Wednesday, October 8, 2025
IN PRINT: Quoted on
caves: New York Times calls on WKU professor
Dr Chris Groves, hydrogeology professor and director of the Crawford Hydrology Laboratory, poses for a portrait at Lost River Cave on Sept 6, 2025 Dr Groves has travelled internationally to study karst landscapes for decades, with China being a particularly active area for him He has visited China 43 times and been awarded the China International Science and Technology Cooperation Award, the country’s highest award available for foreign scientists (Jacob Sebastian)
Sitting in his bright blue and muddied yellow caving gear, topped with a headlight and helmet, WKU Hydrogeology Professor Chris Groves posed for his portrait among photos of rocky caverns and watery walkways.
The New York Times published “A Miles-Long Cave in Kentucky Was a Smelly Disaster. Now It’s Spectacular.” Aug. 20 as part of its 50 States, 50 Fixes series. Reporter Hiroko Tabuchi and photographer Jason Gulley reported the transformation of Hidden River Cave in Horse Cave, Kentucky, from sewagefilled to tourist-attracting. Groves contributed hydrogeology and cave exploring expertise as the news story’s first quoted source.
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Audience members watch and listen to the WKU Jazz Band as they perform music at the Colonnades on Friday, Oct 3, 2025 (Hallie Stafford)
The Colonnades were abuzz Friday morning, as the WKU Jazz Ensemble flooded the courtyard with music, undeterred by the interruption of sirens from an emergency alert system test.
“I guess we brought out a jazz emergency,” said director Sarah Herbert, assistant professor of trumpet and jazz.
The ensemble performed a selection of “jazz standards” mostly from the big band swing era of the 1930s and 1940s.
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