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Join the Student Social Work Association (SSWA) Thursday to march around campus to spread awareness about domestic violence! Meet at the Daniel Boone Statue at 5pm! Signs are welcome, but make sure they are nonviolent! Can’t wait to see everyone there to show your support for Domestic Violence victims and survivors!

Interested in joining the EKU Honors community? If you are a motivated first-year student looking for resources to help fund study abroad, research, and other travel opportunities, this might be for you! Even if you did not know about the honors program when you came to EKU, there is still time to join our nationally prominent program starting in the coming spring 2023 semester. You will be able to take creative and innovative courses from top faculty, become part of a dynamic learning community, and have access to resources that can help you reach your academic and professional goals! To apply, please complete the application at this link by December 1: https://success.eku.edu/register/HONSp23App. Once fall grades are finalized in early December, we’ll review applications.Newly admitted students for spring will be notified by January 10. Questions? Email: kevin.watts@eku.edu

The Asian Studies Open House is an opportunity for students to speak to faculty and find out more about our Asian Studies minor and certificate. There will be free snacks and drinks for all who attend!

Taking an EKU Winter course is the best way to stay caught up, catch up, or get ahead! Microscholarships are now available to defray costs of taking courses this Winter term.
Click “More on This Announcement” for more information and to register today.
Application submission closes on October 26, 2022.

Silent coffee is a time that the Deaf community and EKU students can come together and drink coffee, talk, catch-up, or play games together in order to facilitate friendships and provide extra practice in ASL. EKU students with any level of proficiency in ASL are welcome to join.

Come out and enjoy a performance by Dr. Nathan Jasinski.

Integrate to Regulate is a group designed to promote healing for trauma survivors. This group incorporates specific, concrete skills combined with expressive arts to support the process of trauma integration. This is a weekly in-person group provided by the EKU Counseling Center. A group orientation is required to join this group. Contact Andri Yennari at andri.yennari@eku.edu or call (859)622-1303 for more information about scheduling a group orientation appointment.

Start from Now is a group to support those dealing with body image issues and/or disordered eating patterns through a blend of education and discussion. This is a weekly in-person group provided by the EKU Counseling Center. A group orientation is required to join this group. Contact Melissa Cozart at melissa.cozart@eku.edu or call (859)622-1303 for more information about scheduling a group orientation appointment.

Jack Halberstam
Unworlding
Thurs Oct 13, 7:30 PM
O’Donnell Hall
Keynote Address for LGBTQIA+ Month Jack Halberstam is Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University and the author of seven books in gender studies, theory and cultural criticism, including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (1995), Female Masculinity (1998), In A Queer Time and Place (2005), The Queer Art of Failure (2011), Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender and the End of Normal (2012) and Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance (2018) and most recently Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire (2020). Places Journal awarded Halberstam its Arcus/Places Prize in 2018 for innovative public scholarship on the relationship between gender, sexuality and the built environment. Halberstam is now finishing a second volume on wildness titled: The Wild Beyond: Music, Architecture and Anarchy.