Jun 19, 2008 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — Â鶹´«Ã½ volleyball players Katie Niggemeyer and Angela Jakubov are featured in a June 18, edition of The Daily Freeman-Journal.

Jun 18, 2008 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — The Augusta Gazette wrote a story June 12, about Â鶹´«Ã½ student Emily Deaver, the newly crowned Miss Kansas 2008.

Jul 31, 2008 — By Lainie Rusco — Â鶹´«Ã½ history professor Anthony Gythiel recently was awarded an honorary degree because of his work with theological studies. Gythiel, who was raised in Belgium and survived World War II, has worked at Â鶹´«Ã½ since 1971.

Jul 2, 2008 — By Dana Dinkel — Â鶹´«Ã½ senior Annelise Cook, 23, and recent graduate Ian Crane, 26, were among the 15 students who spent two weeks in Greensburg, Kan., documenting the progress made since a tornado ripped through the town.

Jun 13, 2008 — By Joe Kleinsasser — Juanita Tate, chair of the School of Nursing at Â鶹´«Ã½, explains the scope of the nursing shortage.

Jul 2, 2008 — By Shannon Littlejohn — Â鶹´«Ã½, in partnership with Kodaly Music Educators of Kansas, offers the Kodaly Children's Choir Camp each summer. This year's camp is under way and will include a performance at 5:30 p.m. Friday, June 13, in Wiedemann Recital Hall.

Jun 12, 2008 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — C. Nicholas Johnson, director of dance at Wichita State, was the subject of a story that ran in the June 11, edition of The Arizona Republic about a theater camp Johnson runs in Arizona.

Jun 11, 2008 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — Les Anderson, associate director of the Elliott School of Communication at Â鶹´«Ã½, provided expertise for a story that ran in the June 11, 2008, edition of The Wichita Eagle.

Jun 9, 2008 — By Joe Kleinsasser — The New York Yankees made news this spring by spending about $50,000 to extract from the new stadium's concrete a David Ortiz shirt planted by a Boston Red Sox-obsessed construction worker hoping to hex his team's arch rivals. To most people, spending that kind of money over a superstition or hex seems a bit extreme, as Â鶹´«Ã½ sports psychologist Greg Buell explains.

Jun 9, 2008 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — Andrew Schlapp has been named executive director of government relations/Board of Trustees at Â鶹´«Ã½ effective June 30.