Two Eastern Kentucky University chapter officers have been selected to serve the national Delta Tau Alpha agriculture honor society for 2016-17. Sydney Kleinert, a senior from Clifton, Illinois, and Bethany McKinney, a senior from Mount Vernon, Kentucky, are serving...
Eastern Kentucky University continues to offer upper-division criminal justice courses in classrooms on the campus of Somerset Community College. The University closed its Somerset Campus at 46 Turpen Court earlier this year as part of ongoing budget reductions, but...
How better to teach youth about economics and give them the skills for lifelong learning than with chocolate? This year, the Eastern Kentucky University Center for Economic Education and Ruth Hunt Candy Co. are celebrating 10 years of partnering to offer a...
Eastern Kentucky University Campus Recreation has launched an adaptive climbing program to assist students with disabilities. Dr. Louisa Summers, professor of exercise and sport science, and Tommy Willis, director of outdoor recreation, are collaborating to offer two...
The Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education and Eastern Kentucky University will sponsor the state’s first Campus Safety Summit on Friday, Sept. 23, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at EKU’s Perkins Building. Staff from more than 20 public and private...
The theme for this year’s Chautauqua Lecture Series at Eastern Kentucky University is “Order and Chaos,” and no speaker embodies that duality quite like Missy Jenkins Smith. It was a chilly December morning in 1997 at Heath High School near Paducah,...
Eastern Kentucky University Theatre will open its 2016-17 season with the presentation Sept. 28-Oct. 2 of “Searching for Eden: The Diaries of Adam and Eve.” More than a century after Mark Twain composed his own short stories about the biblical figures,...
Dr. Pam Parry, interim chair of the Department of Communication at Eastern Kentucky University, recently received the Applegate Award for Excellence in Research from the Kentucky Communication Association. “This award means so much to me because the faculty in...
The four-year graduation rate at Eastern Kentucky University has nearly doubled in the past seven years. Of the freshmen who entered Eastern in Fall 2012, 29.5 percent graduated this year. The percentage has climbed steadily since only 15.7 percent of the Fall 2006...
He taught music theory and composition at Eastern Kentucky University for almost four decades, taking a “special interest” in his students’ success. Now, the legacy of Dr. Alan C. Beeler will enhance EKU’s School of Music for generations to...
