WKU News

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

May 19th, 2022

The Kentucky Museum at WKU has received a $1,000 grant from Bowling Green’s Walmart stores to support the Museum for All Fund, an endowed initiative to ensure perpetual free admission for visitors.

May 18th, 2022

Noelle Fleek, Ira Meadows, Morgan Todd, & Vivian Zheng earned the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for study abroad in the March 2022 application cycle.

May 18th, 2022

May 18th, 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 18th, 2022

On Saturday, May 7th, The Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science graduated 77 students from across Kentucky in their fifteenth graduating class.

May 18th, 2022

The Kentucky Museum has launched a new fundraiser - the Museum for All Fund - to establish permanent free admission.

May 13th, 2022

Brenda S. Martin, former associate professor in the Department of English and Professor Emeritus, died Friday, April 29, 2022. She was 82.

May 13th, 2022

Dr. Rachel Tinius and her technology, BumptUpTM, one of the first-place winners (tied) of the inaugural Kentucky Commercialization Ventures IMPACT competition. IMPACT stands for innovative, mobile, public health, and community-oriented technologies.

May 13th, 2022

20 WKU students earned the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for study abroad in the March 2022 application cycle, more than any other Kentucky institution. This reflects a 80% selection rate for WKU applicants who worked with the Office of Sch

May 12th, 2022

The 13th annual John Lyne Speech Contest, hosted by WKU’s Department of Communication, was back in-person this semester after two years of online competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

May 12th, 2022

The legacy of a longtime WKU recreation professor will live on through a children’s book written by his grandson. WKU’s Amy Bingham has more on the book inspired by the late Dr. Alton Little in this week’s View from the Hill.

May 12th, 2022

Western Kentucky University’s College of Education and Behavioral Sciences is proud to announce this year’s winners of the WKU Distinguished Educator Awards (DEA).

May 12th, 2022

National Stem Cell Foundation Announces the Selection of Ten Middle School Science Teachers in Eight States to Participate in Unique Professional Development Program By Investing in Influential Middle School STEM Teachers, Program Reaches Thousands o