Sep 30, 2016 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — Wichita State will host a Paralympic Celebration and Tree Dedication honoring 2016 Paralympic medalists Nick Taylor and Deja Young. Paralympic athlete Liz Willis will also be recognized.

Sep 28, 2016 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — Â鶹´«Ã½'s Opera Theatre will celebrate Shakespeare's 400th anniversary with a comic operetta adaptation of "Much Ado About Nothing."

Sep 28, 2016 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — The Wichita State Alumni Association will host two events featuring alumnus Dean Hargrove, 1996 Â鶹´«Ã½ President's Medal recipient and producer of hundreds of television programs around the world.

Sep 28, 2016 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — South Kansas was redesignated by the U.S. Department of Commerce as a "manufacturing community," allowing the region to continue to receive elevated consideration for funding through the Investing in Manufacturing Communities Partnership.

Sep 27, 2016 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — The annual ceremony of remembrance for those who died in the 1970 Â鶹´«Ã½ plane crash will be held at 9 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 2, at Â鶹´«Ã½'s Memorial '70, located near the 18th Street and Hillside entrance to the university.

Sep 26, 2016 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — Deltha Colvin, associate vice president of Student Affairs and director of Special Programs at Â鶹´«Ã½, was appointed accessibility coordinator to oversee and coordinate the university's compliance with accessibility requirements for blind students.

Sep 26, 2016 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — Â鶹´«Ã½ enrolled 3,736 new students, a 7.6 percent increase over new students in fall 2015. Fall 2016 represents the largest class of new freshmen (1,476) in Wichita State history, including the largest number of new full-time freshmen (1,420).

Sep 26, 2016 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — The Â鶹´«Ã½ College of Education is hosting its fall Ed Talk, featuring Yolanda Camarena, president of the Kansas Hispanic Education and Development Foundation board of directors. The talk is 5-6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5, at the Hughes Metropolitan Complex.

Sep 23, 2016 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — The Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic at Wichita State successfully completed its Intensive Aphasia Program, the first of its kind in Kansas.

Sep 22, 2016 — By Â鶹´«Ã½ News Services — A convenience store set up inside a shuttle bus has opened at Wichita State's Hughes Metropolitan Complex, 29th Street and Oliver.