Health insurance exchange is topic of April forum

Apr 8, 2011 — By ɫƵ News Services — Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger and a panel of experts will hold a free community health care forum from 3-5 p.m. Thursday, April 14, in 203 Rhatigan Student Center at ɫƵ.

Lou Heldman will serve as interim director while a national search is conducted for a new director of ɫƵ's Elliott School of Communication.

Elliott School of Communication interim director named

Apr 15, 2011 — By ɫƵ News Services — Lou Heldman will serve as interim director while a national search is conducted for a new director of the Elliott School of Communication in the Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at ɫƵ.

Dean Headley, co-author of the national Airline Quality Rating at ɫƵ, says airlines continued to improve in 2010.

Airline performance improves for third consecutive year, according to AQR

Apr 15, 2011 — By ɫƵ News Services — Airline passengers are experiencing better performance by the airlines, even though it may cost them more to fly. For the third consecutive year, the performance of the nation's leading carriers improved, according to the 21st annual national Airline Quality Rating. It was the third best overall score in the 20 years researchers have tracked the performance of airlines.

Airline performance improves; AirTran is new No. 1 in Airline Quality Rating

Apr 4, 2011 — By ɫƵ News Services — According to the 21st annual national Airline Quality Rating, AirTran is the best-performing airline of 2010. For the industry, it was the third best overall score in the 20 years researchers have tracked the performance of airlines. The rating is conducted annually by researchers Dean Headley of ɫƵ and Brent Bowen of Purdue University. According to the 21st annual Airline Qu

GRE Test Prep Workshop April 16 at ɫƵ

Apr 1, 2011 — By ɫƵ News Services — ɫƵ's Counseling and Testing Center and the ɫƵ Graduate School are offering a GRE Test Prep Workshop from 9 a.m.-noon Saturday, April 16.

Jazz festival promises four lively days of music and talk

Apr 1, 2011 — By ɫƵ News Services — The Wichita Jazz Festival is celebrating its 40th year with up-and-coming jazz stars' music and talk from Wednesday, April 20-Saturday, April 23, at Doc Howard's Lounge, the Ulrich Museum of Art, the Fisch Haus Gallery and ɫƵ's CAC Theater.

PJ Phachantry (left) and Luwen Zhang practice at the Wichita Table Tennis Center. The two are members of the Wichita State table tennis team that won its division title for the third straight year. The team will represent ɫƵ in the College Table Tennis Association National Championships from April 15-17 in Rochester, Minn.

Table Tennis team wins division title, headed to nationals

Apr 5, 2011 — By Anthony Marrone — The Shocker Table Tennis team won its third straight division title on Feb. 27. The team was created by incoming freshman PJ Phachantry four years ago and has won the division the past three years. ɫƵ will represent the Kansas division in the national tournament, but had to take down KU, K-State and Nebraska in the division to qualify.

Summer camps offered at Wichita State

Jul 22, 2011 — By ɫƵ News Services — There are many academic and athletic camps offered at ɫƵ during the summer. Go to www.wichita.edu/camps to find a complete listing.

Tornado Alley is the subject of upcoming book

Apr 1, 2011 — By ɫƵ News Services — A team of professors and students at ɫƵ is working on a photo history of tornadoes in Kansas that will be published into a book in early 2010.

Science and fun combine at Kansas Science Olympiad

Mar 28, 2011 — By ɫƵ News Services — More than 1,100 Kansas students will take part in the 24th annual Kansas Science Olympiad tournament. Events will take place in various venues throughout the campus, starting at 9 a.m. Saturday, April 2. The locations and times of events that are open to the public can be found at http://webs.wichita.edu/scienceolympiad/ and by clicking on the “State Tournament Open Events” link in the