Wichita State University music director Tom Wine has won a lifetime achievement award.

Aug 12, 2016 — By Emily Mullins — Wichita State University's Director of Music Education Tom Wine has received the Harry Robert Wilson Award from the Kansas Choral Directors Association for a lifetime of achievement in choral music.

Student-run Quickdraw Studios was awarded $3,600 to engage voters through its Joy of Voting project.

Aug 1, 2016 — By WSU News Services — Hoping to engage Sedgwick County voters, Quickdraw Studios -- a video game and application company started by three current Wichita State University students -- will create a Wichita-specific interactive video game.

Wichita State has received a federal grant that will assist 16 graduate nursing students.

Aug 4, 2016 — By Jamie Stoskopf — Alicia Huckstadt, professor and director of graduate program in the school of nursing at Wichita State University, secured a federal grant that will fund 16 graduate nursing students committed to practicing in rural or underserved areas.

Jul 29, 2016 — By WSU News Services — Residents of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area now can attend Wichita State University for the same cost as Kansas residents.

The Wichita State School of Social Work partnered with the VA Medical Center for an art exhibition focusing on the plight of homeless veterans in America.

Aug 1, 2016 — By Lainie Mazzullo — A collaboration between the Wichita State School of Social Work and the Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center culminated in a public art exhibition focused on the plight of homeless veterans in America.

Lorraine Madway, curator of special collections and university archivist at WSU Libraries, will lead the way on digitizing the papers of historic Wichitan James R. Mead.

Jul 27, 2016 — By WSU News Services — Wichita State University has been awarded a $60,000 grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to digitize approximately 17,500 pages from the papers of historic Wichitan James R. Mead.

Jul 27, 2016 — By Lainie Mazzullo — Wichita State's physics program has been accepted as an APS Bridge Program Member Institution.

A volunteer with Spay Neuter Kansas City uses a microchip scanner to get data about a clinic animal. Wichita State engineers recently helped update and improve the tool.

Jul 29, 2016 — By WSU News Services — Wichita State University is collaborating with Spay Neuter Kansas City to research, evaluate and improve a technology used by the clinic to track animals.

Jul 27, 2016 — By WSU News Services — Several members of Shocker Rowing were selected by the American Collegiate Rowing Association for several regional and national awards.

Aleksander Sternfeld-Dunn teachers music at Wichita State University. He says that teaching students of all trades about the importance of creativity is essential to making a person better at their craft.

Jul 25, 2016 — By Roy Wenzl — Aleksander Sternfeld-Dunn began playing guitar, then piano, eventually the stand-up bass. He began to write music that won accolades, and became a teacher and professor at Wichita State University.