WKU News

Feb 24th, 2023

The WKU Board of Regents will conduct a quarterly meeting beginning at 9 a.m. Friday, March 3, at the WKU Innovation Campus located at 2413 Nashville Road in Bowling Green.

Feb 24th, 2023

Trayson Lawler, a graduate student in the Geoscience program, is the winner of the third WKU 3MT competition.

Feb 23rd, 2023

On Saturday (February 25), WKU Potter College of Arts & Letters and WKU Ogden College of Science and Engineering will host their second S.T.E.A.M. Day for scholars in the Jonesville Academy.

Feb 23rd, 2023

Eight WKU students and recent graduates have been recognized as Semi-Finalists in the 2023-24 Fulbright U.S. Student Program competition.

Feb 23rd, 2023

WKU students are learning about other cultures around the world one sip at a time. WKU’s Amy Bingham has more on the bi-weekly Chai Chats sponsored by Global Learning and International Affairs in this week’s View from the Hill.

Feb 23rd, 2023

In conjunction with the American Heart Association, the South-Central Kentucky Area Health Education Center (AHEC) is participating in a community outreach program to teach hands-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to elementary students.

Feb 22nd, 2023

Feb 22nd, 2023

Students, faculty, and alumni of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders in the WKU College of Health and Human Services were recently recognized at the 2023 annual convention of the KY Speech-Language Hearing Association in Lexington, KY.

Feb 22nd, 2023

One of WKU’s newest programs, the Bachelor of Arts in Legal Studies, saw rapid growth in its opening year. Launching last spring, the program saw 22 students join by the fall semester, a strong start for the new academic major.

Feb 22nd, 2023

Eight WKU students have been selected this spring as Semi-Finalists for the 2023 Critical Language Scholarship Program, a summer intensive language program fully funded by the US Department of State.

Feb 21st, 2023

WKU has been ranked as one of the nation’s best colleges for online master’s programs in Mathematics. Just six percent of regionally accredited postsecondary institutions earned a ranking position.

Feb 21st, 2023

WKU will host Dr. Marilyn White this Thursday, February 23rd, at 5:30 in the Western Room of the Kentucky Museum, as part of the Folk Studies 50th anniversary speaker series. Dr. White is president of the American Folklore Society and former WKU faculty.

Feb 21st, 2023

Feb 21st, 2023

Feb 21st, 2023

On Wednesday, February 15, the author Raechel Anne Jolie came to WKU to discuss their new book--Rust Belt Femme--and give general tips for writers.

Feb 20th, 2023

31 WKU students earned the Gilman Scholarship in the October 2022 application cycle, more than in any other cycle and more than all of Kentucky's other public institutions combined. The awards totaled $128,000.

Feb 17th, 2023

WKU is a 2023 Kentucky Academy of Science (KAS) Enhanced Affiliate and faculty, staff, and students may join KAS for free.

Feb 17th, 2023

At 6 p.m. February 27, WKU’s Hardin Planetarium will host Take a Pic Through a Telescope, a free, public activity to take your own photographs through provided telescopes, featuring guest host Rico Tyler.

Feb 16th, 2023

The Kentucky Folklife Program will award the 2023 Homer Ledford Award to George Wakim and Tommy Case at the 2023 Kentucky Crafted Market at the Kentucky Horse Park Alltech Arena in Lexington on March 11th.

Feb 16th, 2023

A new documentary produced by WKU PBS sheds light on the violent killing of four Black men in Logan County in 1908. WKU’s Amy Bingham has more on the thought-provoking film “By Parties Unknown” in this week’s View from the Hill.