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Maywoods to Host Family Nature Day, 5K Trail Race

Maywoods to Host Family Nature Day, 5K Trail Race

Eastern Kentucky University’s Division of Natural Areas will host “Family Nature Day” and its second annual 5K trail race on Saturday, May 6, at the Maywoods Environmental and Educational Laboratory. The “Nature Day” outdoor activities...
Battelle Gift Supports State Science Fair

Battelle Gift Supports State Science Fair

For the second consecutive year, the world’s largest nonprofit research and development organization has made a significant investment in the leading showcase for science, engineering and technological research among Kentucky’s high school and middle...
SBDC Aids Business Owners, Entrepreneurs

SBDC Aids Business Owners, Entrepreneurs

The Small Business Development Center at Eastern Kentucky University has financed more than $3 million in small business loans and equity funds this program year. The center offers a variety of counseling, training, and information programs and services to existing...
Students, Faculty Attend AOTA Conference

Students, Faculty Attend AOTA Conference

The EKU delegation that attended the recent American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) annual conference in Philadelphia was the school’s largest representation to date. Seventeen master’s degree students, several doctoral students and 17 faculty...
Events Mark Arbor Day, Earth Month

Events Mark Arbor Day, Earth Month

The current construction boom doesn’t mean that Eastern Kentucky University has forsaken its commitment to an attractive landscape. In fact, for every one tree removed, the University is planting three new ones. Recently named a Tree Campus USA for the sixth...
Diversity Scholars Tour Taft Museum

Diversity Scholars Tour Taft Museum

Five Diversity Scholars at EKU participated in a “unique cultural experience” recently when they took a full tour of the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati. The Scholars were joined on the tour by an EKU Guru, a graduate assistant with the Dr. Rodney Gross...
Free Screening of “Tickling Giants” April 26

Free Screening of “Tickling Giants” April 26

Eastern Kentucky University is among a handful of colleges and universities receiving a grant to host “Tickling Giants,” an award-winning documentary highlighting the life of a comedian who has been called Egypt’s version of Jon Stewart. The EKU...
Grad Endures Hardships to Find Success

Grad Endures Hardships to Find Success

Life was never easy for Devella Steffen. She grew up in government housing in Richmond, her family relying on food stamps that often went toward chicken pot pies, a dish she decries to this day. At school, she was the girl “everyone felt the need to...
EKU Theatre Presents “The Fox on the Fairway”

EKU Theatre Presents “The Fox on the Fairway”

Eastern Kentucky University Theatre will present Ken Ludwig’s hit play “The Fox on the Fairway”at Gifford Theatre April 19-23. The comedy, which plays tribute to the English farces of the 1930s and 1940s, follows a golf tournament at the Quail Valley...
Online MSN Degree Earns High National Ranking

Online MSN Degree Earns High National Ranking

The Eastern Kentucky University Online MSN degree in nursing administration has been recognized for affordability by Best Master’s Degrees. EKU ranked 13th in the nation. “EKU strives to prepare students to make an impact on health care systems in their...