WKU Board of Regents
Mammoth Cave Retreat
July 30, 2004 - Mammoth Cave National Park

Chris Groves explains the projects that students, faculty and Mammoth Cave employees are working on together. These include such projectsas documenting new archaelogical findings and discovering new cave openings.	The Board of Regents toured Mammoth Cave at the end of July. Front (left to right): Forrest Roberts, Kristen Bale, John Bradley, Judi Hughes and LaDonna Rogers.
Ogden College of Science and Engineering dean Blaine Ferrell (left) and Regents Robert Dietle and Kristin Bale discuss the Maple Springs facility at Mammoth Cave. Mammoth Cave National Park has helped Western by hiring WKU students as interns, paying for graduate assistants and by etting undergraduate students involved in hands-on research.	The WKU Board of Regents walk through Boone's Avenue in Mammoth Cave.
Dr. Albert Meier, associate professor of biology (middle), and Mammoth Cave chief of science Mark Depoy (left) explain the plans for the Maple Springs project to Regent Robert Dietle.	WKU President Gary Ransdell looks at the many names burned onto the cave walls by tourists from the 1800s in the Gothic Avenue section of Mammoth Cave.
The Board of Regents and WKU's Administrative Council toured Mammoth Cave as Cave and Karst professor Chris Groves explained the history of the cave. They started their tour in the cave's Rotunda area.	WKU Athletic Director Wood Selig (left) and John Osborne continue with their tour after a ferry ride across the Green River.