Dec 5, 2011 — By WSU News Services — Bob Scott, founder and executive director of Chamber Music at the Barn at Prairie Pines in Maize, is the second speaker in the WSU Alumni Association's Distinguished Breakfast Speaker series, Tuesday, Dec. 6, at the Marcus Welcome Center. Breakfast begins at 7:30 a.m., and Scott's presentation starts at 8 a.m., with the event winding up about 8:30 a.m. For tickets, go to http://webs.wichita.edu/?u

Dec 5, 2011 — By WSU News Services — Once again the Campus Post Office is sending out letters from Santa. There are eight different letters to choose from that can be sent to Santa Claus, Ind., for their pictorial postmark and then forwarded to the child addressed on the special envelope. There is a $1.25 fee for the letter, envelope and postage, and the last day to meet the Christmas deadline is Friday, Dec. 16. Stop by the Campus P

Nov 30, 2011 — By WSU News Services — Without a lot of fanfare, the world population topped 7 billion people about Oct. 31, according to United Nations' estimates. The actual date may be fuzzy, but there's no mistaking the challenges facing the world, according to Wichita State University sociologist Charles Koeber. Listen to the podcast at http://wichita.edu/newslinepodcast.

Dec 2, 2011 — By WSU News Services — The William H. Smith Bowling and Recreation Center in the RSC is collecting toys to benefit Marine Toys-For-Tots. Bring in any new, unwrapped toy now until Friday, Dec. 9, and you will receive 25 percent off any single purchase and a coupon for free bowling or billiards. For more details, contact the Rec Center at 978-3479 or whs.reccenter@wichita.edu.

Dec 14, 2011 — By WSU News Services — * The Performance Management Process for classified employees is due between Oct. 1 and Dec. 22, 2011. If you have any questions, call Joan Antes, 978-6151 or Frankie Brown, 978-3540. * A Words for Wellness program on time management will be held from noon-12:30 p.m. today (Monday, Dec. 5) in 203 RSC. Come receive some great tips from Arial Treankler while enjoying light refreshments. * Free

Nov 30, 2011 — By WSU News Services — Accounts Receivable and cashiers in 201 Jardine Hall will close at noon Friday, Dec. 9, for staff development.

Dec 7, 2011 — By WSU News Services — The Sanitary Fairs, full of pageantry and spectacle, were held during the Civil War to raise huge sums of money for the medical care of soldiers. A talk by Lorraine Madway, curator of Special Collections, will feature Sanitary Fairs images from the WSU Libraries' Kantor Collection -- one of the leading collections of these materials in the U.S., from 7-9 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 8, at the Marcus Welcom

Dec 2, 2011 — By WSU News Services — The School of Music's Lieurance Woodwind Quintet announces the release of its third CD on the much respected Summit Recording label. The CD, "Music from the Americas," includes five pieces displaying different American, South American (Brazilian), jazz and standard classical styles. The CDs are available for $15 each at http://lieurancequintet.flyovermedia.net/.

Dec 7, 2011 — By WSU News Services — Kung Yao, a distinguished professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at UCLA and a life fellow of IEEE, will visit Wichita State and give an invited talk, "Modeling wireless communication fading statistics via spherically invariant random processes," from 3-4 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, in 372 Jabara Hall, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics.

Dec 1, 2011 — By WSU News Services — WSU's School of Performing Arts theatre program will present "Something Slavic", the winner of the WSU Playwriting Competition, today (Thursday, Dec. 1) through Sunday, Dec. 4, in the new Welsbacher Theatre at the Hughes Metropolitan Complex. Evening shows are at 7:30 p.m. with two matinees at 2 p.m. Dec. 3 and 4. The play will be directed by Judith Babnich, professor of theater, and was written b