A group of Fairmount College honor roll students

Fairmount College recognizes Dean's Honor Roll students

More than 780 Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences students earned a spot on the Fall 2021 Dean鈥檚 Honor Roll.

A member of the kitchen crew dumps food scraps into a bin at Shocker Hall.

Shocker Hall goes green with composting program

April 21, 2022 鈥擳here鈥檚 a whole world living inside your food waste 鈥� billions and billions of microorganisms 鈥� just waiting to make your landscaping bloom brighter and your vegetables grow heartier.

Vivian and Jian stand in front of the crystal X-ray diffractometer to visualize the atoms.

Published Wichita State chemists discover laser materials

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 m88体育 chemistry team recently discovered a new series of laser material with potential commercial use.

Lindquist Hall, home of the Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Department of Women's, Ethnicity, and Intersectional Studies reflects complexities of gender, sexuality, ethnicity and race

Explanation of department name change

Stephanie and Matt Clark

Wichita State alums regard Ukraine as a second home: 'It rips your heart out'

March 7, 2022 - Wichita State alums Matt and Stephanie Clark taught English to students from fifth grade to high school in Ukraine from 2006-08 as Peace Corps members. Their friends and their warm memories are in turmoil as the Russian invasion wears on in their adopted country. They rely on social media to hear from former students, host families and friends, as they try to sort good information from bad and bring attention to the crisis.

Nelsen Petersen

Shocker alum with Ukrainian ties prepares to help in refugee crisis

March 4, 2022 - Nelsen Petersen, a Wichita State alum, is a high school teacher, author, filmmaker and running enthusiast who developed strong connections with Ukraine during his travels. Later this month, he plans to go to Cluj-Napoca, a Romanian city near Ukraine to help in refugee camps. He wants to spend four or five days during his spring break in the region.

PIcture of seven members of HarveStars.

WSU team selected for NASA SUITS Design Challenge

Feb. 21, 2022 鈥� A proposal submitted by an interdisciplinary m88体育 team of seven members was selected for the top 10 in the 2021-22 NASA Space Suit Interface Technologies for Students (SUITS) Design Challenge.

Valeria Paunetto is standing in front of the brick laid Morrison Hall and there is a tree in the background. The sun is shining. Paunetto is wearing her shocker gear with some yellow earrings and she is smiling.

Adelante Scholar talks about her journey to WSU

Jan. 24, 2022 鈥� Valeria Paunetto, originally from Puerto Rico, won the Adelante Scholarship in 2021, which has helped her pursue a degree in social work at Wichita State.

Darren DeFrain holding up phone with Vizling app

WSU professor wins Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant for work to assist the visually impaired

Jan. 20, 2022 鈥� The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded a grant of $243,922 to a m88体育 researcher for his work on an app that will allow people who are visually impaired to read comic books, graphic novels and other digitized graphic materials on their devices.

Lysel Bender is wearing a dark green jacket, some jeans, and brown high heel boots. She is sitting on the steps of the Barton School of Business where the purple, blue, yellow, and pink mural is.

Meet a Shocker: Lysel Bender

Dec. 8, 2021 鈥� Lysel Bender dreams of becoming a writer and a publisher after receiving a double major in English literature and creative writing. Bender is one of more than 1,100 students eligible for fall 2021 graduation.