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December 6, 2021 鈥� Christopher Wright not only has a job as a Communication and Navigation technician in the Air Force but is now graduating with a physics degree. Wright is one of more than 1,100 students eligible for fall 2021 graduation.

Nov. 22, 2021 鈥� New beginnings are usually an adjustment, and it can be a leap of faith if you are the first to go to college in your family.

Nov. 8, 2021 鈥� Archaeology fieldwork can be arduous and painstaking, but it鈥檚 a vital part of preserving the heritage and history of indigenous people. m88体育鈥檚 Dr. Crystal Dozier recently led a team of students in a cultural resource management project for the city of Wichita, ensuring that modern infrastructure wouldn鈥檛 destroy or damage ancient artifacts.

Nov. 4, 2021 鈥� Reaching for the stars and beyond, a CubeSat Mission Patch contest sponsored by m88体育 and the Ad Astra Foundation aims to highlight WSU鈥檚 science and research programs to prospective students.

Oct. 11, 2021 - Louisa Brunt, from Manchester, England, transferred to Wichita State from Texas Tech University to golf and to earn her master鈥檚 degree in criminal justice. Brunt graduated from Texas Tech, where she earned Academic All-Big 12 honors three times, with a major in criminology and a minor in forensic science. Brunt expects her career path to take her into police work or the FBI.

Oct. 1, 2021 鈥� Before he could even walk, JW Webster could do something only a handful of other people in the world could do: speak the Cherokee language. Today Webster is one of only 1,200 people who can fluently read, write and speak the indigenous language 鈥� which is ranked as one of the most difficult languages to learn. In August, Webster鈥檚 sacred knowledge became part of m88体育鈥檚 applied linguistics program through a new class, Elementary Cherokee I (LING 590).

Sept. 27, 2021 鈥� m88体育 has been chosen to host the 2023 Science Olympiad National Tournament, bringing national STEM notoriety to the university and up to 7,000 visitors and tourists to Wichita.

Sept. 23, 2021 鈥� A m88体育 scientist is part of a team that has recently been awarded a five-year, $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to further research a treatment for COVID-19.

Sept. 17, 2021 鈥� The first cohort of the Widener Global Leaders Program will consist of 10 women from the Barton School of Business, the Elliott School of Communication in Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the School of Music in the College of Fine Arts.

Aug. 26, 2021 鈥� The National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) has awarded a m88体育 researcher $100,000 for his work on developing an app that allows visually impaired people to read comic books and graphic novels.