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April 17, 2019
More than 150 authors, illustrators will attend Southern Kentucky Book Fest
More than 150 authors and illustrators will attend the 21st annual Southern Kentucky Book Fest April 26-27, including New York Times bestselling author Angie Thomas, well known for young adult novel The Hate U Give , which was adapted into a movie in October 2018. Silas House, author of Southernmost and resident of Berea, also will attend.

Schedule highlights include the following (all events at WKU's Knicely Conference Center):


CLIMBING HIGHER
Good luck to the members of the WKU Forensics Team who are competing this weekend in the 2019 National Forensic Association National Speech and Debate Tournament in Santa Ana, California. WKU won the NFA speech and debate titles in 2018.
Student's experience abroad inspired fashion show
WKU senior Tiye Gardner has studied abroad in Argentina, Mexico and Costa Rica as part of her major in Spanish and minor in Citizenship & Social Justice. Her experience has inspired a fashion show at 5 this evening at Downing Student Union, room 3005.
“I think that studying abroad is so important when it comes to growing as a person, but also opening your mind to the world and to people,” WKU senior Tiye Gardner said.
Hotel register provides material for classroom assignment
WKU English Professor Walker Rutledge takes his English 300 class to the Kentucky Building for an introduction to manuscript collections held by Library Special Collections. The students select a collection to read and then write a summary related to it. WKU student Cameron Fontes chose to write about Bowling Green's Mansard Hotel register from the collection.

University Press of Kentucky visit
Leila Salisbury, Director of the University Press of Kentucky, and Patrick Dowd, an acquisitions editor, will visit WKU on Thursday. Dowd will meet with faculty and staff about possible book projects in the Dean’s Conference Room, Ivan Wilson Fine Arts Center 221, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 1 to 2 p.m. Contact Tasha Huber to schedule appointments . At 2 p.m. in FAC 221, Salisbury will present a short session on modern scholarly publishing.

The University Press of Kentucky, the scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is consortium of Kentucky public universities, five private colleges and two historical societies.
Spotlight: Hardin Planetarium show
Hardin Planetarium is presenting Saturn's "Young" Rings at 7 p.m. Tuesday, 7 p.m. Thursday and 2 p.m. Sunday through May 16. The show takes a look at the age of Saturn's rings in context of our lives, significant events in the history of the Earth, the formation of our Solar System, and the birth of our Universe in order to develop an understanding of what "young" actually means from a cosmic perspective.
Center for Energy Systems
WKU will celebrate the expansion of the Center for Energy Systems at 4 p.m. today at College High Hall, room 1115. In case you missed it, WKU's Amy Bingham took a look at the hands-on research under way at the center in last week's View from the Hill .

April
17
Wednesday
Center for Energy Systems Celebration

WKU will celebrate the expansion of the Center for Energy Systems at 4 p.m. at College High Hall, room 1115. Speakers include WKU President Timothy C. Caboni; Acting Provost Cheryl Stevens; Farhad Ashrafzadeh, director of the center; and Jared Walden, staff member and former student. More Info
April
18
Thursday
Earth Day Festival

The annual Earth Day Festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at WKU's Centennial Mall.
April
18
Thursday
Create It Forward Reception & Performances

Create It Forward reception will begin at 5 p.m. at the Kentucky Museum followed by performances at 6 p.m. More Info
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