John William Bardo has been named by the Kansas Board of Regents as the new president of Wichita State University, effective July 1. Bardo will become the 13th president of Wichita State, following President Donald Beggs' resignation June 30.
For the fourth consecutive year, the performance of the nation's leading carriers improved, according to the 22nd annual national Airline Quality Rating (http://airlinequalityrating.com), a joint research project funded as part of faculty research activities at Wichita State University and Purdue University. It was the best overall score in the 22 years researchers have tracked the performance of airlines. For the second consecutive year, AirTran, Hawaiian and JetBlue were the three best performing airlines.
Wichita State University's National Institute for Aviation Research will be testing aircraft components in the former Britt Brown Arena at the Kansas Coliseum by year end.
The results of the 22nd annual national Airline Quality Rating (AQR) will be announced at 9:30 a.m. EDT, Monday, April 2, at a news conference at the National Press Club, Murrow Room, in Washington, D.C. The rating is a multifactor look at the overall performance quality of the airlines based on elements such as on-time performance, denied boardings, mishandled baggage and customer complaints. It is the only rating to include multiple criteria by which airline performance is measured in a quantitative and unbiased manner.
A free online course that teaches personal financial management topics for students who are new to college and or considering college was launched this week by Wichita State University. The website is www.myCollegeMoneyPlan.org.
Deep in the corridors of Wichita State University's Hubbard Hall, two Biological Sciences faculty are intertwined in a sometimes contentious relationship. Associate professor Mary Liz Jameson and Associate professor Leland Russell are married. One studies beetles. The other studies plants. Beetles eat plants. Plants can poison beetles. Can this relationship be saved?
Sending a text message leads people to lie more often than in other forms of communication, according to new research by David Xu, assistant professor in the W. Frank Barton School of Business at Wichita State University.
The Center for Economic Development and Business Research at Wichita State University has released updated Wichita Metropolitan Area and Kansas employment forecasts for 2012.
Love is not enough if you are a white parent of an adopted black child. That’s the premise behind Wichita State University assistant professor Darron T. Smith’s recently published book “White Parents, Black Children: Experiencing Transracial Adoption.”
Halloween is fun for a lot of people, but for some young children it can be terrifying. Wichita State school psychologist trainer Susan Unruh offers some tips for making Halloween a fun experience.
The season of turkey, snow and mistletoe also is the season of flight delays, overcrowded airports and flight cancellations. Dean Headley, co-author of the national Airline Quality Rating from Wichita State University, says travelers on U.S. airlines have reason to be concerned this holiday travel season.
Wichita State University began the process of deinstalling a 26-by-52-foot mosaic on the facade of the Ulrich Museum of Art on Tuesday, Sept. 27. The Joan Miro mosaic is the largest Miro mural in the United States. The removal of the mural launches a five-year conservation effort.
Wichita State's Center for Innovation and Enterprise Engagement will receive a nearly $2 million federal interagency grant to create more jobs by supporting advanced manufacturing innovators to get commercially viable processes and products into production faster.
In an attempt to increase safety in general aviation aircraft, the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University is making it possible for type clubs to create their own service information sharing systems to catch and correct service and maintenance issues before they begin to impact safety.
Wichita State University has risen to second among the nation’s universities in aeronautical research and development expenditures, according to the latest information from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics.
For many young adults, college is the most exciting time in their life. For others, it’s a time of despair, leading to suicide. Suicide is the second leading cause of death among people between the ages of 14 and 25 in the United States. Wichita State University psychologist Maureen Dasey-Morales talks about the warning signs and myths surrounding suicide.
Wichita State University is the lead Kansas institution participating in the development of the $127 million northern test site of the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory, a major international effort to probe the cosmos and learn more about how cosmic rays work.
As we age, it's not uncommon to lose some hearing. Of equal concern is the ability to process what we hear. According to Wichita State University audiologist Ray Hull, improving cardiovascular health appears to be the best way to help process what we hear.
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