WKU News

Feb 5th, 2020

Mina Ryumae (Larry A. Ryle High School) and Sierra Wyllie (Henry Clay High School) of Lexington both received Honorable Mentions in the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCNCWIT) Awards for Aspirations in Computing (AiC).

Feb 5th, 2020

The Kentucky Museum is thrilled to announce its first Corporate Member, WNKY 40, an NBC/CBS-affiliated television station serving south central Kentucky.

Feb 3rd, 2020

Jennifer Van Antwerp, a senior majoring in meteorology and earning a certificate in geographic information system (GIS) from Marietta, Georgia, said that Western Kentucky University was the first and only college she visited.

Feb 3rd, 2020

WKU’s Forensics Team won both of the team sweepstakes championships at the Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, tournaments the weekend of Feb. 1-2.

Feb 3rd, 2020

Feb 3rd, 2020

The Kentucky Museum is seeking sponsors for its 2020 annual programs.

Jan 31st, 2020

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Jan 31st, 2020

The 2020 slate of Winter Super Saturdays classes kicks off on Saturday, February 1. Coordinated by The Center for Gifted Studies, the event offers minds-on, hands on learning to high-interest, high-ability students in first through eighth grades.

Jan 30th, 2020

The seventh annual IdeaFestival Bowling Green will be held in the Van Meter Auditorium and Downing Student Union at Western Kentucky University on February 11 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. CST. Hosted by The Center for Gifted Studies at WKU, this . . .

Jan 30th, 2020

Remember when WKU Football won the First Responder Bowl Game on a thrilling 52-yard field goal in Dallas last month? It’s a memory that will last a lifetime for one student athlete. WKU’s Amy Bingham talks to him in this week’s View from the Hill.

Jan 30th, 2020

Jan 30th, 2020

WKU’s Fresh Food Company is the first restaurant in Bowling Green, and the first restaurant on a Kentucky college campus, to earn Green Restaurant Certification from the Green Restaurant Association.

Jan 29th, 2020

A United States Supreme Court ruling on Monday, January 27, 2020 clears the way for the current federal administration to implement an expanded definition of "public charge" under the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Jan 29th, 2020

WKU will kick off its Black History Month celebrations Thursday (Jan. 30) and activities continue through February with programming led by WKU’s Intercultural Student Engagement Center in partnership with more than 10 campus and community organizations.

Jan 29th, 2020

Twenty WKU students are candidates for the 2020 Coming Home King.

Jan 28th, 2020

Officials from WKU and Aramark will celebrate the Green Restaurant Certification of Fresh Food Company on Thursday.

Jan 28th, 2020

"Wordsworth's Poetry, 1815-1845," written by Tim Fulford and published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, has been selected as the 2019 winner of the Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award for outstanding literary scholarship and criticism.