Wichita State University's Center for Economic Development and Business Research expects an increase of 23,239 jobs in Kansas in 2015, which would be an employment growth rate of 1.7 percent.
Wichita State University has been awarded a nearly $1.9 million grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration to purchase equipment for a state-of-the-art laboratory to allow manufacturers, entrepreneurs and designers to simulate and perform multi-robotic additive manufacturing, allowing them to test production process before committing to large-scale capital investments.
Wichita State University's Center of Innovation for Biomaterials in Orthopaedic Research (CIBOR) has developed a fast-setting splint that provides improved stabilization from what the Department of Defense currently uses in the battlefield.
Book your holiday air travel early this year. Travel volumes have been strong all year and the holidays only add to the pressure of finding seats. This holiday season should see continued high demand for air travel, according to Dean Headley, Airline Quality Rating co-author and associate professor of marketing at Wichita State University.
Wichita State University President John Bardo has outlined a major expansion of the WSU campus to support job creation and a university strategy based on innovation.
Wichita State University's National Institute for Aviation Research recently opened a new Ballistics and Impact Dynamics Research Lab. The lab is also planning to add bird-strike and high velocity projectile capabilities later this year.
With his Google Glass in place over his right eye, Jibo He, an assistant professor at Wichita State University, weaves in and out of traffic. He sneaks a peek at the Glass screen before slamming full-speed into the back of a truck. Thankfully, He is only using a driving simulator and is able to laugh off his mistake. However, He hopes he can keep it from happening to people in real life.
The U.S. Department of Commerce announced today that south Kansas is a designated "manufacturing community," giving the region elevated consideration for a portion of $1.3 billion in federal funding in the next two years through Investing in Manufacturing Communities Partnership (IMCP).
After graduating from Wichita State University with her master's in social work last weekend, Sein Lengeju will now embark on a journey that started as a young child in her native Kenya. Lengeju is a member of the Maasai tribe, a nomadic people indigenous to Kenya and Tanzania whose way of life depends on cattle herding and traditional culture. The Maasai also believe in ancient rituals, including the brutal practice of female genital mutilation (FGM), which is performed on young girls as a rite of passage. Lengeju considers herself lucky.
Airline performance in 2013 was the highest since the Airline Quality Rating started in 1991. The 24th annual Airline Quality Rating was released today (Monday, April 7) at the National Press Club. The top-performing airlines for the second consecutive year were Virgin America and JetBlue.
Researchers from Wichita State University and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University will announce the 24th annual national Airline Quality Rating (AQR) at 9:30 a.m. EDT, Monday, April 7, at a news conference at the National Press Club, Murrow Room, in Washington, D.C.
Wichita State University's Partnership for the Advancement of Sport Management (PASM) recently completed a study measuring the national media impact of WSU's run to last year's Final Four and determined all print, broadcast and digital media exposure was worth more than $555 million to Wichita State.
The Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University has acquired 125 fine art photographs by the internationally acclaimed, Kansas-born artist Gordon Parks (1912–2006). Combined with the extensive collection of Parks papers, letters, personal photos and manuscripts housed in University Libraries Special Collections, Wichita State has become a significant institution of study for scholars of his life and work.
Starting in fall 2014, students who study voice and opera at Wichita State University will have an amazing opportunity to study with two accomplished opera stars –- Samuel Ramey and Alan Held. Both are also WSU alumni.
Louis Medvene, Wichita State University professor of psychology and director of the Social Relationships Research Workgroup, is exploring the potential benefits of computer access to senior citizens' health.
It started out as a small-scale effort to fight hunger in Haiti by feeding school children in 2010, but today Wichita State University's Hunger Awareness Initiative is a model of success that is spreading to college campuses around the world.
An estate gift to the Wichita State University Foundation from the late Erach Talaty is believed to be the largest ever given to the university by a current or former faculty or staff member, said James J. Rhatigan, consultant to the WSU Foundation. Talaty was a highly regarded chemistry professor at WSU from 1969 until his death last June at the age of 86. His bequest to Wichita State will result in a gift approaching $2.2 million, Rhatigan said.
Kansas home sales should rise by more than 5 percent in 2014 according to the 2014 Kansas Housing Markets Forecast series published by the Wichita State University Center for Real Estate.
Employment in Wichita, Kan., and the rest of the United States has remained stable, according to new research by Wichita State University's Center for Economic Development and Business Research.
High passenger volumes and the possibility of bad weather are always part of holiday travel. Travelers on U.S. airlines during the days surrounding Thanksgiving and Christmas usually find that ticket prices are higher and seats are harder to find. With reduced capacity (fewer seats available) across the industry and increased demand by travelers, booking early is highly recommended, according to Dean Headley, Airline Quality Rating co-author and associate professor of marketing at Wichita State University.
For nearly 15 years, biologists around the world have been watching as millions of frogs succumb to an infectious fungus called chytrid. Now a group of Wichita State University students has discovered evidence of the deadly chytrid fungus in the Wichita area. This is the first report of chytrid in Kansas.
In July, the city of Detroit became the largest city in the United States to file for bankruptcy. Eight cities and towns have filed for bankruptcy since 2010, and an additional 28 utilities, water districts, hospital authorities and other municipal units have also gone bankrupt in the wake of the financial crisis. Ken Kriz, Regents distinguished professor and director of the Kansas Public Finance Center in the Hugo Wall School of Urban and Public Affairs at Wichita State University, explains why bankruptcy is such a difficult option.
Koch Industries Inc. has committed to provide the lead gift to create a trading center within the W. Frank Barton School of Business at Wichita State University, a crucial step forward for the privately funded project.
Barb Morrison is talking to anyone she can about something dear to her heart: kangaroo care. Morrison is a certified nurse midwife and associate professor in Wichita State University's Janice M. Riordan Distinguished Professorship in Maternal and Child Health in the WSU School of Nursing. Named for the similarity to how marsupials carry their young, kangaroo care is a technique practiced on newborns wherein the infant is held skin-to-skin by an adult.
Lisa Overholtzer, an assistant anthropology professor at Wichita State University, is researching whether the Aztecs who conquered the city of Xaltocan in ancient Mexico around the year 1435 changed the genetic makeup of those who lived there.
The Flint Hills Media Project at Wichita State University helps students become well-rounded journalists by getting them out of the classroom to look for real stories. The Symphony in the Flint Hills (SFH) has been staged in a different pasture every year since 2006. This year's symphony takes place in historic Ft. Riley. Students will also cover the stories about current Army training and life at the fort.
Leg and arm injuries sustained in the battlefield are made worse when splinting devices used by military medics don't provide ideal stabilization of the injured extremity. But a project under way by Wichita State University research engineer Kim Reuter aims to change that. Reuter is working on the development of novel materials for a fast-setting composite stabilization device.
Coronary stents have saved a lot of lives over the years, but there is a growing interest in what happens when a stent stays inside the body for too long. With that in mind, Wichita State assistant industrial and manufacturing engineering professor Anil Mahapatro is focusing his research on the investigation of biodegradable metallic stents.
Airline performance in 2012 was the second highest in 23 years that researchers have tracked the performance of airlines. The performance of the nation’s leading carriers in 2012 was nearly identical to the best year ever in 2011 (http://airlinequalityrating.com), according to the 23rd annual national Airline Quality Rating.
Building on the collaboration of academic and direct-practice human trafficking experts, Wichita State University will soon open the new Center for Combating Human Trafficking (CCHT).
The results of the 23rd annual national Airline Quality Rating (AQR) will be announced at 9:30 a.m. EDT, Monday, April 8, 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.
If you ask a young couple, “Where did you meet?,” don’t be surprised if they say, “We met online.” According to online dating statistics, 40 million people in the United States have tried online dating. Who better to discuss the pros and cons of online dating than someone who was once called “Dr. Love” by a Nevada radio station? Today’s Wichita State University podcast features comments by “Dr. Love,” aka Wichita State University’s Deborah Ballard-Reisch, who has researched the subject of communication and relationships for about 20 years.
The flu is a year-round focus for associate professor Geroge Dehner, who teaches world and environmental history at Wichita State University. Dehner's research has resulted in the writing of two books "Influenza: A Century of Science and Public Health Response" and "Global Flu and You: A History of Influenza."
Wichita State University biochemistry professor Kandatege Wimalasena believes his studies will identify molecular causes and eventually lead to the development of effective preventive and therapeutic strategies for Parkinson's.
Aircraft manufacturer Airbus has donated aircraft structural parts and kits worth more than $800,000 to Wichita State University's National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) for use in its research laboratories and training classes. Airbus is donating an elevator for a horizontal tail and two APU change kits.
An exciting basketball game often generates deafening noise. That noise may not cause people to become deaf, but it most certainly can result in hearing loss, according to Wichita State University audiologist Ray Hull.
How do cancer cells spread and become fatal? That's the question Wichita State University assistant chemistry professor Moriah Beck hopes to answer through her research.
Wichita State University's Center for Economic Development and Business Research has released the economic outlook for Kansas. Wichita State also released its 2013 Kansas Housing Markets Forecast, published by the WSU Center for Real Estate.
Traditionally high passenger volumes and the possibilities of bad weather are realities for holiday travel. Travelers on U.S. airlines usually find that ticket prices and overall costs are higher. Dean Headley, co-author of the national Airline Quality Rating from Wichita State University, says while industry airline performance quality has improved each year since 2007, the travel experience has become more stressful and uncertain, especially around the end-of-the-year holidays.
Get ready for an all-out brawl in several battleground states as President Obama and Mitt Romney try to woo voters during the presidential debates. Jeff Jarman, director of debate at Wichita State University, says the debate format will be significantly different and help voters see the differences better.
Sam Ramey, a premier operatic bass-baritone of the 20th century and a 1968 alumnus of Wichita State University, is the recipient of the WSU Guest Artist Fellowship in Opera, a 100 percent privately funded position. Ramey will teach several weeks each semester for at least the next five years, according to Rodney Miller, dean of the WSU College of Fine Arts. This academic year, he will be on campus from Sept. 24-Oct. 5, Jan. 28-Feb. 9 and March 4-16.
Wichita State University associate professor Mark Schneegurt recently had a paper published in the journal "Astrobiology." One of the questions he's seeking an answer to is whether microbial life on Earth can grow at high concentrations of magnesium sulfate.
In 1915, Snowden D. Flora of the U.S. Weather Bureau wrote, "Kansas has been so commonly considered the tornado state of the country that the term 'Kansas cyclone' has almost become a part of the English language."
Wichita State University’s connection to the Summer Olympic games started 76 years ago with WSU basketball alums serving on the winning U.S. basketball team of the 1936 Berlin Olympics and the German oak trees given as special awards. Wichita State’s Olympic oak, a descendant of those trees, still stands proudly on campus.
Mix 20 Kansas high school students with 2 ½ days of hands-on experience at Wichita State University's AEGD Dental Camp, and you might get what you wished for: 20 impressed young people more focused on careers in dentistry. The Advanced Education in General Dentistry Dental Camp -- June 13-15 at the high-tech AEGD facility -- reached out to high schools across the state with an invitation to their students to participate in a no-cost, hands-on experience driven by faculty dentists who oversee dental residents in the WSU College of Education's AEGD program.
Alex Chaparro, director of Wichita State University's psychology department, studies drivers who multitask behind the wheel, especially drivers who try to text or call while driving.
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.
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