WKU News

May 30th, 2019

A bike share program at WKU is picking up speed just six months after it was launched on campus. It’s called VeoRide and students are taking advantage of it as WKU’s Amy Bingham explains in this week’s View from the Hill.

May 30th, 2019

13 WKU students were offered Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships for summer 2019 study abroad and 2 were designated alternates.

May 30th, 2019

This year, 6 WKU students were offered Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships for winter/spring 2019 study abroad.

May 29th, 2019

The Bowling Green Police and Fire departments will be using the Lambda Chi Alpha house at 1504 Chestnut St. for training this week. The house is scheduled to be razed and replaced.

May 29th, 2019

In April 2019, Jennifer N. Molchan of the Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology was awarded a competitive $2,000 Field Research Fellowship from the American Center for Mongolian Studies.

May 29th, 2019

The Gatton Academy has been named to Jay Mathews' list of top-performing public schools with elite students for the tenth consecutive time.

May 28th, 2019

WKU Music Professor John Cipolla performed as a jazz clarinet soloist and taught jazz improvisation classes at the Academia Ibero-Americana do Clarinete music festival April 9–14 in Castelo de Paiva, Portugal.

May 28th, 2019

Devin Davis ('19, Scott County High School) has been named a 2019 United States Presidential Scholars Semifinalist.

May 28th, 2019

Cameron Knight graduated from WKU in December 2005 with a BA in Photojournalism and Anthropology. He was recently part of an investigative team at the Cincinnati Enquirer that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for their project "Seven Days of Heroin."

May 23rd, 2019

A recent WKU graduate made history by becoming the first special education major from the Kelly Autism Program. WKU's Amy Bingham has more on how KAP made such a difference in this week’s View from the Hill.

May 23rd, 2019

Academically talented seventh graders from throughout Kentucky were honored by the Duke Talent Identification Program (Duke TIP) May 22 at Western Kentucky University. Duke TIP’s 7th Grade Talent Search identifies students across a 16-state region who

May 23rd, 2019

Two WKU students recently were awarded study abroad grants worth $1,000 each from The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi—the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines.

May 23rd, 2019

May 23rd, 2019

WKU’s School of Journalism & Broadcasting has continued a tradition of national success in the Hearst Journalism Awards Program with a fifth-place overall finish in 2019.

May 21st, 2019

Zephyrus is a fine arts magazine published annually by WKU’s English Department, showcasing student artwork, poetry, and short stories.

May 21st, 2019

WKU Industrial/Organizational Psychology faculty members and graduate program alumni presented research at the Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP).

May 21st, 2019

May 20th, 2019

Three WKU students will compete in the national finals of the 59th annual Hearst Journalism Awards Program June 1-6 in San Francisco.

May 20th, 2019

The Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology is pleased to announce that retired University Distinguished Professor of Folk Studies Michael Ann Williams was recently awarded the title Emeritus.

May 20th, 2019

For the third year in a row, two WKU students have been selected to participate in Fulbright Summer Institutes in the United Kingdom.