Nov 19, 2008 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — The Fairmount chapter of Mortar Board at Â鶹´«Ã½ was honored for excellence at the 2008 Mortar Board National Conference, July 25-27 in Columbus, Ohio.

Nov 19, 2008 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — KMUW will host an exhibit of regional artists’ recent work from 7:30-10 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26, at Start-Thinking, 916 E. Douglas, as part of Wichita’s Final Friday art gallery tour.

Nov 19, 2008 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — Â鶹´«Ã½ Shift Space will present "FLICKER," an exhibition of collaborative experimental video installation works created by Â鶹´«Ã½ School of Art and Design students and faculty, with an opening reception from 7-10 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 26, at Shift Space, 803 E. 3rd St. in Old Town, as part of Wichita's Final Friday art gallery tour.

Nov 19, 2008 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — "Waltzing in Heaven," a world premiere musical written in memory of Â鶹´«Ã½ football player Ronald Gene Johnson and the Â鶹´«Ã½ Football Team members who died in a plane crash on Oct. 2, 1970, will be performed in conjunction with Â鶹´«Ã½Ã¢â‚¬â„¢s 38th annual memorial of the tragic event.

Sep 24, 2008 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — Nearly 13 years have passed since Connie Dietz, director of Â鶹´«Ã½'s cooperative education and worked-based learning office, came to the university. She still sees Â鶹´«Ã½'s career-oriented office well ahead of the curve nationally.

Sep 23, 2008 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — Construction on The Hartman Golf Practice Facility, made possible by a lead gift from Wichitan Wink Hartman and several additional donors, began Monday at Braeburn Golf Course on the campus of Â鶹´«Ã½, Director of Athletics Eric Sexton announced.

Nov 19, 2008 — By Shae West — Freshman Sandra Bilson, a nursing and pre-med major from Ghana, is active on campus as family committee chair of Â鶹´«Ã½'s Student Activities Council.

Nov 19, 2008 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — Breakthrough of Sedgwick County will partner with Â鶹´«Ã½, Genesis Health Club and Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita for the Health Education and Leadership project. HEAL aims to empower individuals who have serious mental illness to take charge of their well-being through physical activity and healthy nutrition skills.

Oct 13, 2008 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — Wichita State will formally recognize and celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Beech wind tunnel with a public open house from 3-6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10.

Nov 19, 2008 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — The number of U.S. households banking online continues to grow. Jupiter Research projects the number of households banking online to jump from 29.3 million in 2003 to 56 million this year, and the percentage of those paying bills online to increase from 50 percent in 2003 to 85 percent in 2008. Even so, Rick LeCompte, a personal finance expert at Â鶹´«Ã½, says financial institutio