Now entering its seventh season, the Eastern Kentucky University Center for the Arts invites new and returning guests to “Experience It Live” with an astounding array of world-class entertainers set to take the stage in 2017-18. From classic rock to...
In 2012, Jessica Casebolt took the stage at University of Kentucky’s Singletary Center for the Arts and made audiences swoon with her rendition of the song “Superstar” as part of the talent competition for Miss Kentucky. On May 13, 2017, the...
As an agriculture student, Theodore Herr knows the importance of care to grow a successful crop. First, you must ensure you are planting your seeds in conditions that enable growth. You must make sure their roots are firmly stationed in the ground, and most...
The Eastern Kentucky University Board of Regents, meeting in regular session on Monday, June 19, heard a Strategic Enrollment Growth Plan presented by various campus officials. The University, currently experiencing record enrollment of approximately 17,000, hopes to...
The inaugural issue of the Kentucky Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship (KJUS), housed at EKU and the first of its kind in the state, is now online. The multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed online journal can be viewed in EKU’s digital repository, Encompass, at...
Approximately 17,000 students attend Eastern Kentucky University. To some, that number may just be another statistic, but to many incoming freshmen, it can be overwhelming, at first. Melissa Bellamy, who recently delivered the student commencement address for the...
While visiting the Dachau concentration camp memorial site in Germany in May 2016, Tyler Swafford experienced what he called “a rare epiphany. “The site today is a quiet, eerie place afflicted by the inescapable weight of history,” the recent Eastern...
Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States once said, “It is not easy to be a pioneer – but oh, it is fascinating!” Eastern Kentucky University graduate McKenna Revel shared similar sentiments on May 12 when...
Twenty-five Madison County middle-school students are spending this week on the campus of Eastern Kentucky University as participants in the annual Call Me Mister Student Success Academy, which provides college-readiness information and experiences to a diverse group...
Ryan D. Green, executive director of budgeting and financial planning at Eastern Kentucky University, has been selected to participate in a Council of State Governments (CSG) work group related to electronic payments. The group will update and expand a landmark study,...
