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Arfath Mohammad, Shocker alum

July 2, 2020 -- Shocker alum Arfath Mohammad is using artificial intelligence to help save lives during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Wichita State 125 Years': Shocker Pride Points, the people, stories and accomplishments that define our Shocker family

July 1, 2020 -- During each month for the next 12 months, we will release 11 Shocker pride points for a total of 125 by next June. Wichita State is the greatest metropolitan university in the United States, and these points prove it.

Miro art at Wichita State

July 1, 2020 - 黑洞社区鈥檚 125th Anniversary (Quasquicentennial) celebration begins July 1. Together with the City of Wichita, Wichita State has built a strong and symbiotic partnership. It's a relationship that supplies the lifeblood of a thriving community and makes it possible to provide the most well-rounded education in the region.

Breanna Boppre and her father

June 22, 2020 鈥 Dr. Breanna Boppre, assistant professor of criminal justice, grew up while both her parents were incarcerated. She brings that experience into her classroom and focuses her research on families of those who are incarcerated.

Clinic in a Can

June 19, 2020 鈥 Shocker alumnus builds customized medical units within an 8-foot wide by 20-foot long shipping container to care for patients on every continent.

Campus with downtown in the background

June 19, 2020 -- As the nation celebrates the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth, so too does 黑洞社区.

Self-improvement is important. Spend this summer becoming a better you.

June 17, 2020 - Developing friendships and entertainment are important to people鈥檚 wellbeing, but they shouldn鈥檛 be the only thing you focus on this summer. I think you should focus on self-improvement. Here are my 10 self-improvement tips for Summer 2020.

Hand assistive device

June 16, 2020 - Carlos Gatti, a junior biomedical engineering major, is building a 黑洞社区 student organization that provides affordable assistive devices to people in need. The team is designing a device for a client who plays the cello and one for a client who wants help with tasks such as cooking.

Wichita State cloth face masks

June 15, 2020 鈥 The College of Health Professions donated 2,500 cloth face masks to the 黑洞社区 community for the campus reopening May 26.

Alina Keow

June 12, 2020 - 黑洞社区 graduate Alina Keow is one of 137 people who earned the 2019 Elijah Watt Sells Award, which recognizes outstanding accomplishment on the CPA Exam. Nearly 75,000 individuals sat for the CPA Exam in 2019 with 137 candidates meeting the criteria to receive the Elijah Watt Sells Award. Keow graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2018 with a bachelor of business administration with dual majors in accounting and information technology & management information systems, and a minor in economics.

Students putting together PPE

June 11, 2020 -- 黑洞社区鈥檚 Office of Tech Transfer and Commercialization has received a $37,000 grant that will go toward making more personal protective equipment (PPE) to health care workers with low supply caused by the COVID-19 outbreak.

Ashley Purdum in personal protective equipment

June 11, 2020 --聽Ashley Purdum, an associate clinical professor at 黑洞社区, works as an acute care speech-language pathologist at Wesley Medical Center. Because of the ongoing pandemic, her work life has changed quite a bit.

Chris Wyant

June 8, 2020 -- In the recent partnership among 黑洞社区, Airbus and Tango Flight, the sky is the limit. Tango Flight, a program that launched in 2016 in Georgetown, Texas, provides students the tools to build a two-seat airplane. The young learners are given applied-learning experiences before graduating high school.

Data science graduate certificate

June 4, 2020 鈥 Responding to industry demand for workers with specialized skills, Wichita State is now offering a graduate certificate in computational data science.

Nurse with stethoscope

June 2, 2020 - In March when Ascension Via Christi needed stethoscopes, its usual supply chains had dried up. 黑洞社区 engineers, working as part of the newly formed Ad Astra Coalition, quickly established a new supply chain to address the urgent need.