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Students at basketball game

Students: get your Shocker basketball tickets

Oct. 19, 2018 -- WSU students can get free tickets to all home men's and women's basketball games.

Wichita Campus

Shocker Rowing gets new home in downtown Wichita

Oct. 17, 2018 -- Wichita State University's Shocker Rowing team will soon have a new home in the downtown River Vista development.

WSU Tech Dental Assistant students

WSU Tech Dental Assistant program moves to AEGD facility

Oct. 10, 2018 - WSU Tech's Dental Assistant program has moved to the Advanced Education in General Dentistry building at Wichita State.

Wichita Campus

Burks named director of Military and Veteran Services

Oct. 5, 2018 -- Retired Lt. Colonel Larry Burks is the new director of Military and Veteran Services at Wichita State University.

Melissa Rocha participates in the annual Engineering Block Party held the first week of school.

WSU gets $813,000 grant to boost minority STEM enrollment

Oct. 2, 2018 -- Wichita State University has been awarded $813,000 to boost enrollment and retention of students under-represented in science, technology, engineering and math. The funds are part of a larger $3 million, five-year National Science Foundation grant awarded to Kansas State University, which is sharing grant funds with a statewide coalition of universities and community colleges.

Wichita Campus

WSU enrolls largest freshman class, increases enrollment

Oct. 1, 2018 -- As reported by the Kansas Board of Regents (KBOR), KBOR's defined full time equivalent (FTE) for WSU is 11,285, an increase of 1.6 percent over last fall's 11,109. For KBOR reporting purposes, full time is considered to be 15 hours for undergraduates and 12 hours for graduate students.

Wichita Campus

Computer science junior wins High Touch scholarship

Sept. 27, 2018 - Zane Storlie, a junior majoring in computer science at Wichita State, has received a $10,000 a year scholarship from High Touch, a Wichita technology company. The scholarship is renewable and honors the memory of Pat Riddle, a WSU alumna and former High Touch employee.

Wichita Campus

$2.5 million gift to support the Cohen Honors College

Dorothy and Bill Cohen have pledged a gift of $2.5 million to the Honors College at Wichita State University, just three years after they gave $5 million to help the College deliver a rigorous educational experience for highly ambitious students.

Campus life in spring 2018

May 30, 2018 -- Spring 2018 brought an array of fun, diverse events to students at Wichita State.

Grad presents Alzheimer's research at Capitol Hill, Harvard

May 17, 2018 -- Abdul-Mannaan Giles was selected out of 400 national entries to present his study about diagnosing early-stage Alzheimer's to members of Congress on Capitol Hill. He also presented his research project regarding aerobic exercise in early-stage Alzheimer's patients at the Harvard University National Collegiate Research Conference.

Professor's concept could revolutionize space exploration

April 19, 2018 - Wichita State University physics professor Nickolas Solomey won one of NASA's coveted Innovation and Advanced Concept Awards (NIAC) for his research to create a neutrino detector for close sun orbit.

Wichita Campus

Students inspire 300 young innovators at global Silicon Valley event

Miranda Roland

Internship awakens student's love for helping others

Wichita Campus

Teaching other kids as a child sparked WSU junior's desire to become a teacher

July 6, 2017--Jazmin Dennis, a junior secondary education English major at Wichita State University, was awarded the J. Martyn Walsh English Education Scholarship.

BAA woman

Proposed media arts degree would create unmatched opportunities for WSU students

April 19, 2017 - A new degree is being proposed at Wichita State University -- one that would focus on animation, audio production, game design and filmmaking.