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![Kentucky Museum Open House to be held on June 3](https://www.wku.edu/img_news/article_thumbs/10579.jpg)
May 31st, 2022
The Kentucky Museum will host an Open House on Friday, June 3, to celebrate its new exhibitions.
View Article![View from the Hill: Third-generation officer joins WKU Police Department](https://www.wku.edu/img_news/article_thumbs/10583.jpg)
May 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.
View Article![14 Gatton Academy Students to participate in National Security Language Initiative for Youth Program](https://www.wku.edu/img_news/article_thumbs/10581.jpg)
May 26th, 2022
Fourteen students at The Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science at Western Kentucky University (WKU) have been offered nationally-competitive National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) Scholarships for immersive, critical language study
View ArticleMay 25th, 2022
Western Kentucky University tied for the highest score among Kentucky's public, four-year institutions on the Council on Postsecondary Education’s (CPE) annual diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) report.
View Article![WKU ties for highest score in state on CPE diversity report](https://www.wku.edu/img_news/article_thumbs/10578.jpg)
May 25th, 2022
Western Kentucky University tied for the highest score among Kentucky's public, four-year institutions on the Council on Postsecondary Education’s (CPE) annual diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) report.
View ArticleMay 25th, 2022
“In support of the Stop Asian Hate movement, my friends and I founded WKU’s first-ever Asian American Student Association (AASA). We created the AASA to represent the interests of Asian students at WKU,” said Grace Meiser, a WKU senior from Wilder,
View ArticleMay 25th, 2022
Miriam Dawson and Autumn Eichhorn, students in the Chinese Flagship Program at WKU, have been awarded $25,000 David L. Boren Scholarships to fund intensive language study in the United States and abroad during the 2022-2023 academic year. Heather Keen has
View Article![WKU Upward Bound awarded $2.1 million federal grant](https://www.wku.edu/img_news/article_thumbs/10571.jpg)
May 24th, 2022
WKU Upward Bound has been awarded a five-year grant totaling $2.1 million from the U.S. Department of Education to continue serving first-generation and/or low-income students in five area counties.
View Article![Two WKU Students Awarded Boren Scholarships](https://www.wku.edu/img_news/article_thumbs/10570.jpg)
May 24th, 2022
Miriam Dawson and Autumn Eichhorn have been awarded $25,000 David L. Boren Scholarships to fund intensive language study in the United States and abroad during the 2022-2023 academic year. Heather Keen has been designated an alternate in the competition.
View Article![School of Teacher Education professor prepares for teaching and research abroad](https://www.wku.edu/img_news/article_thumbs/10569.jpg)
May 24th, 2022
Dr. Janet Hagemeyer Tassell, a professor with the School of Teacher Education in the College of Education and Behavioral Sciences, will spend a semester in the Czech Republic teaching and researching mathematics teaching approaches thanks to a Fulbright g
View Article![WKU School of Media finishes 4th in Hearst overall competition](https://www.wku.edu/img_news/article_thumbs/10557.jpg)
May 24th, 2022
Western Kentucky University’s School of Media finished fourth in the nation in the Hearst Journalism Awards Program’s 2021-2022 Overall Intercollegiate Competition.
View ArticleMay 23rd, 2022
The WKU Department of Modern Languages recognized outstanding papers from the following students for 2022: Emily Arnold, Lauren Varner, Carli Street, Ashley Austin, Cassandra Davies, Abigail Yarborough, Gwendolyn Lamb, and Miriam Dawson.
View Article![View from the Hill: WKU hosts national child welfare conference](https://www.wku.edu/img_news/article_thumbs/10567.jpg)
May 19th, 2022
Hundreds of social workers from around the country have been in Bowling Green this week as WKU hosted a national child welfare training conference.
View Article![Walmart supports Museum for All Fund](https://www.wku.edu/img_news/article_thumbs/10560.jpg)
May 19th, 2022
The Kentucky Museum at WKU has received a $1,000 grant from Bowling Green’s Walmart stores to support the Museum for All Fund, an endowed initiative to ensure perpetual free admission for visitors.
View ArticleMay 18th, 2022
Noelle Fleek, Ira Meadows, Morgan Todd, & Vivian Zheng earned the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for study abroad in the March 2022 application cycle.
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