Office of Research and Creative Activity

Nov 21st, 2024

The 23rd Annual Posters at the Capitol event will take place on March 6, 2025, at the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort. Kentucky students can present research to legislators and peers. Abstracts are due by Dec. 9, 2024. https://www.murraystate.edu/abo

Nov 21st, 2024

The Student Scholar Showcase portal is open for undergraduate students to submit an abstract to present in the Spring. Faculty, staff, alumni, and community members may volunteer for the event.

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Apr 1st, 2019

In the spring of 2018, College of Health in Human Services faculty Dr. Jason Crandall was awarded the Faculty Award for outstanding contribution in Research/Creativity & the 2018-2019 University Award for Research and Creative Activity.

Jan 3rd, 2019

Professor Joon Sung received the Faculty Award for outstanding contributions in Research/Creativity within the Potter College of Arts & Letters in the Spring 2018. His art focuses on a quest for another type of intellectually demanding beauty.

Nov 12th, 2018

Dr. Noah Ashley received the Faculty Award for outstanding contributions in Research/Creativity within Ogden College of Science & Engineering in Spring 2018. Dr. Ashley’s research primarily focuses on two different projects, both involving sleep.

Nov 6th, 2018

Dr. Xiaoxia “Silvie” Huang was chosen to receive the Research/Creativity award for the College of Education & Behavioral Sciences. Her research focuses on designing and evaluating technology-supported learning environments to facilitate student learning.

Oct 1st, 2018

In Spring 2018, University College awarded Dr. Cheryl Hopson the Faculty Award for Research/Creativity for outstanding contributions in her field.

Dec 7th, 2016

The National Science Foundation has awarded WKU Biology Professor Shivendra Sahi a grant to fund his research project.

Sep 21st, 2016

Even as the events of the 2016 presidential election unfold, WKU’s Dr. Timothy Rich, Assistant Professor of Political Science, continues to turn his attention internationally, studying the processes of politics beyond our border.

Sep 6th, 2016

Scientists at WKU and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) can have appointments to both institutions thanks to a joint faculty agreement.

Sep 6th, 2016

Dr. David Keeling, University Distinguished Professor of Geography, presented research on accessibility and mobility in Medellín, Colombia, this past week at the annual international conference of the Royal Geographical Society in London.

Aug 26th, 2016

WKU geology major Deborah Flynn, a senior from Bowling Green, traveled to Ethiopia this summer to collect data for an ongoing research project.

Aug 25th, 2016

WKU PBS is proud to announce that the 30-minute documentary Mammoth Cave: A Place Called Home will be nationally distributed by the National Educational Telecommunications Association in September.

Aug 15th, 2016

A research team led by Dr. Royhan Gani, Associate Professor of Geology in WKU’s Department of Geography and Geology, has been working on mapping seabed topography and understanding depositional history of the Gulf of Mexico.

Aug 11th, 2016

Dr. Margaret Gripshover and Dr. David Keeling, cultural geographers in WKU’s Department of Geography and Geology, recently returned from a two-week research trip to the United Kingdom.

Jul 25th, 2016

What is beauty? It’s a question that philosophers, poets, playwrights and the public have debated for centuries.

Jul 12th, 2016

Schulte is a behavioral ecologist who specializes in the chemical aspects of ecology and animal behavior. He studies the use of chemical signaling as a mode of communication in animals and how this affects their behavior in a broader sense.

Jun 1st, 2016

Dr. Chris Groves, University Distinguished Professor and accomplished hydrogeologist, exemplifies WKU’s goals of leadership and international reach. Renowned for his extensive research on cave and karst systems and water resources in China.

May 23rd, 2016

Last week WKU faculty, students and alumni attended the Kentucky Chapter of the American Planning Association conference at the Sloan Convention Center in Bowling Green.

May 20th, 2016

The Office of Scholar Development has awarded six WKU students a total of $12,000 in Lifetime Experience Grants in the 2015-16 academic year.

May 19th, 2016

Code Switch Media, a client of the Kentucky Innovation Network and a tenant of the WKU Small Business Accelerator, has released the world’s first truly mobile terminology management app, INTRAKIT™.

May 5th, 2016

Apr 19th, 2016

Chinese Flagship senior presents results of WKU Honors thesis

Apr 19th, 2016

A WKU biology faculty member has received a National Science Foundation research grant to study how arctic songbirds have adapted to diminished sleep patterns and how that might help in the understanding of sleep loss in humans.

Aug 7th, 2015

WKU student Caleb Chappell was awarded the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) Pauling Poster Prize at the annual American Crystallographic Association meeting.

Jul 8th, 2015

Dr. Michael Smith, associate professor of Biology at WKU, and Dr. Kevin Williams, professor of Chemistry at WKU, have been awarded an Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).