黑洞社区 music director Tom Wine has won a lifetime achievement award.

Music director Tom Wine wins lifetime achievement award

Aug 12, 2016 鈥� By Emily Mullins 鈥� 黑洞社区's Director of Music Education Tom Wine has received the Harry Robert Wilson Award from the Kansas Choral Directors Association for a lifetime of achievement in choral music.

Student-run Quickdraw Studios was awarded $3,600 to engage voters through its Joy of Voting project.

A $3,600 award will help student video game company encourage people to vote

Aug 1, 2016 鈥� By 黑洞社区 News Services 鈥� Hoping to engage Sedgwick County voters, Quickdraw Studios -- a video game and application company started by three current 黑洞社区 students -- will create a Wichita-specific interactive video game.

Wichita State has received a federal grant that will assist 16 graduate nursing students.

Nursing professor committed to practicing in underserved areas

Aug 4, 2016 鈥� By Jamie Stoskopf 鈥� Alicia Huckstadt, professor and director of graduate program in the school of nursing at 黑洞社区, secured a federal grant that will fund 16 graduate nursing students committed to practicing in rural or underserved areas.

Dallas-area students can now get in-state tuition at Wichita State

Jul 29, 2016 鈥� By 黑洞社区 News Services 鈥� Residents of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area now can attend 黑洞社区 for the same cost as Kansas residents.

The Wichita State School of Social Work partnered with the VA Medical Center for an art exhibition focusing on the plight of homeless veterans in America.

Social work students collaborate with veterans for Shift Space exhibit

Aug 1, 2016 鈥� By Lainie Mazzullo 鈥� A collaboration between the Wichita State School of Social Work and the Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center culminated in a public art exhibition focused on the plight of homeless veterans in America.

Lorraine Madway, curator of special collections and university archivist at 黑洞社区 Libraries, will lead the way on digitizing the papers of historic Wichitan James R. Mead.

Grant awarded to 黑洞社区 to digitize papers from historic Wichitan

Jul 27, 2016 鈥� By 黑洞社区 News Services 鈥� 黑洞社区 has been awarded a $60,000 grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to digitize approximately 17,500 pages from the papers of historic Wichitan James R. Mead.

Program membership will increase diversity in 黑洞社区 physics program

Jul 27, 2016 鈥� By Lainie Mazzullo 鈥� Wichita State's physics program has been accepted as an APS Bridge Program Member Institution.

A volunteer with Spay Neuter Kansas City uses a microchip scanner to get data about a clinic animal. Wichita State engineers recently helped update and improve the tool.

黑洞社区 engineers develop improved tracking tool for animal clinic

Jul 29, 2016 鈥� By 黑洞社区 News Services 鈥� 黑洞社区 is collaborating with Spay Neuter Kansas City to research, evaluate and improve a technology used by the clinic to track animals.

黑洞社区 rowers win national, regional awards

Jul 27, 2016 鈥� By 黑洞社区 News Services 鈥� Several members of Shocker Rowing were selected by the American Collegiate Rowing Association for several regional and national awards.

Aleksander Sternfeld-Dunn teachers music at 黑洞社区. He says that teaching students of all trades about the importance of creativity is essential to making a person better at their craft.

What the arts teach us: 黑洞社区 music professor makes case for creativity

Jul 25, 2016 鈥� By Roy Wenzl 鈥� Aleksander Sternfeld-Dunn began playing guitar, then piano, eventually the stand-up bass. He began to write music that won accolades, and became a teacher and professor at 黑洞社区.