Nov 4, 2014 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — Wichita Public Radio 89.1 FM is proud to announce the successful completion of its Fall 2014 Pledge Drive. The station earned an all-time record high of $337,281 by the end of the campaign at noon today, far and away exceeding its overall goal of $300,000.

Nov 4, 2014 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — The National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) at ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ is assisting the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on research involving a new NASA-developed wireless sensor technology that could revolutionize aircraft health monitoring.

Nov 4, 2014 — By Travis Gillespie — ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ's College of Education has launched a new professional development center. The Kansas Mentoring and Induction Center (KMIC) will benefit Kansas school districts by helping them comply with new state mentoring regulations.

Oct 30, 2014 — By Lainie Rusco — The Human Performance Lab at Wichita State has been conducting research for popular resistance exercise band maker TheraBand. Their results are helping TheraBand improve its products and helping health professionals expand options for patients.

Oct 29, 2014 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — The opera singer Joyce DiDonato, a ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ alumna who grew up in Kansas City as an avid baseball fan, got the call from Major League Baseball to sing the national anthem for the game, should it be necessary.

Oct 28, 2014 — By Lainie Rusco — Wichita State professors Jibo He and Barb Chaparro have invented uSee Glass, a software application that allows remote observers to conduct usability testing on mobile devices.

Oct 29, 2014 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ engineering students are using a zombie attack scenario to teach math modeling concepts to area high school students.

Oct 28, 2014 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — Students transferring to ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ during the spring 2015 semester have a new scholarship option. Renewable merit scholarships of $500 or $1,000 will be available to new transfer students.

Oct 27, 2014 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — The demolition of Wheatshocker Apartments along 17th Street between Hillside and Oliver at ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ is underway to make way for the construction of the first new building on ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ's innovation campus.

Oct 27, 2014 — By ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ News Services — ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ ranked No. 35 in the nation and was the highest-ranked university in Kansas and the region, according to the Social Mobility Index. The index values schools that are best at educating more economically disadvantaged people (family incomes below the national median) at lower tuition so they graduate into good paying jobs.