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Jun 15th, 2022
Before leading a group of WKU students to provide weather and emergency management support this month at the Special Olympics USA Games in Orlando, Florida, Dr. Durkee led another group of students on the 13th annual WKU Storm Chase class in May.
View ArticleJun 14th, 2022
Cassidy Ratterman, a CHHS graduate student, is completing her third and final clinical rotation at Frazier Rehab Institute in Louisville, KY. She is working towards her Master of Science degree in Speech-Language Pathology (SLP).
View ArticleJun 13th, 2022
Carol Martin Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky students are ready to engage in face-to-face summer opportunities after two years of virtual or modified experiences. “In addition to prestigious research internships through the Nat
View ArticleJun 13th, 2022
CHHS faculty member awarded Kentucky Department of Public Health grant for promoting health equity & COVID-19 immunizations in underserved populations across Kentucky using the Bingocize® platform.
View ArticleJun 10th, 2022
WKU has released the honors lists for the spring 2022 semester. Full-time undergraduate students with a semester grade-point average of 3.4 to 3.79 are named to the Dean’s List Students with a GPA of 3.8 to 4.0 are named to the President’s List.
View ArticleJun 10th, 2022
Western Kentucky University’s Board of Regents approved a $383.4 million budget for fiscal year 2023, an increase of nearly $8 million compared to the prior year’s budget.
View ArticleJun 8th, 2022
Western Kentucky University engineering students placed third overall – the school’s best finish ever -- in the 35th annual American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) Concrete Canoe Competition+.
View ArticleJun 7th, 2022
Blake Murphy, a WKU College of Health and Human Services (CHHS) senior majoring in Hospitality Management with a concentration in Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism Management, is gaining valuable experience this summer. Murphy is from Junction City, and he i
View ArticleJun 7th, 2022
Folk Studies graduate Taylor Dooley Burden has received a prestigious Archie Green Fellowship, awarded by the American Folklife Center (AFC) of the Library of Congress, to support her project “The Occupational Lives of Religious Workers in Kentuckiana.
View ArticleJun 6th, 2022
As athletes participated in Sunday’s opening ceremony for the 2022 Special Olympics USA Games, more than 20 WKU students, faculty and staff were at work behind the scenes in the event’s emergency operations center.
View ArticleJun 6th, 2022
The Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science Alum Robert Sego (’19, Central Hardin HS) has received the Department of Defense’s Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship.
View ArticleJun 3rd, 2022
The Western Kentucky University Board of Regents will hold a special budget approval meeting on June 10 in the Martin Regents Room of Jody Richards Hall, followed by committee meetings.
View ArticleJun 3rd, 2022
Dr. Nahid Gani, Associate Professor of Geology in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences, is making an impact on the knowledge of the Bengal Delta.
View ArticleJun 3rd, 2022
The Kentucky Museum is hosting Nuestro hogar Kentucky, Our Kentucky Home, an exhibition of artworks by Kentuckians of Hispanic or Latin American heritage. The exhibit runs June 3 to 29, 2022.
View ArticleJun 2nd, 2022
WKU’s Pre-College Strings program is gearing up to be back in person for next month’s Summer String Institute, as WKU’s Amy Bingham shows us in this week’s View from the Hill.
View ArticleMay 31st, 2022
The Kentucky Museum will host an Open House on Friday, June 3, to celebrate its new exhibitions.
View ArticleMay 26th, 2022
The newest member of the WKU Police Department is following in the footsteps of her father and grandfather. WKU’s Amy Bingham has more on this third-generation officer in this week’s View from the Hill.
View ArticleMay 26th, 2022
Ashley Adams, WKU graduate student from Owensboro, is a first-generation college student supported through a scholarship from the WKU NIOSH Training Program Grant in the Environmental and Occupational Health Science graduate program.
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