WKU News

Apr 22nd, 2025

WKU and WKU Athletics held the Hilltopper Fieldhouse Final Beam Raising Ceremony on Tuesday.

Apr 22nd, 2025

Friends and family of the Kentucky Soybean Board ("the Soy Family") presented the Michele Winchell Memorial Scholarship to Jasmine Wilson, a student in Western Kentucky University's Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program. 

Apr 22nd, 2025

The Western Kentucky University Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK), the National Leadership Honor Society, proudly announces Rosie Ribble as the recipient of the 2025 ODK Circle Leader of the Year Award.

Apr 22nd, 2025

Two WKU students were awarded Fund for Education Abroad (FEA) scholarships for study abroad in the February 2025 application cycle. The recipients were offered scholarships for study abroad in Austria for the Summer 2024 term. 

Apr 22nd, 2025

Here is a listing of WKU events for Tuesday, April 22 through Saturday, May 10.

Apr 21st, 2025

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Apr 21st, 2025

Attention WKU students: Please visit wku.evaluationkit.com to complete your course evaluations. Students completing all course evaluations by April 30 will receive early access to grades on TopNet.

Apr 21st, 2025

WKU first-year Demani Bell is lighting up campus with his passion for theater, service, and community—balancing arts, advocacy, and leadership with heart and purpose.

Apr 18th, 2025

Western Kentucky University will be home to the first Bachelor of Science degree in User Experience in Kentucky. 

Apr 18th, 2025

Kentucky Mesonet celebrated not one but two milestones Friday morning, the ribbon cutting at station number 80 in southern Green County and the 75th county in Kentucky to include at least one Mesonet site.

Apr 18th, 2025

WKU’s Chapter of the National Society of Leadership and Success (NSLS) Inducted 67 new members to the society on Thursday.

Apr 18th, 2025

WKU’s School of Media & Communication has won the Intercollegiate Photojournalism Competition for the 30th time in the past 36 years, and two WKU students earned awards in the Photojournalism Picture/Story Series Competition.

Apr 17th, 2025

"Every idea begins with a seed, and if you water that seed and provide it the right resources, it can sprout into a beautiful thing that changes your community, state, nation, and world."

Apr 16th, 2025

Midnight on the Hill, a student-led philanthropic initiative, concluded its annual fundraising campaign with a successful campus event held on April 4 at the Preston Health and Activities Center.

Apr 16th, 2025

Charles Uland and Asa Ashley have been named Goldwater Scholars. The Goldwater Scholarship is the preeminent nationally competitive award for undergraduates interested in pursuing research in STEM disciplines.

Apr 16th, 2025

Western Kentucky University’s Jonesville Reconciliation Workgroup will host a screening of “Jonesville: When Sunflowers Fall” on Thursday, May 1, at 6:00 p.m. at the Jody Richards Hall Auditorium on WKU’s campus.

Apr 16th, 2025

The new executive council for Western Kentucky University’s Student Government Association was elected last night.

Apr 16th, 2025

Western Kentucky University recognized the recipients of this year’s Staff Excellence Awards, University Faculty Awards and the President’s ONE WKU Awards as well as the newest University Distinguished Professors at the Employee Excellence Dinner.

Apr 15th, 2025

Dr. Julia L. Roberts, Professor of Gifted Studies at Western Kentucky University (WKU), has been named one of 10 recipients of the prestigious 2025 Conference USA Faculty Achievement Award.