Dr. Janna Vice, senior vice president for academics and provost at EKU, is one of two recipients of the 2017 Ohio Valley Conference Thurston Banks Award for Distinguished Academic Service. Lawrence Baggett of Austin Peay State University is the other recipient....
The Eastern Kentucky University Department of Recreation and Park Administration recently received the Outstanding Department Award from the Kentucky Recreation and Park Society (KRPS). The award, presented at the society’s annual conference, recognizes a...
The first inventor to ever sell out a product during a first-time airing on HSN is an Eastern Kentucky University graduate. Russie Coy Jones, inventor of the patented Rely-a-Light and Lamp Angel emergency light technology, was featured recently on the shopping...
Dr. Ryan Baggett has received the 2016-17 Outstanding Mentor Award from the EKU College of Justice & Safety. Baggett is the program coordinator of the college’s homeland security program. Over the past three years, Baggett has directed student learning,...
An Eastern Kentucky University faculty member is quoted in a recent BBC Radio piece comparing how Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and recently-elected Donald Trump deal with the media. Dr. Pam Parry, associate professor and interim chair of the Department of...
It’s not every five-year-old who already knows what he wants to do with his life, and then spends the next 15 years following through on his dream. But that’s what happened after young Horace Hunter took an international flight to visit his grandparents in...
After 25 years in the mortgage industry, Rodney Mills faced a difficult choice when the markets crashed almost a decade ago. “I looked at the industry and where it was going, and not going, and began to think I needed to position myself to do other...
While some people had Monday off, the Eastern Kentucky University baseball team partnered with Samaritan’s Feet to provide shoes to over 150 Madison County children for its Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service event. The Colonels started the morning by...
An anonymous gift of $1.25 million will fund scholarships in math and science at Eastern Kentucky University. The donor provided an immediate donation of $250,000, with the balance of $1 million part of an estate gift. “This generous gift will provide...
Twenty-six faculty members from a cross-section of campus recently completed the inaugural Faculty Leadership Institute at EKU. The two-day institute “focused on practical skills that can enhance leadership across campus,” said Dr. Russell Carpenter,...
