Students Dine with Professors
Ten professors and deans opened up their homes for dinner with the Honors College class of 2015. (Read more...)
View ArticleAccomplished Students Join the Honors College
The Honors College at WKU welcomed the largest and strongest cohort of first year students to date into the Class of 2015 this fall. (Read more...)
View ArticleHonors Student Balances Studying and Cheerleading
Honors student Emily Bouchard spends her time outside the classroom as a member of the WKU cheerleading team. (Read more...)
View Article2010 graduate published in leading journal
Johnathan Brantley, a 2010 graduate of the Honors College at WKU, recently published an article in Science, a leading journal for scientific research.
View ArticleSenior receives funds for trip to Kenya
Justin Pile, a senior in the Honors College at WKU from Coxs Creek, recently received a Foundation for Global Scholars award that will partially fund international experience in Kasigau, Kenya where he...
View ArticleCommunity involvement key to new course
A new class is educating students on citizenship by getting them involved with issues they care about. HON 251: Citizen and Self is a course designed specifically for Honors students and team-taught by...
View ArticleScholars present research at Kentucky Honors Roundtable
Six Honors College at WKU scholars recently traveled to Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Ky. to participate in Kentucky Honors Roundtable: a twice-annual gathering of student researchers and...
View ArticleHonors graduates serve globally through Rotary
The Rotary Foundation has awarded Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarships to Lindsey Filiatreau and Lindsey Houchin, 2011 graduates of WKU. Each of the two scholars will travel to Africa to complete graduate...
View ArticleStudents leap into Honors community
Friendship trods out concern during the Honors freshman orientation retreat. Read about one student's experience with the community bonding experience.
View ArticleWhitney Montgomery represents Honors College during homecoming festivities
Glitter. Sequins. Pompoms. Brightly colored Mardi Gras masks. Chaos. Kids. And the WKU Homecoming Queen candidates were in the middle of it all. Among them was the Honors College’s own representative,...
View ArticleVideo: Community starts early
H4, the Honors Freshman Orientation Retreat, is held each August to welcome new Honors students into the Honors community. Registration information is available early in the summer.
View ArticleHonors Scholars Serve with the Governor’s Scholars Program
Many Honors scholars give back to programs from which they received opportunities when they were younger. Read the story of five students did so this summer as a part of the Kentucky Governor's...
View ArticleVideo: Hemingway & Faulkner course leaves the classroom
An Honors English class spent two days in Chicago visiting sites relevant to the early years of Ernest Hemingway's life. "Hemingway & Faulkner", a course offered each fall, also visits Oxford,...
View ArticleWKU Dance Around the World
If you thought that courses in the Honors College at WKU were simply about exploding chemicals and documenting results in a lab or sitting in a dull classroom and debating the philosophies of people...
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