http://www.richmondregister.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:05:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/EKU/local_story_309090641.html http://www.richmondregister.com/EKU/local_story_309090641.html 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. Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:18:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/EKU/local_story_292081852.html http://www.richmondregister.com/EKU/local_story_292081852.html 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. Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:10:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/EKU/local_story_273071128.html http://www.richmondregister.com/EKU/local_story_273071128.html 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. Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:51:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/EKU/local_story_272075241.html http://www.richmondregister.com/EKU/local_story_272075241.html 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. Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:34:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/EKU/local_story_271083525.html http://www.richmondregister.com/EKU/local_story_271083525.html 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. Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:24:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/EKU/local_story_267082507.html http://www.richmondregister.com/EKU/local_story_267082507.html The Social Security numbers of more than 5,000 Eastern Kentucky University employees accidentally were posted on an online directory Sept. 29, 2008.EKU president Doug Whitlock issued a statement Wednesday addressing the matter and recommended that all employees during the 2007-08 academic year (with a last date of hire being Oct. 15, 2008) alert creditors.The file containing the information was removed from the Internet on Friday, Sept. 18, Whitlock said. Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:24:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/EKU/local_story_266082721.html http://www.richmondregister.com/EKU/local_story_266082721.html Next fall, Eastern Kentucky University’s library will open what planners call a cutting-edge innovation.The Noel Studio for Academic Creativity — at the library’s center — will give students a single location where they can get help with research, writing and public presentations.The studio will include sound-proof rooms with the latest audio-visual equipment so students can practice public presentations and review their performances. Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:13:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/EKU/local_story_264081401.html http://www.richmondregister.com/EKU/local_story_264081401.html With 16,200 students enrolled this fall, Eastern Kentucky University’s enrollment is up 2 percent, President Doug Whitlock told the board of regents Saturday. Freshman enrollment is up 6 percent and transfer enrollment is up 7, the president said. There is a downside to the positive numbers, however. An overall increase of 2 percent with larger percentages of incoming freshman and transfers indicates the university is not meeting its retention goals, Whitlock said. Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:39:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/EKU/local_story_259084020.html http://www.richmondregister.com/EKU/local_story_259084020.html As a young child, she spent countless hours searching for crawdads under rocks in nearby streams.As a teenager, she discovered the thrill of kayaking in wild rivers.From those formative experiences, Jessica Pulliam developed a deep awareness of the need to protect nature, an interest she has further explored as a student at Eastern Kentucky University. Now, the junior sociology major and Honors Program participant from Crestwood has parlayed her academic prowess and undergraduate research experiences into a prestigious Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Fellowship Award, one of only 20 given nationally and the only one in Kentucky. Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:38:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/EKU/local_story_259083833.html http://www.richmondregister.com/EKU/local_story_259083833.html Eastern Kentucky University music professor Connie Rhoades has been named state chair of the International Clarinet Association.The ICA is a community of clarinetists and clarinet enthusiasts that supports projects that will benefit clarinet performance; provides opportunities for the exchange of ideas, materials and information among its members; and fosters the composition, publication, recording and distribution of music for the clarinet. Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:28:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/EKU/local_story_257082852.html http://www.richmondregister.com/EKU/local_story_257082852.html An Oct. 1 hearing is scheduled for Madison Circuit Judge William G. Clouse to rule on Eastern Kentucky University’s motion to end a gender discrimination suit. Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:34:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/EKU/local_story_253083518.html http://www.richmondregister.com/EKU/local_story_253083518.html The economic education partnership involving Eastern Kentucky University, Central Bank, Madison County Schools and the Kentucky Council on Economic Education has led to the development of a training program for Madison County teachers in K-5 grades called “Economics: Math in Real Life” and is the recipient of a $24,650 Excellence in Economic Education Teacher Training grant. Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:27:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/EKU/local_story_253082729.html http://www.richmondregister.com/EKU/local_story_253082729.html The Gamma Theta chapter of the Chi Omega sorority at Eastern Kentucky University will host the eighth annual Just Wish for It! Walk For Wishes at 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 18 at the EKU track.The rain location will be the Alumni Coliseum concourse area.Call 624-2283 for more information. Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:25:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/EKU/local_story_253082617.html http://www.richmondregister.com/EKU/local_story_253082617.html Having welcomed approximately 15,000 students for fall semester classes, Eastern Kentucky University will roll out the maroon carpet for students’ family members during Family Weekend, Sept. 18-20.Scheduled events include golf, bingo, a family fun festival, picnic, a 5K walk and other fitness events, an art exhibit, EKU football game (with reduced-price tickets) and a Sunday brunch. Family Weekend also coincides with the semester’s first Spotlight Day, an event on Sept. 19 geared to prospective students and their families. Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:56:00 +0000 http://www.richmondregister.com/EKU/local_story_248225834.html http://www.richmondregister.com/EKU/local_story_248225834.html Eight undergraduate college students from around the nation, including three from Kentucky, joined three area teachers in a 10-week environmental research camp that focused on “Carbon Storage and Headwater Health in the Appalachian Headwaters.”The camp, co-hosted by Eastern Kentucky Environmental Research Institute at Eastern Kentucky University and the University of Kentucky’s Department of Civil Engineering, was the first in a series of three funded by a $537,400 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Undergraduates and the Research Experience for Teachers programs.