Feb 5, 2010 — By WSU News Services — The Environmental Protection Agency has selected the Hugo Wall School to serve as the Environmental Finance Center (EFC) Region 7, which includes Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska. The school competed for this designation as part of a national grants award process. Awards are for six years with $190,000 in funds anticipated in fiscal year 2010. The Hugo Wall School represents the only newly crea

Feb 11, 2010 — By WSU News Services — * Faculty, staff and students are invited to join in the 1-million-meal food packaging event from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 5-6, and 1-8 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 7, at WSU's Eugene M. Hughes Metropolitan Complex. For more information, go to http://www.wichita.edu/thisis/wsunews/news/?nid=953. * Please take a few minutes to support WSU's TRIO students by rating their video entry "What is

Feb 2, 2010 — By WSU News Services — WSU's National Institute for Aviation Research and Wichita Area Technical College through the National Center for Aviation Training will host an online composites maintenance technology course that will focus on critical composite materials maintenance and repair safety issues beginning March 1. For the complete story, go to http://www.wichita.edu/j/?406.

Feb 8, 2010 — By WSU News Services — The WSU Department of Physics is announcing its Spring 2010 Physics Seminar, dedicated to the memory of professor John Breazeale, from 2-3 p.m. Wednesdays in 128 Jabara Hall. Professor Kieran Mullen of the University of Oklahoma will present "Synthetic Atoms" at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10. The entire spring seminar series schedule is available at http://www.wichita.edu/j/?411.

Feb 8, 2010 — By WSU News Services — Inspired by a true story, "The Great Debaters" chronicles the journey of professor Melvin Tolson, a brilliant, but volatile, debate team coach who uses the power of words to shape a group of underdog students from a small African American college in the Deep South into a historically elite debate team. The movie, starring Denzel Washington and Forest Whitaker and rated PG-13, will be shown at 2 p.

Feb 5, 2010 — By WSU News Services — * There will not be a meeting of the Faculty Senate on Monday, Feb. 8. * Wear Red and speak up on Friday, Feb. 5. Learn more about beating heart disease with simple but life-saving choices at http://www.goredforwomen.org. For more information on donating to the American Heart Association, contact Shelley Rich at 978-5287 or shelley.rich@wichita.edu. Online donations to Wichita State's Heart Wal

Feb 3, 2010 — By WSU News Services — Join a leading scholar on the Harlem Renaissance, John S. Wright, as he discusses the legacy of Gordon Parks. Wright will discuss the variety of artistic media Parks used to come to terms with the culture of contradictions he observed in 20th-century America during "Dark Whispers of Intimate Things: The Renaissance Visions of Gordon Parks" at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 4, in 210 McKnight Art Center Wes

Feb 2, 2010 — By WSU News Services — During the next few weeks, University Computing will upgrade the wireless network configuration in the residence halls and Ablah Library to increase Internet security for students, automate the registration process and offer wireless access for campus guests. The upgrade begins today (Tuesday, Feb. 2) in Ablah Library, and Wednesday, Feb. 3, in the first floor of Fairmount South and will continue

Feb 4, 2010 — By WSU News Services — Some offices have been receiving calls from someone identifying themselves as "Supply Services" and asking questions about your HP printer. They will say that they have an excess of printer cartridges for your particular printer and want to make you a special deal. Please be aware that this is a scam, and do not give them any billing information. The Office of Central Services handles all office s

Feb 4, 2010 — By WSU News Services — The WSU Department of Geology, in coordination with the Department of Geology at the University of Kansas, will hold a colloquium at 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 4, featuring Katie Keranen from the University of Oklahoma. She will present "The Role of Magmatism in Continental Extension: A Perspective from the East-African Rift System." The colloquium will be held in the Wireless Learning Space at the Med