EKU Board of Regents member Lewis Diaz, a partner at Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, was elected chair of the Board of Directors of the Northern Kentucky Area Development District (NKADD) on Oct. 26. As chair of the NKADD Board of Directors, Diaz is the executive officer of...
More than 3,600 miles separate Kentucky and Ireland, but an Eastern Kentucky University business professor and one of her recent star pupils bridged the gap and raised EKU’s profile on the Emerald Isle recently. Dr. Marcel Robles, a professor in EKU’s...
She came from a poor family in rural Malaysia that often struggled to put food on the table. Her parents divorced when she was 2, and she was raised by a grandmother who had no formal education. When she did persevere to pursue a college education more than 9,000...
Even now, tears well in Dr. Dana Bush’s eyes when she recalls the moment that she led 26 EKU students into the room housing Michelangelo’s iconic 17-foot-tall statue of biblical hero David. “I’ll turn around to watch them, and I cry every...
Even now, tears well in Dr. Dana Bush’s eyes when she recalls the moment that she led 26 EKU students into the room housing Michelangelo’s iconic 17-foot-tall statue of biblical hero David. “I’ll turn around to watch them, and I cry every...
“The insurance industry,” said Dr. Burke Christensen, “is a place where women are free to rise as high as their talents will take them.” Now, thanks to a $25,000 donation from the Kentucky-based Women Leaders in Insurance and Financial Services...
“There’s no place like Homecoming.” That’s the theme this year as Eastern Kentucky University gets ready to welcome graduates, their families and other friends of the University to Homecoming and Reunion Weekend Oct. 19-21. Thousands are...
Forty-one Fellows, including five from EKU, have completed the fourth annual Bluegrass Academic Leadership Academy. The EKU Fellows are Ida Kumoji-Ankrah, chair, Department of Art and Design; Karen Maloley, chair, Department of Curriculum and Instruction; Dawn L....
Bobby Lee Verdugo came to fame as a leader of the historic 1968 high school walkouts of East Los Angeles, a student-led effort to bring education reform to disenfranchised schools with large populations of Latino students. On Wednesday, Oct. 18, he walked into...
The fast-growing Latino population at Eastern Kentucky University can now look to the institution’s Board of Regents for role models. Lewis Diaz, an attorney in northern Kentucky, and Juan Castro, an accountant in Lexington, took time out of their busy schedules...