The second annual Banking and Finance Meetup at Eastern Kentucky University will be held on Thursday, April 5, and Kentucky's bankers are taking notice. Representatives from area banks and financial service providers will be on hand in EKU's Business and...
While a sociology student in the 1990s at EKU, Sonya Begay composed a senior paper in Dr. Stephanie McSpirit’s class on uranium concentration on the Navajo and Hopi reservations in Arizona and later presented her work at a Kentucky Academy of Science Conference....
The Division of Communications and Brand Management and the Division of Development and Alumni Relations captured 16 awards for EKU in the recent Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District 3 competition. The honors included six Grand Awards, nine...
Award-winning sociologist and author Kimberly Hoang will present “Money Movers: Ethnography of Desire in Gray Economies in Southeast Asia” as the keynote address for Eastern Kentucky University’s celebration of both Asian Studies and Women’s...
When Emmanuel Bailey stood recently to address a group of students at his alma mater of Eastern Kentucky University, the highly successful businessman from Washington, D.C., wanted his audience to know one fact above all else. “There is literally nothing special...
The newest member of the Eastern Kentucky University Board of Regents is a familiar face to many on the Richmond campus. Laura Babbage, of Lexington, has been appointed by Gov. Matt Bevin to serve a term that expires on June 30, 2021. The 1981 EKU graduate, who has...
Like many Eastern Kentucky University students, Student Government Association President Laura Jackson “grew up in a town with more hills than people.” Living in that small town inspired her dream of impacting the lives of fellow Appalachian citizens...
Eastern Kentucky University ranks among the 2018 Top Military-Friendly Online Colleges, according to SR Education Group. It’s just the latest high national ranking for EKU, which earlier this year College Choice ranked seventh nationally, and tops in Kentucky,...
“Intentionality” seemed to be the buzzword at a meeting of the Eastern Kentucky University Board of Regents on Monday, Feb. 26. It’s the key behind the University’s record-high four- , five- and six-year graduation rates that continue to climb...
In December of 2016, the Eastern Kentucky University men’s basketball team faced Manhattan College in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, New York. The Colonels were more than 700 miles from Richmond. Yet, on that night – three days before Christmas...
