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

The residence halls will reopen from Spring Break on Sunday, March 23, 2025 at noon. 

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

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

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/.

 For more about WKU Softball, visit https://wkusports.com/sports/softball

Dr. Plucker is a Professor of Education at the Johns Hopkins School of Education. His research examines education policy, talent development, and creativity.

RSVP

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/.

A celebration of Japanese Cherry Blossoms & Culture.

The WKU AMS Graduate Student Chapter is delighted to invite you to an engaging and insightful talk by Ruchini Mendis on:

???? Date: Tuesday, March 26, 2025

⏰ Time: 3:30 PM (Central Time)

???? Location: COHH 3119 & Zoom

???? Talk Title: Finite Mixture Regression Model with EM Algorithm

???? Abstract:

This talk will explore finite mixture regression models, which allow us to analyze data where different groups exhibit distinct regression relationships. The Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm is widely used for maximum likelihood estimation in such models. The presentation will provide a step-by-step walkthrough of the EM algorithm and its practical applications in ‘R’ using the ‘flexmix’ package.

???? Zoom Details:

For those unable to attend in person, we welcome you to join via Zoom:

???? Join Zoom Meeting

???? Meeting ID: 922 2806 4714 | ???? Passcode: 015821

???? We are also pleased to offer FREE PIZZA AND SODA to all in-person attendees!

We sincerely hope you will join us for this exciting talk and look forward to an engaging discussion.

The 2025 Lowell Harrison Distinguished Lecture will be presented by Philip J. Deloria, a Professor of History at Harvard University. Dr. Deloria's research and teaching focus is on the social, cultural and political histories of the relations among American Indian peoples and the United States, as well as the comparative and connective histories of indigenous peoples in a global context.

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! 

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.

Join us for a discussion featuring WKU Folk Studies alumni, who will share how their folklore training has uniquely equipped them for success in a variety of careers--from museums, education, and media, to advocacy and arts agencies.

Featured Speakers:

• Mark Brown ('08), Kentucky Arts Council Folk & Traditional Art Director
• Holly Hudnall ('13), Director of Community Engagement and Education, Kentucky Voices for Health
• Jack LeSieur ('14), Downing Museum Curator/Director
• Nicole Musgrave ('18), Public Folklore, Media Maker, Teaching Artist

This event is sponsored by the Department of Society, Culture, Crime, and Justice Studies.

Are you a nursing student looking to network with employers in healthcare industries? Are you hoping to gain experience in your desired career field before graduating college? Then this opportunity is just for you!

30 employers will be coming to the Medical Center - WKU Health Sciences Complex, and they want to meet YOU! These employers will be expressing opportunities within their companies. Why not take advantage of this free opportunity to showcase yourself in a positive light! So, come on out and show them what you have to offer!

Want to know how you can stand out from others? Register for the fair and find out!

Log into Handshake for more details. If you don’t have a Handshake account, sign up here for free.

Mathematics Department Meeting

For more about WKU Baseball, visit https://wkusports.com/sports/baseball

The Southeastern Color Guard Circuit (SCGC) Championships will be held March 28-30 at WKU’s Diddle Arena.

Parking/traffic: The event will bring a large volume of buses, trucks, and tractor trailers to campus. In support of this large regional event, several parking, traffic, and transit changes are in effect. Read more

Friday, March 28

• SCGC Cadet Novice Championships, 5 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Event schedule, tickets and more

Saturday, March 29

• SCGC Guard Championships, 9 a.m.-10:30 p.m.
• Event schedule, tickets and more

Sunday, March 30

• SCGC Percussion & Winds Championship, 10:15 a.m.-7 p.m.
• Event schedule, tickets and more

 For more about WKU Softball, visit https://wkusports.com/sports/softball 

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.

The Southeastern Color Guard Circuit (SCGC) Championships will be held March 28-30 at WKU’s Diddle Arena.

Parking/traffic: The event will bring a large volume of buses, trucks, and tractor trailers to campus. In support of this large regional event, several parking, traffic, and transit changes are in effect. Read more

Friday, March 28

• SCGC Cadet Novice Championships, 5 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Event schedule, tickets and more

Saturday, March 29

• SCGC Guard Championships, 9 a.m.-10:30 p.m.
• Event schedule, tickets and more

Sunday, March 30

• SCGC Percussion & Winds Championship, 10:15 a.m.-7 p.m.
• Event schedule, tickets and more

We highly encourage families that are considering The Gatton Academy to attend one of our Preview Days held on the WKU campus. The Gatton Academy is a program for gifted and talented juniors and seniors in high school who apply during their sophomore year. Preview Days are a wonderful opportunity for prospective applicants and their families to meet with current Gatton Academy students and their families, visit our campus, and gain a better understanding of student life at The Gatton Academy. 

Join us for an On-Campus Preview Day on March 29, 2025. Registration is required via the link below by March 27. If the registration deadline has passed, but you would still like to attend, email us at academy@wku.edu or call 270-745-6565. 

https://apply.wku.edu/register/gattonpreviewdayMar2025 

Doubleheader - Game Two will begin at approximately 2:30 p.m. CT. 

For more about WKU Softball, visit https://wkusports.com/sports/softball 

For more about WKU Baseball, visit https://wkusports.com/sports/baseball

Phi Mu Alpha student organization