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![Duncan highlights WKU experience with adaptive and inclusive sports](https://www.wku.edu/img_news/article_thumbs/10107.jpg)
Dec 3rd, 2021
“I have participated in adapted sports since I was about a junior in high school. It began with me joining my high school's track and field team where I did adapted shot put and set the current Kentucky state record."
View Article![WKU Board of Regents to meet Dec. 10](https://www.wku.edu/img_news/article_thumbs/10106.jpg)
Dec 3rd, 2021
The WKU Board of Regents will conduct its fourth quarterly meeting on December 10 at 9 a.m. (CST) in the Martin Regents Room of Jody Richards Hall.
View Article![View from the Hill: Gamechangers will put more teachers in the classroom](https://www.wku.edu/img_news/article_thumbs/10105.jpg)
Dec 2nd, 2021
A WKU scholarship program called “Gamechangers” will help more black and underrepresented individuals earn their teaching credentials. WKU’s Amy Bingham has more in this week’s View from the Hill.
View Article![Spanish Majors End Semester with Contemporary Issues Debate](https://www.wku.edu/img_news/article_thumbs/10104.jpg)
Dec 2nd, 2021
Students in Dr. Melissa Stewart’s Advanced Oral Spanish class (SPAN 470/G) ended the semester with debates on contemporary issues in Spanish. This activity allows students to demonstrate what they have learned throughout the semester.
View Article![WKU Modern Languages Announces Hispanic Heritage Month High School Essay Contest Winners](https://www.wku.edu/img_news/article_thumbs/10102.jpg)
Dec 2nd, 2021
WKU Modern Languages recently hosted an event for high school students in Kentucky in which they, too, can observe and recognize Hispanic heritage and culture in their own lives, by writing about a person of Hispanic roots who has positively impacted thei
View Article![WKU senior receives scholarship for geoscience students with disabilities](https://www.wku.edu/img_news/article_thumbs/10100.jpg)
Dec 1st, 2021
Western Kentucky University senior Austin Bonebrake of Portland, Tennessee, has been awarded an internationally-competitive scholarship for geoscience students with disabilities.
View ArticleDec 1st, 2021
The Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education recently convened experts from colleges and universities across the state who will work to ensure public higher education curricula includes essential skills.
View Article![Music Department to present Bowling Green TubaChristmas on Dec. 12](https://www.wku.edu/img_news/article_thumbs/10098.jpg)
Dec 1st, 2021
WKU’s Department of Music is adding a new sound to its holiday concerts with Bowling Green TubaChristmas. Professor David Humphreys and the WKU Tuba/Euphonium Studio will present the free concert from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 12 at Greenwood Mall.
View Article![Donations from Alumni in Honor of Retired WKU Professor Support Student Research Conference](https://www.wku.edu/img_news/article_thumbs/10095.jpg)
Nov 30th, 2021
WKU students attended the Kentucky Exceptional Children's Conference in Louisville to present research projects. The cost was covered by the Janice Ferguson Fund, an alumni led initiative in honor of one of their favorite professors.
View Article![Modern Language Student Explains the Benefits of Pairing Language Major with Communication Disorders Major](https://www.wku.edu/img_news/article_thumbs/10094.jpg)
Nov 29th, 2021
Bethany Waddey is a Spanish and Communications Sciences and Disorders major. She explains how pairing a language major or minor with any degree can lead to more career opportunities.
View ArticleNov 29th, 2021
WKU Gender & Women's Studies has changed physical locations, has experienced staff changes, and has altered classroom instruction delivery and events. But through it all, GWS has continued to thrive!
View Article![New Requirements for COVID-19 Vaccination and Masking](https://www.wku.edu/img_news/article_thumbs/10092.jpg)
Nov 29th, 2021
The HSPPS will require vaccination against COVID-19 for all staff, contractors working directly with children, and volunteers by January 31, 2022.
View Article![View from the Hill: Kentucky Teacher Hall of Fame induction](https://www.wku.edu/img_news/article_thumbs/10090.jpg)
Nov 26th, 2021
For the first time since its inception in 2008, the induction ceremony for the Kentucky Teacher Hall of Fame was held at WKU rather than the state Capitol in Frankfort.
View Article![Two Gatton Academy Alum Receive Prestigious Graduate Study Scholarships](https://www.wku.edu/img_news/article_thumbs/10088.jpg)
Nov 23rd, 2021
Two alumni of The Gatton Academy recently received two of the country’s most prestigious graduate study awards. Elvin N. Irihamye received the Rhodes Scholarship and Samuel C. Kessler received the George J. Mitchell Scholarship.
View Article![9 students honored at Kentucky Academy of Science virtual meeting](https://www.wku.edu/img_news/article_thumbs/10084.jpg)
Nov 23rd, 2021
Nine WKU and Gatton Academy students were honored for their research presentations at the Kentucky Academy of Science virtual meeting Nov. 5-6.
View Article![Modern Language Students Discover Connections between Food and Culture in Hispanic Cooking Demonstration](https://www.wku.edu/img_news/article_thumbs/10087.jpg)
Nov 22nd, 2021
Spanish syntax and sentence structure were put aside to welcome four Hispanic guests that raised their spatulas to demonstrate their favorite recipes from home: patacones and mango salad from Ecuador, empanadas from the Dominican Republic, potato omelets
View Article![WKU Modern Language Students Compete in U.S. Arabic Debate](https://www.wku.edu/img_news/article_thumbs/10086.jpg)
Nov 22nd, 2021
Last weekend, WKU Arabic students Reece Gillespie, Garrett Strickler, Kerby Gilstrap, and Cody Smith, along with Modern Languages Arabic instructor Lhousseine Guerwane, participated in the second annual U.S. Arabic Debate Championship (USADC) at the Unive
View Article![WKU geologist wins China's highest award given to foreign experts](https://www.wku.edu/img_news/article_thumbs/10085.jpg)
Nov 22nd, 2021
China’s Ministry of Science and Technology has announced that University Distinguished Professor of Hydrogeology Chris Groves of WKU’s Department of Earth, Environmental, and Atmospheric Sciences has won the Chinese Government Friendship Award.
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