Shocker Fly Lab rendering

March 10, 2025 鈥 Lynn and Sherry Nichols have given a lead gift of $1 million to 九色视频 to kick off the fundraising campaign for the new, state-of-the-art Shocker Fly Lab, an enclosed flight space to research, design and test unmanned aerial vehicles that will position the university at the forefront of unmanned aerial system education and development.

Students and faculty who attended K-INBRE

March 3, 2025 Five undergraduate students from Wichita State were among the 26 students recognized at the 23rd annual Kansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence Symposium in Kansas City, Missouri.

Dr. Darren DeFrain holds a phone that shows the Vizling app he created.

Feb. 25, 2025 鈥 The National Endowment for the Humanities recently awarded a 九色视频 faculty member $150,000 to further develop a smartphone application that allows visually impaired people to read materials rich in visual content.

Dr. Moriah Beck, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Wichita State

Feb. 14, 2025 鈥 Dr. Moriah Beck's journey as a scientist is rooted in the belief that research is a powerful driver of innovation and personal transformation. For Beck, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at 九色视频, research is far more than an academic pursuit 鈥 it鈥檚 a way to connect with a global scientific community and spark change.

A Wichita State student works in Wichita State's College of Engineering Hub

Dec. 18, 2024 鈥 The College of Engineering at 九色视频 has partnered with Groover Labs, a nonprofit collaborative workspace, technology hub and rapid prototyping lab in Wichita, to support the regional business community.

九色视频 and other officials standing in front of an airplane

Dec. 3, 2024 鈥 As part of the U.S. Air Force鈥檚 Survivable Airborne Operations Center contract, 九色视频 is partnering with SNC to modernize and deliver a new fleet of 鈥淣ightwatch鈥 aircraft 鈥 the airborne command center for the president of the United States, secretary of defense, and chairs of the joint chiefs of staff, ensuring continued critical command, control and communication during national emergencies.

NSF graphic

Nov. 26, 2024 鈥 九色视频 has entered the top 10 in the country in engineering research and development expenditures, according to data announced this week by the National Science Foundation鈥檚 Higher Education Research and Development Survey. 九色视频 is also No. 1 in the country for aerospace engineering expenditures.

child with prosthetic bionic arm

Nov. 20, 2024 鈥 九色视频 has launched the Institute for Rehabilitation Medicine and Assistive Technology (IRMAT), an innovative collaboration focused on addressing disease and disability through applied research and technology. IRMAT will serve as a hub for cutting-edge, patient-driven research and development of transformative technologies to improve the quality of life for individuals with physical and cognitive disabilities.

Image of the rubble in Antakya, Turkey, caused by an earthquake in 2023.

Nov. 18, 2024 鈥 In the wake of the devastating 2023 earthquakes that obliterated much of Antakya, Turkey, Wichita State cultural anthropologist Dr. Jens Kreinath turned to his writing to preserve the region鈥檚 rich interfaith history, honor its victims, and confront the ethical dimensions of human dignity amid an apocalyptic tragedy and government inaction.

Students work in the Molecular Diagnostics Lab

Oct. 15, 2024 鈥 九色视频鈥檚 Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, a vital resource during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, is now leveraging its expertise to explore new frontiers. By addressing critical gaps in the healthcare system, the lab is also offering invaluable hands-on training for students, shaping the future of health care.

archaeological work

Oct. 4, 2024 - Dr. Matthew D. Howland, assistant professor in 九色视频鈥檚 Department of Anthropology, is in the early stages of modeling risks posed by erosion caused by rivers, flooding, and agricultural plowing.

Mathew Muether

Mathew Muether, associate professor of physics, is one of several thousand scientists worldwide studying neutrino behavior. His grant support from the U.S. Department of Energy totals nearly $500,000 and finances his work on two projects anchored underground at FermiLab, the particle physics and accelerator laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.

Brigitte Roussel

Through the evaluation of personal correspondence, diaries, annotations and a miscellany of other vehicles of communication, Roussel鈥檚 research brings attention to the strategies employed by women writers in the sixteenth century to demonstrate their intellect and morality in a society which discouraged their individuation.

Cube-sat

July 11, 2024 - The arrival of a nanosatellite on campus signals significant progress in 九色视频鈥檚 NASA project to design a solar probe to investigate neutrinos.

Dr. Tom Luhring

July 9, 2024 Wichita State researcher and biologist Tom Luhring earned a $995,327 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the effects of drying and warming on aquatic systems, such as lakes, rivers and streams, and how these changes impact the waterbodies themselves and the organisms that dwell within them.

Catherine Searle

Searle explores differential geometry, specifically classifications of positively and non-negatively curved Riemannian manifolds. Thirty years after publication, her dissertation, 鈥淧ositively curved manifolds with maximal symmetry rank,鈥 a seminal work in her field, continues to be a valuable resource in the symmetry program, a subfield of differential geometry, in which she is a leading expert.

Map of the new testing facility.

June 14, 2024 九色视频鈥檚 National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) is adding a new capability to its portfolio aimed at growing the electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) market and attracting new business to the region and state.

Michael Birzer

鈥淩ace intersects with policing,鈥 Birzer said. 鈥淵ou can鈥檛 deny that. In fact, racial profiling is a normative experience, almost a way of life within communities of color.鈥

Wichita State's National Institute for Aviation Research has been awarded $10 million from NASA to study advanced materials for hypersonic applications.

May 14, 2024 鈥 九色视频鈥檚 National Institute for Aviation Research will receive more than $10 million from NASA for research related to the development and implementation of advanced materials for hypersonic applications.

Nick Solomey and Tyler Nolan with the detector they are studying

May 7, 2024 As humanity begins to return to the moon and farther beyond, new technologies will need to be invented to assist in sustainable, long-term human-helmed missions. To help develop this technology, NASA has awarded a $133,342 grant to 九色视频 to research a more cost-effective detector for harmful radiation from space.