RENCI at UNC Asheville and A-B Tech Celebrate GIS Day on Nov. 12
11/02/09 – RENCI at UNC Asheville and Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College (A-B Tech) announce the third annual celebration of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day in Western North Carolina. The community drop-in event will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, at the RENCI at UNC Asheville Community Engagement Site, located in Suite 116 of the Grove Arcade in downtown Asheville. The event is free and open to the public. For more on the event, see http://www.unca.edu/news/releases/2009/GIS_
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RENCI at UNC Asheville Opens Downtown Engagement Site at the Grove Arcade
10/01/09 – Community and university leaders celebrated the opening of the new downtown location of RENCI at UNC Asheville on October 1. The event featured a ceremonial ribbon cutting and messages of support for the Asheville center from Erskine Bowles, president of the University of North Carolina System, UNC Asheville Chancellor Anne Ponder, and Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy. For more on the grand opening, see the Asheville Citizen-Times story and video and WLOS ABC 13 story and video

RENCI at UNC Asheville Featured in TV Special
6/5/2009 – In a new series by UNC Asheville called Conversations with Asheville's University, Chancellor Anne Ponder interviewed Jim Fox of RENCI at UNC Asheville and David McConville of the Elumenati. This video and more in the series are airing on the local Asheville Educational Channel 16.View Video

New Website Shows Live Images of Weather Conditions
1/20/2009 – Brand-new weather-watching site WeatherWebCams.org lets viewers access images from dozens of webcams from Mount Mitchell State Park to Bristol Speedway, showing real area weather in close to real-time.