On Sunday, Rhiannon Giddens gave a shout-out to Warren Wilson professors Kevin Kehrberg and Jeffrey Keith during her performance at Big Ears Festival with the Silkroad Ensemble. Giddens celebrated that the ensemble’s “American Railroad” project emerged, in part, from the impact of “Somebody Died, Babe,” an article Kehrberg and Keith published in the Bitter Southerner.
March 29, 2024
Warren Wilson College’s student newspaper, The Echo, recently won Best of Show for Small Campuses - Online News at the annual North Carolina College Media Association (NCCMA) conference.
March 22, 2024
Lanham studies songbird ecology and the confluences of race, place and nature. He is a strong advocate for the Black role in conservation, and he studies how culture influences perceptions of nature and its care.
March 18, 2024
The trip exemplified one of the defining features of a Warren Wilson education — community engagement. Every student at Warren Wilson College is required to participate in community engagement, or collaboration with community partners to address social justice issues.
March 9, 2024
Three Warren Wilson students took second place in the second annual Redesigning Democracy Competition at Greensboro College, sponsored by NC Campus Engagement.
March 6, 2024
The college now offers continuing education courses for adults in topics such as mushroom foraging, plein air painting, oral history, birding and soap-making
February 27, 2024
Carl Phillips is a former WWC MFA professor, a Professor of English at Washington University, and the author of numerous books of prose and poetry, most recently Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020, which won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize. In his lecture, he will read excerpts from his works and discuss his life as a writer. This event is free and open to the public.
Feb 25, 2024
Warren Wilson student Baileigh Sinaman-Daniel was featured on The Jennifer Hudson Show. Sinaman-Daniel’s journey is one of extraordinary resilience and determination. Despite being born with one arm, she plays on the Warren Wilson women’s basketball team and is an inspiration to her peers. The Jennifer Hudson Show showcased her remarkable story, highlighting her […]
February 20, 2024
On Saturday, April 13, Warren Wilson College will host Fiddles and Folklife, an annual Appalachian festival and old-time music competition with cash prizes for old-time fiddle, banjo, folksong, flatfooting, and string band. Other activities include old-time music jams, food and craft vendors, folklife demonstrators, and a cake raffle. It all takes place 12:00 PM – […]
Apr 13, 2024
Warren Wilson College has announced the introduction of a Master of Science in Applied Climate Studies. The new program builds on Warren Wilson’s decades-long legacy of leadership in climate action, as well as the strength of the college’s existing undergraduate programs in environmental science and environmental studies.
February 13, 2024