Wichita State News: KMUW

KMUW changes schedule; NPR drops 'Talk of the Nation'

Thu, 27 Jun 2013 14:12:00 CST

KMUW will change its afternoon programming schedule on Monday, July 1.

NPR is discontinuing its popular "Talk of the Nation," and is moving toward more magazine-style shows, such as "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered."

Read more about KMUW's schedule changes.

KMUW's 'Global Village' wins two big awards

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:17:00 CST

"Global Village," KMUW Wichita Public Radio FM 89.1's nationally distributed world music show, has won two prestigious awards: a PRX Zeitfunk Award for "Most Licensed Series" and a Readers' Choice World Music Award for "Best World Music Radio Show."

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KMUW presenting the Music of Gatsby

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 09:04:00 CST

KMUW FM89, Wichita Public Radio at Wichita State University, in partnership with the Wichita Public Libraries, presents a BIG READ Music Tasting: The Music of Gatsby.

The event is 7-9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8, at Abode Venue, 1330 E. Douglas. Tickets are available at www.kmuw.org. Click on Music Tasting.

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KMUW redesigns website, launches mobile site

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:07:00 CST

KMUW FM89, Wichita Public Radio at Wichita State University launched its redesigned website on Friday, Oct. 19. The site sharpens its focus on news and information with a clean structured layout.

Listeners can now easily access NPR and KMUW news coverage or pick up podcasts of our popular commentaries.

Find the new website at kmuw.org and the new mobile version at m.kmuw.org.

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KMUW raises record funds during fall pledge drive

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:54:00 CST

KMUW FM89, Wichita Public Radio at Wichita State University, ended its fall pledge drive Oct. 9, raising $282,000. The record-breaking community response included 420 new KMUW donors.

"It is gratifying to know that the people of south-central Kansas find our programming useful and valuable in their daily lives," said KMUW general manager Mark McCain. "KMUW lost $30,000 in state funding this past year and federal funding is in jeopardy, so it was necessary to go to our largest funding source—our members—and ask them to cover the loss."

Public radio's funding includes contributions from individuals, businesses, grants, universities and the government.

KMUW is licensed to WSU as a Corporation for Public Broadcasting-qualified, non-commercial and full-service public radio station. It is a charter National Public Radio member, and an affiliate of Public Radio International and American Public Media.

In 1949, KMUW began broadcasting as the first 10-watt, non-commercial FM station in the United States.

Faculty, staff news update: August/September 2012

Fri, 5 Oct 2012 14:33:00 CST

Academe welcomes news from WSU faculty and staff about research, teaching and service activities. This column recognizes grants, honors, awards, presentations and publications, new appointments, new faculty, sabbaticals, retirements and deaths of our current and former colleagues.

Ted Ayres, vice president and general counsel, was an invited participant in the symposium "Gathering at the School House Gate: 40 Years of Landmark School Speech Cases" relative to his involvement in the Widmar v. Vincent decision of the U.S. Supreme Court. The symposium, Sept. 20-21, was hosted by the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law and the UMKC Law Review.

Amy Baker, assistant professor, musical theatre, won the Mary Jane Teall Theatre Award in September for Choreography for "Honk!" at Music Theatre of Wichita.

Ed Baker, associate professor, and Danette Baker, adjunct faculty, theatre, were awarded the Ruth McCormick Theatre Educator of the Year Award at the Mary Jane Teall Theatre Awards in September.

Daniel Bergman, assistant professor, curriculum and instruction, was elected as Kansas Association of Teachers of Science KATS vice president for 2012-2013.

Catherine Bohn-Gettler, assistant professor, counseling, educational leadership, educational and school psychology, recently presented "Tracking causal information during reading comprehension" at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading. She also presented "The interplay between mood and working memory on inference generation" at the annual meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, both in Montreal, Canada.

Jason Flanders, manager, scene shop, theatre, had his first gallery showing at the Aviary Gallery in Wichita during the Sept. 28 Final Friday gallery crawl.

Angela Gaughn has been hired by the Center for Community Support and Research as support group project specialist for the center to promote its support group database across Kansas.

Alicia Huckstadt, graduate program coordinator, and Amy McClintock, administrative specialist, nursing, applied to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and were accepted for a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The HRSA Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship Grant is for almost $350,000 this year and comes with a recommendation for the same amount next year. The program supports training students to become primary care nurse practitioners.

John Paul Johnson, professor, music education, has been chosen to represent North America as an adjudicator at the National Christian Universities Choir Competition held in Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia from Oct. 15-22. Choirs from private universities throughout Indonesia will travel throughout the country to perform for five adjudicators representing Asia, Europe, Africa, South and North America.

Bret Jones, director, theatre, will have his play "THEBES City" presented by Fly By Night Theatre Company as part of its 2012-2013 Season. For details, go to www.flybynighttheatre.com/season.html.

Charles L. Martin, professor, marketing and entrepreneurship, traveled to Lahore, Pakistan in July to participate as keynote speaker in the Second International Conference on Contemporary Issues in Business Management. More than 300 participants from around the world and from cross-business disciplines attended the event held at the Pearl Continental Hotel and the University of Central Punjab. The keynote address by Martin, "What Goes Around Comes Around: Business Thinking As Cyclical Phenomena," focused on the roles that cycles play in business planning, forecasting and human (buyer) behavior.

Katherine Mason, assistant professor, curriculum and instruction, recently co-published "Locating queer community in award-winning LGBTQ-themed young adult literature (2005-2010)" in The ALAN Review.

Betty Monroe, professor, costume design and technical theatre, had her article "Stereotypes in Theatre Costumes: A Blessing or a Curse?" published in the 2012 International Fashion and Costume Conference's Publication.

Sara Muzzy has been promoted to associate director of the Office of Cooperative Education and Work-Based Learning.

David Neville, associate professor, design and technical theatre, won the Mary Jane Teall Theatre Award for Lighting Design for "Fiddler on the Roof" at Music Theatre of Wichita.

Fletcher Powell, producer, KMUW 89.1, has received a 2012 High Plains Media Award from the American Cancer Society for an October 2011 story about doctors beginning to focus on patients after their traditional treatments are complete, focusing on breast cancer survivorship. Winners were chosen from several categories, including magazine, newspaper, television, radio and online.

Priscilla Ridgway, community and organizational researcher, Center for Community Support and Research, published a piece in the National Recovery to Practice Initiative Newsletter discussing spirituality and recovery from prolonged psychiatric disorder. A longer report by Ridgway and peer specialist educator Lael Ewy on the topic was recently released. The document, Report of a Statewide Spirituality and Mental Health Recovery Summit, is available upon request from priscilla.ridgway@wichita.edu.

Michael Rogers, chair, professor and research director, Center for Physical Activity and Aging, presented "Effective exercise interventions for active aging" and "Falling Less in Kansas: Preventing falls in rural older adults" at a Sedgwick County conference in Wichita called Positive Aging: Protect your health, wealth and self.

Donna Sayman, assistant professor, curriculum and instruction, recently published "My journey into qualitative research." In J.M. Meloy (Ed.). Twenty-first Century Learning by Doing (3rd. ed.)

Donna Sayman, curriculum and instruction; Mark Vermillion, sport management; and Catherine Bohn-Gettler and Craig Elliott, counseling, educational leadership, educational and school psychology, recently completed a two-year, on-line "bootcamp" workshop offered by the WSU Media Resource Center. These faculty members used their training to revise and develop online courses for their departments.

Nick Taylor, a 2007 graduate of the Sport Management master's program in the College of Education and a lecturer in the department of sport management, won a gold medal in tennis at the Paralympics in London on Sept. 5. Taylor and doubles partner David Wagner of Oregon, have won two previous gold medals in Athens (2004) and Beijing (2008) in quad doubles wheelchair tennis.

Susan Unruh, assistant professor, and Nancy McKellar, associate professor, counseling, educational and school psychology, recently wrote "Evolution, Not Revolution: School Psychologists' Changing Practices in Determining Specific Learning Disabilities." It has been accepted for publication in the journal Psychology in the Schools.

Sabrina Vasquez, faculty, dance, is the recipient of the Dorothy Johansen Hauck Faculty Fellow in Dance and Musical Theatre.

Gayle Veltman, coordinator of testing, Counseling and Testing Center, was recently awarded the 2012 President's Award from the National College Testing Association. The award recognizes NCTA members who contributed to the organization in the preceding year through service on a standing committee, working on the Annual Conference Committee, or participating in a special NCTA project.

Eric Wilson, instructor and outreach coordinator, Elliott School of Communication, was interviewed by fellow ESC alum Marc LaVoie for KFDI News' "At Issue" program. Wilson talked about how the media has changed and about the Elliott School. To listen to the interview, go to http://www.kfdi.com/podcasts/news/atissue/170886071.html.

NEW FACULTY 2012
Please welcome new faculty to campus; for more information, go to http://www.wichita.edu/j/?1842.

SERVICE AWARDS 2012
Please congratulate faculty and staff who have been honored for their years of service or as Benders of Twigs; for more information, go to http://www.wichita.edu/j/?1860.

RETIREES 2012
Please offer good wishes to faculty and staff who have recently retired; for more information, go to http://www.wichita.edu/j/?1859.

IN MEMORIAM
Carol L. Johnson Harding, 74, retired, Physical Plant, died May 24. Services have been held. Survivors include brothers Walter L. Davis, Tracy A. Davis and Melvin E. Tipton; sisters Maxine J. Davis, Elaine Brashears and Joyce J. Henderson.

Global Village, KMUW earn national honors

Mon, 5 Mar 2012 11:02:00 CST

Global Village, the nightly world music show that airs locally on KMUW FM 89.1, has been honored with a national award and nominated in the new Reader's Choice World Music Awards.

KMUW, a listener-supported station, is licensed to Wichita State University. Global Village is hosted by KMUW announcer/producer Chris Heim at 7 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Global Village is distributed nationally through PRX, the Public Radio Exchange, and to date has aired on nearly 80 radio stations. Each year PRX hands out its Zeitfunk Awards to the most distributed shows and stations.

Global Village was among the Top 10 for Nationally Distributed Series, and KMUW was in the Top Five among stations due to its Global Village offering.

In addition, Global Village has just been nominated for Best World Music Radio Show in the Reader's Choice World Music Awards. Nominees were picked by reader votes and open voting for a final winner, which Global Village currently leads, continues through March 21. A link to the ballot is available on the Global Village page at http://www.facebook.com/GlobalVillageRadio.

More information about Global Village and KMUW, including the full programming schedule and a link to listen online, is available at http://kmuw.org/.

KMUW offers Memorial Day, major music specials

Thu, 26 May 2011 17:00:00 CST

KMUW 89.1, Wichita Public Radio, will offer special programs to celebrate Memorial Day.

Throughout May, KMUW's "Crossroads" has been featuring the music of Robert Johnson to mark the centennial birthday of the Delta blues legend. The celebration concludes with the "Robert Johnson Centennial Celebration Special" at 11 p.m. Friday, May 27 and 8 p.m. Sunday, May 29.

Finally, KMUW celebrates Memorial Day with the special, "A Salute in Song for Memorial Day." The 2-hour program highlights the stories and the music of America's military experience from the Civil War through to today's conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The program is a document of the nation's experience.

The holiday salute airs at 10 p.m. Monday, May 30.

KMUW makes programming changes

Wed, 25 May 2011 16:33:00 CST

KMUW 89.1, Wichita Public Radio, is changing its programming schedule to support its public service mission and to focus production on local news and music.

The station has reformatted its jazz programming and will launch a new jazz show, "Night Train," hosted by full-time KMUW Music Producer Chris Heim.

On Mondays-Thursdays, Heim's world music show, "Global Village," will air from 7-8 p.m. Host Jedd Beaudoin's "Strange Currency" will air from 8-10 p.m. And "Night Train" will air from 10 p.m.-midnight.

On Fridays, KMUW will offer two hours of Heim's blues show, "Crossroads," which will repeat at 7 p.m. Sundays.

In August, KMUW will stop carrying "Living On Earth" on weekend mornings and "Afropop" on Saturday nights in order to offer two additional hours of the "BBC World Service" each week. These changes will save the station funding that can then be used to provide more in-depth coverage of local news and other locally produced extras.

Among its local additions, the station added Wichita writer Andrew Bales' pop culture musings, "Into It," to its reserve of "Morning Edition" biweekly commentaries in March.

KMUW will soon add a music spot from Mark Foley, assistant professor at Wichita State University and principal bassist of the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, to the same slate.

WSU's KMUW exceeds pledge drive goal in record time

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:46:00 CST

Wichita State University's public radio station KMUW 89.1 FM has completed its spring 2011 pledge drive two days early, exceeding its goal of $250,000 by more than $14,000 in record time.

Other success during the campaign included the highest one-day total in the station's history – $44,127 – and a record number of new members, totaling more than 300.

There were 1,880 listeners who contributed to the campaign.

Campus support

Many WSU employees pledged using a payroll deduction, and the university's Media Resources Center loaned laptops to KMUW for the drive.

Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Research Keith Pickus used a corporate challenge to urge listeners to pledge. WSU President and first lady Don and Shirley Beggs contributed to KMUW while appearing on air. And communications professor Les Anderson touted the value of public radio for the benefit of the pledge drive.

KMUW is a 24/7 news and entertainment station and is located across the street from the main Wichita State University campus.

For more information or to pledge to KMUW, visit www.kmuw.org.

Wichita Public Radio wins three awards from the KAB

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:00 CST

KMUW has received three awards from the Kansas Association of Broadcasters.

Jedd Beaudoin received a first-place award in the complete news feature/enterprise coverage for his story on the Smart Brothers.

In the late 1960s, Wichita was racially segregated, but that didn't stop the Smart Brothers Band from attracting mixed-race audiences at Smart's Palace. Nearly every night the Smart Brothers Band, including Leroy, Vernon, John and Richard, packed the house at the family's club at 1009 E. 9th St.

Carla Eckels received a second-place award in the spot news category for her reporting on the Scott Roeder sentencing. Roeder received the Hard 50 in April for murdering Wichita abortion provider George Tiller.

KMUW also received a second-place award for its station website. The award was shared by Chandra Stauffer and Kerri Wood Thompson.

Both stories are available now at kmuw.org.

WRRS Mini Golf Masters Tournament set for Sept. 25

Fri, 6 Aug 2010 00:00:00 CST

This year Mini Golf Masters players will don their creative and often elaborate costumes a month earlier than in past years as they head to the putt-putt course to show their support for people in the Wichita community living with visual impairments.

Wichita Radio Reading Service, a public service of KMUW, will hold its 9th Annual Mini Golf Masters Tournament on Saturday, Sept. 25. Tee time is set for 10 a.m. at All Star Adventures, 1010 N. Webb Road.

The Mini Golf Masters is unique from other golf tournaments in that players of all ages and skill sets are encouraged to tap in to their inner golf personalities, as opposed to putting too heavy of an emphasis on displaying their skills as a golfer.

The Mini Golf Masters brings companies, families and friends together for a highly entertaining event.

Sierra Scott will serve as emcee for the tournament.

Registration for a team of four is $100. Participants will compete for a chance to win individual and team prizes. A team will be selected as the best dressed, so participants are encouraged to be creative in their costume choice and team name.

To register, go to www.kmuw.org and select the WRRS tab.

Deadline for team registrations is Friday, Sept. 3. Registrations made after are first come first served.

KMUW presents Final Friday concert at WSU's Ulrich Museum

Tue, 18 May 2010 15:41:47 CST

KMUW 89.1 Wichita Public Radio will present a Final Friday concert at 8 p.m. Friday, May 28, at the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University. The outdoor concert will feature three musical acts: Notes/Scraps, Ryan Windham and Spirit of the Stairs. Admission is free.

All performances will take place outdoors in the new Ulrich plaza, so bring your lawn chair. The concert will move into McKnight Art Center in the event of inclement weather.

Headlining is Spirit of the Stairs, a five-piece instrumental rock band formed in early 2003. Notes/Scraps (Georgia Andersen) has been playing music in and around Kansas for more than 10 years. Ryan Windham has been experimenting and playing with a loop station and integrating guitar on guitar, hand percussion and other electronic devices, playing many live performances at local venues in Wichita.

In addition, the Ulrich galleries, featuring the Ulrich Museum's latest exhibition "Art of Our Time" among others, will be open from 7:30-9:30 p.m.

The concert is sponsored by KMUW, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, BigMention and Aqua Connections. No alcohol permitted.

NPR's Carl Kasell speaking to WSU students as part of upcoming visit

Wed, 3 Mar 2010 15:55:50 CST

On Tuesday, April 6, KMUW 89.1 Wichita Public Radio will welcome Carl Kasell to Wichita.

Kasell, a veteran broadcaster whose career spans more than 50 years, is the official judge and scorekeeper for National Public Radio's weekly news quiz show "Wait Wait … Don't Tell Me!" It is KMUW's highest ranked show.

For 30 years, Kasell provided newscasts for NPR's daily news magazine, "Morning Edition."

Kasell will take part in several events while in Wichita. At 2 p.m. he will speak to Wichita State University students in 215-217 Rhatigan Student Center. The event is free and open to the public; no tickets are needed.

Gary L. Miller

At 6:30 p.m. there will be a by-invitation-only VIP reception held at Century II. WSU Provost Gary L. Miller and his wife, Georgia, will serve as hosts.

The main event of the day, Kasell's lecture, is at 7:45 p.m. in Century II's Mary Jane Teall Theater. Open to the public, tickets are $10 and can be reserved at www.kmuw.org.

Anyone who makes a pledge to KMUW by noon Tuesday, April 6, will be entered to win Kasell's voice on a home answering machine.

Sponsors for the day's events include Larkspur Restaurant & Grill; Bradley Paper; Beard's Floral; Arts Council of Wichita; Hilton Garden Inn; Ian Stewart; and Coventry Travel.

Go to www.kmuw.org for more information.

National Public Radio to air Wichita StoryCorps on Christmas Day

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:43:26 CST

The story of Wichitan Paul Wilson and how he met the person who changed his life while riding the elevator at the Lassen Hotel will air across the United States on National Public Radio Friday, Dec. 25.

His daughter, Marty Smith, interviewed Wilson in the StoryCorps Booth during its visit to Wichita this fall. KMUW 89.1 Wichita Public Radio brought StoryCorps to Wichita is celebration of its 60th anniversary.

StoryCorps, an initiative of NPR and the Library of Congress, was in Wichita Oct. 19-Nov. 14 to record the stories of the people of south central Kansas.

More than 110 interviews took place, each between people who wished to have their individual story preserved for themselves and for future generations.

As part of the largest oral history project in the country, StoryCorps brings soundproof recording booths to the nation's communities. Community members can accompany relatives – or other loved ones – to conduct broadcast-quality oral history interviews with the guidance of a trained facilitator.

At the end of each 40-minute session, participants receive a CD of the interview. A second copy becomes part of an archive housed at the Library of Congress.

Placement in the library will make it possible for future generations of participants to listen to high-quality recordings of their ancestors' voices and stories.

It will also serve as a valuable resource to historians, presenting a history of life as it was lived in the early years of the 21st century.

Selected interviews are broadcast nationally on Fridays on KMUW's Morning Edition. As the local stories are produced by KMUW staff and aired locally, they are made available online at kmuw.org. National interviews are also accessible at www.storycorps.net.

KMUW is licensed to Wichita State University and is a charter member of National Public Radio.