News from The Mahurin Honors College

Oct 30th, 2025

Audrey Clark, a 2025 WKU grad, is pursuing her Doctorate in Physical Therapy at Duke. Her path from dance to PT reflects curiosity, early involvement, and hands-on learning that shaped her success.

Oct 27th, 2025

Honors alum Dana Brown found her calling at WKU, turning her passion for athletics into a career with Louisville Athletics. Once a Hilltopper, always a Hilltopper!

Jun 30th, 2025

Hailey Stapleton (WKU ’25) blended art and international affairs to find her calling in art repatriation, inspired by study abroad and her passion for justice.

Aug 19th, 2024

Maria Julian (WKU '24) earned a $25,000 Boren Scholarship for her capstone in Southeast Asia. Despite no prior Chinese language experience, she thrived in WKU's Chinese Flagship Program, crediting faculty support and immersive experiences for her success.

Jun 3rd, 2024

Manzar Rzayeva, a two-time WKU graduate, shares her Hilltopper experience, including not being selected as a Fulbright scholar twice, her resilience and passion for education drive her pursuit of becoming a doctor and achieving her dreams.

Mar 25th, 2024

Brittany Moster Bergonzi, PhD, shares her transformative journey from Kentucky to the United Kingdom, sparked by a fateful encounter with a brochure from Harlaxton College. Her story reflects the power of curiosity, resilience, and seizing opportunities.

Apr 25th, 2022

The Mahurin Honors College (MHC) seeks to develop scholars into masters of their passions- whatever those may be. For scholars like Elaine Flynn (MHC ‘13), her passion could only be found in a geology research lab.

Apr 22nd, 2022

A key pillar of the Mahurin Honors College (MHC) is training scholars for success within their unique and diverse passions. In some cases, this allows scholars like Jayme Hardy (MHC ‘14) to trailblaze brand new opportunities and forge novel career path

Feb 25th, 2022

As the saying goes: ”home is where the heart is,” and many Mahurin Honors College (MHC) scholars such as Ameerah Palacios (MHC ‘05) have set their heart atop the great hill of WKU.

Feb 17th, 2022

The Mahurin Honors College (MHC) strives to provide the greatest opportunities and resources for all of our scholars. While most enter the MHC following their senior year of high school, that was not the case for Obadiah Kirk (MHC ‘20)