Major: Creative Writing Work Crew: Heavy Duty/ Res Life/ Cowpie/ Writing Center Service: Outreach Center for Migrant Workers Current Job: Freelance Editor/ Comedy Writer “I was a terrible janitor on the Maintenance Crew my first year at Wilson. In my second year, I was an R.A. in Sunderland. I also worked at the Cowpie Cafe for extra money, and […]
April 21, 2015
Long regarded as national leader in campus sustainability, Warren Wilson College has received yet another environmental accolade: No.1 in the South on The Princeton Review list of “Top 50 Green Colleges.” The top 50 nationwide, including Warren Wilson at No. 17, are highlighted in The Princeton Review’s Guide to 353 Green Colleges: 2015 Edition. The guide “profiles […]
April 20, 2015
With her background in cognitive neuroscience, Warren Wilson College psychology professorMozolic’s students, for their part, also relish the way she connects them to the basics of those challenging fields. As a result, the 34-year-old professor has been selected by NerdScholar as one of the nation’s “40 Under 40: Professors Who Inspire.” The annual NerdScholar feature […]
March 25, 2015
Major: Environmental Studies Work Crews: Horticulture, Landscaping, Work Program Office Service: Habitat for Humanity, MANNA FoodBank, Earthaven Ecovillage Current Job: Director of R&D, Repellents & Animal Health Warren Wilson alumnae Brooke Bissinger has quickly become a rising star in the science of sustainable insect control products, leading the development of next-generation consumer products that are safe for humans, […]
March 17, 2015
There are big court decisions, and even bigger court decisions – those that are clearly landmark rulings. Just a decade or so after graduating from Warren Wilson College, Jessica Culpepper ’04 is a lead attorney in one such landmark decision. In a case involving a large industrial dairy in Washington state’s Yakima Valley, a U.S. […]
February 4, 2015
#1 in the nation The Warren Wilson College Farm, established in 1894 when the Asheville Farm School was founded, has won numerous awards over the years in addition to producing a lot of delicious farm-to-table food. Now it has received another major accolade: No. 1 college farm in the nation. In a feature titled “The […]
January 28, 2015
“grassroots: The Fundamentals” spring break service trip applications are now open. Trip Description From Rosa Parks to Bill McKibben, civil disobedience to divestment, those pushing for social change take radically different paths to enact change. Out of these paths have emerged an ever-growing and diversifying advocate’s toolbox. No matter the cause, the tools used to spur […]
November 30, 2014
The North Carolina Academy of Science, established in 1902, “promotes public appreciation of science, science education, scientific research and a meaningful role for science in public policy.” Its Collegiate Academy, or CANCAS, is a community of undergraduate students and faculty advisers that annually recognizes outstanding undergraduate research through grants and awards. Quick quiz: Over the […]
April 25, 2014
You don’t have to venture into the 625-acre Warren Wilson College Forest to find trees – lots and lots of trees. Just ask Tom LaMuraglia. LaMuraglia, better known around campus as Tom Lam, is the College’s landscaping crew supervisor. He was involved in directing Warren Wilson’s Center Campus Tree Inventory and Carbon Sequestration/Storage Analysis, recognized […]
February 5, 2014
Warren Wilson College has received a $400,000 gift for the purpose of establishing the Irene Pennington Broyles and Glenn Boone Broyles Fellowship, in order to help preserve and manage the Warren Wilson College Forest in perpetuity. Irene Broyles, a Somerset, Ky., resident who had survived her husband, Glenn, made the gift before her passing on […]
January 22, 2014