Kevin Weiberg, center, poses with ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ College of Education Dean Shirley Lefever-Davis and Mark Vermillion, chairperson and associate professor in ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ's sport management department. Weiberg, who once served as commissioner of the Big 12 Conference, will join the sport management department as executive-in-residence.

Former Big 12 commissioner takes new position at Wichita State

Jan 21, 2015 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ has hired Kevin Weiberg as executive-in-residence (EIR) in the Department of Sport Management. Weiberg is the former commissioner of the Big 12 Conference and most recently served as deputy commissioner for the Pac-12 Conference before retiring last summer.

¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ's Applied Technology Acceleration Institute, led by Kenneth Russell (pictured), is launching a new Center for Social Knowledge.

ATAI at Wichita State launches Center for Social Knowledge

Jan 20, 2015 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ's Applied Technology Acceleration Institute is launching a new Center for Social Knowledge, which will be co-led by iTalent Corp., an award-winning technology consulting and systems integration company known for its best practice implementations of social knowledge in Fortune 100 companies.

Pathways team leaders and Epicenter staff joined together this week at Stanford University for their first meeting.

Wichita State among 25 institutions picked for national innovation program

Jan 20, 2015 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ is among 25 U.S. institutions that have been selected by the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter) to join the Pathways to Innovation Program.

Representative Blake Carpenter and one of his mentors Kenneth Ciboski, associate professor of political science.

¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ grad Blake Carpenter takes his place in the Kansas House of Representatives

Mar 27, 2015 — By Travis Gillespie — Blake Carpenter is like a political rags-to-riches story, according to Kenneth Ciboski, Associate Professor of political science at ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ. He started as a typical college freshmen from a small Kansas town and today is a freshman once again -- this time in the Kansas House of Representatives.

Bond sales have been completed for the Experiential Engineering Building, which will be the first building of the ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ Innovation Campus.

Bond sales completed for ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ Experiential Engineering Building

Feb 12, 2015 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — Bond sales have been successfully completed to fund construction of the first building and required infrastructure for the ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ Innovation Campus.

¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ ventures announces winners of the Competitive Innovation Accelerator Shock Tank competition.

¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ Ventures announces winners of innovation funding

Jan 9, 2015 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ Ventures at ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ has awarded seven innovators with more than $100,000 in funding through the Competitive Innovation Accelerator Shock Tank competition. The projects receiving funding expect to add a combined 90-plus jobs to the Kansas economy by 2018.

Vic Chavez, executive director of South Wichita GEAR UP.

¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ GEAR UP receives more than $10 million in grants to serve USD 259

Jan 9, 2015 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ's GEAR UP program was recently awarded $740,000 a year for seven years to fund programs benefitting USD 259 middle and high schools.

Winners of Competitive Innovation Accelerator will be announced Jan. 9

Jan 8, 2015 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — Winners of the Competitive Innovation Accelerator, sponsored by ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ Ventures and the Kansas Department of Commerce will be announced at 2 p.m., Friday, Jan. 9, in the Marcus Welcome Center at ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ.

2015 Shocker New Venture Competition inspires students to put entrepreneurial principles into practice.

¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ Entrepreneurship competition offers $30,000 startup money for new ventures

Feb 12, 2015 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — The Shocker New Venture Competition (SNVC), hosted by ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ's Center for Entrepreneurship, inspires students to put entrepreneurial principles into practice.

Teams representing Kansas BEST were once again dominant at the regional Frontier Trails BEST Championship, taking three out of the top four places.

Area high school robotics teams dominate ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ sponsored competition

Dec 19, 2014 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — Teams representing Kansas BEST were once again dominant at the regional Frontier Trails BEST Championship hosted at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith Dec. 5-6, taking three out of the top four places.