WKU Events

Students Returning to On-Campus Housing for 2025-2026

During Phase 2 you can select a new room, add a roommate, join a hall waitlist, and update your housing application.

Learn More: wku.edu/housing/renew

Black and Brown Lives Matter

Visit the Kentucky Museum to view exhibitions on art, history, and culture from the Commonwealth and across the world. 

Current exhibitions are listed here.

The Museum is open Wednesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For directions and public parking information, please click here.

Grad Fair is WKU's beginning to the graduation celebration. It is the place to take care of your graduation planning and check out graduation-related services. You can:

• Pick up your cap and gown (Order your cap and gown via Herff Jones by February 20 to secure availability)
• Pick up a graduation schedule of events for your college
• Take your graduation photo (business attire or wear your cap and gown)
• Order your personalized graduation announcements and class ring from Herff Jones

For more information, visit https://www.wku.edu/commencement/gradfair/.

Louie Palu, an award-winning filmmaker and photographer, will be giving a presentation about his long-term projects at 5:30 p.m. Thursday (March 27) in the Gary Ransdell Hall auditorium.

Palu is a documentary photographer and filmmaker whose work focuses on social political issues such as war, human rights, and poverty.

His work has appeared in festivals, publications, exhibitions, and collections internationally. His project covering politics in Washington from 2019-2021 was selected for a World Press Photo award.  He is a 2016-17 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and a Harry Ransom Center Research Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the recipient of numerous awards including Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Grants, 2011-12 Bernard L Schwartz Fellowship with the New America Foundation and Milton Rogovin Fellowship at the University of Arizona. He is well known for his work which examines social political issues such as human rights, conflict, and poverty.

He is currently working on a long-term project on the Arctic partnered with National Geographic Magazine, National Geographic Society and is a National Geographic Explorer. In 2019 his work was selected for the Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture. His work is held in numerous collections including the Smithsonian, U.S. Library of Congress, and National Gallery of Art.

Contact is Sarah Berry - admission is free!