[5] Notable alumni include prominent entertainers, writers, and sports stars such as actors Rami Malek and Kelli Giddish, producer/writer Matt Williams, and basketball coach Jerry Sloan, as well as scientists, business people, and others.

In January 2019, UE announced plans to sell this off-campus property to fund the construction of a new campus health and wellness center.

This proposal alarmed supporters of Wesselman Woods Nature Preserve, who feared that selling the land for commercial development would remove a valuable buffer zone between urban development and the preserve's old-growth forest, potentially harming its delicate ecosystem.

Critics accused the administration of prioritizing financial gain over environmental and community concerns, which further damaged the university’s reputation.

The Exercise Science major is endorsed by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA).

Shortly thereafter, Harlaxton Bureau correspondents covered the death of Princess Diana and were subsequently recognized by the Indiana Society of Professional Journalists.

This made the University of Evansville the first American to have a student-run news bureau on a foreign campus.

The university landscape is well maintained, and many students take advantage of the spacious lawns and large shade trees.

The Administration Hall and the President's House and Circle were named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

The motivation for the new building stemmed from WWII, after which UE expected a greater number of students to enroll with the intent of getting industrial degrees.

[18] After renovations in the late 1970s, the building was renamed in November 1984 in honor of Robert Louis Koch who had been a member of the UE Board of Trustees since 1968; Koch had recently given a donation to the university's New Century Capital Campaign that was being used to build a new library.

[20]) Koch Center experienced another renovation, including a large new addition on its south side, in 2001.

[22] The University of Evansville athletic teams have the nickname the Purple Aces (originally the "Pioneers").

Both men's and women's varsity sports play at the NCAA Division I level and compete in the Missouri Valley Conference, except for the men's swimming and diving teams which compete in the Mid-American Conference Sororities Fraternities WUEV started in 1951, was a noncommercial, 6100-watt FM Radio station located at 91.5 MHz, owned and operated by the University of Evansville.

[24] While the story garnered national media attention from major media outlets and public scrutiny in support of the students and WUEV, the issue was brought to light in September 2018 when a group of University of Evansville alumni, community, and students began to uncover information that the University of Evansville previously had kept from the public as reported by WEHT News 25.

The station began broadcasting WAY-FM programming on November 26, 2019, and changed its call sign to WJWA on December 4, 2019.