WKU Owensboro Calendar

Join us on Thursday, October 6, to watch WKU vs. Louisiana Tech on a gigantic inflatable screen on the WKU Owensboro lawn.  In addition to the football game, there will be bounce houses and lots of fun for the entire family!

The fun begins at 5:30 pm and the football kicks off at 7:00 pm.

Join us for "Mose Rager, Kentucky's Incomparable Guitar Master", presented by author Nancy Richey (Associate Professor in Library Special Collections) and featuring Alonzo Pennington, who will demonstrate guitar thumbpicking style. 

Join WKU Regional Campuses for the 2016 Homecoming Parade!

Faculty, staff, students, family and friends from WKU Regional Campuses are invited to walk as a group along the parade route.

If you would like to walk with the WKU Regional Campuses group, please meet at 4:00 p.m. at College Heights Blvd. between the old parking structure (PS1) and the steam plant.  (This road becomes Old Morgantown Road once you cross University Blvd).  Please arrive via University Blvd and look for the regional campuses vehicles.  The parade begins at 5 p.m. at the interesection of College Heights Blvd and Avenue of Champions.

Please wear WKU or Homecoming-themed apparel and bring your WKU props (red towel, pompoms, foam fingers, sunglasses, etc.)

Homecoming Concert   5:00 - 6:30 p.m.

Big Red's Roar (Pep Rally)   6:30 p.m.

For more information about WKU Homecoming activities, please visit alumni.wku.edu/homecoming

A frequent guest of OAWAC, Dr. Brian Strow is a graduate of Wheaton College (IL) and earned his Ph.D. in Economics at Vanderbilt University.  Since the fall of 1999, he has taught Economics at Western Kentucky University, where he has won both the Teaching and Public Service awards for the Gordon Ford College of Business.  

Dr. Strow has published in the areas of economic history, macroeconomics, labor economics, economic education, and morality and public policy.  He regularly appears in local, state, and national media regarding public policy and has been an economic advisor to candidates for statewide and federal offices.  

He is a member of the Board of Scholars for the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions.  Dr. Strow runs and writes articles for the WKU BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism, and served two terms on the Bowling Green, Kentucky City Commission from 2005-2008.