WKU News

Five WKU Students Awarded Boren Scholarships

May 7th, 2020

Five WKU students have been awarded $20,000 David L. Boren Scholarships to fund intensive language study in the US and abroad during the 2020-2021 academic year. All five are students in the Chinese Flagship Program at WKU.

Five WKU Students Recognized in Critical Language Scholarship competition

Apr 17th, 2020

12 WKU Students Recognized by Gilman Scholarship for Study Abroad

Jan 9th, 2020

12 WKU students were recognized by the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for study abroad in 2019.

2 WKU Students Awarded Gilman Scholarships for Fall 2019

Jul 1st, 2019

Two WKU students were awarded the Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship for study abroad programs in fall 2019. They were selected from over 3,000 applications submitted during the fall 2019 and academic year 2019-2020 cycle.

3 WKU Students Recognized by Freeman-ASIA Scholarship

Jun 20th, 2019

Two WKU students have been awarded Freeman-ASIA Scholarships to study in east Asia in summer and fall 2019. A third has been designated an alternate.

15 WKU Students Recognized by Gilman Scholarship Program for Summer 2019 Study Abroad

May 30th, 2019

13 WKU students were offered Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships for summer 2019 study abroad and 2 were designated alternates.

6 WKU Students Recognized by Gilman Scholarship Program for Winter/Spring 2019 Study Abroad

May 30th, 2019

This year, 6 WKU students were offered Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships for winter/spring 2019 study abroad.

2 WKU students selected for Fulbright Summer Institutes

May 20th, 2019

For the third year in a row, two WKU students have been selected to participate in Fulbright Summer Institutes in the United Kingdom.

6 WKU students recognized in 2019-20 Fulbright competition

May 6th, 2019

Five WKU students have been offered Fulbright U.S. Student Grants for the 2019-20 academic year and one has been designated as an alternate.

5 WKU students awarded Boren Scholarships

May 1st, 2019

Five WKU students have earned Boren Scholarships of up to $20,000 to fund up to a year of critical language-focused study abroad.

9 WKU students awarded Critical Language Scholarships

Apr 30th, 2019

Nine WKU students were awarded Critical Language Scholarships that fully fund summer study in intensive language programs abroad. Six others were named alternates and may be upgraded as additional funding becomes available.

WKU student selected as Fund for Education Abroad Scholar

Apr 29th, 2019

Andrea Day, a junior international affairs and Arabic major, has been awarded a Fund for Education Abroad (FEA) scholarship to study in Jordan in summer 2019.

3 WKU students awarded Gilman International Scholarships

Jun 26th, 2018

WKU students Katie Daniels of Glasgow, Kate Hart of Princeton and Tristan Shaw of Louisville were selected as Gilman Scholars and will receive up to $8,000 to fund their study abroad programs during fall 2018 and academic year 2018-19.

4 WKU students awarded Freeman-ASIA scholarships

May 23rd, 2018

Andrew Lambdin, Nathaniel Lambdin and Reuben Tang will study abroad in Taiwan and Robert Myers of Louisville will study abroad in China this summer through support from the Freeman Awards for Study in Asia scholarship program.

13 WKU students recognized by Gilman International Scholarship Program

May 16th, 2018

WKU students Riana Berry, Sheila Butler, Elizabeth Chagnon, Lillian Golden, Elisabeth Hernandez-Torres, Michael King, Jeremy McFarland, Robert Myers, Antonio McManis, Aaliyah Neblett and Nyla Rogers were selected as Gilman Scholars.

2 WKU students selected for Fulbright UK Summer Institutes

May 14th, 2018

Rachel Hunter of Owensboro and Isaac Keller of Kansas City, Missouri are the seventh and eighth WKU students to be selected for the prestigious program since 2012. This is the second year in a row that two WKU students were selected.

4 WKU students recognized in Boren Scholarship competition

May 10th, 2018

Kate Hart of Princeton, Nathan Read of Belleveville, Illinois and Tristan Shaw of Glasgow will use Boren Scholarships to fund their Chinese Flagship capstone year in China. Michael Dimeo of Bowling Green was selected as an alternate.

Record 11 WKU students awarded Critical Language Scholarships

May 4th, 2018

Eleven WKU students will study languages intensively abroad this summer through support from the Critical Language Scholarship. Two other students were named alternates. This year's performance nearly doubles the previous record of 6 awardees in 2014.

WKU student selected as Fund for Education Abroad Scholar

May 3rd, 2018

Reuben Tang, a second-year architectural science and Asian religions and cultures major and Chinese Flagship participant from Glasgow, will study in Taiwan this summer through support from a Fund for Education Abroad scholarship.

WKU recognized among Gilman Scholarship top producers

Apr 24th, 2018

WKU has been named a 2016-17 top producer of Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs. WKU is tied for 26th among more than 100 institutions nationwide.