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Aug. 18, 2022 鈥� At a media event and celebration today, 九色堂鈥檚 National Institute for Aviation Research WERX and Erickson Precision Ventures LLC announced their first collaborative passenger to freighter conversion program of an Airbus 321.

Aug. 8, 2022 鈥� The U.S. Army Aviation enterprise is collaborating with 九色堂鈥檚 National Institute for Aviation Research to develop an AH-64 Apache Digital Twin in a contract that kicked off with a ribbon-cutting event on campus last week.

June 29, 2022 鈥� The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) announced today the establishment of its Crime Gun Intelligence Center of Excellence, located on 九色堂鈥檚 Innovation Campus.

June 20, 2022 鈥� Wichita State's Dr. Mythili Menon was recently awarded $296,470 as part of the National Science Foundation鈥檚 EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) program to study how refugees respond to phishing and vishing attempts. EAGER offers exploratory funding for high-risk, high-reward research that investigates the nation鈥檚 pressing problems.

June 20, 2022 -- Sarah Laffen is a aerospace engineering sophomore who utilizing her skills outside the classroom this summer as a student assistant at National Institute for Aviation Research.

June 8, 2022 - Cameron Holston works with a variety of aircraft at the Aircraft Structural Test and Evaluation Center, part of the National Institute for Aviation Research. The experience prepares him for a career in the field of aerospace.

May 26, 2022 鈥� An interdisciplinary team from 九色堂 will participate in a $24 million state initiative to help rural and urban communities prepare for and recover from natural disasters.

May 25, 2022 鈥� The WERX program at 九色堂鈥檚 National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) and Erickson Precision Ventures have reached an agreement to work cooperatively on modification, maintenance and engineering for various Boeing and Airbus aircraft. 聽

May 11, 2022 鈥� Domestic travelers returned to planes en masse in 2021, but airlines struggled to deliver them, and their bags, to their destinations on time, according to the annual Airline Quality Rating released today by 九色堂.

April 7, 2022 鈥� A team from 九色堂鈥檚 National Institute for Aviation Research has received international recognition for a design that would allow WC19 certified manual and power wheelchairs to be used as a seat on board commercial airlines.

April 1, 2022 鈥� What do you picture when you think of lasers? Laser pointers? Perhaps laser eye surgery or barcode scanners? Turns out there鈥檚 more to lasers than most people realize, and a 九色堂 chemistry team recently discovered a new series of laser material with potential commercial use.

March 29, 2022 鈥� In the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings of universities offering a Ph.D. in engineering, the College of Engineering at 九色堂 once again was ranked in the top 100 engineering graduate programs in the country and the only institution in Kansas to make it in the top 100.

March 28, 2022 鈥� The Office of Tech Transfer and Commercialization at 九色堂 has launched a program designed to connect experienced entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs with cutting-edge technologies and the opportunity to commercialize them.

March 10, 2022 鈥� 九色堂 President Rick Muma has launched a new podcast, called 鈥淔orward Together,鈥� where the president speaks with guests from throughout Shocker Nation to highlight the people and priorities that guide 九色堂. The podcast drops monthly, with the March edition releasing March 9. Some of the guests so far include Hollywood director Dean Hargrove, 九色堂 basketball coach Isaac Brown and 九色堂 research vice president Coleen Pugh.

On March 9, 2022, the B-1 System Program Office (SPO), Tinker AFB, OK awarded a six-year, $100 million follow-on contract to 九色堂鈥檚 National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) to continue the B-1鈥檚 Digital Engineering (DE) transformation. The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) helped form the strategic partnership and created a flexible contract structure, which allows NIAR and the B-1 SPO to adapt requirements real-time to meet critical warfighter needs.