Jul 11, 2011 — By WSU News Services — 9 a.m. Monday, July 11, until further notice This topic features six sound bites and one voice wrap. When storm winds blow and a tornado hovers nearby, motorists have very few options. Scott Miller, an aerospace engineer at Wichita State University, has participated in research and studied the wind speeds required to upset vehicles. Go to http://www.wichita.edu/newsline to get the curren

Jul 14, 2011 — By WSU News Services — Banner, Self Service, Student Account Suite and some of the options on myWSU and Reporting Services will be unavailable from 10 a.m. to about 6 p.m. Saturday, July 23, due to scheduled maintenance. Please email helpdesk@wichita.edu if you have any questions.

Jul 8, 2011 — By WSU News Services — In Academe news, Mary Koehn and WSU nursing student Rachel Wilson participated in the recent simulation training at John Hopkins University in Boston; Les Anderson, Amy Devault and Kim Kufahl won national communication awards; and 11 faculty members will go on sabbatical. In addition, the recent death of Robert C. Wherritt is noted. Go to http://www.wichita.edu/j/?1089. Submit news for Academe to

Jul 8, 2011 — By WSU News Services — The cover story of this summer's print Horizon features Patti '88, '95 and Jim '86 Zielke, who established two planned gifts during the Promise for the Future campaign. Also, read about how Jon '83 and Kelly Callen and the Rhatigan Renewal benefited from the Callens' gift through the Higher Education Deferred Maintenance Tax Credit Program -- you can, too. Learn how student Emily Pirtle was introd

Jul 7, 2011 — By WSU News Services — Don't know where to get some information? Here are a few helpful links. Transfer admissions information: http://www.wichita.edu/transfers Admissions application: http://www.wichita.edu/apply Academic majors: http://www.wichita.edu/majors Transfer Equivalency Guide: http://www.wichita.edu/transfer Advising contact information: www.wichita.edu/academicadvising Financial Aid: http:/

Jul 7, 2011 — By WSU News Services — Working under the direction of the Center for Economic Development and Business Research, WSU graduate student Linda Mendy has completed a report titled "The Unemployment Rate of Kansas." This article discusses major trends in the Kansas unemployment rate since 1990, dynamics affecting the Kansas unemployment rate and a forecast of Kansas employment. For more information, go to http://www.wichita.

Jul 8, 2011 — By WSU News Services — Listeners of Global Village should know that the program on KMUW 89.1 can now be heard at its new time at 7 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. Produced and hosted by Chris Heim, Global Village also is distributed nationally, airing on 15 stations and heard in 20 states. The Global Village Top 30 Show, which airs the first Friday of every month as part of New Month-New Music night with Strange Currency

Jul 7, 2011 — By WSU News Services — The WSU Leading Economic Indicators Index has had a good year in 2011, increasing 3.5 percent from December 2010 through April. Over that time period, all of the index indicators showed improvement, except the number of hours worked in manufacturing in the Wichita MSA, which declined only 0.2 percent. With this many leading indicators doing well, the Wichita economy can be expected to do well the

Jul 11, 2011 — By WSU News Services — The Center for Economic Development and Business Research updated its report "Demographics of Wichita MSA Workers Receiving Unemployment Insurance Benefits" through first quarter 2011. The report now includes four quarters of unemployment insurance data. Tables provide counts of unemployment insurance claimants by education, occupation and industry. More information is available at http://www.wich

Jul 18, 2011 — By WSU News Services — WSU Libraries is offering summer workshops on citation searching for faculty preparing tenure, promotion and other documents. The first one will be from 2:30-3:30 p.m. Thursday, July 14, in 217 Ablah Library. To sign up for a workshop, contact Elaine Harvey at 978-5072 or Cathy Moore-Jansen at 978-5080. Learn how to search for cited references to your own works using the Web of Science and othe