Northern Kentucky University has launched Newport History Walk, a new App that takes users on a six-stop, self-guided tour of the river city’s history. Users can listen to a short podcast at each stop about the historic site. The tour includes stops at the following historical sites: The Newport History Walk App takes about an hour […]
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NKU will not oversee Northern Kentucky charter schools
A charter school pilot is coming to Northern Kentucky, but the region’s largest university will not be its authorizer. Northern Kentucky University Board of Regents declined to take action Tuesday to be the authorizer — the institution that can approve, deny, and oversee a charter school — ending months of speculation about a project for […]
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NKU dean of College of Health and Human Services to retire
Northern Kentucky University’s (NKU) dean of the College of Health and Human Services since 2018, Dale Stephenson, will retire at the end of the fall 2022 semester. Beginning in the spring 2023 semester, Gannon Tagher, who has been with the university since 2005 will serve as interim dean. Tagher currently serves NKU as the […]
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Transportation cabinet offering new scholarship in construction management
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) is expanding its two civil engineering scholarship programs to include a construction management scholarship, which provides tuition assistance, hands-on experience, and employment after graduation. KYTC will award up to 30 new scholarships for the 2022-2023 school year to prospective and current college students pursuing civil engineering and engineering technology degrees. […]
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Big crowd, even bigger moment for NKU basketball in beating UC Bearcats in cross-river rivalry
The band kept playing until the very end. Just the way the Norse men’s basketball team did. And the fans, almost every one of the record Truist Arena crowd of 8,305 — just 100 below a sellout — stayed well past the end. Who could blame them? The students, who turned out in record numbers, […]
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NKU fine arts students’ work to be on display at public exhibition
Northern Kentucky University’s School of the Arts is showcasing its senior students’ work at a Fine Arts Senior Exhibition from Nov. 23 to Dec. 9. The public exhibition is free and, on Thursday, Dec. 1, includes a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. after a fine art gallery discussion at 3:30 p.m. The exhibition is […]
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‘You don’t have to know where you’re going to know that you’re going somewhere’
Aaron Thompson grew up as the youngest of nine in Clay County, Kentucky, born to an illiterate father and a mother who had an eighth-grade education. His family worked as sharecroppers, and Thompson said to call them indigent would be an understatement. In a household of 11, where he would eventually become a first-generation high […]
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NKU opens Global Business Solutions Tech and Innovation Center on campus
Northern Kentucky University (NKU) officially opened the Global Business Solutions Tech and Innovation Center on Wednesday, Nov. 2. The innovation center will provide NKU students with real-world experience, top-of-class information technology, cybersecurity, and sales and marketing training. The center also acts as a training ground for NKU’s cybersecurity and IT students. Through paid internship positions, […]
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NASA to conduct experiments on elements in space at NKU
NASA is conducting experiments at Northern Kentucky University as part of a project to answer out-of-this-world questions about elements and matter in space. The project is part of the NASA Astrophysics Pioneers program and to better understand which stellar processes (i.e., supernovas) produce which elements. The Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder on the International Space Station, […]
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$1 million donation funds position at NKU Chase College of Law
Calling it an extension of their commitment to justice and fairness, David and Nancy Wolf have contributed a $1 million gift to Northern Kentucky University Chase College of Law to fund a faculty chair in legal ethics and professionalism. The David and Nancy Wolf Chair in Ethics and Professional Identity is the first endowed faculty […]
