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December 2006

• UNC Asheville Board of Trustees to Meet December 16
• UNC Asheville Closes for Winter Break
• UNC Asheville to Hold First December Commencement
• UNC Asheville Board of Trustees Approves Tuition, Fee Increases;
• Recommendations Move to UNC Board of Governors
• UNC Asheville to Offer Online Lateral Entry Teaching Course
• UNC Asheville Students, Faculty Launch Study to Help Better Predict WNC Winter Weather

November 2006

• TheatreUNCA Stages "An American Daughter"
• Laura Boosinger to Perform Benefit Concert for Blue Ridge Naturalist Program
• UNC Asheville Board of Trustees to Meet November 14
• UNC Asheville Hosts Free Performance by Cuban Jazz Guitarist
  Freddie Bryant
• UNC Asheville Senior Holds Multimedia Installation
• UNC Asheville Host Fiber Arts Exhibition by WNC Fiber Arts Alliance
• UNC Asheville Professor Mark Gibney to Receive International Human Rights Award
• UNC Asheville's Music Department to Perform Annual Holiday Concert
• UNC Asheville Hosts Holiday Ceramics and Art Sale December 1-2
• UNC Asheville Students Transform Belk Theatre Into a Holiday
• Spectacular; Sound and Light Show is Fun for the Whole Family
• UNC Asheville Career Center to Host Choosing a College Major Fair
• UNC Asheville Presents Chancellor's Medallion, Annual Alumni Awards; Asheville Residents Ruth and Luther Barnhardt Receive University's Top Honor
• UNC Asheville's Masters of Liberal Arts Program Announces Spring Classes
• N.C. Center for Creative Retirement Hosts Studio Masters Series with Award-Winning Dulcimer Player Don Pedi
• UNC Asheville Continues Philosophy Lecture Series December
• UNC Asheville's Creative Writing Program Seniors to Give Readings
• Telash Theatre Company Stages Spanish-Language Play on Immigration at UNC Asheville
• Asheville Graduate Center to Offer UNC Greensboro Library and Information Studies Courses
• Writers at Home Series Continues with Readings by Great Smokies Writing Program Students
• UNC Asheville Offers 22nd Annual WNC Weather Calendar
• UNC Asheville Student Group Hosts Information Session on World Camp for Kids Volunteer Opportunities
• UNC Asheville Acquires World War II Archives from Center for Diversity Education; Collection to be Dedicated November 10

October 2006

• UNC Asheville to Host Third Annual Symposium on Applied Visualization
• UNC Asheville Hosts Performance by Bang on a Can All-Stars with Special Guest Don Byron
• UNC Asheville Hosts Talk on the History of Jewish Businesses in
  Downtown Asheville
• TheatreUNCA Kicks Off 2006-07 Season with "Cabaret"
• UNC Asheville Dance Program to Host Seventh Annual Benefit Performance; Proceeds to Benefit Manna Food Bank, Dance Program
• UNC Asheville Holds Career and Graduate School Fair
• UNC Asheville Hosts Contra Dance at the Justice Center
• UNC Asheville Senior Holds Ceramics Exhibition
• UNC Asheville to Host Talk on the Connection Between Trauma and Diabetes by Medical Director of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
• UNC Asheville Hosts Lecture on "The Metaphysics of Dolphin Minds"
• Life Planning for Boomers Program Holds Open House for Budding Entrepreneurs
• UNC Asheville Hosts Talk on "Leadership in Crisis: Lessons of the Roman Empire for America Today"
• UNC Asheville to Host Talk on "Starting and Running a Global Business from Asheville"
• UNC Asheville Celebrates American Indian Heritage Month with Two Special Events November 10 and 14
• UNC Asheville to Host Talk by Acclaimed Author, Civil Rights Activist Jonathan Kozol
• UNC Asheville Hosts High School Media Career Workshop October 26
• UNC Asheville's Music Department to Hold Four November Concerts; Chamber Symphony to Give Inaugural Performance
• UNC Asheville to Host Panel Discussion on Nonprofit Careers
• UNC Asheville Fall Open House Set for November 11
• UNC Asheville Continues Philosophy Lecture Series November 7
• Asheville Graduate Center Seeks Input on Master's Degree Program in Planning
• New UNC Asheville Partnership with Renaissance Computing Institute Combines Resources, Expertise for Regional Disaster Planning and Recovery Efforts
• UNC Asheville Senior Holds Ceramic Sculpture Exhibition
• UNC Asheville To Host Talks by Noted Chemist David Rakestraw;
• Events are Ninth Annual S. Dexter Squibb Lecture Series
  UNC Asheville Hosts Mixed Media Quilt and Painting Exhibit by Asheville Artist Jen Swearington
• UNC Asheville Hosts Film Screening of "The Lost Wooden Synagogues of Eastern Europe"
• UNC Asheville Students' Video Art Installations Explore the Meaning of Home; One-Day Exhibit on November 2
• Writers at Home Series Continues October 15; Local Writers Michael Beadle and Cheryl Dietrich to Read
• UNC Asheville Senior Holds Ceramic Exhibition
• Lorraine Walsh to Hold Multimedia Exhibition at Flood Fine Art Center

September 2006

• UNC Asheville Celebrates 10 Years of Community Service with Massive Work Day
• UNC Asheville Freshmen Take on Community Service Projects Across Asheville
• UNC Asheville's Cultural and Special Events Season Kicks Off with a Performance by Laurie Anderson
• UNC Asheville Hosts Talk by Founder of the School of the Americas Watch; Father Roy Bourgeois to Discuss "The Struggle for Peace and Justice"
• UNC Asheville's Family Business Forum Names Cindy Clarke Executive Director
• UNC Asheville to Host Second Annual Workplace Diversity Panel
• UNC Asheville Offers Public School Teachers' Course
• UNC Asheville's Fall Open House Set for September 30
• UNC Asheville Hosts Premiere Performance of "Gilgamesh"
• UNC Asheville to Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with Lectures, Flamenco Dancers
• Asheville Native Anne Ponder Installed as UNC Asheville's Sixth Chancellor
• UNC Asheville Chancellor Anne Ponder to be Installed Friday
• UNC Asheville's Leadership Asheville Program Celebrates 25 Years
• UNC Asheville Presents Faculty Recital Featuring Flutist Judi Lampert
• UNC Asheville to Offer On-line Lateral Entry Teaching Course
• UNC Asheville Hosts Film Screening, Discussion with CBS New Correspondent; Film Explores Jewish Life in Robeson County
• UNC Asheville Senior Holds Mixed Media Painting Exhibition
• UNC Asheville's Music Department to Hold Four October Concerts; Pianist Hwa-Jin Kim to Perform with the Blue Ridge Orchestra
• UNC Asheville Hosts Mixed Media Exhibit by Weaverville Artist Brit Øie
• UNC Asheville to Hold "Opening Doors to Teaching" Workshop
• UNC Asheville Continues Philosophy Lecture Series October 3
• UNC Asheville Hosts Illustrated Lecture on "The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls"
• UNC Asheville Art Professor Virginia Derryberry Holds Solo Exhibition at Vanderbilt University
• N.C. Center for Creative Retirement Offers Free Computer Literacy Classes
• UNC Asheville Offers Standardized Test Prep Classes
• Writers at Home Series Kicks Off 2006-07 Season September 17;
  Local Authors Christopher Brookhouse and Gary Ettari to Read
• UNC Asheville Hosts Lecture on "The Birth of Christianity from the Matrix of Judaism"

August 2006

• UNC Asheville Board of Trustees to Meet August 15-16
• UNC Asheville Senior Holds Oil and Acrylic Painting Exhibition
• UNC Asheville Announces Summer Graduates
• UNC Asheville Art Faculty to Hold Annual Exhibition
• UNC Asheville's Super Saturday Program Offers Super Classes for Kids
• UNC Asheville Named a "Best Buy" in the Fiske Guide to Colleges; University Earns Ranking for 13th Consecutive Year
• UNC Asheville Foundation Board of Directors Elects New Members
• UNC Asheville Hosts Geocaching Photography Exhibition
• UNC Asheville's Great Smokies Writing Program Offers Fall Workshops
• Dr. Anne Ponder to be Installed as UNC Asheville's Sixth Chancellor September 15; Ceremony Caps Week-Long Series of Events Celebrating the University
• Leadership Asheville Graduates 24th Class
• Registration Now Open for Leadership Asheville Seniors
• UNC Asheville and AB Tech Offer Lateral Entry Programs for Teachers
• UNC Asheville's Music Department Kicks Off 2006-07 Season
  with Free Lunchtime Concerts
• UNC Asheville Students Receive NOAA Scholarships
• UNC Asheville Chancellor Anne Ponder Featured in September Issue of "Our State"
• UNC Asheville Faculty Promoted, New Chairs Named
• Jesse G. Ray Jr. Named UNC Asheville Special Assistant to the Chancellor
• UNC Asheville Offers SAT Prep Class
• UNC Chapel Hill School of Social Work to Hold Information for Asheville Program
• UNC Asheville Welcomes 600 Freshmen on Friday; Classes Begin August 21
• UNC Asheville Announces Summer Graduates
• Teagle Foundation Awards $300,000 Grant to Consortium of Southeastern Colleges; UNC Asheville to Measure Effectiveness of New Courses
• UNC Asheville Named One of the Top Public Liberal Arts Colleges
  in the Nation
• UNC Asheville Student Exhibits Glass Art at LG Gallery
   

July 2006

• UNC Asheville Hosts Textile Exhibit by Asheville Artist Lynne Caldwell
• UNC Asheville Offers Online Education Course for Lateral Entry Middle School Teachers
• UNC Asheville Hosts Historic Pack Square Exhibit
• UNC Asheville to Offer SAT Test Prep Class
• UNC Asheville Hosts Textile Exhibit by Asheville Artist Lynne Caldwell
• N.C. Center for Creative Retirement Hosts Studio Masters Series with Renowned Local Artists; Program Open to All Ages
• UNC Asheville to Hold Summer Graduates' Reception August 1

June 2006

• UNC Asheville to Host Asheville Institute on Leadership
• UNC Asheville Offers Summer Education Program in England
• UNC Asheville Named Newest Campus of the Bread Loaf School of English
• UNC Asheville Announces Spring 2006 Chancellor's List
  N.C. Center for Creative Retirement to Host Intentional Elder Communities Conference
• UNC Asheville's Concerts on the Quad Hosts North Carolina Jazz Ensembles June 12
• UNC Asheville Continues 24th Annual Concerts on the Quad Series June 19; Storyteller, World Fusion Trio to Take Center Stage
• UNC Asheville Continues 24th Annual Concerts on the Quad Series June 26; Asheville Jazz Orchestra to Perform
• UNC Asheville Continues 24th Annual Concerts on the Quad Series July 3; The Blue Mountain Band to Take Center Stage
• UNC Asheville's 24th Annual Concerts on the Quad Series Wraps Up July 10; Shady Grove Band to Perform
• UNC Asheville Announces Spring 2006 Dean's List
• UNC Asheville Offers Public School Teachers' Course
• UNC Asheville Offers Public School Teachers' Course
• Bill Haggard Named UNC Asheville Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
• UNC Asheville Professor Awarded NASA Grant to Study Hurricane Winds; Research May Provide Better Early Warning Systems
• Two UNC Asheville Students Selected for Summer Internships with State Agencies
• UNC Asheville Students Spend the Summer Studying in Italy
• UNC Asheville Leadership Program to Host Conference on Collaboration, Economic Development
• N.C. Center for Creative Retirement Offers Free Leadership Training for Older Persons
• UNC Asheville Hosts Photography Exhibition by Asheville Artist
  Shirley McLaughlin
• UNC Asheville Senior Holds Mixed Media Exhibition
• UNC Asheville Hosts Photography Exhibit by Asheville Artist Alice Sebrell

May 2006

• UNC Asheville Hosts Two Senior Art Show Openings
• UNC Asheville Board of Trustees to Meet May 16
• N.C. Center for Creative Retirement to Host Talk on Pandemics
• UNC Asheville Chancellor Anne Ponder Honors 561 Graduates; Commencement Ceremony Celebrates Achievements and Promise
• UNC Asheville Senior Receives $15,000 Windgate Fellowship Award
• UNC Asheville Kicks off 24th Annual Concerts on the Quad Series June 5
• UNC Asheville Hosts Senior Photography Exhibition
• N.C. Center for Creative Retirement Hosts Talk by National Aging and Health Expert
• UNC Asheville Offers Public School Teachers' Course
• UNC Asheville's Family Business Forum to Hold Talk on Leisure
• Farmland Research Group Seeks Community Participants
• Center for Diversity Education to Examine Globalization in Western North Carolina
• UNC Asheville's Great Smokies Writing Program Offers Summer Workshops
• UNC Asheville Senior Named to Prestigious Sports Scholars Track-and-Field Team
• Patricia Hunt Named UNC Asheville Vice Chancellor for
  Finance & Operations
• Regional High School Mathematics Competition Held at
  UNC Asheville May 4
• UNC Asheville Announces Spring Graduates
• New Members Elected to UNC Asheville Board of Trustees
• UNC Asheville Offers Education Psychology Course for Lateral Entry Teachers
• Local Elementary Students Provide Art for UNC Asheville's Reuter Center
• UNC Asheville to Offer SAT Test Prep Class
• Local Student Chosen for Women in Science Scholars Program
• UNC Asheville Seniors Hold Photography Exhibitions
• Writers at Home Series Continues with Readings by Local Authors Valerie Bandura and Karen Salyer McElmurray
• UNC Asheville Student Named Gilder Lehrman History Scholar

April 2006

• UNC Asheville to Hold Spring Ceramics and Art Sale
• UNC Asheville Honors Students and Faculty with Academic and Leadership Awards
• North Carolina Biotechnology Center Grant to Aid UNC Asheville's Work with Regional Biotech Companies
• UNC Asheville to Host Talk on Terrorism and Economic Principles
• Chancellor Ponder to Deliver UNC Asheville Commencement Address; Two to Receive Honorary Degrees
• UNC Asheville Senior Holds Photography Exhibition
• UNC Asheville Hosts 22nd Annual Economic Crystal Ball Seminar
• UNC Asheville's Dance Program Performs Spring Concert
• UNC Asheville Student Organizations Host EarthFest; Live Music, Speakers, Art Auction and More Celebrate Earth Day
• UNC Asheville Senior Holds Photography Exhibition
• UNC Asheville Receives Top Awards from State Energy Office
• UNC Asheville's Family Business Forum to Hold Workshops on Women's Roles in Family Business
• UNC Asheville's All Girl Staff to Perform End-of-Year Concert
• UNC Asheville Student Accepted into NASA Hurricane Research Program; Sophomore One of 12 Chosen Nationwide
• "The Pleasure Was Mine" to be Aired on National Radio Broadcast
• UNC Asheville to Observe Holocaust Education Week with Reading of Victims' Names, Lecture by Survivor
• N.C. Center for Creative Retirement to Host Forum on Illegal Immigration; Hiroshi Motomura and Mark Gibney to Speak
• UNC Asheville Hosts 39th Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition
• UNC Asheville to Host Performance of Traditional Chinese Lion Dance
• UNC Asheville Holds Fifth Annual Multimedia Arts and Sciences Juried Student Exhibition
• UNC Asheville Professor Merritt Moseley Published Fourth Book;
  "Understanding Michael Frayn" Explores Contemporary British Novelist, Playwright
• UNC Asheville Hosts "Music in the Mountains" Summer Camp
• UNC Asheville Hosts Exhibition by Asheville Artist Sheil Okelberry
• UNC Asheville Wraps Up Philosophy Lecture Series May 2
• UNC Asheville to Hold 34th Annual Spring Wildflower and Bird Pilgrimage May 5-7
• UNC Asheville to Host Talk on Early American Black, White
  and Indian Race Relations
• UNC Asheville's Alumni & Development Division Staff Members Promoted
• Writers at Home Series Continues with Readings by UNC Asheville Students
• UNC Asheville to Host Two Readings by Critically Acclaimed Author Joe Wenderoth

March 2006

• UNC Asheville Continues Philosophy Lecture Series with Talk on Dealing with Death
• UNC Asheville to Host Talk by Noted Egyptologist Lanny Bell
• UNC Asheville Gallery Hosts Black Mountain College Multimedia Exhibition
• UNC Asheville to Host Talk by Leading Holocaust Expert Christopher Browning 
• UNC Asheville to Host Panel Discussion on Environmental Science and Policy Careers
• TheatreUNCA Stages "Cloud Nine" March 22-26; Cutting-Edge Play Examines Race, Gender and Class Identity
• UNC Asheville Senior Holds Photography Exhibition
• N.C. Center for Creative Retirement Hosts "The Elderquest" Film and Book Series
• UNC Asheville to Host Acclaimed Writer Karen Essex; Named 2006 P.B. Parris Visiting Writer
• UNC Asheville's Family Business Forum to Host Talk on Next Generation in Business
• UNC Asheville to Host Weeklong Asheville Fire Department Training Exercises; Soon-to-be Renovated Classroom Building to Serve as Site
• UNC Asheville Holds Sixth Annual F-Word Film Festival March 23-24; Six Films By and About Women to be Screened
• UNC Asheville Hosts Lecture Series on Globalization, Western North Carolina Economy
• UNC Asheville's Center for Jewish Studies to Host an Evening with
  Gershom Gorenberg; Author to Discuss Acclaimed New Book on Israeli Settlements
• Mike Honeycutt Named UNC Asheville Distinguished Staff Member of the Year
• UNC Asheville to Host the John Jorgensen Quintet; Acclaimed Gypsy Jazz Band Considered Pioneers of the Genre
• UNC Asheville Senior Holds Ceramics Exhibition
• UNC Asheville to Offer On-line Lateral Entry Teaching Course
• UNC Asheville to Host Talk by "Body Farm" Curator, Forensic Anthropologist Murray Marks
• Chad Mohn Named Finalist for NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship
• UNC Asheville Music Department Continues Spring Concert Season; Chamber Chorus to Perform Debut Concert
• UNC Asheville Wraps Up Spring Concert Season with Five Concerts in April
• UNC Asheville to Host 20th Annual National Conference on Undergraduate Research; Three Renowned Speakers to Give Plenary Addresses
• UNC Asheville Holds Fifth Annual Parsons' Lecture; Noted Mathematician Joseph Gallian to Speak
• UNC Asheville Continues Philosophy Lecture Series March 14
• UNC Asheville Continues Philosophy Lecture Series April 4
• UNC Asheville Named a Top Value by Princeton Review;
  One of Only Two N.C. Universities to Make the Top 10 List
• UNC Asheville's Student Jewish Group Hosts Purim Celebration
• UNC Asheville's Ramsey Library Host Three Art Exhibitions
• UNC Asheville Students Seek Donated Goods for Rummage Sale;
  Proceeds Will Benefit Land Conservation Projects
• Acclaimed Latino Culture Scholar, Author Ilan Stavans to Speak at UNC Asheville
• UNC Asheville Offers Standardized Test Prep Classes
• Erin Trigonoplos Named UNC Asheville's NCAA Woman of the Year
• Writers at Home Series Continues with Readings by Local Authors on March 19

February 2006

• UNC Asheville Hosts Exhibition of Quilt Art
• UNC Asheville Receives $500,000 Anonymous Gift for International Studies
• UNC Asheville Students Learn by Action in Atlanta
• UNC Asheville Board of Trustees to Meet February 13
• Registration Now Open for UNC Asheville's Summer Bug Camp
• N.C. Center for Creative Retirement to Host "Paths to a Creative Retirement"
• Asheville Native, Community Leader J. Ray Elingburg Gives Financial Boost to UNC Asheville's Kimmel Arena
• UNC Asheville to Host Summer Employment, Choosing a Major Fair
• UNC Asheville's Family Business Forum to Present Talk on Family Dynamics and Governance
• UNC Asheville Tackles Growing Problem of Obesity; "GIFT" Program to Help Families Fight Fat and Get Fit Together
• UNC Asheville to Host "CBS Sunday Morning" Commentator, Actress Nancy Giles
• Acclaimed Third Novel by Local Author Tommy Hays to be Published in Paperback
• UNC Asheville Celebrates Homecoming February 24-25
• UNC Asheville Hosts Talk on 1960s Counterculture Impact on Remote Mexican Town
• UNC Asheville to Host Big Band Jazz Concert
• Asheville Graduate Center Seeks Input on Master's Program in Journalism
• UNC Asheville to Host Reading by Award-Winning Poet
  Dana Levin
• Asheville Graduate Center Seeks Input on Master's Program in Mass Communication
• One in Five Women Tested Nationwide Has Mercury Levels Higher Than EPA Limit
• UNC Asheville Professor Receives Japan Studies Association's Freeman Fellowship
• UNC Asheville Celebrates the Opening of New Hall; Bond-Funded Classroom Building Benefits Students, Faculty & Environment
• UNC Asheville to Host Seventh Annual Science Olympiad Tournament Saturday
• UNC Asheville Receives $20,000 from Progress Energy;
  Scholarship Funds Will Support Training for Future Math and Science Teachers
• Sex Workers Art Show National Tour on Stage at UNC Asheville;
  February 26 Performance Combines Entertainment and Social Commentary
• UNC Asheville Offers Standardized Test Prep Classes
• UNC Asheville Hosts Esteemed Poetry Critic Helen Vendler as Dorr Lecturer
• UNC Asheville's Writers at Home Series Continues with Readings by Local High School Students
• UNC Asheville Holds Events in Observance of Women's History Month

January 2006

• UNC Asheville to Host Debut Exhibition of "Alfred Ceramics: The Henry Bauer Collection
• Noted Poet Rick Campbell to Speak, Give Reading at UNC Asheville
• UNC Asheville Announces Fall 2005 Chancellor's List
• N.C. Center for Creative Retirement Offers Free Computer Literacy Classes
• UNC Asheville Receives $2 Million Grant for Wood Studio at Craft Campus
• UNC Asheville to Host Performance by Chuck Davis and African-American Dance Ensemble; Event Kicks Off Black History Month Celebration
• UNC Asheville Announces Fall 2005 Dean's List
• UNC Asheville Senior Holds Ceramics Exhibition
• What's the Farm Worth? New UNC Asheville Project Examines
• Non-Agricultural Values of Farmland, Rural Landscapes in Four WNC Counties
• UNC Asheville Professor Mark Gibney Named President of the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association
• UNC Asheville's Great Smokies Writing Program Offers Spring Workshops
• U.S. Air Force Heritage of America Concert Band to Perform at UNC Asheville
• N.C. Center for Creative Retirement to Host Medicare Information Session; Free Counseling Will be Available Following Presentation
• UNC Asheville to Hold Lecture in Honor of Martin Luther King Jr.;
  African-American Health Advocate to Discuss HIV/AIDS
• UNC Asheville Music Department Kicks Off Spring Concert Season with Two Free Shows
• UNC Asheville Chancellor Anne Ponder to Appear on UNC-TV's
  "North Carolina People;" Chancellor, William Friday Discuss Future of the University and More
• UNC Asheville Spring Open House Set for March 25
• UNC Asheville Continues Philosophy Lecture Series January 10
• UNC Asheville Continues Philosophy Lecture Series February 7
• UNC Asheville Continues Philosophy Lecture Series February 7
• UNC Asheville's Super Saturday Program Offers Super Classes for Kids
• UNC Asheville to Host Talk by Nontombi Naomi Tutu;
  Daughter of South African Archbishop to Discuss "Healing the Wounds of Racism"
• UNC Asheville Chancellor Anne Ponder to Appear on UNC-TV's
  "North Carolina People;" Chancellor, William Friday Discuss Future of the University and More
• UNC Asheville's Viewbook Earns Regional Design Award
• UNC Asheville Senior Holds Photography Exhibition
• UNC Asheville to Host Panel Discussion on Workplace Diversity