The Center for the Performing Arts at Eastern Kentucky University formally introduced Katherine Eckstrand as its executive director Wednesday during a press conference on campus. Since 2005, Eckstrand has been the director of community development for the Ohio Arts Council in Columbus. She previously served as executive director of the Clark State Community College Performing Arts Center in Springfield, Ohio, from 1994 to 2005. In all, Eckstrand has 23 years experience in arts administration and promotion.....more>>
Going green has gotten Eastern Kentucky University a lot of attention, even making them a model for a similar University of Louisville project and a part of Gov. Steve Beshear’s comprehensive energy-savings plan. Representatives from Siemens Industry Inc. were on EKU’s campus Monday to give an update on the state’s largest-ever performance contract, according to Dan Crowley, Appalachian zone manager for Siemens.
Attorneys for Eastern Kentucky University have filed to have a tenure discrimination suit against the school moved to a federal courtroom. A notice of removal was filed in U.S. District Court in Lexington on Tuesday seeking to have marketing professor F. Mark Case’s suit against the university transferred out of Madison Circuit Court, where Case filed the suit Oct. 13. The notice claims that because Case’s suit raises issues of whether the university violated his due process rights under the U.S. Constitution, the federal court should have jurisdiction.
Tickets are on sale for the Eastern Kentucky University Theatre production of George Bernard Shaw’s “Candida.” It will be staged at 8 p.m. nightly Wednesday, Nov. 18, through Saturday, Nov. 21, and Sunday, Nov. 22, at 2 p.m. in the Gifford Theatre of the Campbell Building on Crabbe Street.
Eastern Kentucky University President Dr. Doug Whitlock is joining a select group of national university presidents and other educators at the offices of The New York Times this evening for the launching of a collaborative higher education project spearheaded by The City University of New York (CUNY) and The New York Times Knowledge Network, “Investing in Futures: Public Higher Education in America.”
Brightly colored beads slide across metal dowels as the students add and subtract to calculate a solution to the math problem. Just a typical elementary school classroom – except that it’s a classroom at Eastern Kentucky University and the students are education majors working on strategies to use with students who struggle in mathematics.
Eastern Kentucky University Level 2 associate nursing majors Brandi Ward, left, of Georgetown and Billie Elam of Jackson County hand out candy Friday on campus to freshman Matthew Butts of Henry County as part of the EKU nursing program’s Paint the Town Pink event to raise student awareness of breast cancer during the month of October. The nursing students also handed out literature and pins Friday and collected donations for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation to add to the $1,000 they raised by designing and selling breast cancer awareness T-shirts.
Alltech and Eastern Kentucky University will present a lecture Thursday by David Byrne, former European Union (EU) Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection. Byrne’s talk, will speak from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Posey Auditorium of the Stratton Building on “Life Experiences in the Legal World: Former Attorney General of Ireland, Former EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, and the Northern Ireland Peace Accords.” The event, including a reception from 6 to 7 p.m. outside the auditorium, is free and open to the public.
Eastern Kentucky University and state officials lavished praise on U.S. Ben Chandler, D-Sixth District, on Tuesday as he visited the campus to get an update on EKU’s bio-fuels partnership. In December, Chandler announced $4 million in federal funds he had “earmarked” for the project. In addition to the federal government and General Atomics of San Diego, the partners include local governments in Clark County, the LexTran bus system in Fayette County and BioFuel of Estill County.
If walls could talk, the conversations heard here would be more interesting than any overheard at parties in Washington or Hollywood. The Eastern Kentucky University Archives, a department of the EKU Libraries, is lined with books and file cabinets containing letters and other historical documents from politicians, sports figures, entertainers, scientists, historians and the “average” citizen. They include a personal letter from John F. Kennedy to Congressman Carl Perkins, pages from the handwritten draft of Noah Webster’s Dictionary of the American English Language, and the oldest document in the collections – a papal document written in 1319 during the reign of Pope John XXII.
Pharmacy Tech needed in retail pharmacy Pharmacy Tech needed in retail pharmacy setting for 30-35 hrs/wk. Exp preferred. Fax resumes to 859-624-9099, or mail to...>MORE
Furniture World Superstore in Richmond Furniture World Superstore in Richmond has an opening for a salesperson. Excellent pay and benefits. Resume's accep...>MORE
Kidz Zone now hiring FT & PT teachers and Kidz Zone now hiring FT & PT teachers and assistants day and night positions. Call 986-0099....>MORE
Everything from A-Z!!! Need to sell your bedroom suite, washer and dryer, or even selling an animal? Call Mayme or Melissa at 859-624-6681 to p...>MORE
