Actor Kevin Conroy once said: “Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one’s journey is easy. It’s how they handle it that makes them unique.” If that’s the case, Eastern Kentucky University senior Shawn Dore is unlike any other. From...
The American chestnut tree once thrived in Appalachia. Thanks to the Kentucky chapter of The American Chestnut Federation (TACF), the Arbor Day Foundation, Eastern Kentucky University and the University of Tennessee Chattanooga, it may one day again. Volunteers from...
Officials from Eastern Kentucky University and Kentucky State Police joined forces to cut the ribbon — or, rather, a strip of yellow crime scene tape — on a new, first-of-its-kind digital forensics laboratory on EKU’s campus Friday. “This...
Twenty-four students from the Eastern Kentucky University Honors Program presented research and creative work at the 53rd annual conference of the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) in Boston, Massachusetts, Nov. 7-10. As usual, EKU’s delegation of...
Collin Overton gained national exposure in his field. Taylor Six found the tenacity to persevere in the face of opposition. Rachel Bowling learned to become more open-minded to the opinions of others. Joseph Steele felt honored to cover the landing of Air Force One....
Acclaimed by her professors as “the model student scholar,” Eastern Kentucky University senior Aggie Williams is a living example of the power of hard work and dedication. Williams is originally from Monrovia, Liberia, a nation on the western coast of...
Eastern Kentucky University Senior Kevely Dumay is the model student. Along with his 3.7 GPA, he is a McNair scholar, Chamber Colonel, a member of EKU’s Marketing Club, and will spend next semester as an intern at the state capitol. However, the future...
In Robin Williams’ final scene as an actor, portraying a wax figure of Teddy Roosevelt who comes alive in “Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb,” a security guard played by Ben Stiller admits to his hero, “I have no idea what I’m going...
The Colonels are marching again. Thanks to $50,000 in scholarships for participating students and $20,000 from institutional sources and donors, one of Eastern Kentucky University’s greatest traditions – its marching band – has been resurrected. It...
Seventeen years ago, almost to the day, Omar Salinas Chacón entered the United States through Atlanta, Georgia. His working-class parents, escaping a bloody civil war, gang violence and extreme poverty in El Salvador, fled to America with little more than a...
