Feb 11, 2010 — By WSU News Services — A gift worth more than $1 million from the estate of Opal Gaines designated to the Wichita State University Foundation will now benefit students through the Opal and Keith Gaines Athletic Scholarship and the Opal and Keith Gaines Academic Scholarship.

Jan 29, 2010 — By WSU News Services — The Lake Afton Public Observatory has canceled tonight's (Friday, Jan. 29) program, "Colonizing Space," because of potentially dangerous road conditions.

Feb 1, 2010 — By WSU News Services — Wichita State University professor Ed Flentje and Kansas State University professor Joe Aistrup have teamed up to write "Kansas Politics and Government: The Clash of Political Cultures." The book examines Kansas politics, historically and presently, through the lens of political cultures.

Feb 4, 2010 — By WSU News Services — Plastic Musik, a group that makes music with plastic instruments, will perform at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 15, at Wichita State University's CAC Theater.

Jan 27, 2010 — By WSU News Services — WSU will stage a 1-million-meal food packaging event from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 5-6, and 1-8 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 7, at Wichita State University's Eugene M. Hughes Metropolitan Complex.

Jan 27, 2010 — By WSU News Services — Scott Wituk, director of the Center for Community Support and Research at Wichita State, was recently selected to advise the Center for Disease Control’s National Leadership Committee for Primary Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence.

Jan 26, 2010 — By WSU News Services — The second Shocker Sprints at Wichita State’s Heskett Center are set for Saturday, Feb. 13.

Jan 22, 2010 — By WSU News Services — A GRE Test Prep Workshop will be offered this spring from 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20, at Wichita State University.

Jan 21, 2010 — By WSU News Services — WSU's Office of International Education will co-host a special screening of the acclaimed British-Afghan documentary "Afghan Star" with the Wichita Association for the Motion Picture Arts/Tallgrass Film Festival at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 28, in the CAC Theater at the Rhatigan Student Center.

Jan 27, 2010 — By WSU News Services — The WSU community and the Elliott School of Communication have responded to the Haiti earthquake by planning a 1-million-meal food packaging event in collaboration with Numana Inc.