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Non-Traditional Student Elliott Wins Goldwater Scholarship

EKU's fifth-ever Barry Goldwater Scholar is Drew Elliott, an honor student who plans to pursue a Ph.D.
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Couple’s 65 Collective Years of Service is Recognized on the Campus Beautiful

Billy and Nancy Thames' children donated a campus bench to honor their parents' dedication to the teaching profession and combined tenure of 65 years in EKU's College of Education.
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Donor Recognizes 15 Years of Giving by Awarding 15 Diversity Scholarships from Endowment

When Ricky Gordon, ’91 ’20, realized he had been giving to the Ricky and Christian Joelle Gordon Endowed Diversity Scholarship for 15 years, he wanted to recognize the milestone by giving 15 additional scholarships to minority students.
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Retired Professor Funds Endowment to Honor Former Student’s Legacy

Dr. Gary Kuhnhenn, retired geology professor, department chair and dean, funded the Rick Schroder Student Assist Fund in memory of former student, Rick Schroder.
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Campus Hosts Vaccination Clinic

The clinic will be located at Eastern Kentucky University’s Perkins Building and appointments will be available online at www.ScheduleYourVaccine.com starting March 3.
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EKU Joins ASUN Athletic Conference

Eastern Kentucky University and all 16 of its athletics teams will join the ASUN Conference on July 1, 2021, Vice President and Director of Athletics Matt Roan announced today.

Mary Ousley, chief strategy officer for PruittHealth and past chair of the American Health Care Association, has been named...

Through a generous gift from Eastern Kentucky University board of regents chair and Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP partner Lewis...

Eastern Kentucky University’s second annual Giving Day will occur on April 14, with the goal this year of 1,000 individual...

In March 2021, Phillip Kennedy Johnson, a 2001 EKU School of Music alum, became the new writer for DC’s Superman and Action...

The EKU Chautauqua Lecture Series continues with Professor Jennifer Frey's "What is the Purpose of Life? Classical and...

Eastern Kentucky University has recently added an online Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree to a virtual lineup...

EKU’s Center for the Arts is returning to hosting live audiences on April 23 with a film from the Appalachian Shakespeare...

EKU’s seventh-semester senior School of Nursing students are getting hands-on experience like no other students in the history...

The COVID-19 pandemic has seen potential college students move in and out of in-person instruction and has forced higher...

This is another in a series of interviews with staff, faculty, administrators, and students across campus promoting the goals...

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