Sarah Coffman

Apr 13, 2016 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — The Elliott School of Communication has recognized Steve Hart and Sarah Coffman for their achievements in the field of communication. Hart was selected by ESC faculty as the Outstanding Alumni and Coffman as the "One to Watch."

Tru Pettigrew

Apr 12, 2016 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ's Center for Entrepreneurship will host Tru Pettigrew, author, entrepreneur and marketing executive, as the speaker at its spring 2016 Entrepreneurship Forum.

Two clinics at ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ are now accepting additional insurance providers to serve more Wichita-area patients.

Apr 13, 2016 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — Two patient-serving clinics at ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ, the Delta Dental of Kansas AEGD Clinic and the Evelyn Hendren Cassat Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic, are now accepting additional insurance providers. These clinics are open to the public and accepting new patients.

¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ's NIAR is now partnering with Molon Labe Designs, an aircraft seat manufacturing startup to provide design and testing services in an exchange for an investment in the company.

Apr 6, 2016 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ Ventures has facilitated a unique partnership between Molon Labe Designs, an aircraft seat manufacturing startup, and ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ's National Institute for Aviation Research. The partnership provides design and testing services in an exchange for an investment in the company.

2015 ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ Graduate Abigail Wilson won a Gracie award for her documentary,

May 11, 2016 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — Academe welcomes news from ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ faculty and staff about research, teaching and service activities. This column recognizes grants, honors, awards, presentations and publications, new appointments, new faculty, sabbaticals, retirements and deaths of current and former colleagues.

Kansas Council for Economic Education receives $3,500 grant from Westar Energy.

Apr 6, 2016 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — The Kansas Council for Economic Education (KCEE), hosted by Wichita State's W. Frank Barton School of Business, has received a $3,500 grant from Westar Energy.

Virgin America claimed the top spot for the fourth consecutive year in the 26th annual Airline Quality Rating, a joint research project by ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Prescott, Arizona, campus.

Apr 4, 2016 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — As Virgin America claimed the top spot for the fourth consecutive year, overall U.S. airline performance improved slightly in 2015, according to the 26th annual Airline Quality Rating (AQR), released Monday, April 4 at the National Press Club in Washington.

Shuang Gu

Mar 31, 2016 — By Lainie Mazzullo — Three ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ researchers have been awarded the John A. See Innovation Award, totaling $60,000.

¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ graduate student Georg Schirmer, right, founded Goodflight LLC to commercialize a product to aid pilot training.

Mar 30, 2016 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ Ventures' 2015 Innovation Accelerator competition shortlisted seven companies to receive funding through the Kansas Department of Commerce. Over the course of the year, the companies added seven full-time and eight student jobs, and six of the technologies advanced toward commercial outcomes.

Abigail Wilson

Mar 30, 2016 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — A project created while she was a student intern at ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ's KMUW -- 89.1 has earned Abigail Wilson a national Gracie Award.