WKU News

WKU’s Accelerator programs offer students support for entrepreneurial aspirations and local employment opportunities

May 5th, 2020

WKU Professor Tests Kindergarten Screening Tools for Studying an Important Disorder: Language Impairment

Apr 6th, 2020

WKU Researcher Empowers Students to Understand Human Emotional Development Through Infant Studies

Mar 25th, 2020

Kentucky Museum, Folklife Program help students appreciate, understand their communities

Feb 20th, 2020

WKU prepares to host international geoscience and conservation conference

Jan 3rd, 2020

Kentucky’s first child welfare center opens at WKU to solve child welfare problems with applied research

Nov 21st, 2019

With the help of student data, WKU researchers aim to improve learning

Oct 15th, 2019

Student Outreach, Recruitment Among Expected Benefits of New NMR Spectrometer

Sep 9th, 2019

New, grant-funded microscope equips WKU students, faculty for ‘sophisticated research’

Aug 9th, 2019

Funding renewed for statewide program that supports WKU biomedical research

Jul 10th, 2019

Undergraduate students lead research with FUSE grants, learn lifelong lessons

Jun 12th, 2019

New center expands research on aging for faculty, students

May 3rd, 2019

Former WKU Baseball Player Now Professor Receives Award from College of Health and Human Services for Bingocize® Work

Apr 1st, 2019

In the spring of 2018, College of Health in Human Services faculty Dr. Jason Crandall was awarded the Faculty Award for outstanding contribution in Research/Creativity & the 2018-2019 University Award for Research and Creative Activity.

Potter College of Arts & Letters awards Professor Joon Sung with Research/Creativity Award for artistic creative works

Jan 3rd, 2019

Professor Joon Sung received the Faculty Award for outstanding contributions in Research/Creativity within the Potter College of Arts & Letters in the Spring 2018. His art focuses on a quest for another type of intellectually demanding beauty.

Ogden College of Science & Engineering awards Noah Ashley with Research/Creativity Award for sleep studies

Nov 12th, 2018

Dr. Noah Ashley received the Faculty Award for outstanding contributions in Research/Creativity within Ogden College of Science & Engineering in Spring 2018. Dr. Ashley’s research primarily focuses on two different projects, both involving sleep.

WKU Professor Receives Faculty Award for Technology Design that Aids Student Learning

Nov 6th, 2018

Dr. Xiaoxia “Silvie” Huang was chosen to receive the Research/Creativity award for the College of Education & Behavioral Sciences. Her research focuses on designing and evaluating technology-supported learning environments to facilitate student learning.

University College Grants Research/Creativity Award to Professor for Creative Works

Oct 1st, 2018

In Spring 2018, University College awarded Dr. Cheryl Hopson the Faculty Award for Research/Creativity for outstanding contributions in her field.

NSF awards grant for biology professor’s research project

Dec 7th, 2016

The National Science Foundation has awarded WKU Biology Professor Shivendra Sahi a grant to fund his research project.

WKU professor broadens international reach with political science research

Sep 21st, 2016

Even as the events of the 2016 presidential election unfold, WKU’s Dr. Timothy Rich, Assistant Professor of Political Science, continues to turn his attention internationally, studying the processes of politics beyond our border.

WKU signs joint faculty agreement with Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Sep 6th, 2016

Scientists at WKU and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) can have appointments to both institutions thanks to a joint faculty agreement.