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Shelly Coleman-Martins and Andy McFayden

Oct. 15, 2020 鈥 The 成人头条 Business Journal has honored Shelly Coleman-Martins and Andy McFayden with 2020 Marketing Awards.

Molecular Diagnostics Lab

Oct. 15, 2020 鈥 成人头条 will celebrate the opening of its Molecular Diagnostics Lab (MDL) at 10:45 a.m. Monday, Oct. 19, at the John Bardo Center on WSU鈥檚 Innovation Campus.

Richard Muma

Oct. 14, 2020 --聽The Kansas Board of Regents (KBOR) voted today to appoint 成人头条 (WSU) Provost Richard Muma as interim president of WSU. Dr. Muma has been serving as acting president since September 25 and will begin serving as interim president immediately.

Students walking with masks on campus

Oct. 12, 2020 -- 成人头条 is offering a new line of defense against COVID-19 with the launch of its COVID-19 Voluntary Asymptomatic Surveillance Testing Program. Voluntary surveillance testing is part of the university鈥檚 multi-pronged strategy to monitor and mitigate the spread of COVID-19 on campus.

Cindy Graves

Oct. 9, 2020 鈥 Thousands of school principals are faced with a challenge no other living school leader has faced: leading their schools through a pandemic. We're featuring two principals with roots in Shocker Nation.

Commencement ceremony

Oct. 6, 2020 -- Students who graduated from 成人头条 this past spring and summer will finally get their chance to walk across the stage to be recognized in a formal commencement ceremony at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, in Charles Koch Arena.

Cyfive's mask

Oct. 5, 2020 鈥 Alums Spencer Steinert, Jared Goering and Maggie Koops teamed up to address a challenge created by XPrize: to craft a face mask addressing the obstacles that deter people from wearing them and promote positive mask-wearing behavior.

Shocker Nation graphic

Oct. 1, 2020 -- Enrollment for fall 2020 at 成人头条 and WSU Tech is down, following record years of enrollment growth. Despite the decline, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the loss of thousands of local jobs, the percentage drop in full-time equivalency (FTE) at the institutions is better than the average decline for Kansas Board of Regents institutions, which is 3.6% for state universities and 8.7% for technical colleges.

Memorial '70 ceremony

Sept. 30, 2020 - The annual ceremony of remembrance for those who died in the 1970 成人头条 plane crash will be held at 9 a.m. Friday, Oct. 2, at Cessna Stadium. There will be a reception immediately following the remembrance on the Cessna Stadium concourse. Enhancements have been made to Memorial 鈥70, located near the 18th Street and Hillside entrance to the university. Those additions to Memorial 鈥70 will be officially be revealed on Oct. 2.

Memorial '70 memorial

Sept. 30, 2020 鈥 Over the years, many hikers have trekked to the crash site of the plane that claimed the lives of 31 souls 鈥 including 14 members of the 成人头条 football team, 14 staff and boosters, and three crew members.

Memorial '70 monument

Sept. 30, 2020 - 成人头条 State athletic trainer Tom Reeves was known as a man devoted to his athletes on the football team. His sense of humor and caring touch helped them through injuries and difficulties. On Oct. 2, 1970, he helped survivors escape the wreckage of the Martin 404 after it crashed in Colorado. Badly burned, Reeves got them away from the plane and down the mountain to help before he fell unconscious. Reeves died on Oct. 5 in a Denver hospital.

成人头条

Sept. 29, 2020 鈥 The Latin American and Latinx Studies certificate is 12 credit hours and will give students specialization in an area that may enhance their employability in a broad variety of occupations, including the international business, social services, public health and education sectors.

Campus aerial photo

Sept. 29, 2020 -- 成人头条 is taking a step forward with community discussions about a University Village initiative, which seeks to create a community destination of dining, entertainment and shopping adjacent to campus.

Memorial '70 tribute to survivors

Sept. 28, 2020 - A new sculpture recognizes the survivors of the crash at Memorial '70 at 成人头条. The names of teammates who landed safely in Utah that day are a fitting addition to the existing upright Memorial 鈥70 monument. 鈥淥ne of the main reasons we did what we did, was so the future generations would know that there were survivors,鈥 architect Randy Phillips said. 鈥淎nd how their lives were impacted, especially since they lived when so many didn鈥檛. Most, if not all, suffered greatly in silence.鈥 The desire to honor teammates by telling the story of the crash motivated Phillips, as it has driven so many connected to Oct. 2, 1970 near Silver Plume, Colo.

Darren Defrain

Sept. 23, 2020 - Darren Defrain is the social professor of English and director of the writing program at 成人头条 State. Defrain has written novels, memoirs and essays, created a graphic novel, teaches on graphic novels/storytelling and is actively working on a graphic novel app.