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WKU YMLA Program students attend Educators Rising National Conference |
From the classroom to the competition. The WKU Young Male Leadership Academy started with speakers and team-building activities and finished with a trip to the Educators Rising National Conference in Orlando, Florida, where students competed in different categories.
“The WKU Young Male Leadership Academy Program (YMLA) is an education recruitment initiative for high school young men of diverse backgrounds,” said Julia Rivas, Recruitment Coordinator for Equity and Diversity in Teaching and YMLA Program Coordinator. “In this program, students are exposed to topics such as communication, leadership, team-building, and public speaking skills with a great emphasis on teaching as a way to motivate students into the education profession.”
The 23 YMLA students represent 9-12 grade students from Bowling Green Independent School District, Warren County Public Schools, and Simpson County Public Schools.
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WKU concrete canoe team 5th in nation |
WKU’s Accursed placed fifth overall in the 36th annual American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) Concrete Canoe Competition. WKU was among 20 teams in the competition held June 10-12 during the ASCE Civil Engineering Student Championships at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. WKU finished fourth in technical proposal and fifth in oral presentation. In canoe races, WKU finished third in men’s slalom, fifth in women’s slalom, fifth in women’s sprint and fifth in men’s sprint. At 134 pounds, WKU’s canoe was the lightest at the competition and the lightest in WKU concrete canoe history. WKU engineering students also qualified for the ASCE UESI Surveying Competition, placing 11th overall.
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Dr. Evelyn Thrasher, Sr. Associate Dean for Faculty and Administration and Professor of Analytics and Information Systems, is serving as the Interim Dean of the Gordon Ford College of Business. Learn More
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Academic Innovation: Instructional Leadership, School Principal |
WKU’s College of Education and Behavioral Sciences is not only educating tomorrow’s teachers, but the college also helps current teachers become principals. Educators from all over the state have jumped at the chance to prepare to become a principal. Emily Tighe, current student and District Digital Learning Coach for Fayette County Public Schools, explained why she is in the program. “I chose to apply and participate in the Western Kentucky University Instructional Leadership Program because I am passionate about supporting teachers. Working in the education field has been a fulfilling experience for me, and I wanted to learn more about how to effectively support and grow teachers." |
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Can ChatGPT help with HR tasks? Seth Hartz is finding out the answer firsthand. A rising senior from Owensboro, Hartz is exploring the human resources field as an HR intern with Owl's Head Alloys BG. Hartz is majoring in Management with a concentration in Human Resources. |
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Gatton graduates recognized in Russian Essay Contest |
Eight recent Gatton Academy graduates received bronze, silver, or gold distinctions in this year’s National Russian Essay Contest through the American Council of Teachers of Russian. Students at The Gatton Academy can enroll in Russian coursework taught by Professor Ekaterina Myakshina in WKU’s Department of Modern Languages. |
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Gatton Academy awarded GM Community Impact Grant |
The Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science at WKU was named one of eight organizations to receive a collective $100,000 from the GM Bowling Green Assembly Plant through the GM Community Impact Grants (CIG) Program. The Gatton Academy received $15,000 to support five students participating in summer academic opportunities across Kentucky and the United States. |
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Gatton Academy team wins State Envirothon Competition |
A team from The Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science at WKU placed first overall at the 2023 State Envirothon Competition in May and will compete at the National Competition this month in New Brunswick, Canada. |
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WKU team attends water resources training course in China |
Crawford Hydrology Lab (CHL) Director and University Distinguished Professor of Hydrogeology Chris Groves has returned from China with students Evie Dukes and Leah Groves, where they attended an international training course organized by the International Research Center on Karst (IRCK) Under the Auspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). WKU faculty, students, and staff have been collaborating with Chinese colleagues in water resources research in southwest China’s spectacular karst landscapes for more than 25 years. |
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WKU group presents research project during EPA P3 Expo |
WKU Architectural Science students Caitlyn Blandford, Rachel Payne and Niang (Lydia) Cing, along with Dr. O.E. Mansour, Assistant Professor of Architectural Science at the WKU School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, attended the EPA P3 Expo recently in Washington, D.C., and presented their project titled “An experimental study to develop affordable non-invasive radon mitigation system for single-family dwellings.” |
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Hilltopper Philosophy Academy |
What is it like to be a bat? Do plants have feelings? How do we know we are conscious? These are just some of the questions our pre-college philosophers answered in the Hilltopper Philosophy Academy. |
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Metals Innovation Initiative announces call for innovations |
The Metals Innovation Initiative (MI2) invites members of the WKU community to participate in a nationwide call for innovations, a competition aiming to discover groundbreaking solutions that can bring sustainable benefits to the metals industry, both in Kentucky and on a global scale. MI2, a nonprofit organization based at the WKU Innovation Campus, is focused on bringing stakeholders together to make Kentucky the leader in metals innovation, with a focus on sustainability, commercialization, advanced research, and talent development. The deadline to submit innovations is August 15. Applicants who are selected will be invited to pitch their ideas to a panel in Louisville in September as part of the inaugural MI2 Annual Conference, focused this year on The Factory of the Future. More: MI2 July 2023 newsletter
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Bike4Alz Team 11 is making its way across Kentucky after stopping in Bowling Green for an event Saturday evening. The team's 3,600-mile cross country trip to raise money and awareness for Alzheimer’s research is scheduled to end July 27 in Virginia Beach, Virginia. More: Bike4Alz calendar
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Staff Senate
The WKU Staff Senate will meet at 10 a.m. today at Downing Student Union, room 2081. Learn More
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Planetarium Show
PlanetQuest: Discovering Worlds Around Other Stars will be presented at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Hardin Planetarium. Learn More
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Centennial Celebration
The College Heights Foundation will celebrate its centennial from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday at the Cliff Todd Center, 1703 Chestnut St. Learn More
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