WKU News

Feb 16th, 2023

Twenty-three Western Kentucky University students are candidates for the 2023 Coming Home King.

Feb 16th, 2023

Global Learning & International Affairs invites faculty to participate in future global teaching experiences.

Feb 15th, 2023

On February 15, Raechel Anne Jolie will discuss their memoir, Rust Belt Femme, at 4:00 in FAC 189.

Feb 14th, 2023

Feb 14th, 2023

On Monday, February 6, William Akers came to speak to students in Cherry Hall 125 as a part of the Creative Writing Reading Series. Akers spoke not only about screenwriting, but about life after college and the ins and outs of the job field.

Feb 14th, 2023

Feb 13th, 2023

Lamont Jack Pearley knows a thing or two about storytelling.

Feb 13th, 2023

The WKU Forensics Team captured the team sweepstakes championship at a tournament held virtually by St. Anselm College on February 11.

Feb 13th, 2023

Western Kentucky University has again experienced record fall-to-spring retention rates among its undergraduate, degree-seeking students.

Feb 13th, 2023

Feb 13th, 2023

Feb 13th, 2023

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation announced the selection of 626 high school seniors as semifinalists for the distinguished Cooke College Scholarship Program, including Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science and Caverna High School senior Kenyan Wood.

Feb 13th, 2023

While students at The Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science are typically known for their talents and passions in the STEM fields, Gatton Academy and Bowling Green High School student Ariti Gani has additional interests in writing and poetry.

Feb 13th, 2023

"Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics," written by Tobias Menel and published by the University of Chicago Press, has been selected as the 2022 winner of the Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award.

Feb 13th, 2023

Do you love arts and history? Want to help bring engaging programs to life, and inspire a lifelong love of learning? The Kentucky Museum Friends want YOU to be our Valentine!

Feb 10th, 2023

By Parties Unknown, a WKU PBS documentary that explores the story of a lynching in Russellville, will be distributed nationwide this month with a reach of 246.5 million people.

Feb 9th, 2023

Feb 9th, 2023

WKU will receive $460,000 in federal funding through the Fund to Improve Post Secondary Education (FIPSE) to upgrade instrumentation and equipment in five research centers in the WKU Applied Research and Technology Program (ARTP).

Feb 9th, 2023

Feb 9th, 2023

Close to 300 WKU students have been able to study abroad after receiving money from the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship program. WKU’s Amy Bingham introduces us to a recent Gilman Scholar whose passion for teaching will take her to Spain.