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CEDET Business Incubator Helps Local Entrepreneurs Grow Businesses

Posted: April 06, 2011

Tucked quietly away in a corner of Eastern Kentucky University’s Business and Technology Center are several rather non-descript small offices.

But it’s home to four area entrepreneurs who are taking advantage of a smorgasbord of services available through the Center for Economic Development, Entrepreneurship and Technology at EKU to grow their fledgling businesses.

Physics/Mathematics Major One of 275 Nationally to Receive Goldwater Scholarship

Posted: April 05, 2011

Combine an insatiable wonder about how things work, a work ethic born of hard work on the family farm, and supportive professors who make learning both fun and meaningful, and what do you get?

Professor's New Book Examines Dichotomy of American South

Posted: April 05, 2011

In 1996, Eastern Kentucky University geography professor Dr. David Zurick began a decade-long series of journeys throughout the American South, hoping to learn why the region is seen by outsiders as a land “apart from the rest of America” but by insiders as a place “losing its identity.”

Professor One of 24 Fellows Chosen for NEH Summer Institute on Mayan Culture

Posted: April 04, 2011

An Eastern Kentucky University professor is one of 24 Fellows chosen for a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute.

EKU Junior One of Only 60 Nationally to Earn Prestigious Truman Scholarship

When he graduated from high school in 2005, Miles Owen had “no idea” what direction to take in life.

Instead of immediately enrolling in a college or university Owen chose instead to spend 10 months with AmeriCorps, helping clear houses of debris in hurricane-ravaged St. Bernard Parish, just east of New Orleans. The decision proved fortuitous.

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