The newsletter for the WKU community
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WKU Art Gallery's new manager working to engage students and community
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Victoria Layne, a 2018 WKU Art graduate, has been playing a major role in the
WKU Art Department
this past year. When former Art Gallery Director Kristina Arnold was promoted to department head, Layne was recruited and put in charge of managing
WKU’s Gallery
, where she curates and promotes art exhibits created by current students.
“The biggest challenge is figuring out how to engage the community,” said Layne, “not just WKU students and faculty, but also Bowling Green as a whole.”
Layne has been finding new ways to use her experience at WKU to help make the exhibits engaging for students.
“Being that I graduated very recently, I have a student perspective still, so I try to keep that in mind when I’m thinking about what would students like to see in the gallery, what would faculty like to see in the gallery, and how do I connect interdisciplinary works in the exhibits,” Layne said.
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Master Mathematicians, Impact the World: Leadership for Girls, and Pop Art Printmaking are a few of the 26 classes bringing 415 students from across the region to WKU’s campus for the 27
th
year of
Fall Super Saturdays
. The 2019 slate of classes kicks off on Saturday. Coordinated by
The Center for Gifted Studies
, the event offers minds-on, hands-on learning to high-interest, high-ability students in first through eighth grades.
Learn More
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WKU marketing students place second in competition
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WKU marketing students Luke Gattis and Almedin Sivro finished second overall in the American Marketing Association (AMA) Marketing Strategy Competition held on Oct. 26 at Trevecca Nazarene University. Gattis, a senior marketing major from Elizabethtown, and Sivro, a sophomore marketing and business data analytics double major from Bowling Green, competed as a pair against approximately 80 other students from WKU, Trevecca and Middle Tennessee State. The competition serves as practice for the AMA International Collegiate Conference.
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From left: Almedin Sivro, Trevecca Nazarene University AMA faculty adviser Roy Philip, and Luke Gattis.
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WKU Basketball Event Parking
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WKU Basketball season begins this week with the Lady Toppers vs. Kentucky Wesleyan tonight and the Hilltoppers vs. Kentucky State on Saturday night. Check out basketball event parking details and maps from
WKU Parking & Transportation
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Parking lot closings for WKU Football vs. FAU on Saturday
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WKU Football will play Florida Atlantic at 3 p.m. Saturday. In preparation for the game, several parking lots will be reserved Friday night and Saturday.
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She’s already found success as a producer for both small- and large-screen productions, but one WKU alumna is branching out with her first foray into fiction writing. Deb Spera of North Hollywood, Calif., who has produced iconic shows such as
Criminal Minds
and
Army Wives,
published her first novel,
Call Your Daughter Home
, earlier this year.
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"I love the mysterious, anything that's different, anything that's out of the ordinary, and I think I just like the unexplained,” said Dr. Tamela Williams Smith, who enjoys sharing ghost stories and WKU history with students during campus ghost tours. (
More:
WKU ghost stories
;
A Haunted Hollow
)
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JET Program Session
The Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program will be holding an information session from 4 to 5 p.m. in Mahurin Honors College-International Center, room 1011.
More Info
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Lady Topper Basketball
The Lady Toppers tip off the 2019-20 season with an exhibition game against Kentucky Wesleyan at 7 p.m. at Diddle Arena. Trick or Treat at 6 p.m. on the lower concourse.
More Info
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TOP IDEAS
TOP IDEAS Entrepreneurship Challenge Trade Show and Pitch Competition will be held from noon to 3 p.m. in the Downing Student Union.
More Info
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