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Lindsey Wilson College President William T. Luckey Jr. presents one of the college’s three L3 Awards to Reilly Wells ’26, a media studies and theatre double major from Columbia. In addition to a plaque, L3 recipients also receive a book on leadership, selected by Luckey. The L3 Award recognizes Lindsey Wilson students and employees who exemplify the spirit to live, learn and lead through in their daily work.

For Reilly Wells, Her Lindsey Wilson College Experiences Have Been a Lesson in Leadership

Lindsey Wilson College student Reilly Wells '26 is rarely speechless. But the student leader recently found herself searching for the right words to describe the feelings of receiving one of the college's top student leadership awards this spring. Kn...

May 13, 2025, 6:00am EDT

Lindsey Wilson College President William T. Luckey Jr. presents one of the college’s three L3 Awards to Caitlin Higdon ’25, a biology and psychophysiology double major from Elizabethtown, Kentucky. In addition to a plaque, L3 recipients also receive a book on leadership, selected by Luckey. The L3 Award recognizes Lindsey Wilson students and employees who exemplify the spirit to live, learn and lead through in their daily work.

Caitlin Higdon of Elizabethtown Receives One of Lindsey Wilson College's Top Student Leadership Awards

To say that Lindsey Wilson College senior Caitlin Higdon finished her undergraduate career in style would be an understatement. In addition to graduating from the college's R.V. Bennett Honors Program with a double major in biology and psychophysiolog...

May 13, 2025, 5:00am EDT

Lindsey Wilson College Director of Student Activities Stephanie Blackwood sits in front of the wall calendar that helps her stay organized during the summer months, when more than a dozen camps, conferences and meetings are scheduled to be held on campus.

Lindsey Wilson College Set to Welcome Campus Visitors Throughout the Summer

No sooner had the final chair been put in storage in Biggers Sports Center and the last discarded commencement program had been picked up and tossed into a garbage bin did Lindsey Wilson College employees turn their attention toward the summer months t...

May 13, 2025, 4:00am EDT

The Lindsey Wilson College Alpha Alpha Iota chapter of Sigma Theta Tau, the international honor society of nursing, inducted eight new members on May 1. From left: Jared Wyatt ’26 of Glasgow, Kentucky; Kaylyn Smith ’26 of Campbellsville, Kentucky; Anna Dangelmaier ’26 of Liberty, Kentucky; Jaylyn Burton ’26 of Columbia; Abbie Nunn ’26 of Smiths Grove, Kentucky; Tamara Coots ’13, Lindsey Wilson director of health services and a member of the nursing faculty; Destiny Whitaker ’25 of Somerset, Kentucky; and Emilee Flatt ’25 of Columbia.

Lindsey Wilson College Inducts 8 into Nursing International Honor Society

The Lindsey Wilson College nursing program concluded one of its busiest and most successful school years on May 1 by welcoming eight new members into its chapter of Sigma Theta Tau, the international honor society of nursing. Known as Sigma, the 103-y...

May 9, 2025, 2:08pm EDT

Students in Linda Grider’s “Entrepreneurship Project” spent the spring semester creating and implementing plans to start their own business, and two of them won awards in the highly competitive University of Kentucky Von Allmen Center for Entrepreneurship Bootcamp 1.0. From left: Cash Stephens ’26 of Russell, Springs, Kentucky; Larry Montgomery III ’27 of Louisville, Kentucky; Grider; Troy Churchill ’26 of Louisville; Taylor Harvey ’25 of Columbia; Caleb Marsh ’26 of Shelbyville, Tennessee; and Isaac Duop ’25 of Louisville.

Lindsey Wilson College Business Class Prepares Next Generation of Entrepreneurs

The next generation of Fortune 500 leaders might have emerged from a classroom this spring in Lindsey Wilson College's Goodhue Classroom Building. Students in the "Entrepreneurship Project" class, taught by business faculty member Linda Grider, spent ...

May 9, 2025, 12:10pm EDT

Lindsey Wilson College student Sara Motyl ’26 is a biology major who has already been part of a research project that has been turned into two research articles for journals.

Research by Lindsey Wilson College Biology Student Appears in Two Publications

Most college students hope to have their research published at least once in graduate school. But Lindsey Wilson College student Sara Motyl '26 has already accomplished that twice as an undergraduate student. Motyl was recently featured as a co-autho...

May 9, 2025, 4:00am EDT

Lindsey Wilson College counseling professor Hannah Coyt was given the Leadership Excellence for Counselors by Counselors Award from the National Board for Certified Counselors, the national organization for counselors.

Lindsey Wilson College Professor Hannah Coyt Receives National Award

Lindsey Wilson College counseling professor Hannah Coyt has always had a "passion to help." And she recently received a national award for her efforts over the years to strengthen and support the counseling profession. Coyt was given the Leadership E...

May 8, 2025, 2:36pm EDT

Lindsey Wilson College's IMAGINE! Youth Theatre – a free summer youth program – will be offered from June 2-29.

Lindsey Wilson College IMAGINE! Youth Theatre to be Offered June 2-29

Lindsey Wilson College is offering area youth a perfect way to kick off the summer months, and at a price that can't be beat. Lindsey Wilson College's IMAGINE! Youth Theatre -- a free summer youth program -- will be offered this year from June 2-29. ...

May 8, 2025, 11:12am EDT

The Bank of Columbia presents $20,000 to Lindsey Wilson College. The gift will be used to support the Tommy D. Grider Endowed Scholarship and the college’s operating expenses. From left: Bank of Columbia Chief Financial Officer Ashley Roy, Bank of Columbia Chief Credit Officer Michelle Powell, Bank of Columbia President and CEO Mark Dykes, Lindsey Wilson President William T. Luckey Jr. and Lindsey Wilson Vice President of Administration and Finance Mark Coleman.

Bank of Columbia Makes $20,000 Gift to Lindsey Wilson College

A gift to Lindsey Wilson College will strengthen educational opportunities for Adair County residents. The Bank of Columbia has given $20,000 to Lindsey Wilson, which will be used to support a scholarship and the college's operating expenses. "The Ba...

May 7, 2025, 2:55pm EDT

Lindsey Wilson College undergraduate Anatoliy Voloshyn of Cherkasy, Ukraine, gives the student address at the morning spring commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 3, in Biggers Sports Center. Voloshyn, whose family watched his commencement address back in his war-torn country, earned a bachelor of arts degree in business administration with a minor in political science. Lindsey Wilson College will become Lindsey Wilson University on July 1, making this weekend’s commencement the final group of graduates awarded a Lindsey Wilson College diploma.

Lindsey Wilson College Awards Record Number of Degrees at Spring Commencement

Graduates at the final commencement weekend held by Lindsey Wilson College were reminded of the importance of community support during wartime and the transformative power of higher education. At three ceremonies held on Friday, May 2, and on Saturday...

May 3, 2025, 5:36pm EDT

About Lindsey Wilson University

Lindsey Wilson University is a vibrant liberal arts university in Columbia, Kentucky. Founded in 1903 and affiliated with The United Methodist Church, the mission of Lindsey Wilson is to serve the educational needs of students by providing a living-learning environment within an atmosphere of active caring and Christian concern where every student, every day, learns and grows and feels like a real human being. Lindsey Wilson offers 28 undergraduate majors, five graduate programs and a doctoral program. The university's 29 intercollegiate varsity athletic teams have won more than 120 team and individual national championships.