WKU News

Apr 22nd, 2021

What started as a high school passion – caring for cows on his family’s farm in Barren County - turned into a three-part passion for junior Matthew Wininger.

Apr 22nd, 2021

Joan Romano Shifflett, winner of 2020 Warren-Brooks Award for her book Warren, Jarrell, and Lowell: Collaboration in the Reshaping of American Poetry, will give a lecture at the annual meeting of the Robert Penn Warren Circle. The virtual lecture will tak

Apr 22nd, 2021

Terrance D. Brown will be the new Dean of Potter College of Arts & Letters at WKU beginning July 1.

Apr 22nd, 2021

When school starts in the fall at WKU, a Cave City couple will have an empty nest times four. A set of quadruplets will all attend WKU and they recently got a Big Red welcome as WKU’s Amy Bingham shows us in this week’s View from the Hill.

Apr 21st, 2021

The WKU Forensics Team won both the National Forensic Association Individual Events Team Championship and the National Forensic Association Lincoln-Douglas Debate Team Sweepstakes national championship, hosted virtually this year April 16-19.

Apr 21st, 2021

Seven WKU students were awarded Fund for Education Abroad scholarships for study abroad, totaling $28,075. With seven recipients—the highest number in institutional history—WKU had more recipients than any other college or university in this cycle.

Apr 21st, 2021

Anthony U. Itzol, a senior from Bowling Green who studies International Business, learned early on that making personal connections is vital in the business world.

Apr 21st, 2021

USDA Issues Pandemic Flexibilities for Schools and Day Care Facilities through June 2022 to Support Safe Reopening and Healthy, Nutritious Meals

Apr 21st, 2021

Members of the WKU Habitat for Humanity Campus Chapter will be starting their summer break May 2-8 in Decatur, Alabama.

Apr 21st, 2021

The pandemic has presented many challenges to nursing education, particularly related to providing quality clinical experiences because many clinical facilities closed their doors to nursing students. However, it has presented many opportunities as well..

Apr 21st, 2021

A new TRIO program has been added at Western Kentucky University: Student Support Services, Disabilities (SSS-D).

Apr 20th, 2021

Lauren Haynes, from Madison, Va., graduated from WKU’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program in August 2020. She recently received the impressive results of her applications to law schools.

Apr 20th, 2021

WKU’s 2020-2021 Midnight on the Hill campaign raised $80,608 for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. Professional Writing major Hanna Van Winkle served as the co-executive director for this year’s committee.

Apr 20th, 2021

Two WKU photojournalism students finished in the top 10 of the third multimedia competition of the 2020-2021 Hearst Journalism Awards Program.

Apr 19th, 2021

Two WKU students, Jolie Finley and Andy Cheng, have been awarded the Connie Foster Student Scholarship for the 2021-22 academic year.

Apr 19th, 2021

Read about this year's festival, the guest poet/judge and the winners!

Apr 15th, 2021

Lots of planning and safety precautions have gone into preparing for not one but two Commencement weekends at WKU next month. WKU’s Amy Bingham explains how they will be held safely in this week’s View from the Hill.

Apr 15th, 2021

Apr 15th, 2021

Four WKU students were awarded US Department of State Critical Language Scholarships (CLS) that fully fund summer study in intensive language programs abroad. Recipients were selected from a diverse nationwide pool of over 4,600 applicants.

Apr 14th, 2021

WKU today announced the 2021 finalists of the WKU College of Education and Behavioral Sciences’ Distinguished Educator Awards.