WKU News

May 6th, 2019

May 6th, 2019

Made possible by a 2018 grant from the WKU Sisterhood, Elaine Weiss, author of “The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote,” visited WKU April 29-30 to kick off a yearlong celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment.

May 6th, 2019

WKU Global Learning & International Affairs congratulates more than 500 graduating global citizens in the spring Class of 2019.

May 6th, 2019

Five WKU students have been offered Fulbright U.S. Student Grants for the 2019-20 academic year and one has been designated as an alternate.

May 3rd, 2019

May 3rd, 2019

Senior Kyla Scanlon of Louisville, a triple major in Financial Management, Economics and Business Data Analytics, will be recognized as the Ogden Foundation Scholar at WKU’s 185th Commencement on May 10.

May 3rd, 2019

It’s been a busy semester of filmmaking for some WKU students who will premiere their finished products this weekend. WKU's Amy Bingham explains how one of these films is making history in this week’s View from the Hill.

May 2nd, 2019

May 2nd, 2019

An experiment designed with the National STEM Scholars was carried in a NanoLab onboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket during a launch past the Kármán line – the internationally recognized boundary of space.

May 2nd, 2019

Two WKU Greek Week philanthropic competitions, the Greek Week Blood Drive and CanStruction Food Competition, made major impacts in the Bowling Green community and southern Kentucky region.

May 2nd, 2019

WKU’s Greek community hosted its annual awards convocation on April 28 at Diddle Arena.

May 2nd, 2019

Dr. Tim Frandy, Assistant Professor in the Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology, has completed a new researched translation project of Sámi oral tradition, "Inari Sámi Folklore: Stories from Aanaar" (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019).

May 1st, 2019

Five WKU students have earned Boren Scholarships of up to $20,000 to fund up to a year of critical language-focused study abroad.

May 1st, 2019

Join the Kentucky Folklife Program and Kentucky Museum for food, music, stories, and more in honor of "A Culture Carried" exhibition before it closes! This event (free and open to the public), is on Friday, May 3rd, 6:00-8:00pm, at 1444 Kentucky Street.

May 1st, 2019

Folklorists, Community Scholars, oral historians, folk artists, tradition bearers and other folklife enthusiasts are invited to the Kentucky Folklife Network Gathering at the African American Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky on May 15th.

Apr 30th, 2019

Apr 30th, 2019

Apr 30th, 2019

Choirs from Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania to Perform Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem

Apr 30th, 2019

Gatton Academy senior Emma Poole, alumna Lillian Hamm, and Assistant Director of the Crawford Hydrology Lab Lee Anne Bledsoe recently returned from the UNESCO EuroMAB 2019 meeting in Dublin, Ireland.

Apr 30th, 2019