Eastern Kentucky University will host a free solar eclipse viewing event on Monday, Aug. 21. The public is invited to the University’s observation deck across Kit Carson Drive from the Perkins Building and behind the Granny Richardson Springs One-Room...
An Eastern Kentucky University faculty member has received the 2017 Unsung Hero Award from the National Association of EMS Educators. Nancye Davis, chair of the Department of Fire Protection and Paramedicine Sciences, has spent more than 30 years in the field of...
Scholarships that support the University’s commitment to student success and result in improved retention and graduation rates. A helping hand for underrepresented minority students. An innovative green energy initiative at the New Science Building. An endowed...
Eastern Kentucky University students proved they meant business, excelling at the recent 2017 Phi Beta Lambda National Leadership Conference (NLC). The annual conference, held in Anaheim, California, June 24-27, invites future business leaders to compete in academic...
Local residents are invited to learn more about the upcoming solar eclipse and get a sneak preview of a KET documentary about NASA’s Voyager mission at an event in Eastern Kentucky University’s Ravine on Friday evening, July 28. The event begins at 8 p.m....
A half century ago, it was the team that ignited a championship tradition in Eastern Kentucky University football. Now, a $250,000 donation from a member of the 1967 Grantland Rice Bowl champions, the largest single gift commitment ever to the EKU football program,...
With most students away for the summer, Eastern Kentucky University Public Safety is planning a full-scale exercise involving an active shooter scenario. The active shooter exercise will take place on Tuesday, July 25, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Coates and Jones...
Eastern Kentucky University is taking its commitment to a sustainable future to a new level, revealing plans for two major sustainability initiatives set to launch this fall. The first of the initiatives, titled Colonel’s Cleanup, is an...
When Andrew and Ethan Worley’s parents signed them up for a talent competition without their permission, the two brothers were understandably nervous. Along with their friend and cousin Caleb Caudill, they had two weeks to learn several songs and prepare for...
As it closes the books on another record year for private support, WEKU, the public radio service of Eastern Kentucky University, is celebrating a national first-place award for its weekly public affairs program, Eastern Standard. “Diversity in Media,”...
