Oct 14, 2017 — By WSU News Services — Philadelphia Christian Academy won the BEST Award and Game Award at the 19th annual Kansas BEST (Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology) event at Charles Koch Arena today (Saturday, Oct. 14). BEST is designed to inspire and motivate students toward careers in engineering, science and technology. Kansas BEST is sponsored by Wichita State University's College of Engineering. Teams adva

Oct 24, 2017 — By WSU News Services — * The Office of Research invites you to improve your grant-writing skills at a brown bag workshop, "Writing Proposals & Responding to an RFP," from noon-1:30 p.m. today (Friday, Oct. 20) in 405 Jardine Hall. Registration is requested through myWSU myTraining. * Understanding finance at WSU can be a challenge for budget officers and support staff. On Monday, Oct. 23, Lois Tatro will present WSU

Oct 18, 2017 — By WSU News Services — * M'Balia Thomas, assistant professor in KU's School of Education, will present her "Space, Place, & Race in Antoine Dodson's 'Bed Intruder:' A Stylistic Analysis" at 3 p.m. today (Wednesday, Oct. 18) in 208 Hubbard Hall. The talk is part of the Language and Linguistics Colloquium Series. * Campus departments -- bring out your creative side and decorate your door in the annual door decorating c

Oct 17, 2017 — By WSU News Services — * Town Hall meetings on promotion for non-tenure track faculty will be held at 11 a.m. today (Tuesday, Oct. 17) in 116 Ablah Library, and 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19, in 126 Clinton Hall. * Department chairs, budget officers, administrative assistants, executive assistants and college business managers are invited to attend the Administrative Processes & Procedures Q&A session starting at 2:30

Oct 13, 2017 — By WSU News Services — Are you interested in leadership development of yourself and your students? We are calling for six cluster facilitators at WSU's session of LeaderShape this year. The six-day event will take place Jan. 7-12. We will also have a facilitator prep and training day on Jan. 6. The LeaderShape Institute is a nationally recognized and renowned leadership program dedicated to developing participants to be

Oct 17, 2017 — By WSU News Services — * Celebrate Fall Break on campus at the RSC's Shocker Sports Grill & Lanes. Today (Monday, Oct. 16) and tomorrow (Tuesday, Oct. 17), enjoy $1 bowling games with free shoes and $3 pool table rentals (per hour). Plus, cosmic bowling starts at 5 p.m. each day. For hours of operation, go to http://www.wichita.edu/rschours * The next Unclassified Professional Senate meeting will be held from 9-11 a

Oct 13, 2017 — By WSU News Services — Hundreds of WSU students receive scholarships from private donations every year. For our donors, nothing is more valued than a simple note of thanks. To show our appreciation, the WSU Foundation will host its first #GratiTuesday a come-and-go event for students to write handwritten thank you notes to our wonderful donors from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 24, in 233 RSC. Please encourage student sch

Oct 13, 2017 — By WSU News Services — Strategic Communications recently held a marketing seminar for WSU faculty and staff. The main session covered developments in Strategic Communications with a presentation on the WSU Campaign, and an update on the WSU website including an introduction to a new campus map and tour project. Presentation materials from the main session and breakout sessions are available at http://www.wichita.edu

Oct 13, 2017 — By WSU News Services — Shocktoberfest has been Wichita State's annual celebration of Shocker spirit and pride since 1991, and one part of this week-long tradition is the banner competition. All faculty and staff are welcome and encouraged to serve as judges for the banners created by various student groups who have spent countless hours working on them. Judging will take place during this come-and-go event from 11 a.m.-

Oct 13, 2017 — By WSU News Services — The Metro Route will begin at 7:30 a.m. at Tall Oaks apartments rather than at Metro. It will then continue on to Hughes Metropolitan Complex for the first pick-up at about 7:33 a.m. We hope this change will allow students living at Tall Oaks to get to class by 8 a.m. At 9 p.m. Monday-Thursday, one bus off the campus route will be moved to the Metro route in order to get students back to Hughes