Each year as the fall semester comes to a close, students on the Farm Crew put their personal touch on a Warren Wilson College tradition – decorating the Red Barn with holiday lights. “People look forward to those lights every year,” said Virginia Hamilton, assistant farm manager. Hamilton would… Read More
December 25, 2016
Odgers named one of 25 winners for service by statewide coalition Warren Wilson College senior Emily Odgers receives the 2016 Community Impact Award from Leslie Garvin, executive director of North Carolina Campus Compact. Photo by Peter Lorenz. As Emily Odgers wraps up her career at Warren Wilson College, she… Read More
December 21, 2016
Traditional music students will collaborate and perform with China’s Manhu Warren Wilson College’s Jenny and the Hog Drovers are touring China in January. From left to right: Phil Jamison, Clarke Williams, Maddy Mullany, Landon George, and Hayden Holbert. Photo by Reggie Tidwell. Two bands made up of musicians from… Read More
December 20, 2016
Retired Warren Wilson College faculty and staff members gathered Friday at Ransom Fellowship Hall for their annual reunion. Photo: Kyle McCurry When a faculty or staff member retires from Warren Wilson, they continue to be part of the College community. Some remain very close and even live on or… Read More
November 7, 2016
Between 1933 and 1957, Black Mountain College offered students an experimental education that “resemble[d] no other college in the U. S.,” according to a 1939 Time magazine article. At the same time, Warren Wilson College grew from a farm school to a junior college and inched closer to becoming a… Read More
October 25, 2016
Yale forestry alumni plan reunion at Warren Wilson College From its founding as the Asheville Farm School in 1894 with a Cornell University-educated superintendent to a Harvard University graduate currently serving as president, Warren Wilson College’s history is brimming with Ivy League influence. Countless current and… Read More
October 13, 2016
Public “Dig Days” planned for Berry site in September, October Warren Wilson College professor David Moore, center, Tulane University professor Christopher Rodning, second from left, and Michael Thorpe ’17, second from right, a member of Warren Wilson’s Archaeology Crew, survey the Berry site as fellow crewmember Amanda Bates ’17,… Read More
August 23, 2016
A number of new Warren Wilson College first-year and transfer students spent Service Day working at Verner Experiential Gardens, a partnership between the College, Verner Early Learning Center, The Roots Foundation and North Carolina Outward Bound School. Photo: Jason Faulds/Warren Wilson College Three days before classes began, … Read More
August 22, 2016
Foodscaper and entrepreneur Jeremy Lekich is the founder of Nashville Foodscapes. Nashville Foodscapes connects people with their food source by growing food where people live. They achieve this by offering creative food solutions through landscaping, creating custom designs of their clients’ yards, homes, and living spaces, allowing food to… Read More
August 1, 2016
Ayla Rand, a senior from Newton, North Carolina, was recently elected to the Warren Wilson College Board of Trustees. Photo by Reggie Tidwell/Warren Wilson College. Shortly after the North Carolina primaries wrapped and before nominees or even presumptive presidential nominees were crowned, Warren Wilson College was entering a different… Read More
July 26, 2016