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EKU, Madison Schools Partner to Help More Earn Doctoral Degrees

EKU, Madison Schools Partner to Help More Earn Doctoral Degrees

A new partnership between Eastern Kentucky University and Madison County Schools “will set this community apart from the rest of the Commonwealth.” That’s how Madison County Schools Superintendent Elmer Thomas described a doctoral fellowship that...
Boyd Named Special Assistant to President

Boyd Named Special Assistant to President

Hal Boyd has been named Special Assistant to the President at Eastern Kentucky University. Boyd is a 2016 Juris Doctor degree candidate at Yale Law School, where he has served as president of the campus chapter of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society since 2014 and focused...
Paramedic Program Tweaked to Meet Needs of Professionals

Paramedic Program Tweaked to Meet Needs of Professionals

For the past several years, attending the paramedic program at Eastern Kentucky University was a five-day-a-week proposition. But it wasn’t practical for many experienced EMTs to be away from their employment that long. Now, the EKU program is introducing...
Quinn MacHollister Returns to Clement Co.

Quinn MacHollister Returns to Clement Co.

It’s a wonder anyone would want to live in corrupt Clement County, Kentucky. It attracts all the wrong elements: drug dealers from Detroit, crooked politicians, feuding Indian tribes called the Quapanog and Khuite, spies at the Eastern Kentucky Army Depot, and...
Recent Grad Making a Difference in Belize

Recent Grad Making a Difference in Belize

By Erika Khair Student Writer, EKU Communications & Marketing Recent Eastern Kentucky University graduate Chase Barnes has made a long-term commitment to improving the lives of others. The Mt. Sterling native, who graduated in May with a degree in public health,...
ASLIE Students Explore Discipline’s Roots in France

ASLIE Students Explore Discipline’s Roots in France

By Erika Khair Student Writer, EKU Communications & Marketing American Sign Language and deaf education both have their roots in France, so where better for students in Eastern Kentucky University’s Department of American Sign Language and Interpreter...
Public-Private Housing Partnership Announced

Public-Private Housing Partnership Announced

After a rigorous search process that elicited responses from several national firms, Eastern Kentucky University has issued a letter of intent to award the development of its new student housing projects between F2 Companies of Columbus, Ohio, and Grand...
PR Students Assist with Conference

PR Students Assist with Conference

Public relations students from the Department of Communication at Eastern Kentucky University provided media coverage for the Kentucky E³ Conference – Education and Entrepreneurship as Economic Engines – on Thursday, Nov. 19 at the EKU Center for the...
Therapeutic Recreation Students Serve Young Campers

Therapeutic Recreation Students Serve Young Campers

A group of EKU therapeutic recreation students provided a camp recently for children and families at Camp Horsin' Around in Perryville. The students, under the direction of Dr. Michelle Gerken, oversaw an overnight camp experience and activities such as arts and...
Mock Trial Team Wins Great Lakes Invitational

Mock Trial Team Wins Great Lakes Invitational

Eclipsing squads from Notre Dame University and Northwestern University, among others, a mock trial team from Eastern Kentucky University brought back the first-place trophy from the Great Lakes Mock Trial Invitational in snowy Ypsilanti, Michigan, Nov. 21-22. For the...