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Jan 8th, 2024
22 WKU students earned the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for study abroad in the October 2023 application cycle, more than all of Kentucky's other colleges and universities combined. Their awards totaled $77,500.
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Dec 13th, 2023
The Office of Scholar Development at WKU was recently awarded a $20,208 Impact Grant from the WKU Sisterhood to help create the Catalyst Cohort for first-generation, Pell Grant-eligible, and/or minority students in the Mahurin Honors College.
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Nov 1st, 2023
WKU has been named a Top Producer of Gilman Scholarship recipients by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA).
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Aug 3rd, 2023
Two MHC Scholars were selected to participate in prestigious summer programs at the American Enterprise Institute and the Hertog Foundation in Washington, D.C.
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Jun 1st, 2023
20 WKU students earned the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for study abroad in the March 2023 application cycle—as many as all other colleges and universities in Kentucky combined.
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May 26th, 2023
Two WKU students were awarded the Freeman-ASIA scholarship, and three additional WKU students were awarded Phi Kappa Phi study abroad grants. Their awards totaled $11,000.
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May 5th, 2023
Annie Whaley, a second-year student in Public Relations and International Affairs, has been selected for the highly competitive Fulbright US-UK Summer Institutes. Pah Meh, a first-year student in Computer Science, was a finalist.
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May 2nd, 2023
In addition to the five WKU alumni and graduating seniors awarded Fulbright US Student grants this spring, Paige Figueroa (‘22 Economics and Spanish) and Jaclyn Schiess (‘22 Dance) have been named alternates.
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Apr 28th, 2023
Olivia Blackmon, Noah Lyles, and Langley Williams have been awarded $25,000 David L. Boren Scholarships to fund intensive language study in Taiwan during the 2023-2024 academic year. Reece Gillespie has been named an alternate in the competition. All are
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Apr 24th, 2023
Parker Raybourne, a 2022 graduate in Political Science, Public Relations, and Advertising, is WKU’s fifth Fulbright US Student Program grantee of the 2023-24 award year. Parker has been awarded an English Teaching Assistantship for Indonesia.
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