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Intern Receives Prestigious CoSIDA Scholarship

Intern Receives Prestigious CoSIDA Scholarship

A student intern in the EKUSports Communications office has earned a prestigious scholarship from the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Morgan Romans was recently awarded a $3,000 CoSIDA Fred Nuesch & Dave Wohlhueter Undergraduate...
Model Boasts Record Number of Governor’s Scholars

Model Boasts Record Number of Governor’s Scholars

Out of a class of only 48 juniors at Model Laboratory High School, five have been named Governor’s Scholars for 2016. The school-record quintet will join approximately 1,000 other students from across the Commonwealth for the five-week academic enrichment...
Powers Named Dean of College of Education

Powers Named Dean of College of Education

Dr. Sherry Powers has been selected as dean of the College of Education at Eastern Kentucky University. She will join EKU on June 17. Powers brings 17 years of experience in higher education, including the past four years as dean of the School of Education at Asbury...
Economic Education Center, Central Bank Present Awards

Economic Education Center, Central Bank Present Awards

A school counselor and team of second-grade teachers recently received the 2016 Learning for Life Teaching Awards, presented by Central Bank and the Eastern Kentucky University Center for Economic Education. The recipients were Brittany Mauck, school counselor at...
Spring Commencement Ceremonies May 13-14

Spring Commencement Ceremonies May 13-14

Eastern Kentucky University’s five academic colleges will hold separate spring commencement ceremonies May 13-14, all in Alumni Coliseum. EKU is not holding a University-wide ceremony. The schedule is as follows:...
Three EKU Faculty Members Complete Academy

Three EKU Faculty Members Complete Academy

Forty-one Fellows, including three from EKU, recently completed the Bluegrass Higher Education Consortium's third Bluegrass Academic Leadership Academy. The EKU Fellows were Mary DeLetter, associate professor and Doctor of Nursing Practice program coordinator;...
Quinn MacHollister Back with “Fourth Witch”

Quinn MacHollister Back with “Fourth Witch”

Clement Countians just can’t catch a break. Citizens of this fictional southeast Kentucky county have been besieged by warring bigfoots and serial killers. Now, only weeks after battling genetically engineered wolves on the rampage, residents are facing the...
Students Gain Journalism Experience as KPA Interns

Students Gain Journalism Experience as KPA Interns

Seven Eastern Kentucky University students will gain journalism experience this summer at news media outlets across the Commonwealth through the Kentucky Press Association’s summer intern program. Hosted annually by KPA, the program matches students with member...
Senior First Intern for Global Citizenship Alliance

Senior First Intern for Global Citizenship Alliance

It’s only fitting that Allia Vaez wants to someday serve in the Doctors without Borders program. As Shakespeare once penned, “What’s past is prologue.” The Eastern Kentucky University senior has already spent many of her 21 years busting...
Volunteers Receive National Awards

Volunteers Receive National Awards

Members of the EKU campus community do much more than simply contribute to the local economy. Students, faculty and staff contributed more than 7,500 hours of volunteer service in 2015-16, with 70 individuals earning honors from The President’s Council on...