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Eastern Kentucky University’s School of Applied Arts and Technology provides many educational opportunities that prepare students in fields for which job demand is high. The school’s departments, consisting of Agriculture, Applied Engineering and Technology, and Communications, contain programs that are effective in preparing students for many career prospects upon graduation.

Eastern Kentucky University will celebrate the First Amendment with a series of events March 26-29, including a fundraiser to aid the Licking Valley Courier newspaper in West Liberty.

An Eastern Kentucky University senior from Lancaster, competing against students from four-year colleges and universities in nine states, has received the Regional Student Leadership Award from the National Orientation Directors Association.

Rebecca Pickens, public relations major from Richmond, is among ten Eastern Kentucky University students selected to present at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR).

The EKU students selected will make either poster or oral presentations at the event, March 29-31 at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah.

Eastern Kentucky University’s student-produced weekly newspaper, The Eastern Progress, won 11 awards, including four first-place awards, at the 2011 Kentucky Press Association awards banquet on Friday, Jan. 20.

The Society of Professional Journalists has named White Hall State Historic Site, home of newspaper publisher Cassius Marcellus Clay, as the 2011 National Historic Site in Journalism thanks in large part to the efforts of Eastern Kentucky University’s Department of Communication, which nominated Clay’s historic home for the honor.

Communication Professor Dr. Elizabeth Hansen has been re-elected to a second two-year term as Region 5 director of the Society of Professional Journalists.

As a director, Hansen will continue to serve on SPJ’s national board of directors and will be responsible for serving the organization’s chapters in Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky.