WKU News

Dec 1st, 2021

The Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education recently convened experts from colleges and universities across the state who will work to ensure public higher education curricula includes essential skills.

Dec 1st, 2021

WKU’s Department of Music is adding a new sound to its holiday concerts with Bowling Green TubaChristmas. Professor David Humphreys and the WKU Tuba/Euphonium Studio will present the free concert from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 12 at Greenwood Mall.

Nov 30th, 2021

Nov 30th, 2021

WKU students attended the Kentucky Exceptional Children's Conference in Louisville to present research projects. The cost was covered by the Janice Ferguson Fund, an alumni led initiative in honor of one of their favorite professors.

Nov 29th, 2021

Bethany Waddey is a Spanish and Communications Sciences and Disorders major. She explains how pairing a language major or minor with any degree can lead to more career opportunities.

Nov 29th, 2021

WKU Gender & Women's Studies has changed physical locations, has experienced staff changes, and has altered classroom instruction delivery and events. But through it all, GWS has continued to thrive!

Nov 29th, 2021

The HSPPS will require vaccination against COVID-19 for all staff, contractors working directly with children, and volunteers by January 31, 2022.

Nov 26th, 2021

For the first time since its inception in 2008, the induction ceremony for the Kentucky Teacher Hall of Fame was held at WKU rather than the state Capitol in Frankfort.

Nov 23rd, 2021

Two alumni of The Gatton Academy recently received two of the country’s most prestigious graduate study awards. Elvin N. Irihamye received the Rhodes Scholarship and Samuel C. Kessler received the George J. Mitchell Scholarship.

Nov 23rd, 2021

Nine WKU and Gatton Academy students were honored for their research presentations at the Kentucky Academy of Science virtual meeting Nov. 5-6.

Nov 22nd, 2021

Spanish syntax and sentence structure were put aside to welcome four Hispanic guests that raised their spatulas to demonstrate their favorite recipes from home: patacones and mango salad from Ecuador, empanadas from the Dominican Republic, potato omelets

Nov 22nd, 2021

Last weekend, WKU Arabic students Reece Gillespie, Garrett Strickler, Kerby Gilstrap, and Cody Smith, along with Modern Languages Arabic instructor Lhousseine Guerwane, participated in the second annual U.S. Arabic Debate Championship (USADC) at the Unive

Nov 22nd, 2021

China’s Ministry of Science and Technology has announced that University Distinguished Professor of Hydrogeology Chris Groves of WKU’s Department of Earth, Environmental, and Atmospheric Sciences has won the Chinese Government Friendship Award.

Nov 22nd, 2021

Students in WKU’s Greek Life community will be making the holidays brighter with gifts for 34 children at Parker-Bennett-Curry Elementary School.

Nov 22nd, 2021

My experiences at both WKU and here at Disney have both made me a much more well-rounded person. I have met so many people at both WKU and Disney that make me understand so much more about the world and different peoples’ experiences in life."

Nov 22nd, 2021

Robin Gadsden-Dupree, T/TAS FCP Specialist, chosen as one of the Tennessee Health Care Campaign's new Vaccine Ambassadors.

Nov 20th, 2021

The CDC has updated it's COVID-19 Guidance for Operating Early Care and Education/Child Care Programs to emphasize the importance of universal masking for everyone ages 2 and older, regardless of vaccination status.

Nov 19th, 2021

The Governor Louie B. Nunn Kentucky Teacher Hall of Fame inducted members of its 12th and 13th classes Friday afternoon at Western Kentucky University.

Nov 19th, 2021

Growing up, I remember taking multiple tours of the campus for school field trips, and other various events. I fell in love with how beautiful the campus was, and enjoyed that fact that it wasn’t too far from home.

Nov 19th, 2021

On Friday, Nov. 12, the English Department hosted the annual Undergraduate Conference on Literature, Language, and Culture, which featured presentations of academic papers from undergraduate students that were preselected for their distinct perspectives