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NKU’s SOTA Music Prep voted best summer camp in 2024 Best of NKY Awards
Northern Kentucky University’s SOTA Music Prep has been voted best Summer Camp in the 13th Annual 2024 Best of NKY awards! NKU’s School of the Arts (SOTA) 2024 summer programs include the Strings Camp and Chamber Music Workshop, NKU Youth Choir Free Workshop and the Summer Adult String Orchestra.

NKU awarded nearly $300,000 for 5-year, statewide climate change research project
Northern Kentucky University faculty and students will participate in a five-year, $20 million National Science Foundation (NSF) project aimed at advancing Kentucky’s climate resiliency. NKU is one of 37 colleges and universities selected to receive the grant, which aims to develop institutional study abroad programs in support of U.S. foreign policy goals.

National Science Foundation grants NKU more than $250,000 for primate research
Northern Kentucky University has been awarded a three-year, $257,596 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct research on the effects of early life adversity on juvenile primates.

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