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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.
View ArticleJan 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.
View ArticleNov 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.
View ArticleNov 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.
View ArticleOct 1st, 2018
In Spring 2018, University College awarded Dr. Cheryl Hopson the Faculty Award for Research/Creativity for outstanding contributions in her field.
View ArticleApr 27th, 2017
Dr. William Mkanta, helps his students interact with international communities by leading study abroad programs with the Kentucky Institute for International Studies
View ArticleDec 7th, 2016
The National Science Foundation has awarded WKU Biology Professor Shivendra Sahi a grant to fund his research project.
View ArticleSep 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.
View ArticleSep 6th, 2016
Scientists at WKU and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) can have appointments to both institutions thanks to a joint faculty agreement.
View ArticleSep 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.
View ArticleAug 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.
View ArticleAug 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.
View ArticleAug 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.
View ArticleAug 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.
View ArticleJul 25th, 2016
What is beauty? It’s a question that philosophers, poets, playwrights and the public have debated for centuries.
View ArticleJul 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.
View ArticleJun 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.
View ArticleMay 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.
View ArticleMay 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.
View ArticleMay 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™.
View ArticleApr 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.
View ArticleApr 8th, 2016
Several students from the Department of Public Health in the College of Health and Human Services seized the opportunity to present their research at the 46th Annual WKU Student Research Conference.
View ArticleAug 7th, 2015
WKU student Caleb Chappell was awarded the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) Pauling Poster Prize at the annual American Crystallographic Association meeting.
View ArticleJul 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).
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