WKU News

Feb 11th, 2022

On Feb. 1, 2022, professional writers and editors from information security auditing firm KirkpatrickPrice held the first Professional Writing Club meeting of the spring 2022 semester via Zoom.

Feb 11th, 2022

Twenty-one Western Kentucky University students are candidates for the 2022 Coming Home King.

Feb 10th, 2022

What if you already had a bachelor’s degree but decided you wanted to go into nursing and could make it happen in two calendar years? WKU is offering an accelerated nursing program as WKU’s Amy Bingham explains in this week’s View from the Hill.

Feb 9th, 2022

Feb 9th, 2022

Murphey Kilgore, a senior from Bowling Green who studies Electrical Engineering with minors in Systems Engineering and Mathematics, talks about his experiences on the Hill and how WKU helped him decide what he wanted to do long term.

Feb 9th, 2022

At the turn of the lunar year, many people make predictions and important decisions based on the changes in the solar and lunar cycles. Talisman writer Audrey Plescia recently sat down with WKU Modern Languages professor Dr. Ke Peng to talk about

Feb 9th, 2022

Ato Quayson has been named winner of the 2021 Warren-Brooks Award for his book Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature. The award is presented each year by the Robert Penn Warren Center at WKU to honor an outstanding work of literary scholarship that embodies

Feb 8th, 2022

The Western Kentucky University Forensics Team placed first at a virtual competition hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Saturday, February 5.

Feb 8th, 2022

Our Mahurin Honors College (MHC) Scholars come from a vast array of backgrounds and each one has a beautiful, unique story to tell. For Ena Viteskic Demir (MHC ‘09), her story began over 5,000 miles away in her native homeland of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Feb 7th, 2022

Western Kentucky University was awarded a $20,000 “Comprehensive Transition and Postsecondary (CTP) Programs Planning Grant” through the Human Development Institution (HDI) at the University of Kentucky to address the need for postsecondary programs

Feb 7th, 2022

Western Kentucky University has selected 17 students as recipients of the 2022-23 Cherry Presidential Scholarship, the school’s most prestigious academic award.

Feb 4th, 2022

All Western Kentucky University campuses will be open and classes will resume Saturday, February 5.

Feb 3rd, 2022

Ato Quayson has been named winner of the 2021 Warren-Brooks Award for his book "Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature."

Feb 3rd, 2022

WKU will close at 4:30 p.m. today; all evening classes are canceled. All WKU campuses will be closed and classes canceled Friday.

Feb 3rd, 2022

A non-traditional student at WKU is “weighing” in on all the blessings God has given him. WKU’s Amy Bingham has more on how this husband, father, student and now amateur boxer is rolling with the punches.

Feb 2nd, 2022

Due to inclement weather, WKU campuses in Elizabethtown/Ft. Knox and Owensboro will be closed Thursday, February 3, 2022

Feb 2nd, 2022

For many, college is a time of separation from siblings and family members to pursue one’s own path. However, for WKU juniors Jacob and Zach Skillman, college is a journey the brothers and best friends knew they would take together.

Feb 2nd, 2022

LaMario Moore, Assistant Director of Programming and Special Initiatives for the Intercultural Student Engagement Center, has received the NAACP Ambassador of Education Award for Higher Education from the Bowling Green/Warren County NAACP Branch.

Feb 2nd, 2022

One of the primary reasons for choosing WKU was the ability to work full-time while completing my course work. That flexibility allowed me to continue to develop my therapeutic skills in ways that other programs were not going to be able to provide.

Feb 2nd, 2022

PRISM, the WKU Department of Music’s annual showcase spectacular, is scheduled for 8 p.m. Feb. 18 in Van Meter Hall.