The new Rave Guardian app gives students, faculty and staff on ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ State's campus another layer of safety.

Rave Guardian app adds another layer of safety for WSU campus

Nov 30, 2017 — By Lainie Mazzullo — As part of ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ's ongoing commitment to campus safety, the university launced Rave Guardian, a free mobile app for Android and Apple smartphones that turns any smartphone into a personal safety device.

³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ will honor its Paralympic athletes at an event at 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 3, at WSU's Koch Arena atrium.

Paralympic athletes to be honored at ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ State event

Sep 30, 2016 — By WSU News Services — ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ 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. The celebration starts at 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 3, in the Koch Arena atrium, followed by a 5:30 p.m. tree dedication.

³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ State alumnus Dean Hargrove, an acclaimed Hollywood producer, will hold a free screening of his new documentary,

Alumnus, Hollywood producer showing new documentary to WSU community

Sep 28, 2016 — By WSU News Services — The ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ State Alumni Association will host two events featuring alumnus Dean Hargrove, 1996 WSU President's Medal recipient and producer of hundreds of television programs around the world.

The 31 ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ State football players, staff and boosters killed in a 1970 plane crash will be honored on campus and at the University of Arkansas, site of the first game WSU played after the crash.

Victims of 1970 WSU plane crash to be honored at Arkansas football reunion

Sep 29, 2016 — By WSU News Services — The annual ceremony of remembrance for those who died in the 1970 ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ plane crash will be held at 9 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 2, at WSU's Memorial '70. Members of the WSU community will take part in a reunion Saturday, Oct. 1, at the University of Arkansas-Alcorn State football game to honor the victims. Arkansas played the first game against WSU after the crash.

³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ enrolled 3,736 new students -- a record for new freshmen at WSU.

³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ State enrolls largest freshman class in history

Sep 26, 2016 — By WSU News Services — ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ State 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 ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ State history, including the largest number of new full-time freshmen (1,420).

Participants of the Intensive Aphasia Program learned new strategies to cope with aphasia and improve overall communication.

Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic completes first Intensive Aphasia Program in Kansas

Sep 27, 2016 — By Jamie Stoskopf — The Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic at ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ State successfully completed its Intensive Aphasia Program, the first of its kind in Kansas.

Sophomore Steve Werner, second from the right, and his team are starting Lawn Buddy, an Uber-like service for lawn care and snow removal.

Student creates Uber-like lawn and snow-removal service

Sep 22, 2016 — By WSU News Services — Steve Werner, an entrepreneurship major at ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ, recently won the first Cox Business Get Started ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ competition for his startup, Lawn Buddy, and received a prize of $17,000 in cash and services.

The convenience store, located inside an old bus at the Hughes Metropolitan Complex shuttle stop, has coffee, food, donuts, drinks and other snacks.

Convenience store inside a bus sets up shop at Metropolitan Complex

Sep 22, 2016 — By WSU News Services — A convenience store set up inside a shuttle bus has opened at ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ State's Hughes Metropolitan Complex, 29th Street and Oliver.

Is arena noise hazardous to your hearing?

Sep 19, 2016 — By WSU News Services — Ray Hull, professor of communication sciences and disorders in audiology/neurosciences, discusses the risk of hearing loss from noise damage.

³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ State is calling on all of Shocker Nation to participate in the statewide Don't Text #JustDrive pledge contest.

Don't Text #JustDrive pits schools against each other in friendly competition

Sep 21, 2016 — By WSU News Services — ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ State is calling on all of Shocker Nation to participate in the statewide Don't Text #JustDrive pledge contest.