updated Sat. July 6, 2024
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KABC-TV
April 28, 2018
The original Pizza Hut building opened Wednesday as a museum at Wichita State University. School staff collaborated to "create this fabulous museum that will be curated by the students," Elizabeth King, CEO of the WSU Foundation, said in an interview with the Wichita Eagle. In 1958, Dan Carney and hisÃâà...
KMUW
April 26, 2018
The new Pizza Hut museum officially opens Monday on Wichita State University's Innovation Campus. Much of the museum's collection was donated by Pizza Hut co-founder Dan Carney. Credit Nadya Faulx / KMUW. The museum is housed inside the original Pizza Hut building. Until last fall, the buildingÃâà...
Wichita State News
April 26, 2018
Ten students were selected as the class of 2018 Senior Honors at Wichita State University. The students were honored at a banquet on Wednesday, April 18. Being named a Senior Honor recipient is one of the most prestigious honors a WSU student can receive. Since the program's inception in 1917,Ãâà...
Wichita Eagle
April 26, 2018
The former beer joint turned original Pizza Hut building has long been an iconic symbol of Wichita entrepreneurship, but it's been nothing more than a drive-by curiosity on Wichita State University's campus for years. On Wednesday, it officially opened as a museum on the school's Innovation Campus justÃâà...
Wichita Business Journal
April 19, 2018
A professor at Wichita State University has won an award from NASA that will help him develop technology that he says could offer new understanding of our sun and the laws that govern the universe. According to a press release from the school, physics professor Nickolas Solomey was among 25 winnersÃâà...
KSN-TV
April 16, 2018
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) - Rodney Clark, a major in the U.S. Army with more than 20 years of law enforcement experience, has been appointed chief of the Wichita State University Police Department. Clark, assistant professor of military science for the U.S. Army ROTC program at the Rochester Institute ofÃâà...
Minor League Ball (blog)
April 9, 2018
Continuing with our coverage of the 2018 MLB Draft, we turn our attention today to one of the best bats available: Wichita State University third baseman Alec Bohm. Let's take a look. Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, Bohm was raised in nearby Omaha and was well-known to Midwest area scouts in high school.
Wichita State News
April 9, 2018
Additionally, the AQR – a joint research project funded as part of faculty research activities at the W. Frank Barton School of Business at Wichita State University (Wichita, Kansas) and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Prescott, Arizona, campus – revealed that for the 2017 year, the airline industry as aÃâà...
Lawrence Journal-World
April 5, 2018
Wichita — The president of Wichita State University has approved the student senate's proposed $25,000 cut to the school's newspaper, but says he plans to restore the paper's budget through other university resources. The Wichita Eagle reports that university president John Bardo announced the plansÃâà...
Wichita State News
March 26, 2018
Wichita State University has ranked as one of the top in the nation for its online bachelor's degree in early childhood unified/elementary education. The rankings were released by SR Education Group as part of the 2018 Best Online Colleges for Value report. WSU ranked No. 20 – within the first year theÃâà...
Lawrence Journal-World
March 23, 2018
And, from the looks of the squad's social media, things are already off to a promising start. On Thursday, one day before the tournament's official kickoff at Wichita State University, KU seniors Quaram Robinson and Will Katz received the Rex Copeland award. The annual trophy goes to the team ranked No.
Wichita Business Journal
March 21, 2018
Wichita State College of Engineering Dean Royce Bowden will leave the university on June 30 to pursue philanthropic and scholarly interests, the school said Wednesday in a news release. With the resignation, he will have completed 30 years of service in higher education, dedicated to the success ofÃâà...
Wichita Eagle (blog)
March 11, 2018
To the local organizing committee – Wichita State University, Intrust Bank Arena, the city of Wichita, Sedgwick County, Greater Wichita Area Sports Commission and Visit Wichita – thank you for the hard work preparing for this moment. To the Wichita business community, thank you for providing more than aÃâà...
Wichita State News
March 9, 2018
Two high school seniors have won the 2017-18 Professor Fran Jabara Scholarship in Entrepreneurship at Wichita State University. The winners, Eddie Brown and Danny Fradella, will each receive $25,000 over four years to attend Wichita State. The scholarship is one of the most prestigious at WSU andÃâà...
Wichita State News
March 9, 2018
A partnership with Crime Stoppers of Wichita/Sedgwick County adds another layer of safety for the WSU campus. Anyone with the free Rave Guardian App can make an anonymous tip to Crime Stoppers. Learn more about Rave Guardian. The ability to “see something, say something” at Wichita State justÃâà...
Wichita State News
March 9, 2018
Two high school seniors have won the 2017-18 Professor Fran Jabara Scholarship in Entrepreneurship at Wichita State University. The winners, Eddie Brown and Danny Fradella, will each receive $25,000 over four years to attend Wichita State. The scholarship is one of the most prestigious at WSU andÃâà...
Wichita Eagle
March 8, 2018
I am a senior in the Aerospace Engineering department at Wichita State University and a proud U.S. citizen. As a naturalized citizen, I fully support the SAFE Act, which requires proof of citizenship when registering to vote in Kansas. The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 requires stating eligibility andÃâà...
Wichita Business Journal
March 7, 2018
New reports from the Center for Economic Development and Business Research at Wichita State University shows that the nation's aerospace industry is on the rise. According to the center's new Aerospace Current Conditions Index, the overall index score rose 3.5 points in the fourth quarter of 2017 to hit aÃâà...
Wichita Eagle
March 6, 2018
Catherine Consiglio, professor of viola at Wichita State University and artistic director of Chamber Music at The Barn, has seen the application process from both sides. She has been assisting her students in filling out applications in her 29 years at WSU, and since last year has been on the Koch CulturalÃâà...
Wichita Eagle
March 6, 2018
Wichita State University's administration is made up of highly educated men and women who advanced in their careers, presumably, by recognizing the value of leadership in a college setting. So why are they having such a hard time understanding recent actions have caused accountability concernsÃâà...
Wichita Eagle (blog)
March 3, 2018
President John Bardo made the correct call in directing a Wichita State University student fees committee to perform a do-over. Now if only the horse can be put back in the barn. The committee decided in private — over objections from reporters who said the Kansas Open Meetings Act was being violatedÃâà...
Student Press Law Center
March 2, 2018
UPDATE: Wichita State University's Student Fee Committee proposed an $80,000 fee allocation for the school's student newspaper, The Sunflower. The proposal would cut almost a quarter from the paper's current fee allocation. The paper's editor says the “compromise” is still a death knell. Of the totalÃâà...
Wichita State News
March 2, 2018
More Kansas community college students transfer to WSU than to any other public state university. It's the seventh year in a row WSU has reached the No. 1 ranking for transfer students. Learn more about transferring to WSU. For the seventh year in a row, Wichita State is the No. 1 destination for studentsÃâà...
Wichita State News
March 1, 2018
More Kansas community college students transfer to WSU than to any other public state university. It's the seventh year in a row WSU has reached the No. 1 ranking for transfer students. Learn more about transferring to WSU. For the seventh year in a row, Wichita State is the No. 1 destination for studentsÃâà...
KNSS
February 26, 2018
Wichita State University and WSU Tech will begin offering classes soon at their new Haysville campus. In December, WSU entered into an agreement to lease a 23,000-square-foot building at 106 Stewart Ave, the former home of Haysville High School. Both WSU and WSU Tech will hold classes at the newÃâà...
KNSS
February 26, 2018
Passing yards defense kid in the war. Leaving 47 now. Pretty big thing. Officials in Florida continued to deal with the aftermath that matched a school shooting it. Seeing two people wounded in separate shootings in central Wichita Sunday. Police investigating a homicide in southeast Wichita. Three bigÃâà...
Wichita State News
February 23, 2018
Fourteen universities from around the globe competed in the first successful pilot for Invent for the Planet, an event that encouraged students to tackle big issues such as species conservation and human rights. Wichita State hosted the local portion of the competition -- in conjunction with the regionalÃâà...
Wichita State News
February 21, 2018
A $1 million donation has moved forward plans to build a new state-of-the-art building for the Barton School of Business. The donation comes from members of the local Bastian family, owners of Fidelity Bank and Fidelity Bank Foundation. Once built, the 136,000-square-foot complex will replace ClintonÃâà...
Wichita State News
February 21, 2018
The Wichita State College of Engineering is hosting two new competitions in a single event that organizers say may be the largest of its kind in state history. "Shocker Special: In the Zone" Vex Robotics Competition will have 62 teams of middle and high school students and VEX IQ Challenge stageÃâà...
Wichita State News
February 15, 2018
Wichita State University President John Bardo spoke today (Thursday, Feb. 15) at the U.S. House of Representatives, where he provided testimony to the committee on Science, Space and Technology. Bardo spoke about what WSU is doing to improve STEM education and to more closely tie theÃâà...
Wichita State News
February 13, 2018
Senior Hannah Hund and graduate student LaRissa Lawrie were hand-selected out of an international community of more than 1,200 University Innovation Fellows to speak at the UIF Silicon Valley Meetup last fall. Hund and Lawrie both spoke about the success and benefits of Shocker Startup and whatÃâà...
Wichita State News
February 6, 2018
Students interested in transferring from community college to Wichita State University now have an online gateway designed just for them. The student-facing website – wichita.edu/transfergateway – is designed to engage prospects, answer their key questions and keep them on track to enroll. Students canÃâà...
Wichita Eagle
February 4, 2018
Koch family to open new kind of private school at Wichita State University ... Annie Koch, the son and daughter-in-law of Koch Industries chief Charles Koch, are getting into the private school business in Wichita, financing a new pre-K-through-12th-grade school on the campus of Wichita State University.
Wichita State Sunflower
December 31, 1999
My name is Anwar Jihan, a senior in the aerospace engineering department at Wichita State University and a proud United States citizen. I would like to voice my concern pertaining to the Fish v. Kobach lawsuit that is hindering the proper flow of democratic process in our community. In my opinion theÃâà...
Wichita State News
December 31, 1999
Eight significant projects are being built, planned or discussed for the east side of the Wichita State University campus. Here is a summary as of Feb. 27: The long-planned Element by Westin Hotel, at 19th and Oliver, is expected to break ground this spring and be ready for occupancy in summer 2019.
