WKU News

For the first time, WKU Student Publications has four finalists for national Pacemaker awards -- one in each category in which the Associated Collegiate Press honors the nation's best student-run publications.

WKU has received an estate gift of more than $2.5 million from the late Beulah R. Winchel.

The Hands-Only CPR Mobile Tour will make a stop at WKU on Sept. 25 for interactive training sessions.

The WKU Police Department will be sporting a new look on Saturday afternoon (Sept. 23).

The WKU chapter of Kappa Delta Sorority will have plenty to celebrate Sept. 23 as it formally receives Kappa Delta’s highest honor for a collegiate chapter. The award presentation will begin at 11 a.m. at the chapter house, 1600 Chestnut St.

The Kentucky Museum will host its second Hammer-In on Oct. 7. The free community event celebrates the metalworkers' trade.

The WKU Board of Regents will hold committee meetings on Friday (Sept. 22), beginning at 8 a.m. CDT.

The WKU chapter of The National Society of Collegiate Scholars recently earned the Gold Star Status Award and the Integrity Award. Dr. Leslie North was honored as Regional Faculty Advisor of the Year.

More than 600 fourth-graders from Warren, Allen and Edmonson counties will participate in the 22nd annual Progressive Agriculture Safety Days® program on Sept. 28 at WKU’s L.D. Brown Agricultural Exposition Center.

The PEA POD is the centerpiece of a new research collaboration between WKU and The Medical Center to improve the long-term health of moms and babies in southcentral Kentucky.

After a national search, Mitchell L. Walker has been named the new police chief at WKU.

Bestselling author Ann Patchett will visit Bowling Green for a presentation and book signing at 6 p.m. Sept. 19 at WKU’s Knicely Conference Center.

The WKU Forensics Team is preparing for the 2017-18 season that begins Sept. 22 with the annual WKU/Alumni Fall Swing Tournament and the Alexis Elliott Memorial Lincoln-Douglas Round Robin debate tournament.

"Thirteen Reasons Why" -- Jay Asher’s debut novel -- is this year’s choice for the annual SOKY Reads! program, a community-wide reading project in Bowling Green and the surrounding region.

"An Evening With," a new program offered through a partnership with the Society for Lifelong Learning at WKU and the WKU Alumni Association, will feature prominent thought leaders and experts.

Tayland Ratliff may only be a freshman, but she has a bit of a leg up over her classmates. Ratliff, a Marketing major from Lafayette, LA, attended the Summer Early Entry program at WKU.

WKU statement on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

WKU's Academic Advising & Retention Center and Study Abroad and Global Learning will host the 2017 Majors and Minors & Study Abroad Fair from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 19 in the Raymond B. Preston Health and Activities Center.

WKU weather alert: WKU Glasgow will be closed for the remainder of the day (Friday, Sept. 1). On the WKU main campus, Helm-Cravens Libraries will close at 6 p.m. Friday.