May 29, 2012 — By WSU News Services — * Participants over age 60 are needed to evaluate a variety of cell phone input methods for dissertation research. No cell phone experience is necessary. Earn $30 cash while learning new ways to communicate. If you are interested, please take a few minutes to take the Mobile Device Screening Survey at http://www.surl.org/signup/. If you qualify, you will be contacted to schedule a time. Questions

May 22, 2012 — By WSU News Services — Participants over age 60 are needed to evaluate a variety of cell phone input methods for dissertation research. No cell phone experience is necessary. Earn $30 cash while learning new ways to communicate. If you are interested, please take a few minutes to take the Mobile Device Screening Survey at http://www.surl.org/signup/. If you qualify, you will be contacted to schedule a time. Questions ca

May 21, 2012 — By WSU News Services — The WSU Shocker Challenge is for campus departments to foster employee interaction, teamwork, morale, pride, health and wellness. Challenge events begin the first full week of June 2012 and continue through July, but the deadline to register your team is 5 p.m. Friday, May 25. Questions? Check out http://www.wichita.edu/j/?1601. For more information, go to http://www.wichita.edu/j/?1593. A registr

May 17, 2012 — By WSU News Services — Wichita State athletics will host the State Track and Field meet for the Kansas State High School Activities Association Friday and Saturday, May 25-26, at Cessna Stadium. The track meet includes the top-performing athletes in all high school classes. There is an admission charge. For more information, go to http://www.kshsaa.org/Public/Track/State.cfm.

May 18, 2012 — By WSU News Services — Lake Afton Public Observatory will be open from 7-8:30 p.m. Sunday, May 20, for a partial solar eclipse viewing. A solar eclipse takes place when the moon passes directly between the Earth and the sun, covering the sun's disc completely. The Wichita area is about 500 miles northwest of the center of the eclipse path so from here the sun's disc will only become about 85 percent covered by the moon

May 21, 2012 — By WSU News Services — The Ulrich Museum's free, outdoor summer music series, Art For Your Ears, kicks off the season with 2011 International Blues Challenge finalists Big Jim Adam and John Stilwagen on June 7. With a foot-stomping, knee-slapping, family-friendly show, they combine music with stories and humor. The free concert begins at 7 p.m. on the McKnight Art Center plaza, which connects the Ulrich Museum with Wich

May 21, 2012 — By WSU News Services — The Wichita Scottish Rite and Wichita State University will hold its second annual Charity Poker Run for Motorcycles and Classic Cars from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, June 9, at the historic Wichita Scottish Rite center. Meet in the parking lot, just north of 1st and Topeka. Join us for door prizes, raffles, silent auction, $5 lunch and vendors. The cost to ride in the run is $25 at the event or $20 t

May 22, 2012 — By WSU News Services — A May 5 reunion lunch marked the 35th anniversary of the Wallace scholarship program. In 1976, the Dwane and Velma Wallace Endowment, which supports scholarships for engineering students and provides funds for the WSU College of Engineering, was created. The endowment has benefited more than 270 engineering majors and inspired another funding avenue for engineers, the Wallace Alumni Legacy Endowed

May 17, 2012 — By WSU News Services — Be sure and save the evening of Saturday, Aug. 18, for the annual We're Not Back to School Bash, an event celebrating the fact that young alums have completed their formal education and don't have to head back to class. The event, featuring food, drink, music and socializing, is at the Duerksen Amphitheater on the west side of campus. Check for more event details as they become available at http:/

May 18, 2012 — By WSU News Services — The College of Health Professions was honored with a visit by a high level delegation from Manya Krobo, Ghana, West Africa on Wednesday, May 16. This delegation is being hosted by City of Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer from May 14-May 21. The delegation received a tour of the Evelyn Hendren Cassat Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic. They are very interested in student/faculty exchanges and Web conferencing