Twenty-five EKU students were recently inducted into Eta Sigma Gamma, the national health education honorary. Eastern boasts the second oldest chapter in the U.S. The inductees are: Shalomel Achi, Samuel Allen, Tenille Allen, Rebecca Banks, Nyah Bonds, Alivia...
An Eastern Kentucky University graduate student has received a scholarship from the Kentucky Public Health Association (KPHA). Tyler Caldwell, London, who’s pursuing a master’s degree in public health, is the 2017 recipient of the Ellen M. Buchart...
Model Laboratory School submitted eight applications to the Governor’s Scholars Program (GSP), and all eight students were accepted. The juniors accepted into GSP are: Uma Aikat, Sophie Austin, Josh Collier, Laura Cole, Jarett Insko, Patrick Nnoromele, Avanti...
Children are often told they can be anything they want, no matter their background. As they get older, the world tends to teach them otherwise. EKU junior Dakota Himes didn’t let that negativity stop him from pursuing his dreams, and as a result, recently earned...
Months before its new Center for Professional Sales launches, Eastern Kentucky University is already ranked among the nation’s “Top Universities for Professional Sales Education” by the Sales Education Foundation. The University’s Department of...
Standing in the middle of the new beef handling facility at Eastern Kentucky University’s Meadowbrook Farm, Mark Deesing said he has seen “about a dozen” university-based beef cattle handling facilities designed by his renowned colleague, Temple...
Sixteen Eastern Kentucky University business students were inducted recently into the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society. Business seniors, representing the top 10 percent of their graduating class, master's degree students representing the top 20 percent of their...
If you had told Alexa Turner two years ago that she would not only be competing at a mock trial national tournament championship but also interning in Washington, D.C., she would have laughed it off. Yet, that’s exactly what she’s doing. Turner, a junior...
The Kentucky Innovation Network (KIN) at Eastern Kentucky University helped 15 teams of Lee County High School students prepare for the Lieutenant Governor’s Entrepreneurship Challenge pitch competition. Out of 700 teams across Kentucky, one from Lee County High...
When Eastern Kentucky University junior Lucy Burkhart entered the Patterson Scholar program, a scholarship offered by the Department of Management, Marketing, and International Business (MMIB) that gives $2,000 annually to high-achieving business students, she...