Daily Archives: February 4, 2010

Dartmouth’s Peter W. Travis to receive Warren-Brooks Award at April event

The Robert Penn Warren Center at WKU announces that the award jury has chosen Disseminal Chaucer: Rereading the Nun’s Priest’s Tale by Peter W. Travis of Dartmouth College for the 2009 Warren-Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism. The award will … Continue reading

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Chess workshop series begins Feb. 27

On Feb. 27, WKU’s Chess Club will make the opening move in The MasterMind Conference, a four-workshop series designed for educators and community members interested in learning how to start-up, operate and sustain a successful scholastic chess club. In addition … Continue reading

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WKU Business Plan Competition

The Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the Small Business Development Center will co-sponsor a WKU campuswide Business Plan Competition, open to all graduate and undergraduate students.  For information, contact: Wil Clouse (wil.clouse@wku.edu), Krist Schell (krist.schell@wku.edu) or Adam Brownlee (adam.brownlee@wku.edu).

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3 WKU graduates selected as winners in Kentucky veterinary incentive program

Three Kentucky veterinarians who are WKU graduates have been selected to receive assistance in repaying their student loans under a new program addressing the shortage of large food animal veterinarians and technicians in the state. Dr. Patricia Davis of Cynthiana, … Continue reading

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McGruder’s work on African telescope project featured in Science magazine

At times, it has looked more like a scene from the movie Braveheart than a science conference. “Together we are stronger!” intoned Charles McGruder III to a room packed with physicists from across Africa, who applauded and pumped their fists … Continue reading

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