Jul 12, 2013 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — Wichita State's Summer Symphony Orchestra will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 19, in Miller Concert Hall. Tickets can be purchased through the Fine Arts Box Office at 316-978-3233 or wichita.edu/fineartsboxoffice.

Jul 11, 2013 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — Ravi Pendse, vice president for information technology and chief information officer at ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ, has been named vice president for computing and information services at Brown University.

Jul 23, 2013 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — Former Kansas Board of Regents chairman Clay Blair has established a fellowship at Wichita State in honor of a Kansas entrepreneur he calls a "rags-to-riches success story."

Aug 12, 2013 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — Alumni Drive will be closed permanently in early August at ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ. The closing is part of the overall plan to create a permanent pedestrian walkway on campus. Alumni Drive runs from near Morrison Hall south to Perimeter Road.

Jul 11, 2013 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — A generous Shocker alumnus has stepped forward with a donation of $250,000 to underwrite the renovation of the Shocker men's basketball locker room, which is scheduled for completion by the end of this summer.

Jul 3, 2013 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — The Lake Afton Public Observatory and the Kansas Astronomical Observers invite you to bring your telescope to the observatory for one or more "Bring Your Own Telescope" events at 9 p.m. Friday, July 19, and/or Friday, Aug. 16.

Jul 2, 2013 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — Wichita State assistant music theory professor Aleksander Sternfeld-Dunn has won the 2013 American Prize in composition for his saxophone concerto "Fireworks."

Jul 10, 2013 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — The Council on Social Work Education reaccredited the bachelor's and master's programs in Wichita State’s School of Social Work for eight more years through June 2021.

Jul 2, 2013 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — The legacy Velma and Dwane Wallace created at Wichita State and that Velma nurtured and advanced after Dwane Wallace's death in 1989 will live in perpetuity with Velma Wallace's $6 million estate gift to the ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ Foundation.

Jun 27, 2013 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — KMUW will change its afternoon programming schedule on Monday, July 1. NPR is discontinuing its popular "Talk of the Nation," and is moving toward more magazine-style shows, such as "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered."