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Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree will be featured at Living Legends Series
Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree will speak at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 23 at Bradford Hall Auditorium as a part of Kentucky State University’s African-American Living Legends Series. The February series is part of KSU’s Convocation, which invites notable speakers to enhance the intellectual aspect of campus life. Ogletree, the Harvard Law School Jesse Climenko Professor of Law, and Founding and Executive Director of the Charles...

KSU Student Environmental Leadership Program announces 2016 Cohort
Five KSU students were selected to participate in a student environmental leadership and professional development initiative through the KSU Center for Environmental Education and in partnership with the Kentucky Association for Environmental Education (KAEE). KSU student participants are Gentell Esters, Ian Ries, D’Andre Garrison, Trevor Claiborn and Alyx Chaivre. The program, funded through EECapacity and the U.S. Environmen...

KSU supporters share history, importance of the University on WEKU radio
Executive director for the University’s foundation Donald Lyons and Kiwanis Club of Frankfort board member Ed Powe discussed KSU’s past and current role in the Commonwealth and its future in light of the proposed cuts on WEKU. WEKU is a National Public Radio-affiliated station in Richmond, Ky. Since his entrance to Kentucky State as a freshman in 1964, Dr. Lyons has held many positions including library director and athletic...

KSU students triumph with competitive awards
On January 29, student members from the College of Agricultural, Food Sciences, and Sustainable Systems accompanied STEM Project Coordinator Jeremy Sandifer to the Cumberland Chapter of Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) 2016 Annual Conference held in Louisville, Ky. Each discussed human and environmental interactions in the Appalachian region of Eastern Kentucky as part of an ongoing USDA and NSF-funded res...