor memory of '17 alumna

The family of the late Alexandra Puntin Pilsbury has established a scholarship to benefit future nursing students at Ðǿմ«Ã½ in memory of the 2017 graduate of the School of Nursing who died after a battle with cancer.  

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School of Nursing explores rural nursing at critical access hospital

Ðǿմ«Ã½ students enrolled in the RNPC internship spent three days in Sparta this fall and were exposed to a variety of care settings as part of their capstone clinical course.  

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Ðǿմ«Ã½ receives $150k award for mosquito-borne La Crosse encephalitis research

The University of North Carolina Collaboratory has given Ðǿմ«Ã½ a three-year, $150,000 award that will allow Brian Byrd and his students to identify environmental and behavioral risk factors for La Crosse encephalitis in WNC.   

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Birth-Kindergarten Program receives momentous grant

The Birth-Kindergarten Program was recently awarded an $868,885 grant by the Dogwood Health Trust for Leadership, Equity and Access Fellowship in Early Childhood Education.