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Media Relations: Resources for the Press
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January 28, 2015

Warren Wilson College Farm 

  #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 […]
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November 30, 2014

Mountaintop removal spring break trip 

“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 […]
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April 25, 2014

Warren Wilson College: a leader in original undergraduate research 

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 […]
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February 5, 2014

The benefits of nearly 10,000 trees on the Warren Wilson campus 

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 […]
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January 22, 2014

WWC receives major gift for College Forest management, education 

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 […]
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August 23, 2013

Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients 2013 

This award honors alumni who have achieved distinction in their chosen fields and who embody the principles for which the College stands, particularly the triad of study, work, and service as well as concern for the brotherhood of all people. Recipients may have been widely recognized or be leading lives of quiet service in obscure […]
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April 22, 2013

WWC first college in the Southeast to sign Real Food Commitment 

Warren Wilson and Sodexo Dining Services have signed the Real Food Challenge Commitment, partnering to become the first college in the Southeast to sign the agreement. President Solnick and Dining Services General Manager Brian O’Loughlin signed the commitment April 15 in a ceremony on campus. The agreement, augmenting previous sustainability commitments by the College, states that WWC will […]
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April 10, 2013

WWC professor helps write “Climate Change and U.S. Agriculture” report 

Laura Lengnick, Ph.D. Ever wonder just how much a professor’s sabbatical can contribute to a discipline’s body of knowledge, or for that matter to society as a whole? Consider the sabbatical of Laura Lengnick, Ph.D., Warren Wilson professor of sustainable agriculture and environmental studies, who spent the 2011-12 academic year as a visiting scientist on […]
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Published
June 12, 2012

Growing into a career in the garden 

Story and Photo by Paul Clark. Photos courtesy WWC Yearbook Crew. This article is part of The Story Behind, a regular series that features extraordinary photos from Warren Wilson life. (Click here to see more.) Tall and rangy and wearing bright red pants, Dylan Watters looked a lot like the cherry tomato plants he was […]
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October 28, 2010

The Story Behind: Studying Art in Italy 

This article is part of The Story Behind, a regular series that features extraordinary photos from Warren Wilson life. (Click here to see more.) Italy offers a remarkably rich experience for artists. Students in the spring 2010 study abroad course Art in Italy, taught by WWC art faculty Leah Leitson and Dusty Benedict, experienced this […]
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