WKU News

Jun 3rd, 2022

The Western Kentucky University Board of Regents will hold a special budget approval meeting on June 10 in the Martin Regents Room of Jody Richards Hall, followed by committee meetings.

Jun 3rd, 2022

Dr. Nahid Gani, Associate Professor of Geology in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences, is making an impact on the knowledge of the Bengal Delta.

Jun 3rd, 2022

The Kentucky Museum is hosting Nuestro hogar Kentucky, Our Kentucky Home, an exhibition of artworks by Kentuckians of Hispanic or Latin American heritage. The exhibit runs June 3 to 29, 2022.

Jun 2nd, 2022

WKU’s Pre-College Strings program is gearing up to be back in person for next month’s Summer String Institute, as WKU’s Amy Bingham shows us in this week’s View from the Hill.

Jun 1st, 2022

May 31st, 2022

The Kentucky Museum will host an Open House on Friday, June 3, to celebrate its new exhibitions.

May 26th, 2022

The newest member of the WKU Police Department is following in the footsteps of her father and grandfather. WKU’s Amy Bingham has more on this third-generation officer in this week’s View from the Hill.

May 26th, 2022

Ashley Adams, WKU graduate student from Owensboro, is a first-generation college student supported through a scholarship from the WKU NIOSH Training Program Grant in the Environmental and Occupational Health Science graduate program.

May 26th, 2022

Fourteen students at The Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science at Western Kentucky University (WKU) have been offered nationally-competitive National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) Scholarships for immersive, critical language study

May 25th, 2022

Western Kentucky University tied for the highest score among Kentucky's public, four-year institutions on the Council on Postsecondary Education’s (CPE) annual diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) report.

May 25th, 2022

“In support of the Stop Asian Hate movement, my friends and I founded WKU’s first-ever Asian American Student Association (AASA). We created the AASA to represent the interests of Asian students at WKU,” said Grace Meiser, a WKU senior from Wilder,

May 25th, 2022

Miriam Dawson and Autumn Eichhorn, students in the Chinese Flagship Program at WKU, have been awarded $25,000 David L. Boren Scholarships to fund intensive language study in the United States and abroad during the 2022-2023 academic year. Heather Keen has

May 24th, 2022

WKU Upward Bound has been awarded a five-year grant totaling $2.1 million from the U.S. Department of Education to continue serving first-generation and/or low-income students in five area counties.

May 24th, 2022

Miriam Dawson and Autumn Eichhorn have been awarded $25,000 David L. Boren Scholarships to fund intensive language study in the United States and abroad during the 2022-2023 academic year. Heather Keen has been designated an alternate in the competition.

May 24th, 2022

Dr. Janet Hagemeyer Tassell, a professor with the School of Teacher Education in the College of Education and Behavioral Sciences, will spend a semester in the Czech Republic teaching and researching mathematics teaching approaches thanks to a Fulbright g

May 24th, 2022

Western Kentucky University’s School of Media finished fourth in the nation in the Hearst Journalism Awards Program’s 2021-2022 Overall Intercollegiate Competition.

May 23rd, 2022

The WKU Department of Modern Languages recognized outstanding papers from the following students for 2022: Emily Arnold, Lauren Varner, Carli Street, Ashley Austin, Cassandra Davies, Abigail Yarborough, Gwendolyn Lamb, and Miriam Dawson.

May 23rd, 2022

May 19th, 2022

Hundreds of social workers from around the country have been in Bowling Green this week as WKU hosted a national child welfare training conference.

May 19th, 2022