The Alice Rowe Learning Assistance Center (LAC) will be open several Saturdays for free tutoring and student support services. 

The center is located at WKU South Campus in room 234.  The LAC provides free tutoring in Math, English, Chemistry and other topics.  This is a walk-in service.  No appointment needed. We have an open computer lab and a quiet study area as well.

April 1, 2017

3:00 – 6:00 pm

Augenstein Alumni Center

The 2nd annual Red, White & Brew – featuring local Kentucky breweries – is scheduled for April 1, 2017! 

The WKU Young Alumni Council is excited to share in a day of brews, tunes and fun with the Bowling Green community.

The event, which is 21 and over, benefits the Young Alumni Council’s scholarship program for upperclassmen students at Western Kentucky University.

2017 Ticket Information

Tickets include:

Ten 4oz Pours of Beer
Complimentary meal
Free on-campus parking 

Pre-sale (March 1 - March 30)
Alumni Association Member Price: $25 

(*To receive member pricing, members must login to WKU Alumni Association website prior to ticket purchase*)

Non-Member Price: $30    

Food Only Ticket: $15

After March 30 and Day of Event 
 Price: $35

Learn more on the Alumni Association website.

Joel Simon, executive director of the international nonprofit Committee to Protect Journalists, will present Trump & The Truth: Defending Press Freedom at Home & Abroad. Admission is free and open to the public.

Read more at http://www.wku.edu/journalism/events/index.php?view=article&articleid=4818

The international ment's march to stop rape, sexual assault, and gender violence: Walk a Mile in Her Shoes.

Tuesday, April 4th @ Centennial Mall

$25 Registration Fee

Event begins at 4pm; arrive by 3:30 for check-in. 

Contact Juan Pinilla with any questions at juan.pinilla082@topper.wku.edu or call (270) 303-5234.

Dr. Young Hyo Lee, Dept. of History Education, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea

(Visiting Scholar, Africa and African American Studies Dept, Duke University)

Dr. Lee is researching representations of family and marriage in 19^th century American slave narratives as well as “The Meaning of ‘Pursuit of Happiness’ in the Declaration of Independence” in association with the Korean Research Foundation.

She will be at WKU from Tuesday evening, April 4 to Thursday afternoon, April 6.

Her visit is part of the “Fulbright Week” activities and is part of the “Year of South Korea” events

Presentation:

Wednesday, April 5, 3:30 – 4:30, 227A Cherry Hall

“Teaching American History in South Korea; Opportunities and Challenges” 

Opera: East and West
Italian Opera, Zarzuela, and Chinese Opera

Friday, April 7th
2:00-3:30pm 
Music Hall 111 CRH

This is an interactive performance and ecucation event open to music majors AND non-music majors. All levels of musicla knowedge are welcome. Everone is encouraged to participate.

The 2017 Opera Outreach program was made possible by support from Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and the WKU Confucius Institute. 

The Alice Rowe Learning Assistance Center (LAC) will be open several Saturdays for free tutoring and student support services. 

The center is located at WKU South Campus in room 234.  The LAC provides free tutoring in Math, English, Chemistry and other topics.  This is a walk-in service.  No appointment needed. We have an open computer lab and a quiet study area as well.

Pizza party, summer t-shirts, info on scholarships, and more.

Doors open at 6:30p.  

Tickets: $15 + $2 (online fees) or $20 at the door.  (Ticket website:  http://flyfilmfest.com )

Door prizes and silent auction.

View website for more information.

Graduation is fast approaching! Need a professional headshot? A photo for graduation invitations? You can even take a photo with your bestie just for fun!

Come to DSU Lobby on Wednesday, April 12 from 10 am until 2 pm for a free portrait.

Once we've taken your picture, we'll email you a link to the Facebook photo album where you can download it to use.

Have questions? Contact us at wkutalisman@gmail.com and make sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to keep up with our stories and upcoming events.

Is Pregnancy an Appropriate Time to Intervene in Order to Improve Long-term Offspring Health?

Dr. Kevin Pearson
Associate Professor - College of Medicine
University of Kentucky

TOPIC: Results of a research study of the life-long effects of more physical activity during pregnancy and nursing.

Swipeable event. 

The African Students Union is having their first annual fashion show as part of our goal of showing Diversity on WKU's campus through African Clothing. Our organization has partnered with African designers to showcase their skill with using African prints. Tickets to the show are on sale now and can be purchased by emailing us (wkuasa@gmail.com) or at the site of the event. The tickets are $5 per person but $3 if you come with a survival kit item for the American Red Cross.

Dr. Christina Snyder, Dept. of History, Thomas and Kathryn Miller Associate
Professor, Indiana University - Bloomington

"The Rise and Fall and Rise of Civilizations: Indian Intellectual Culture during the Removal Era"

READ MORE ON WKU NEWS.

Here's Dr. Synder's description of the lecture: 

This talk addresses Indian intellectual history and, more broadly, a reconsideration of Indigenous engagement with global networks forged by the communications revolution. It focuses Native American students and alumni who attended Choctaw Academy (outside Lexington, KY), the first federally-controlled Indian boarding school in the United States. The school operated from 1825 to 1848, a formative period of U.S. imperialism, when federal Indian policy shifted from assimilation to removal. In justifying this change, Jacksonian officials sought to redefine the nature of Indianness—away from a primarily political identity based on membership in a foreign nation and toward a racial category associated with primitivism.

I focus on Indian scholars who pushed back, using varied tools assert Native sovereignty and modernity. Evidence drawn from their coursework and post-graduate lives reveals that Choctaw Academy’s students combined Indigenous knowledge with what they learned at school, a powerful alchemy which enabled them to theorize broadly about colonialism, nationalism, and even the nature of history. Far from a straightforward story of alienation, the students’ engagement with their coursework demonstrates how young Indian intellectuals used their studies to articulate a more empowering and useful narrative of both American and global history. 

Register: http://www.wku.edu/wkucec

The Alice Rowe Learning Assistance Center (LAC) will be open several Saturdays for free tutoring and student support services. 

The center is located at WKU South Campus in room 234.  The LAC provides free tutoring in Math, English, Chemistry and other topics.  This is a walk-in service.  No appointment needed. We have an open computer lab and a quiet study area as well.

Known for his €œsardonic wit and incisive social critiques,€ Sedaris has published several books and essays, including Barrel Fever and Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls. The latter works audio version received a Grammy-nomination for Best Spoken Word Album at the 56th Annual Awards.

Barnes and Noble will be in the lobby selling books before and after the presentation.  There will be a brief Q&A session at the conclusion of the presentation in the auditorium.  Mr. Sedaris will sign books before and after his presentation.

Admission to this event is free, but seating is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis.

WKU graduate to present lecture on U.S. immigration law

Mario H. Nguyen, a 2012 WKU graduate, will return to campus on April 25 to give a talk on the origins, evolution and current state of U.S. immigration law as part of the 11^th annual Tracing the Unexplored Series.

Nguyen’s talk, Tracing the Unexplored: A Journey Through the Immigration System, will be held from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Mass Media Technology Hall Auditiorium. Admission is free and open to the public.

Nguyen is a first-generation college graduate and the child of immigrant parents. He graduated from WKU with a bachelor’s degree in Public Relations. During his time at WKU, he earned much recognition with the Forensics Team, was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Mexico and was named one of the Top 40 Latinos under 40 in Foreign Policy by the Huffington Post. He is a third-year law student at Harvard Law School where he works at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau on, among other things, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status cases. Nguyen won the 2015 NYU School of Law Immigration Moot Court Competition and was named Best Oralist.

“It is such a privilege to have Mario Nguyen, a well accomplished WKU alumnus, speak about the immigration system.  His account is informed by his experience -- as the son of immigrants and his work with juvenile cases -- as well as his law training at Harvard." Dr. Sonia Lenk said.

The event is co-sponsored by the WKU Department of Modern Languages, WKU Libraries, WKU Department of Geography & Geology, WKU Department of History, Kentucky Institute of International Studies (KIIS), WKU Glasgow Campus, WKU IT Division and Hilltoppers Organization of Latin American Students (HOLAS).

Contact: Dr. Sonia Lenk, (270) 745-5906

Learn about On Demand classes and enjoy free popcorn and cotton candy!

A Bi-annual Colloquium Series on Popular Culture by WKU Faculty and Scholars

Wednesday April 26, 4:30-6 pm, DSU 3020

Presentations:

“A Strike for Justice”: St. Clair Drake and the Struggle for Educational Reform at Hampton Institute.

Dr. Andrew Rosa, Diversity and Community Studies

“Who Tells Your Story”: Taking Hamilton (and other musicals) Seriously as History.

Dr. Michelle Dvoskin, Department of Theatre and Dance

The WKU Marketing Council is an internal network of WKU employees who have marketing responsibility in their particular college, division, or department. The Council meets quarterly to discuss communications principles, best practices, trends and opportunities and also communicates via listserv.

Learn about On Demand classes and enjoy free popcorn and cotton candy!

Friday with F.R.I.E.N.D.S. (Finding Respect in Everyone's Natural Differences and Similarities) is a Compassion Hour to create a space for compassion as well as an opportunity to connect and reaffirm our humanness, provide support, and receive affirmation. 

This event is sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs Social Justice Working Group, the Counseling & Testing Center, and the Chief Diversity Officer. This is intended to be an ongoing series and opportunity for the university community to gather, affirm one another, and reconnect.

Location TBD.

Learn more at bgnightmarket.com.

The Alice Rowe Learning Assistance Center (LAC) will be open several Saturdays for free tutoring and student support services. 

The center is located at WKU South Campus in room 234.  The LAC provides free tutoring in Math, English, Chemistry and other topics.  This is a walk-in service.  No appointment needed. We have an open computer lab and a quiet study area as well.

Are you ready to show your WKU pride and support of the Performing Arts? Amanda Clark, WKU Dance Coordinator, will be leading a Shim-Sham Shimmy Flash-Mob throughout campus. We need your help and support! A crew will be filming throughout campus, getting amazing shots, for a video to post on social media for National Tap Day onMay 25th!

The attached links will provide tutorials to help you tap like the dance majors on campus or quickly learn a basic non-tap dance version! Join in on the fun and help demonstrate how Hilltoppers unite! Meet other programs and departments, show your WKU pride, join our surprise guests, and help support Dance on the Hill!

When: Sunday, April 30^th at 5:30 pm (filming will last no more than an hour, IF THAT!)

Where:We will meet in the FAC Colonnade

Shim-Sham Shimmy?!

This dance is the anthem of tap dance and dates back to the early 20th century when tap dance as we know it was developing!

Learn How!

·       Tap Shoes Version

·       Non-Tap Shoes Version

What you need!

·       Tap shoes, sneakers, or whatever footwear you have!

·       Rock your WKU swag; let’s paint The Hill red!

·       Bring a red towel!

·       No experience necessary! It’s not about doing it well; it’s about showing your WKU spirit!

If your group/organization/department is interested in participating, please RSVP in advance with Amanda Clark at Amanda.clark@wku.edu.