WKU News

Jul 30th, 2021

The WKU Board of Regents will hold its annual retreat and quarterly meeting August 5-6.

Jul 29th, 2021

The round building on WKU’s campus is about to be no more as demolition of Tate Page Hall is underway. WKU’s Amy Bingham talks to a professor who worked there almost from the beginning in this week’s View from the Hill.

Jul 23rd, 2021

New Survey: The National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) is conducting a project.

Jul 22nd, 2021

High school dancers from as far away as Georgia and North Carolina are at WKU this week for Summer Dance Intensive. It’s a week of dance that also serves as a great recruiting tool as WKU’s Amy Bingham explains in this week’s View from the Hill.

Jul 21st, 2021

Jul 19th, 2021

LifeSkills, a private nonprofit that delivers social services to an 18-county region, has entered into a five-year partnership with the Center for Child Welfare Education and Research, part of the WKU College of Health and Human Services (CHHS).

Jul 19th, 2021

When people find texting natural, they may not realize that text messages have accepted linguistic rules. 2021 graduate Fallon Russell conducted research to identify and explain those rules and presented her findings at the Student Research Conference.

Jul 15th, 2021

As part of Project PREP, nine WKU graduate students in the special education and speech language pathology programs are participating in Camp COLLAB (Communicate with Others, Listen, Learn and Activate Brainpower).

Jul 14th, 2021

Virtual reality. Augmented reality. Mixed reality. Extended reality. Whatever term you use for it, a new digital world is taking shape this summer in the XR Research Lab on the third floor of the WKU’s Industrial Education Building.

Jul 12th, 2021

The Hardin Planetarium has partnered with SKy Science Festival and the Kentucky Climate Center on a NOAA-funded project, “Citizen Science, Civics, and Resilient Communities."

Jul 8th, 2021

What if there was a summer camp dedicated to showing high school students how to get their financial life in order BEFORE they become adults? It happened on WKU’s campus last week as WKU’s Amy Bingham explains in this week’s View from the Hill.

Jul 7th, 2021

Jul 7th, 2021

Dr. Beckie Stobaugh, professor in WKU’s School of Teacher Education, recently spent 15 days in Colombia (June 15-30) as part of the Fulbright Specialist Program.

Jul 6th, 2021

Jul 6th, 2021

WKU has been notified by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) that it has successfully completed the Fifth-Year Interim Report process with no issues of concern raised and no additional reporting required.

Jul 2nd, 2021

WKU student Christopher Cole Sawyers of Williamsburg was named a 2021 Tillman Scholar, a designation awarded to only 60 U.S. service members, veterans and military spouses nationwide by the Pat Tillman Foundation.

Jul 1st, 2021

More than a dozen students from WKU’s Kelly Autism Program have just wrapped up a paid summer internship program at various places around Bowling Green. It was a huge success for all involved as WKU’s Amy Bingham explains in this View from the Hill.

Jul 1st, 2021

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has appointed Doris C. Thomas and Phillip W. Bale to the WKU Board of Regents.

Jul 1st, 2021

Brandon Colvin’s feature film, "A Dim Valley," will premiere in New York City on July 2, 2021. Colvin is a 2010 alum who majored in English with a concentration in creative writing.

Jun 30th, 2021

“We had been looking for ways to better engage with high school students and this seemed like a great way to do just that,” said Andrew Head about the High School Personal Finance Planning Camp that took place at WKU June 27-30. Head, an Associate Pr