WKU News

May 29th, 2025

For the second year in a row, WKU is a Top Performing Institution of Boren Awards, a Department of Defense National Security Education Program initiative, with six Scholars awarded $25,000 each for immersive language study abroad.

May 27th, 2025

24 WKU students earned the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for study abroad in the March 2025 application cycle, more than all other public universities in Kentucky combined. Combined, their scholarships totaled $83,000.

May 20th, 2025

The Freeman Award for Study in Asia (Freeman-ASIA) recognized four WKU students as winners and two additional students as alternates. Additionally, the Phi Kappa Phi Study Abroad Grant was awarded to one student.

Mar 31st, 2025

Sophomore Lilian Branch has earned a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship that fully funds a summer of intensive Chinese language study for the second year in a row.

Jun 10th, 2024

Two WKU students were awarded the Freeman Award for Study in Asia (Freeman-ASIA), and three additional students were awarded Phi Kappa Phi Study Abroad Grants.

May 9th, 2024

18 WKU students earned the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for study abroad in the March 2024 application cycle, more than any other college or university in Kentucky.

Apr 29th, 2024

WKU students Kirstin Bobbitt, Carolyn Brueggemann, Allison Francis, Samuel Gorecki, Maria Julian, Kierigan McEvoy, and Serena White have each been awarded $25,000 David L. Boren Scholarships to fund language-focused study abroad in 2024-25.

Mar 25th, 2024

Two WKU students have been offered 2024 Critical Language Scholarships, and two have been designated alternates. CLS is an intensive overseas language and cultural program of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

Jan 18th, 2024

Four WKU students have been selected this spring as Semi-Finalists for 2024 Critical Language Scholarships, an intensive overseas language and cultural immersion program for American students enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities.

Jan 8th, 2024

22 WKU students earned the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for study abroad in the October 2023 application cycle, more than all of Kentucky's other colleges and universities combined. Their awards totaled $77,500.

Nov 1st, 2023

WKU has been named a Top Producer of Gilman Scholarship recipients by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA).

Jun 1st, 2023

20 WKU students earned the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for study abroad in the March 2023 application cycle—as many as all other colleges and universities in Kentucky combined.

May 26th, 2023

Two WKU students were awarded the Freeman-ASIA scholarship, and three additional WKU students were awarded Phi Kappa Phi study abroad grants. Their awards totaled $11,000.

Apr 28th, 2023

Olivia Blackmon, Noah Lyles, and Langley Williams have been awarded $25,000 David L. Boren Scholarships to fund intensive language study in Taiwan during the 2023-2024 academic year. Reece Gillespie has been named an alternate in the competition. All are

Apr 6th, 2023

Seven WKU students have been offered 2023 Critical Language Scholarships, and one has been designated an alternate. The CLS Program fully funds summer intensive language study abroad in 15 languages critical to U.S. national security.

Feb 22nd, 2023

Eight WKU students have been selected this spring as Semi-Finalists for the 2023 Critical Language Scholarship Program, a summer intensive language program fully funded by the US Department of State.

Feb 20th, 2023

31 WKU students earned the Gilman Scholarship in the October 2022 application cycle, more than in any other cycle and more than all of Kentucky's other public institutions combined. The awards totaled $128,000.

Jan 19th, 2023

WKU students have earned over $1 million from the nationally competitive Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program. Since the program's inception in 2001, 291 WKU students have been named Gilman Scholars.

Dec 15th, 2022

WKU student Ralphy Gardner of Todd County was named a 2023 Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Graduate Fellow. He is one of 45 fellows selected nationwide and only the third WKU student to earn this honor, the second in two years.

Aug 4th, 2022

One hundred thirteen Hilltoppers submitted 139 applications for the nation’s most prestigious scholarship competitions during 2021-22, earning recognition 58 times with a total value of more than $383,175.