Rick Erdmann, Head Coach Emeritus of Track and Field/Cross Country, was inducted into the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) Hall of Fame on May 31, at the OVC Spring Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. “I love seeing kids improve and develop as individuals,” he...
A new scholarship to Eastern Kentucky University for Advanced Placement (AP) students will automatically award up to $2,400 to students who score a 3, 4 or 5 on AP tests, it was announced at the Advanced Placement Summer Institute Luncheon Wednesday afternoon. The...
WEKU and Red Barn Radio today announced a broadcast partnership that makes WEKU the exclusive home of the Lexington-based music show in Central and Eastern Kentucky. Beginning July 7, 2019, Red Barn Radio will expand to a two-hour program airing on Saturday from 6-8...
She can speak nine languages and play more than two dozen musical instruments. And now Arrington Payne, a recent graduate of the Cincinnati School for Creative and Performing Arts, is the first recipient of the New Horizon Award to attend Eastern Kentucky University,...
A team of Eastern Kentucky University students has placed second in the nation in the Bank Case Study Competition, the Conference of State Bank Supervisors has announced. Fifty-eight undergraduate student teams from 44 colleges and universities partnered with...
Eastern Kentucky University President Dr. Michael Benson was selected by his fellow university presidents to represent the Ohio Valley Conference on the NCAA Division I Presidential Forum at the May 31 meeting of the Board of OVC Presidents. President Benson’s...
Having recently served as the student speaker for the spring commencement ceremony of Eastern Kentucky University’s College of Education and graduated magna cum laude as an Honors Scholar, Jessica Dobbs will begin her teaching career this fall at Bell Elementary...
When Eastern Kentucky University and the Kentucky State Police joined forces to open a digital forensics laboratory on the Richmond campus last fall, Lt. Col. Jeff Medley with KSP said the facility would help prepare “some of the brightest students, who will...
Eastern Kentucky University doubled the impact of its Summer Scholars program, awarding nearly twice as many scholarships to hardworking Colonels as last year. Nineteen students were selected for the scholarship based on financial need, progress toward graduation and...
Find your Fox. Be a Fox. But Matthew Perry didn’t have wildlife management majors in mind when he advised his fellow College of Science graduates as student speaker at a recent spring commencement ceremony at Eastern Kentucky University. Perry, who just 24 hours...
