Dr. Deborah Givens, chair of the Department of Communication at Eastern Kentucky University, was elected president of the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors (ISWNE) at the organization’s June 19-23 conference at Emory University in Atlanta....
The Scottish Rite Foundation recently awarded scholarships to twelve graduate students in the College of Education’s Communication Disorders Graduate Program. The scholarships provide financial support to students who possess career aspirations of working with...
“We are a knowledgeable family,” was the opening theme of the 2019-2020 Eastern Kentucky University employee convocation August 13. EKU President Dr. Michael Benson shared a clip from the 1968 classic “The Lion in Winter,” a fictional account...
Jasmine Lofton’s path to success was not always a straight line. After becoming a mother at age 17, she worked long hours waiting tables just to keep the bills paid. It would be two years before she enrolled in college, but she never stopped dreaming of a better...
EKU alum and University Counsel Dana Fohl recently earned the Young Professional Award from the University of Kentucky Law Alumni Association. The award is given each year to a UK Law School graduate who has graduated within the past 10 years, and who has...
Eastern Kentucky University President Michael Benson’s next book will spotlight “one of the most remarkable figures in the history of American higher education.” As president of fledgling Johns Hopkins University from 1875 to 1901, Daniel Coit Gilman...
Savannah Sublette, a senior criminal justice major from Fulton, Kentucky, has been awarded the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, a highly competitive study-abroad grant that receives thousands of applicants per year. “We know Savannah is very...
You never know what you might find when you start a home improvement project. For Mattie Combs, sheriff of fictional Clement County in southeastern Kentucky, it was a diary from 1975, hidden in a wall of the house she was remodeling. The author: the late Bev...
Battelle, a global nonprofit research and development organization, continues to make significant investments in the undergraduate research program in the College of Science at Eastern Kentucky University. Battelle made a donation of $30,000 to the program last...
An Eastern Kentucky University online course created for the master of arts in teaching (MAT) program has won a 2019 Catalyst Award from Blackboard, Inc. Esther Tattershall, an instructional designer with the Office of eCampus Learning, and Dr. April Blakely,...
