Eastern Kentucky University’s 2019 Homecoming king and queen both proved that being new on campus doesn’t mean you can’t break barriers and achieve your dreams.

While pursuing a master’s in public health from Eastern Kentucky University, Mary Sheldon earned an accolade many researchers spend their whole careers hoping for. Her capstone research was recently the cover story of a prominent peer-reviewed journal.

Bailey Bird and Chance Burnett, juniors at Eastern Kentucky University, earned awards in competitive events at the Phi Beta Lambda National Leadership Conference this summer.

Eastern Kentucky University is presenting the twentieth year of its Chautauqua Lecture Series beginning next week, Thursday, Sept. 12, with Yale University professor and author, Oswald Schmitz, on the topic of his recent book, "The New Ecology: Rethinking a Science for the Anthropocene."

Tom Logsdon, a 1959 graduate of EKU, was recently named one of 28 official inventors of the GPS by the U.S. Air Force.

After becoming a mother at age 17, Jasmine Lofton worked long hours waiting tables just to keep the bills paid. This summer, she graduated from EKU and attained her dream job teaching Spanish at Model Laboratory School.