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EKU professors directing, producing at Pioneer Playhouse
An Eastern Kentucky theater professor, Homer Tracy, is directing the Pioneer Playhouse’s production of “Lend Me A Tenor” which opens tomorrow night.
Tracy teaches in EKU’s department of English and theater.
Another EKU professor, Emerson St. John, who serves on the playhouse’s board of directors, is producing the Ken Ludwig comedy. St. John teaches communications at EKU.
Clear forecast
Weather data from Eastern Kentucky University’s Meadowbrook Farm soon will be available live on the Internet.
Temperature, humidity and solar radiation, as well as wind speed and direction readings from instruments being installed at the farm will be updated on kymesonet.org every five minutes.
Graphs will display data for the previous 24 hours, according to Dr. Stuart Foster, who directs the state climate center at Western Kentucky University.
Professor lectures in England, Germany
Dr. Allen D. Engle Sr., professor of management at Eastern Kentucky University, recently spent three weeks in Europe, presenting at an international management conference and serving as a guest lecturer in England.
He also attended a series of meetings in Germany, where he holds a three-year appointment as visiting professor at the Berlin campus of ESCP Europe. ESCP Europe is the oldest institution dedicated to business education in the world with campuses in Paris, London, Madrid, Berlin and Turin.
WEKU captures national award for news reporting
WEKU, the public radio service of Eastern Kentucky University, has again received national acclaim for its news reporting.
The station earned second place in the breaking news coverage category for mid-sized public radio news staffs (three to four reporters) from the Public Radio News Directors Inc. The award recognized a segment on an effigy of Barack Obama that was found hanging at the University of Kentucky.
Board of Regents extend Whitlock’s contract
The Eastern Kentucky University Board of Regents voted Monday to extend President Doug Whitlock’s contract by two years, through July 31, 2013.
The vote came as the regents met in Manchester to dedicate the university’s new campus center.
Whitlock, who worked 38 years for the university before being named interim president in August 2007, was named president in April 2008.
EKU dedicates new Manchester campus
Terry Gray hears it nearly every day, yet never tires of it.
“This is the best thing that has ever happened to Clay County,” folks tell the director of Eastern Kentucky University’s Manchester Regional Campus.
The buzz is all about EKU’s new state-of-the-art Manchester facility, the Stivers Building, which was dedicated in formal ceremonies conducted Monday.
Depot and EKU partner on new mission project
Three Eastern Kentucky University students recently worked with Blue Grass Army Depot personnel to research ways to improve manufacturing processes of the depot’s new 81mm mortar cartridge fin assembly project.
The depot has been tasked with producing one of three types of mortar fin assemblies for the Department of the Army. The fin consists of two main components made from aluminum that are coated and assembled into one complete fin.
EKU’s Shain wins leadership award
Cindy Shain, director of the Kentucky Regional Community Policing Institute at Eastern Kentucky University, was named the winner of the Women Leading Kentucky’s Martha Layne Collins Leadership Award at its annual conference Tuesday in Lexington.
Before joining EKU, Shain was a deputy chief in the Louisville Police Department.
“Cindy is a strong leader — both professionally in a traditionally male-dominated field and through her volunteer activities,” said Janet Holloway, executive director of Women Leading Kentucky. “She is great examples of how women can impact the workplace and the community.”
Eastern professor advocates localized recycling complexes
While recycling efforts in the United States have come a long way in the past decade, an Eastern Kentucky University professor still sees room for improvement.
Dr. Joe Beck, a professor in EKU’s Department of Environmental Health Science who has more than 30 years of experience with environmental health issues involving risk communications and assessment issues, advocates that the system could be dramatically improved if solid waste materials collected were re-purposed in local facilities rather than shipped to other regions to be made into the new products.

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