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Sultana Receives Fourth Fulbright Award

Sultana Receives Fourth Fulbright Award

Coming from a Pakistani business family that for generations built and fostered relationships worldwide, she was raised and educated to think globally and, from a young age, traveled frequently and extensively. Now, Dr. Qaisar Sultana is headed to Azerbaijan with a...
EKU, Chase College of Law Ink 3+3 Agreement

EKU, Chase College of Law Ink 3+3 Agreement

Undergraduate students at Eastern Kentucky University are now eligible for an early-enrollment program at Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University. The Chase 3+3 Accelerated Law Program combines a final year of undergraduate study with a first...
Shakespeare Returns to Ravine This Summer

Shakespeare Returns to Ravine This Summer

Eastern Kentucky University Theatre’s annual Shakespeare in the Ravine program is bringing “Romeo and Juliet” to the Richmond campus this summer. The performances, at 7 p.m. nightly July 19-21 in Van Peursem Amphitheater in the Ravine, will be free...
Education Grad Strives to Make a Difference

Education Grad Strives to Make a Difference

Brook Bell welcomed the challenges of a career in public education with a smile after graduating from Eastern Kentucky University with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education on May 12. And the awesome responsibility of her path is not lost on her. “We...
Degree “Creme de la Creme” for Octogenarian

Degree “Creme de la Creme” for Octogenarian

Just how big was Roy Davidson’s smile when he crossed the Eastern Kentucky University commencement stage to receive his diploma on May 11, 2018? You might say it was 54 years wide. That’s how much time had elapsed since Davidson, now 85, had last set foot...
Inaugural Faculty Scholars Institute Held

Inaugural Faculty Scholars Institute Held

EKU held its inaugural Faculty Scholars Institute May 15-16. The event brought together nine participants with 17 facilitators in an effort to provide faculty members – with a focus on the associate professor level – with the skills to produce engaging,...
Mother, Daughter Graduate Together

Mother, Daughter Graduate Together

Many have testified to the unique bond between mother and daughter. Melanie and Sarah Franklin demonstrated that connection to the world when they graduated from Eastern Kentucky University together. Sarah Franklin graduated May 11 from the College of Business and...
Fear of Failure No Longer Restrains Graduate

Fear of Failure No Longer Restrains Graduate

Kelly Armour thinks of her four years at Eastern Kentucky University as a book: a triumphant tale with an ending that surprised even its author. She gave its synopsis to fellow graduates of the College of Business and Technology in her commencement address on May 11....
Oh, the Places Student Speaker Will Go

Oh, the Places Student Speaker Will Go

“Congratulations, today is your day! You’re off to great places, you’re off and away!” wrote Dr. Seuss in “Oh, The Places You’ll Go.” Ivonne Gonzalez, student speaker for the College of Health Sciences commencement ceremony at...
Student Speaker Never “A Face in the Crowd”

Student Speaker Never “A Face in the Crowd”

During her stint as a campus tour guide at Eastern Kentucky University, Jessa Hay heard one question from students and parents more often than any other: “Why come to EKU all the way from New Jersey?” Hay took the opportunity to answer that question at...