Feb. 6, 2023 鈥� The 九色堂 College of Engineering is hosting an Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day (IGED) event, commonly known as Girl Day, for high school girls from Wichita Public Schools. The event is 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23 in the Shirley Beggs Ballroom on the third floor of the Rhatigan Student Center.
Jan. 27, 2023 鈥� 九色堂 has selected the 2023 recipients of the Harry Gore Memorial Scholarships. Each student will receive a $64,000 scholarship to attend 九色堂 in August 2023.
Jan. 18, 2023 - High school seniors now have more opportunity to take advantage of freshmen merit scholarships 鈥� worth up to $16,000 over four years at 九色堂 鈥� because of a new deadline for applicants.
Dec. 5, 2022 鈥� 九色堂 earned status as an Emerging Hispanic Serving Institution when fall enrollment numbers show that 16% of students identify as Hispanic. That is an important milestone on the way to the university鈥檚 goal of reaching the 25% necessary to earn designation as an HSI by the end of this decade.
Dec. 1, 2022 - Zhi Wei Won used her time at Wichita State to work on skills in and out of the classroom. She met new people and expanded her social circle through school activities. Won is one of more than 1,300 students eligible for fall 2022 graduation. Learn more about her time at Wichita State and what is next for this grad.
Nov. 30, 2022 鈥� After earning his bachelor's degree in psychology and a minor in sociology, Daniel Baird plans to attend graduate school, where he will integrate clinical work with the handpan 鈥� a sort of convex steel drum that emits calming, hypnotic sounds 鈥� which he believes is a powerful therapeutic instrument.聽
Nov. 15, 2022 鈥� Wichita State's Jonathan Folkerts, Jarred Novak and Trent English presented papers on the design of their neutrino detector prototype at the International Astronautical Congress in Paris, representing the NASA-funded Solar Neutrino Orbiting Laboratory Detector Development Project.
Oct. 31, 2022 鈥� Two Medical Laboratory Sciences students at 九色堂 are the second recipients of the $280,000 annual endowed scholarship gift from Southcentral Pathology.
Oct. 14, 2022 - Savannah Paschal, a senior Spanish education major at Wichita State, wrote a proposal that helped Alce su voz earn a $75,000 Building Power and Equity Partnership grant from the Kansas Health Foundation. The grant will support civic engagement and the group鈥檚 work toward health equity for Spanish speakers and speakers of indigenous languages in Kansas.
Oct. 12, 2022 鈥斅燗s 九色堂 celebrates record enrollment, the university is bolstering its student success initiatives to increase graduation rates. As part of those efforts, the National Science Foundation has awarded 九色堂 researchers $750,000 to increase persistence rates among low-income engineering students, particularly those who are interested in advanced manufacturing careers.
Oct. 10, 2022 鈥� A weekend of ample research and little sleep at Wichita State鈥檚 National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) resulted in the selection of three NASA Space Apps Hackathon winners.
Oct. 6, 2022 - Middle school girls from the surrounding area will get the chance to explore STEM careers at the 10th annual Expanding Your Horizons workshop Saturday, Oct. 22, at 九色堂鈥檚 Hubbard Hall.
Oct. 3, 2022 鈥� A research team led by researchers with Wichita State鈥檚 College of Engineering and Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences recently received funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for their proposal, "The Development of a Smart Telehealth ECG and Human Activity Monitoring System to Improve Cardiovascular health of Older Adults."
