Jun 8, 2016 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — Academe welcomes news from Â鶹´«Ã½ faculty and staff about research, teaching and service activities. This column recognizes grants, honors, awards, presentations and publications, new appointments, new faculty, sabbaticals, retirements and deaths of current and former colleagues.

2015 Â鶹´«Ã½ Graduate Abigail Wilson won a Gracie award for her documentary,

May 11, 2016 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — Academe welcomes news from Â鶹´«Ã½ faculty and staff about research, teaching and service activities. This column recognizes grants, honors, awards, presentations and publications, new appointments, new faculty, sabbaticals, retirements and deaths of current and former colleagues.

Shuang Gu

Mar 31, 2016 — By Lainie Mazzullo — Three Â鶹´«Ã½ researchers have been awarded the John A. See Innovation Award, totaling $60,000.

Abigail Wilson

Mar 30, 2016 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — A project created while she was a student intern at Â鶹´«Ã½'s KMUW -- 89.1 has earned Abigail Wilson a national Gracie Award.

Feb 9, 2016 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — Academe welcomes news from Â鶹´«Ã½ faculty and staff about research, teaching and service activities. This column recognizes grants, honors, awards, presentations and publications, new appointments, new faculty, sabbaticals, retirements and deaths of current and former colleagues.

Jan 14, 2016 — By Lainie Rusco — Linda Starkey, chairwoman of the School of Performing Arts at Â鶹´«Ã½, has been awarded the Region V Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Gold Medallion. It is the organization's most prestigious award and considered one of the great honors in theater education.

Preethika Kumar teaches electrical engineering at Wichita State. She recently won a national teaching award for her dedication and creativity in the classroom.

Nov 5, 2015 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — Academe welcomes news from Â鶹´«Ã½ faculty and staff about research, teaching and service activities. This column recognizes grants, honors, awards, presentations and publications, new appointments, new faculty, sabbaticals, retirements and deaths of current and former colleagues.

Jun 20, 2017 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — Academe welcomes news from Â鶹´«Ã½ faculty and staff about research, teaching and service activities. This column recognizes grants, honors, awards, presentations and publications, new appointments, new faculty, sabbaticals, retirements and deaths of current and former colleagues.

Jun 11, 2015 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — Academe welcomes news from Â鶹´«Ã½ faculty and staff about research, teaching and service activities. This column recognizes grants, honors, awards, presentations and publications, new appointments, new faculty, sabbaticals, retirements and deaths of or current and former colleagues.

Wichita State's Chris Rogers, left, and Mark Schneegurt.

Jul 7, 2015 — By Lainie Rusco — Two Â鶹´«Ã½ professors have discovered that one of North America's most common migratory birds -- the Dark-eyed Junco -- carries on its feathers a remarkable diversity of plant bacteria, the greatest ever found on wild birds. Their research focuses on finding out if the bacteria are harmful or helpful to plant life.