The newsletter for the WKU community
May 22, 2019
The Center for Gifted Studies hosting Duke TIP recognition ceremony today
About 300 seventh graders from across the state are visiting the WKU campus today for the Duke Talent Identification Program Kentucky Recognition Ceremony .
 
The Duke University Talent Identification Program is a nonprofit educational organization founded in 1980 and is a major leader in identifying academically talented students and providing innovative programs to support the optimal development of their educational potential.
 
The Center for Gifted Studies at WKU has hosted the Duke TIP Kentucky Recognition Ceremony since 1982. Each May, some of the most academically talented seventh graders in the Commonwealth who took the ACT or SAT and earned qualifying scores are honored in the ceremony at WKU.
 

  • 11 a.m.: Informational Session on WKU's summer residential programs for gifted students, Gary Ransdell Hall Auditorium
  • 12:30 p.m.: Campus Tour; meet at the Preston Health and Activities Center
  • 2 p.m.: Duke TIP Recognition Ceremony, Diddle Arena; keynote speaker is state Rep. Patti Minter, a WKU History professor; other speakers include Dr. Julia Roberts, Mahurin Professor of Gifted Studies and Executive Director of The Center for Gifted Studies and The Carol Martin Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky, and Kathie Anderson, Gifted Education Academic Program Consultant, Office of Teaching Learning, Kentucky Department of Education

CLIMBING HIGHER
WKU’s chapter of Student United Way set a goal at the beginning of the 2018-2019 school year to raise enough funds to make a community grant to a United Way of Southern Kentucky affiliated program. Earlier this month, the chapter presented $1,000 to HOTEL INC's Street Medicine Program. Learn More
2 WKU students selected for Fulbright Summer Institutes
WKU students Derek Collins of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and Nathan Terrell of Morehead have been selected to participate in Fulbright Summer Institutes in the United Kingdom.
Derek Collins (left) and Nathan Terrell (right) are the ninth and 10th WKU students to be selected for the prestigious Fulbright Summer Institutes program since 2012.
3 WKU students national finalists in Hearst program
WKU students Gabriel Scarlett, Skyler Ballard and Kathryn Ziesig will compete in the national finals of the 59th annual Hearst Journalism Awards Program June 1-6 in San Francisco.
Follow WKU Storm Chase
The 10th annual WKU Storm Chase class is under way as eight WKU students are on a two-week trip across the Great Plains to forecast, analyze, document and study severe convective storms. WKU President Timothy C. Caboni joined the group earlier this week.
Follow the WKU storm chasers on Twitter or on the Meteorology Blog .
Follow Bike4Alz
Bike4Alz Team 007 has started its journey across the country to raise money and awareness for Alzheimer's research. The WKU students are traveling from San Francisco, California, to Virginia Beach, Virginia, and are scheduled to complete their trip on July 20.
Follow Bike4Alz Team 007 on Facebook , Twitter and Instagram .
Journey to the Vote event
As part of WKU's Journey to the Vote celebration and commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, WKU will host a kickoff event and proclamation signing at the Kentucky Museum at 2 p.m. June 4, which is the 100th anniversary of the amendment's passage by the U.S. Senate.
WKU faculty member wins Blanchard Dissertation Prize
The American Journalism Historians Association has announced Rich Shumate, assistant professor in WKU's School of Journalism & Broadcasting , as the winner of the 2019 Margaret A. Blanchard Dissertation Prize. Shumate, who completed his dissertation at the University of Florida, was recognized for his work on Elite Voices and Irritated Conservatives: Pathways Leading to the Perception of Liberal Media Bias Arising from Elite News Media Coverage of the Emergence of Movement Conservatism, 1960-1964 .
Rich Shumate, assistant professor in WKU's School of Journalism & Broadcasting
Industrial/Organizational Psychology faculty, alumni attend annual conference
WKU Industrial/Organizational Psychology faculty members and graduate program alumni attended the Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). More than 6,000 Industrial/Organizational (I/O) psychologists from across the United States and around the globe attended the April meeting in National Harbor, Maryland. SIOP is the premier membership organization for the science and practice of I/O psychology, the scientific study of the workplace.
WKU Industrial/Organizational Psychology faculty and graduate program alumni who attended the Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology included (back row, from left) Kayla Finuf, Carolyn Hill-Fotouthi, Dr. Betsy Shoenfelt, Dr. Katrina Burch, Jackie Cavanaugh, Thomas Carnahan, Chris Van Fultz and Jerry Seibert; (front row, from left) Justin Jones, Kaci Grant and Sarah Adams. Not pictured: Tessa Seidler, Kristen Ruga and Steven King.
Spotlight: The Ashen Egg
The Ashen Egg is an annual journal written by the WKU English Department showcasing undergraduate essays on literature, film, rhetoric, English pedagogy, linguistics and popular culture. Although The Ashen Egg is in its seventh year of print, not many people know the origins of the publication.
News from Department of Folk Studies & Anthropology
Recent updates from WKU’s Department of Folk Studies & Anthropology :
 
Retired University Distinguished Professor of Folk Studies Michael Ann Williams was recently awarded the title Emeritus .
 
 
Assistant Professor of Folk Studies Tim Frandy discussed the Sámi , the indigenous peoples of the Nordic countries, on "A Public Affair" podcast.
Summer Dining Hours
Here's a reminder from the WKU Restaurant Group about what on-campus restaurants are open to serve you this summer:




Banner/TopNet Maintenance
Here's a reminder from WKU Information Technology Services :

Banner and TopNet will be down Saturday from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. for database upgrades. Due to this maintenance, Infoview and Banner Finance Reports also will be down. Systems that query Banner data, such as MyStuff and password reset pages, will also be affected. Blackboard, Email, WKU file shares and most other systems will not be affected.
Updates during outages are posted to Twitter and the ITS systems status page . If you require assistance, contact WKU ITS .
View from the Hill
Sam Bush was just days away from registering for his freshman year at WKU when he was invited to join a band in Louisville called Bluegrass Alliance. On May 10, Bush received an honorary doctorate from his hometown university as WKU's Amy Bingham tells us in the View from the Hill .
May
24-26
Friday-Sunday
High School Graduations

WKU will host the following high school graduations at Diddle Arena: May 24 -- Warren Central, 6:30 p.m.; May 25 -- South Warren, 9 a.m., Warren East, noon, Greenwood, 3:30 p.m., Beacon Academy/GEO International High School/Lighthouse Academy, 7 p.m.; May 26 -- Logan County, 6 p.m.
May
27
Monday
Memorial Day Holiday

WKU offices will be closed for the Memorial Day holiday. 
May
27
Monday
High School Baseball & Softball

WKU will host the Fourth Region baseball and softball tournaments through May 29 at Nick Denes Field and the WKU Softball Complex.
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