WKU News

Apr 27th, 2021

Graduating senior and Elizabethtown native Max Chambers has secured a job at Synchrogenix as a Technical Editor 1. To secure the position and negotiate for a higher salary, Chambers took advantage of many WKU opportunities and resources.

Apr 27th, 2021

A passion for helping people was instrumental in changing the course of Reese Polen’s WKU journey.

Apr 26th, 2021

Apr 26th, 2021

Apr 26th, 2021

On Friday, April 16, the WKU Graduate School honored the Outstanding Graduate Student Awardees from each college, including Folk Studies MA student Georgia Ellie Dassler who was chosen as the Potter College of Arts and Letters Outstanding Graduate Student

Apr 26th, 2021

WKU will celebrate nearly 4,200 graduates during Fall 2020/Spring 2021 Commencement ceremonies Saturday (May 1) at Houchens Industries-L.T. Smith Stadium.

Apr 26th, 2021

Shelby King, who is completing her master’s degree in Psychological Sciences, is the 2020-21 recipient of WKU’s John D. Minton Graduate Student Award.

Apr 26th, 2021

WKU’s Greek community hosted its annual awards convocation on April 23 at the Downing Student Union Auditorium.

Apr 26th, 2021

Two teams of WKU Mechanical Engineering seniors successfully participated in the annual Student Design Competition held by American Society of Mechanical Engineers International.

Apr 26th, 2021

WKU student Isabel Eliassen will use a $50,000 Rotary Foundation Global Grant Scholarship to complete the International Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Studies (IMAS) at National Chengchi University in Taipei, Taiwan.

Apr 26th, 2021

WKU has announced the winners of the second annual Distinguished Educator Awards.

Apr 25th, 2021

"I've always wanted to go into the health field - it's a service-oriented career where I can help people in a tangible way."

Apr 23rd, 2021

“Everyone is impacted by sexual assault in one way or another,” she explained. “I got more vocal as I became more involved in the community.” She wanted to make a difference, and therefore uses her research and volunteer work to do so.

Apr 23rd, 2021

“There was always so much energy in the crowd and I loved being able to cheer on my Hilltoppers along with my friends,” Bendson said. “I believe that The Spirit does make the Master, and I have shown that through the years of being a Hilltopper.”

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.