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How divided is your brain & what does it mean to be human?
What are the most important differences between the two brain hemispheres? How do they work together and against each other in shaping our world and the way we experience it? Why are people less happy...
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Energy: The most important issue of our time
The Department of Geography and Geology and the WKU Office of Sustainability invite you to a screening of the film Switch, an awarding winning documentary on what it will take to switch from our...
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Split brain, split views
Join the conversation about our divided brain and show it shaped our world at the last Honors Salon of this semester this Thursday, April 25, 7-8.30pm.
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WKU Earth Day Festival 2013
Tomorrow is the 7th annual WKU Earth Day Festival! Please join us at Centennial Mall, 11-3.30pm for the celebration! Individuals and organizations from campus and community will be sharing their...
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2013 Western Kentucky Film Festival
The 2013 Western Kentucky Film Festival kicks off today! All events are free and open to the public, so please make it a point to attend. 1.45pm – MMTH Auditorium Funding & Producing Independent...
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Broccoli is My Personal Jihad
Please, join us for our tenth and final installation of WTF?! Potter College’s Spring 2013 line-up, “Broccoli is My Personal Jihad” with Instructor Khaldoun Almousily from the Modern Languages...
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Newsweek ranks Gatton Academy #1 Public High School in the Country for the...
Congratulations! What a fantastic achievement! The ranking was just published this morning.
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Presentation & discussion of educational opportunities in Cuba
Raul Rodriguez is the Assistant Director of the Center for Hemispheric and United States Studies at the University of Havana. Mon, May 13, 2013, 2-3.30pm, Knicely Conference Center 112 Source: Jerry...
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Graduation: Medallions, Commencement & Ceremony
Congratulations to our graduates! We are very proud of you! These are just a few friendly reminders Medallions If you are attending the luncheon at the Knicely Center this Friday, you will receive the...
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David Foster Wallace on the meaning and value of education: Like fish in water?
David Foster Wallace is widely considered to be one of the most creative writers of the last 20 years. He is the author of the novel Infinite Jest (1996). These are some excerpts from his commencement...
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Every Every Every Generation Has Been the Me Me Me Generation
Interesting critique in the Atlantic Wire of the current cover story of Time magazine, including an illustrated historical contextualization: Basically, it’s not that people born after 1980 are...
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Presentation & discussion of educational opportunities in Cuba
Raul Rodriguez is the Assistant Director of the Center for Hemispheric and United States Studies at the University of Havana. Mon, May 13, 2013, 2-3.30pm, Knicely Conference Center 112 Source: Jerry...
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Spaceship Earth: A sing-along exploration of cosmic motion
We live on a world that just will not sit still. Join Hardin Planetarium’s staff for a new, multi-media full-dome presentation exploring the many ways that we humans are hurtling through our...
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Paid editorial internships with The Chronicle of Higher Education this fall...
The Chronicle of Higher Education is seeking four interns for the fall 2013 session, which will begin in September and last through December. The Chronicle’s internships aim to give current...
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Honors Education at Research Universities (HERU) Inaugural Conference
Honors colleges and programs are very diverse in terms of size, programming and institutional setting. The way they operate and respond to challenges is very much a function of these conditions. This...
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The Hyperconnected Life
According to Teens and Technology 2013, a report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, millennials are likely to benefit and suffer from their hyperconnected lives. Interesting to note how...
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What we should pay attention to
Paying Attention in the Digital Age is a recent post by Nigel Thrift, vice-chancellor and president of the University of Warwick in England, on The Chronicle of Higher Education’s blog WorldWise:...
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Cities, MOOCs, Global Networks
GlobalHigherEd: Surveying the Construction of Global Knowledge/Spaces for the Knowledge Economy (cross-posted since 2010 on Inside Higher Ed), May 21, 2013 Kris Olds discusses the tangle of global...
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