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Shocker rowing meet now includes chance at scholarships

Feb 1, 2013 — By WSU News Services — For the first time, high school rowers will get the chance to win a scholarship to Wichita State University during the Shocker Sprints Indoor Rowing Race next month. The race, from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, at WSU's Heskett Center, will be a scholarship competition for high school athletes.

KCEE encourages students to play in the street - Wall Street

Jan 31, 2013 — By WSU News Services — Thousands of Kansas students in 3rd through 12th grade will be receiving a hypothetical $100,000 to invest this spring in real companies and real prices while they gain firsthand experience managing an online investment portfolio through The Stock Market Game program (SMG). More than five thousand Kansas students are already registered to participate. Registrations will be accepted until the middl

Reegan Innes, left, and Amanda Johnson are winners of the 2013 Harry Gore Memorial Scholarships. They will each receive $52,000 to attend Wichita State., Amanda Johnson

Kansas high school seniors win $52,000 WSU Gore scholarships

Feb 12, 2013 — By WSU News Services — Kansas high school students Amanda Johnson and Reegan Innes have won Wichita State University's Harry Gore Memorial Scholarships. And in a surprise announcement, WSU Foundation President Elizabeth King said the value of the scholarships would increase from $48,000 per student to $52,000. Innes and Johnson will receive $13,000 a year for four years to attend Wichita State.

WSU grad Super Bowl bound as PR manager for 49ers

Jan 31, 2013 — By WSU News Services — WSU grad Dan Beckler, coordinator of public relations for the San Francisco 49ers, is happy to be working in New Orleans as his team prepares for sunday's Super Bowl appearance.

February event to honor five WSU basketball greats

Jan 30, 2013 — By WSU News Services — Wichita State basketball greats Dave Stallworth, Antoine Carr, Xavier McDaniel, Cleo Littleton and Cliff Levingston will be honored at 7:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 8, at WSU's Marcus Welcome Center. The special breakfast is part of the WSU Alumni Association's centennial celebration and 2013 Distinguished Alumni Speaker Series. Tickets are $18 for Alumni Association members and $20 for nonmembers.

WSU starting entrepreneur program in Butler County

Feb 1, 2013 — By WSU News Services — The Wichita State University Center for Entrepreneurship, in partnership with Butler County Economic Development, NetWork Kansas, Augusta Progress Inc. and El Dorado Main Street, is launching a new entrepreneurial certificate in Butler County, Kan. "Growing Rural Businesses" will start Friday Feb. 1.

University's international students part of global diplomacy

Jan 29, 2013 — By WSU News Services — The following is an excerpt from a story about international students at Wichita State University. The article appeared in the Jan. 27 issue of The Wichita Eagle.

WSU grads lead state universities in finding employment in Kansas

Jan 29, 2013 — By WSU News Services — Wichita State University had the highest rate among state universities with 73.6 percent of its graduates gaining employment in Kansas one year after graduation, according to data on post-graduation employment in Kansas for graduates between 2007 and 2009.

Wichita State's College of Education awarded assistant professor Gayla Lohfink with a research grant that provided McLean Science and Technology Magnet Elementary with new multicultural books.

Professor's research helps provide books to Wichita school

Jan 28, 2013 — By Erika Elving — Wichita State assistant education curriculum and instructor professor Gayla Lohfink conducted community-based research that ultimately provided about 80 multicultural books to students at McLean Science and Technology Magnet Elementary School in Wichita. WSU's College of Education funded the project. Lohfink's research focused on kindergarten teachers reading culturally diverse literature to their

Wichita State discovers more with international young minds

Jan 28, 2013 — By WSU News Services — The following is an excerpt from a story about Wichita State University student Madhulika Srikanth that appeared in the Jan. 27 issue of The Wichita Eagle.