Often, breakfast for Eastern Kentucky University students is a bagel and coffee on the way to class, but that wasn’t the case for three students on Thursday, Sept. 24. Junior Allie Maples, Mount Sterling, and seniors Matthew Boggs, Whitesburg, and Mackenzie...
By ZEYNAB DAY Student Writer, EKU Communications & Marketing Students arose from mattresses on the floor, exited their windowless dormitories, grabbed their tattered notebooks and piled into dark and dusty classrooms at a rural African agriculture college where an...
Seven Eastern Kentucky University faculty members recently completed the second Bluegrass Academic Leadership Academy. Ryan Baggett, Lisa Day, Kellie Ellis, Eric Fuchs, Gill Hunter, Evelyn Parrish and Jennifer Wies were among 48 Fellows from 12 colleges and...
After returning from the Vietnam War, Craig Williams looked forward to some normalcy. But in 1984, when he discovered that the Department of Defense planned to incinerate chemical agents stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot near his Madison County home, Williams began...
Judah Schept, an associate professor in Eastern Kentucky University’s School of Justice Studies, has co-edited a special issue of the journal Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict and World Order entitled “Youth under Control: Punishment and Reform...
Eastern Kentucky University will host the 31st annual Ohio Valley History Conference Oct. 1-3. The theme for this year’s conference is “The Sixties: A 50-Year Retrospective” and will feature a number of scholarly presentations on the tumultuous...
Eastern Kentucky University was not among the sites selected to host a U.S. presidential or vice presidential debate in 2016. The Commission on Presidential Debates announced today (Sept. 23) the sites and dates for three presidential debates and one vice presidential...
Melissa Vandenberg, associate professor of art in the Department of Art and Design at Eastern Kentucky University, has been selected to travel to Hokuto City, Japan, this October as part of an exchange program with the Madison County International Committee (MCIC) and...
For his Eagle Scout project, Conner Jones, a member of Boy Scout Troop No. 7 and an honor student at Madison Central High School, spent the past several months organizing efforts and resources to build information displays for the EKU Adult Education program in...
Eastern Kentucky University faculty member Dr. Robert Frederick was recently awarded the 2015 Lauren E. Schaaf Memorial Award. Frederick, chair of the Department of Biological Sciences, received the award from the Kentucky chapter of The Wildlife Society. The award...
