“Painting,” once said Pablo Picasso, “is just another way of keeping a diary.” And so it was that a group of Eastern Kentucky University students and staff, joined by the Artfully Yours art studio, helped 19 residents of Kenwood Nursing Home...
Eastern Kentucky University faculty member Dr. Peter Kraska was honored recently by the Academy of Criminal Justice Science. Kraska, a professor in the School of Justice Studies within EKU’s College of Justice and Safety, received the Academy’s Police...
Bernardo Scarambone, award-winning piano professor in the Eastern Kentucky University School of Music, knows the challenges and triumphs of leaving your home country to study in another. These days, Scarambone shares the benefit of that experience with his students....
Eastern Kentucky University unveiled a statue of College Football Hall of Fame coach Roy Kidd on Saturday, Sept. 23. The statue of the man who won 314 games as the head coach of the Colonels is located in the north end zone, overlooking the field at Roy Kidd Stadium....
EKU has long been known for the close relationships it facilitates between students and their professors. Beginning this fall, some Eastern students won’t even need to leave their residence hall to interact with a faculty member. Or, to put it another way, one...
Maryanne Wolf, creator of the nationally renowned RAVE-O reading intervention program, and one of the leading figures in changing how we think about dyslexia and neuroscience, will speak at Eastern Kentucky University on Thursday, March 1. Her lecture, titled...
Eastern Kentucky University and the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced today a new Inside-Out partnership agreement, the first in the state, to provide EKU criminal justice students a more hands-on learning experience while also providing current inmates a chance to...
The Eastern Kentucky University choirs will present their spring concert on Friday, March 2, at 7:30 p.m. at First Christian Church in Richmond. The EKU Chamber Singers will perform Morten Lauridsen’s “Mid-Winter Songs” under the direction of Dr....
“If your actions inspire others to be more, learn more, do more, and become more, then you are a leader.” That is how former president John Quincy Adams defined a leader, and explains how Andrea Tyra, described by others as a quiet person, excels as...
This is another in a series of interviews with campus QEP leaders – those staff, faculty and administrators across campus promoting the goals of EKU’s Quality Enhancement Plan. The current QEP, Read with Purpose, calls for Eastern to develop critical...
