Each Thursday, WKU’s Student Chapter of NPPA brings you some of the best images of the past week taken by our very own classmates. To submit for our weekly posts, you must currently be a WKU Photojournalism student and have taken the images or produced the video within the last week (Tuesday to Tuesday). Send your top 1-3 selections to wkunppa@gmail.com by our Tuesday 7:00pm deadline and our officers and attendees will pick the best of the bunch to showcase at our open meetings every Tuesday at 7:30pm in Lab 127.
Lars Wallentin (presenter) at Improving Cardiovascular Outcomes by Integrating Research and Reality here today, Tuesday November 18, 2014 during the American Heart Associations Scientific Sessions being held here at the McCormick Convention Center. Scientific Sessions is the leading cardiovascular meeting for basic, translational, clinical and population science, in the United States, with more than 18,000 cardiovascular experts from over 105 countries attending the meeting. LUKE FRANKE
WKU’s Leon Allen soars through the air during Saturday’s game against No. 19 Marshall in Huntington, West Virginia. Allen rushed for a game-high 237 yards and a touchdown. NICK WAGNER
Sue Thayer has been teaching the Aquasize program at the Family YMCA in Owensboro, KY for 40 years along with her husband Jack. Together they teach at least two classes a day per week while also holding separate jobs. As they come and go through the YMCA, they walk hand in hand inspiring others with their pride of working together and of their love of 20 years. TYLER SANDERS
Ellen Buchanons family has been in the flower business for the past 6 generations. “I actually went to college to be a nurse, but the business has been in by family for generations and when my parents wanted to step down, non of my siblings wanted to take over. So I just did it.” Deemers said. DITTE LYSGAARD HOLM
Retired military chaplain Louis W. Pointer, 81, served in the United States Army during Vietnam War in 1969. He was 33 and on the reserves list when he got his draft letter in the mail. He left behind his daughter, Katherine II and his first wife, Katherine. Upon returning, he spent a few months with his family until, one day, his wife died after being hit by s train on the tracks. ALYSSA POINTER
A Marshall fan sits in disbelief after her Thundering Herd was upset 67-66 by Western Kentucky University in an overtime thriller Friday in Huntington, West Virginia. No. 19 Marshall was undefeated with an 11-0 record prior to its loss against the Hilltoppers. NICK WAGNER 
John Young (left) and his younger brother, Nicolas Young (right) sit in their backyard in Birmingham, Ala. During the summers, John Young is an Interpreter, or canoe guide, at Northern Tier High Adventure Base in northern Minnesota and southern Canada. The camp is one of four High Adventure Boy Scout bases within the United States. Nicolas is following in his footsteps by taking over John’s previous position on the waterfront staff at Camp Comer, also a boy scout camp, in Fort Payne, Ala. KREABLE YOUNG
Michael Brown’s Mother cries out after hearing the ruling of the Grand Juries Decision to not charge Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the killing of Michael Brown
Monday, November 24, 2014 in Ferguson, MO. The jury decision came over 108 days after the shooting of Michael Brown. MICHAEL NOBLE JR.
Meredith Wadlington, on Dec. 2, 2014. ADAM WOLFFBRANDT
Left: Charles Pretri, sushi chef at Shogun Bistro and Hibachi, poses for a portrait on November 23, 2014. Right: Magura, crunch crab rolls, California rolls, sake, and rbi arranged between chopsticks. NICOLE BOLIAUX