WKU Events
- Location: Main Gallery, 2nd Floor FAC
- Time: All Day
This group exhibition presents the work of all Spring
Seniors graduating from WKU Art & Design in the studio
and design disciplines.
- Location: 1444 Kentucky Street, Bowling Green
- Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Location: In front of Cherry Hall
- Time: 2:30pm
You’re invited to take a first look at the future of Cherry Hall.
Join us as we honor the past and celebrate the future of WKU’s most iconic building.
Remarks at 2:30 p.m.
Guests are invited to stroll through the building and enjoy refreshments.
Parking available in the College Hill Lot.
- Location: Main Gallery, 2nd Floor FAC
- Time: All Day
This group exhibition presents the work of all Spring
Seniors graduating from WKU Art & Design in the studio
and design disciplines.
- Location: 1444 Kentucky Street, Bowling Green
- Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Location: Nick Denes Field
- Time: 6:00pm
For more about WKU Baseball, visit https://wkusports.com/sports/baseball
- Location: WKU Softball Complex
- Time: 6:00pm
For more about WKU Softball, visit https://wkusports.com/sports/softball
- Location: Russell H. Miller Theatre
- Time: 7:30pm
Emerging student choreographers in the Dance Program present their original works in this informal showcase. A variety of dance genres and inspirations are explored in innovative ways. This concert is hosted by the Choreography I course in addition to other student choreography project and featured work by the Visual Media for Dance course. This informal concert gives our students an opportunity to see their work come to life onstage! All tickets are $5. Purchase tickets now on wku.showware.com.
- Location: FAC - FAC 0214
- Time: 7:30pm - 9:30pm
- Location: L.D. Brown Ag Expo Center
- Time: All Day
For more information: Shetland Miniatures
- Location: Main Gallery, 2nd Floor FAC
- Time: All Day
This group exhibition presents the work of all Spring
Seniors graduating from WKU Art & Design in the studio
and design disciplines.
- Location: 1444 Kentucky Street, Bowling Green
- Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Location: L.D. Brown Ag Expo Center
- Time: All Day
For more information: Shetland Miniatures
- Location: WKU Softball Complex
- Time: 2:00pm
For more about WKU Softball, visit https://wkusports.com/sports/softball
- Location: Nick Denes Field
- Time: 4:00pm
For more about WKU Baseball, visit https://wkusports.com/sports/baseball
- Location: Main Gallery, 2nd Floor FAC
- Time: All Day
This group exhibition presents the work of all Spring
Seniors graduating from WKU Art & Design in the studio
and design disciplines.
- Location: L.D. Brown Ag Expo Center
- Time: All Day
For more information: Shetland Miniatures
- Location: Nick Denes Field
- Time: 1:00pm
For more about WKU Baseball, visit https://wkusports.com/sports/baseball
- Location: WKU Softball Complex
- Time: 1:00pm
For more about WKU Softball, visit https://wkusports.com/sports/softball
- Location: Main Gallery, 2nd Floor FAC
- Time: All Day
This group exhibition presents the work of all Spring
Seniors graduating from WKU Art & Design in the studio
and design disciplines.
- Location: Somerset Community College, Rogers Commons Community Room
- Time: 5:30pm
This event occurs at 5:30 p.m. EST.
Family, friends, mentors, and other guests are encouraged to attend.
This is a brief celebration to honor the second WKU graduating class from WKU in Somerset.
Each graduate will receive a WKU in Somerset stole which can be worn with their cap & gown at WKU Commencement.
Dress is business casual – no cap & gown.
Graduates should arrive by 5 p.m. (EST).
- Location: Main Gallery, 2nd Floor FAC
- Time: All Day
This group exhibition presents the work of all Spring
Seniors graduating from WKU Art & Design in the studio
and design disciplines.
- Location: Main Gallery, 2nd Floor FAC
- Time: All Day
This group exhibition presents the work of all Spring
Seniors graduating from WKU Art & Design in the studio
and design disciplines.
- Location: 1444 Kentucky Street, Bowling Green
- Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Location: Recital Hall - FAC 189
- Time: 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Each semester, one musician from each discipline is chosen to perform at the Performer of the Semester recital. The chosen performer has displayed excellent growth and improvement, musicianship, and hard work throughout the semester.
This concert is free and open to the public!
- Location: WKU Softball Complex
- Time: All Day
For more about WKU Softball, visit https://wkusports.com/sports/softball
- Location: Main Gallery, 2nd Floor FAC
- Time: All Day
This group exhibition presents the work of all Spring
Seniors graduating from WKU Art & Design in the studio
and design disciplines.
- Location: 1444 Kentucky Street, Bowling Green
- Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Location: Downing Student Union - 3rd Floor
- Time: 3:45pm - 5:30pm
The Mahurin Honors College invites graduating Honors scholars and their guests to an Open-House Reception on Thursday, May 8, 2025, on the third floor of the Downing Student Union (DSU).
To accommodate all attendees, the event will be divided into two sessions:
- Ogden College of Science & Engineering (Ogden) and College of Health & Human Services (CHHS) Honors Graduates:
- Check-in: 4:30 PM
- Medallion Ceremony: 5:15 PM
- Potter College of Arts & Letters (PCAL), Gordon Ford College of Business (GFCB), and College of Education & Behavioral Sciences (CEBS) Honors Graduates:
- Check-in: 3:45 PM
- Medallion Ceremony: 4:30 PM
At check-in, Honors graduates will receive a special graduation gift, followed by a brief medallion ceremony in recognition of their achievements.
We look forward to celebrating this milestone with you and your loved ones!
- Time: 6:30pm
Topper Walk: Graduates should line up near the Charles Hardcastle Kentucky Building at 6:00 p.m. Topper Walk begins at 6:30 p.m.
Western Kentucky University's Commencement Ceremony begins as all graduates join together representing their colleges to take their final walk across campus before the conferring of their degrees.
For Commencement, students will receive their red towels to wave as they Topper Walk from the meeting place of their academic college into Houchens Industries - L.T. Smith Stadium. Family and friends can watch the procession into the stadium to their seats on the field, then they will find their seats in Houchens Industries - L.T. Smith Stadium.
Commencement will begin immediately following the seating of students into Houchens Industries - L.T. Smith Stadium. This event will be held outdoor rain or shine.
Western Kentucky University's Commencement Ceremony will begin once students have been seated in Houchens Industries - L.T. Smith Stadium on Jimmy Feix field from the Topper Walk. During the Commencement Ceremony, each college will acknowledge their graduates, and President Timothy C. Caboni will present the graduates to the Board of Regents for the conferral of degrees.
- Location: Main Gallery, 2nd Floor FAC
- Time: All Day
This group exhibition presents the work of all Spring
Seniors graduating from WKU Art & Design in the studio
and design disciplines.
- Location: 1444 Kentucky Street, Bowling Green
- Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Location: E. A. Diddle Arena
- Time: 8:00am
Each of WKU's colleges will host a special recognition ceremony to celebrate their Spring and Summer 2024 graduates. All graduates should plan to arrive 1 hour in advance of their ceremony time and gather in Diddle Arena's Auxiliary Gym to line up for the ceremony.
For more information, visit www.wku.edu/commencement.
- Location: E. A. Diddle Arena
- Time: 10:30am
Each of WKU's colleges will host a special recognition ceremony to celebrate their Spring and Summer 2024 graduates. All graduates should plan to arrive 1 hour in advance of their ceremony time and gather in Diddle Arena's Auxiliary Gym to line up for the ceremony.
- Location: E. A. Diddle Arena
- Time: 1:00pm
Each of WKU's colleges will host a special recognition ceremony to celebrate their Spring and Summer 2024 graduates. All graduates should plan to arrive 1 hour in advance of their ceremony time and gather in Diddle Arena's Auxiliary Gym to line up for the ceremony.
For more information, visit www.wku.edu/commencement.
- Location: E. A. Diddle Arena
- Time: 3:30pm
Each of WKU's colleges will host a special recognition ceremony to celebrate their Spring and Summer 2024 graduates. All graduates should plan to arrive 1 hour in advance of their ceremony time and gather in Diddle Arena's Auxiliary Gym to line up for the ceremony.
For more information, visit www.wku.edu/commencement.
- Time: 6:00pm
All residence halls close and residents must checkout of their rooms.
- Location: E. A. Diddle Arena
- Time: 6:30pm
Each of WKU's colleges will host a special recognition ceremony to celebrate their Spring and Summer 2024 graduates. All graduates should plan to arrive 1 hour in advance of their ceremony time and gather in Diddle Arena's Auxiliary Gym to line up for the ceremony.
For more information, visit www.wku.edu/commencement.
- Location: 1444 Kentucky Street, Bowling Green
- Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Location: 1444 Kentucky Street, Bowling Green
- Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Location: 1444 Kentucky Street, Bowling Green
- Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Location: DSU - DSU 2081
- Time: 3:30pm - 6:00pm
- Location: Nick Denes Field
- Time: 6:00pm
For more about WKU Baseball, visit https://wkusports.com/sports/baseball
- Location: 1444 Kentucky Street, Bowling Green
- Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Location: Nick Denes Field
- Time: 4:00pm
For more about WKU Baseball, visit https://wkusports.com/sports/baseball
- Location: 1444 Kentucky Street, Bowling Green
- Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Location: Nick Denes Field
- Time: 1:00pm
For more about WKU Baseball, visit https://wkusports.com/sports/baseball
- Location: 1444 Kentucky Street, Bowling Green
- Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Location: 1444 Kentucky Street, Bowling Green
- Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Location: 1444 Kentucky Street, Bowling Green
- Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Location: Diddle Arena
- Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Warren County Public Schools' spring 2025 graduation ceremonies begin Friday, May 23, with Greenwood High School at 6 p.m. and continue Saturday, May 24, with Warren East High School, 9 a.m.; Lighthouse/Beacon/GEO International, noon; Warren Central High School, 4 p.m.; and South Warren High School, 7 p.m.
- Time: All Day
The Talent Identification Program of Kentucky (TIP-KYSM) offers above-level testing to assess where students are academically so educators and families can help guide students to relevant resources, appropriate enrichment programming, and other services that will challenge and encourage growth.
Learn More Here: https://www.wku.edu/gifted/tipky/index.php
- Location: 1444 Kentucky Street, Bowling Green
- Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Location: Diddle Arena
- Time: 9:00am - 9:00pm
Warren County Public Schools' spring 2025 graduation ceremonies begin Friday, May 23, with Greenwood High School at 6 p.m. and continue Saturday, May 24, with Warren East High School, 9 a.m.; Lighthouse/Beacon/GEO International, noon; Warren Central High School, 4 p.m.; and South Warren High School, 7 p.m.
- Time: All Day
The National STEM Scholar Program works to inspire the creativity and passion of middle school science teachers, ten of whom will be selected for this prestigious program. . Applicants must be teachers from the United States who teach science classes a majority of the day in grades 6, 7, and/or 8 and have at least two years of previous experience teaching science.
Learn More Here: https://www.wku.edu/gifted/nss/index.php
- Time: All Day
The National STEM Scholar Program works to inspire the creativity and passion of middle school science teachers, ten of whom will be selected for this prestigious program. . Applicants must be teachers from the United States who teach science classes a majority of the day in grades 6, 7, and/or 8 and have at least two years of previous experience teaching science.
Learn More Here: https://www.wku.edu/gifted/nss/index.php
- Time: All Day
The National STEM Scholar Program works to inspire the creativity and passion of middle school science teachers, ten of whom will be selected for this prestigious program. . Applicants must be teachers from the United States who teach science classes a majority of the day in grades 6, 7, and/or 8 and have at least two years of previous experience teaching science.
Learn More Here: https://www.wku.edu/gifted/nss/index.php
- Time: All Day
The National STEM Scholar Program works to inspire the creativity and passion of middle school science teachers, ten of whom will be selected for this prestigious program. . Applicants must be teachers from the United States who teach science classes a majority of the day in grades 6, 7, and/or 8 and have at least two years of previous experience teaching science.
Learn More Here: https://www.wku.edu/gifted/nss/index.php
- Location: 1444 Kentucky Street, Bowling Green
- Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Time: All Day
The National STEM Scholar Program works to inspire the creativity and passion of middle school science teachers, ten of whom will be selected for this prestigious program. . Applicants must be teachers from the United States who teach science classes a majority of the day in grades 6, 7, and/or 8 and have at least two years of previous experience teaching science.
Learn More Here: https://www.wku.edu/gifted/nss/index.php
- Location: 1444 Kentucky Street, Bowling Green
- Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Time: All Day
The National STEM Scholar Program works to inspire the creativity and passion of middle school science teachers, ten of whom will be selected for this prestigious program. . Applicants must be teachers from the United States who teach science classes a majority of the day in grades 6, 7, and/or 8 and have at least two years of previous experience teaching science.
Learn More Here: https://www.wku.edu/gifted/nss/index.php
- Location: 1444 Kentucky Street, Bowling Green
- Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Time: All Day
The National STEM Scholar Program works to inspire the creativity and passion of middle school science teachers, ten of whom will be selected for this prestigious program. . Applicants must be teachers from the United States who teach science classes a majority of the day in grades 6, 7, and/or 8 and have at least two years of previous experience teaching science.
Learn More Here: https://www.wku.edu/gifted/nss/index.php
- Location: 1444 Kentucky Street, Bowling Green
- Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm