Jun 8, 2009 — By WSU News Services — Texas, Pittsburgh, Iowa and Wichita State will tip off the men's basketball season in the 2009 O'Reilly Auto Parts CBE Classic at the Sprint Center in Kansas City. The event includes a 12-team field and tips off Nov. 15-18 at the four regional sites. The four regional hosts will play two games at home and automatically advance to the championship rounds in Kansas City, regardless of the regional r

Jun 18, 2009 — By WSU News Services — WSU Libraries will present "One Writer's Stories: Selected Short Stories of John Cheever" from 7-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 16, at the Rockwell Branch, Wichita Public Library, 5939 E. 9th. Lorraine Madway, curator of special collections and university archivist, will lead a group discussion focusing on the work of a writer who contributed to the Writers' Project and later became an important figure i

Jun 5, 2009 — By WSU News Services — For the latest news from the WSU Alumni Association, read The Shocker Online at http://webs.wichita.edu/dt/newsletter/show/?NID=9157.

Jun 16, 2009 — By WSU News Services — * Les Anderson and about 15 WSU students were busy documenting the rebirth of Greensburg during a presession class the past two weeks. Check out the stories at http://www.greensburgrebirth.com. * Vault Online Career Library is the June Resource of the Month for University Libraries. Randi Lindquist, Office of Career Services, will offer three free workshops on the use of Vault. The workshops wi

Jun 5, 2009 — By WSU News Services — Ravi Pendse, associate provost and chief information officer at WSU, tells the Tech Therapists that education in the Internet age is all about finding human connections -- and doing everything possible to engage the "digital natives" who are now dominating college campuses. The broadcast was featured on the Chronicle of Higher Education's multimedia site. You can hear the interview at http://chron

Jun 5, 2009 — By WSU News Services — What's in a face? What do images of people tell us about them? A selection of painted, photographed and sculpted artworks in the Ulrich collection will explore these questions and highlight developments in the tradition of portraiture through the 20th and 21st centuries in a new exhibition, "About Face: Portraits from the Collection," which opens Saturday, June 6, in the Ulrich Museum. These works

Jun 5, 2009 — By WSU News Services — Building Effective Teams, a presession management class taught by Diane Yoder, was challenged to complete a service/learning project. The 29 students were asked to apply course concepts in team building to a competitive challenge of raising as many food and cash donations as possible for local nonprofit agencies -- Catholic Charities, InterFaith Ministries, Wichita Children's Home, Kansas Food Ban

Jun 5, 2009 — By WSU News Services — The Kansas Board of Regents recently announced that the state's six universities will receive $7.7 million from the higher education portion of the Federal State Fiscal Stabilization Fund for fiscal year 2009. The Regents allocated 100 percent of the available current-year funding to 16 critical deferred maintenance projects on the state university campuses. The funds, which address about 1 percen

Jun 8, 2009 — By WSU News Services — The Office of Admissions will hold two open demonstrations of Shockerville, WSU's online social network exclusively for students newly admitted to Wichita State for the summer or fall 2009 semester. The demonstrations will be at 2:30 p.m. Friday, June 12, and 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 16, in the Marcus Welcome Center's Wallace Auditorium. If you are interested in learning more about the network, pl

Jun 5, 2009 — By WSU News Services — Congratulations to two participants in WSU's Veterans Upward Bound who received special recognition from the TRIO Quest Photo-Essay contest. Go to http://uwtrio.org and click on the Early PhotoEssay Winners Announced link in the right column.