High school students compete at a regional VEX Robotics Competition in Hesston in November. The state-qualifying VEX event will be held at WSU on Feb. 23, along with the state VEX IQ Challenge, an event for younger children.

Feb 21, 2018 — By WSU News Services — Wichita State College of Engineering has a nearly 20-year history of sponsoring robotics competitions, making a tradition of its annual Shocker MINDSTORMS and Kansas BEST competitions. This year, it's hosting two new competitions in a single event that organizers say may the largest of its kind in state history.

Members of the Bastian family and their family-owned Fidelity Bank have contributed $1 million to Wichita State University to help build a new home for the W. Frank Barton School of Business. From left are Clark Bastian, Aaron Bastian and Clay Bastian.

Feb 21, 2018 — By WSU News Services — In a gift representing their largest philanthropic contribution ever to a single entity, members of the Bastian family have donated $1 million to Wichita State University to support a fundraising campaign to build a new home for the W. Frank Barton School of Business.

Feb 15, 2018 — By WSU News Services — The Shocker New Venture Competition, hosted by the Center for Entrepreneurship, inspires college students from all universities and colleges in Kansas to put entrepreneurial principles into practice.

Wichita State University President John Bardo

Feb 14, 2018 — By WSU News Services — Wichita State University President John Bardo spoke today (Thursday, Feb. 15) at the U.S. House of Representatives, where he provided testimony to the committee on Science, Space and Technology.

WSU College of Engineering awards $28,000 each to twelve Wallace Scholarship recipients

Feb 9, 2018 — By WSU News Services — Wichita State's College of Engineering has named its newest class of Wallace Scholars.

Feb 2, 2018 — By WSU News Services — Wichita State will be home to the National Intercollegiate Wheelchair Basketball Tournament in 2020. The American Collegiate Society for Adapted Athletics (ACSAA) will host the tournament from March 18-21 in the Heskett Center.

Tate Watts is the latest recipient of the $48,000 Barton Scholarship to attend Wichita State University.

Jan 30, 2018 — By WSU News Services — Tate Watts, a senior at Westmoore High School in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has won the 2018 Wichita State University Clay Barton Scholarship.

Wichita State student scholars and faculty attendees/presenters at the 16th Annual K-INBRE Symposium, January 13-14, in Overland Park, Kansas.

Jan 30, 2018 — By WSU News Services — A paper outlining the unique collaboration of 10 higher education institutions in Kansas and northern Oklahoma, including Wichita State University, was published in the latest issue of Advances in Physiology Education, a professional journal of the American Physiological Society dedicated to the advancement of physiological research.

Zane Storlie, WSU sophomore computer science major.

Jan 30, 2018 — By WSU News Services — WSU College of Engineering is partnering with several Wichita elementary schools on an effort to teach 300 children to code in Scratch, a coding platform developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The effort will culminate with a Scratch-a-Thon to be held April 28 in the Experiential Engineering Building.

Jan 26, 2018 — By WSU News Services — Under a new partnership agreement signed in December, students at WSU Tech (formerly known as Wichita Area Technical College) can now transfer to the Wichita State University College of Engineering and complete a bachelor’s degree in mechatronics engineering technology or engineering technology management with two additional years of study.