WKU News

Nov 20th, 2024

The MTNA WKU Collegiate Chapter was selected for this national award out of collegiate chapters across the nation and will be recognized at the 2025 MTNA National Conference in Minneapolis in March 2025.

Nov 20th, 2024

ESPN Digital Content announced in September its School Outreach program aimed at developing the next generation of digital sports journalists, and WKU's School of Media & Communication was selected as a partner educational institution this month.

Oct 22nd, 2024

The Pre-Law Student Association, in collaboration with the Department of Political Science, hosted a Leaders in Law networking event on Thursday, September 26th.

Sep 27th, 2024

Get ready to step into the whimsical world of Alice in Wonderland but with a twist. Alice by Heart runs from Saturday, September 28th, to Wednesday, October 2nd, in Russell H. Miller Theatre in the Ivan Wilson Fine Arts Center.

Sep 17th, 2024

Sep 16th, 2024

The Potter College of Arts & Letters (PCAL) at WKU will welcome Pulitzer-winning playwright, author, and Tony-winning musician, Quiara Alegría Hudes, to campus as part of their Cultural Enhancement Series.

Aug 28th, 2024

The Department of Modern Languages’ Chinese Flagship Program has renewed their four-year $1.5 million grant with The Language Flagship.

Aug 16th, 2024

WKU graduate Todd Turner of Louisville, managing editor of DirtonDirt.com, was one of eight inductees in the National Dirt Late Model of Fame’s Class of 2024.

Jul 29th, 2024

Jun 14th, 2024

On June 7-9, Philosophy major Ethan Huffaker presented a co-authored paper, “Close Reconstruction of Proofs in the Quantificational Logic of Principia Mathematica” at the Bertrand Russell Society’s 51st annual meeting in Amherst, NY.

Jun 7th, 2024

The University of Iowa and Western Kentucky University collaborated to build the first-ever digital map and data table for Principia Mathematica—a monumental work in the philosophies of mathematics and logic.

Jun 7th, 2024

Western Kentucky University senior Rhiannon Johnston won the Hearst Journalism Awards Program’s 2024 National Multimedia Championship this week in San Francisco, California.

May 31st, 2024

Western Kentucky University’s School of Media & Communication continued its tradition of national success in the annual Hearst Journalism Awards Program with a sixth-place finish in the 2024 Overall Intercollegiate Competition.

May 24th, 2024

Two Western Kentucky University students will compete for national championships in the 2023-2024 Hearst Journalism Awards Program and four other WKU students were honored in the year’s final multimedia competition.

May 14th, 2024

Five Western Kentucky University students have been honored in multimedia, photojournalism and broadcast competitions of the 2023-2024 Hearst Journalism Awards Program.

May 1st, 2024

Exceptional students have graduated from the Potter College of Arts & Letters (PCAL) over the years and soon, senior Emily Then-Torres, a Spanish and International Business double major, will be among them.

Apr 18th, 2024

The Department of Music at WKU will induct alumna, Dr. Sheila Johnson (’77), and Professor Emerita, Dr. Mitzi Groom, to its Wall of Fame.

Apr 17th, 2024

Apr 11th, 2024

Peruvian journalist Manuel Calloquispe is the seventh recipient of the prestigious Fleischaker/Greene Award for Courageous International Reporting. The award will be presented April 23 by the WKU School of Media & Communication.

Apr 3rd, 2024

Get ready to be transported back to the Renaissance by the WKU Departments of Music and Theatre & Dance’s production of Something Rotten!