Artwork by a famous surrealist painter has landed in the fine arts center. Two Salvador Dali prints have been given to the department of modern languages by an anonymous donor. The prints were donated in memory of Carol Brown, former department head of modern languages from 1965-1989, Potter College Dean David Lee said.

What do Western’s forensics team and the hit TV show “C.S.I.” have in common? Absolutely nothing, said Judy Woodring, director of the forensics team. But Woodring still finds herself explaining the differences between the fictional show and Western’s champion team.

Time is essential when severe weather happens. Tornados move an average of 30 miles per hour, giving people little time to seek shelter. Now Western is helping alert people across the state faster with a new weather network. The Mesoscale Network, or Mesonet, will be a string of nearly 100 automatic climate-monitoring stations scattered evenly across Kentucky, which will send its data back to Western for students and others to use, said state climatologist Stuart Foster, director of the Kentucky Climate Center at Western.

Like mosquitoes to a bug zapper, psychology students from across the country are being lured to Western this summer thanks to a research seminar. Western’s psychology department will hold an eight-week program called Research Experiences for Undergraduates beginning in June.

Students might not be receiving the help they need from a state scholarship program, according to two assistant political science professors at Western. Jeffrey Kash and Scott Lasley wrote a research paper describing how some students aren’t using Kentucky Education Excellence Scholarship money, while others aren’t receiving the money they need.

Students wanting professional copy-making services won’t even have to leave campus. A copy center run partially by students could open between June and the beginning of the fall semester, said Leo Simpson, adviser for Students In Free Enterprise. The copy center will be called the WKU SIFE Copy Center and will be built next to the post office on the first floor of the Downing University Center, Simpson said.

Kevin Brooks had no idea what his fraternity brother Gary Ransdell would do with his life when they went to school together in the 1970s. Brooks, now a real estate lawyer, thought the Louisville native had focus and was likable enough to do something good.

John D. Minton Jr. has a pretty influential fraternity buddy. Minton, a judge in the 2nd District Court of Appeals in Kentucky, roomed with President Gary Ransdell when they both lived in the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house in the ’70s. But Ransdell might be looking up to Minton by the fall, at least judiciously.

Carroll Brooks has been a quiet presence in Western’s basketball history. He’s played for legendary Western coach E.A. Diddle. He’s refereed high school basketball games with former Western president Dero Downing. But the retired family practice doctor is better known in Bowling Green for his bedside manner than backboard baskets.

A large piano dominates the triangular fine arts center office of Robert Wayne Pope.

Pope, an associate music professor, said he can’t play the piano very well.

But this musical deficiency matters little to someone who’s been attached to his instrument since birth.