As we age, it's not uncommon to lose some hearing. Of equal concern is the ability to process what we hear. According to Wichita State University audiologist Ray Hull, improving cardiovascular health appears to be the best way to help process what we hear.
Wichita State University is the lead Kansas institution participating in the development of the $127 million northern test site of the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory, a major international effort to probe the cosmos and learn more about how cosmic rays work.
For many young adults, college is the most exciting time in their life. For others, it’s a time of despair, leading to suicide. Suicide is the second leading cause of death among people between the ages of 14 and 25 in the United States. Wichita State University psychologist Maureen Dasey-Morales talks about the warning signs and myths surrounding suicide.
Wichita State University has risen to second among the nation’s universities in aeronautical research and development expenditures, according to the latest information from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics.
In an attempt to increase safety in general aviation aircraft, the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University is making it possible for type clubs to create their own service information sharing systems to catch and correct service and maintenance issues before they begin to impact safety.
Wichita State's Center for Innovation and Enterprise Engagement will receive a nearly $2 million federal interagency grant to create more jobs by supporting advanced manufacturing innovators to get commercially viable processes and products into production faster.
Wichita State University began the process of deinstalling a 26-by-52-foot mosaic on the facade of the Ulrich Museum of Art on Tuesday, Sept. 27. The Joan Miro mosaic is the largest Miro mural in the United States. The removal of the mural launches a five-year conservation effort.
The season of turkey, snow and mistletoe also is the season of flight delays, overcrowded airports and flight cancellations. Dean Headley, co-author of the national Airline Quality Rating from Wichita State University, says travelers on U.S. airlines have reason to be concerned this holiday travel season.
Halloween is fun for a lot of people, but for some young children it can be terrifying. Wichita State school psychologist trainer Susan Unruh offers some tips for making Halloween a fun experience.
Love is not enough if you are a white parent of an adopted black child. That’s the premise behind Wichita State University assistant professor Darron T. Smith’s recently published book “White Parents, Black Children: Experiencing Transracial Adoption.”
The Center for Economic Development and Business Research at Wichita State University has released updated Wichita Metropolitan Area and Kansas employment forecasts for 2012.
Sending a text message leads people to lie more often than in other forms of communication, according to new research by David Xu, assistant professor in the W. Frank Barton School of Business at Wichita State University.
Deep in the corridors of Wichita State University's Hubbard Hall, two Biological Sciences faculty are intertwined in a sometimes contentious relationship. Associate professor Mary Liz Jameson and Associate professor Leland Russell are married. One studies beetles. The other studies plants. Beetles eat plants. Plants can poison beetles. Can this relationship be saved?
A free online course that teaches personal financial management topics for students who are new to college and or considering college was launched this week by Wichita State University. The website is www.myCollegeMoneyPlan.org.
The results of the 22nd annual national Airline Quality Rating (AQR) will be announced at 9:30 a.m. EDT, Monday, April 2, at a news conference at the National Press Club, Murrow Room, in Washington, D.C. The rating is a multifactor look at the overall performance quality of the airlines based on elements such as on-time performance, denied boardings, mishandled baggage and customer complaints. It is the only rating to include multiple criteria by which airline performance is measured in a quantitative and unbiased manner.
Wichita State University's National Institute for Aviation Research will be testing aircraft components in the former Britt Brown Arena at the Kansas Coliseum by year end.
For the fourth consecutive year, the performance of the nation's leading carriers improved, according to the 22nd annual national Airline Quality Rating (http://airlinequalityrating.com), a joint research project funded as part of faculty research activities at Wichita State University and Purdue University. It was the best overall score in the 22 years researchers have tracked the performance of airlines. For the second consecutive year, AirTran, Hawaiian and JetBlue were the three best performing airlines.
John William Bardo has been named by the Kansas Board of Regents as the new president of Wichita State University, effective July 1. Bardo will become the 13th president of Wichita State, following President Donald Beggs' resignation June 30.
Alex Chaparro, director of Wichita State University's psychology department, studies drivers who multitask behind the wheel, especially drivers who try to text or call while driving.
Mix 20 Kansas high school students with 2 ½ days of hands-on experience at Wichita State University's AEGD Dental Camp, and you might get what you wished for: 20 impressed young people more focused on careers in dentistry. The Advanced Education in General Dentistry Dental Camp -- June 13-15 at the high-tech AEGD facility -- reached out to high schools across the state with an invitation to their students to participate in a no-cost, hands-on experience driven by faculty dentists who oversee dental residents in the WSU College of Education's AEGD program.
Wichita State University’s connection to the Summer Olympic games started 76 years ago with WSU basketball alums serving on the winning U.S. basketball team of the 1936 Berlin Olympics and the German oak trees given as special awards. Wichita State’s Olympic oak, a descendant of those trees, still stands proudly on campus.
In 1915, Snowden D. Flora of the U.S. Weather Bureau wrote, "Kansas has been so commonly considered the tornado state of the country that the term 'Kansas cyclone' has almost become a part of the English language."
Wichita State University associate professor Mark Schneegurt recently had a paper published in the journal "Astrobiology." One of the questions he's seeking an answer to is whether microbial life on Earth can grow at high concentrations of magnesium sulfate.
Sam Ramey, a premier operatic bass-baritone of the 20th century and a 1968 alumnus of Wichita State University, is the recipient of the WSU Guest Artist Fellowship in Opera, a 100 percent privately funded position. Ramey will teach several weeks each semester for at least the next five years, according to Rodney Miller, dean of the WSU College of Fine Arts. This academic year, he will be on campus from Sept. 24-Oct. 5, Jan. 28-Feb. 9 and March 4-16.
Get ready for an all-out brawl in several battleground states as President Obama and Mitt Romney try to woo voters during the presidential debates. Jeff Jarman, director of debate at Wichita State University, says the debate format will be significantly different and help voters see the differences better.
Traditionally high passenger volumes and the possibilities of bad weather are realities for holiday travel. Travelers on U.S. airlines usually find that ticket prices and overall costs are higher. Dean Headley, co-author of the national Airline Quality Rating from Wichita State University, says while industry airline performance quality has improved each year since 2007, the travel experience has become more stressful and uncertain, especially around the end-of-the-year holidays.
Wichita State University's Center for Economic Development and Business Research has released the economic outlook for Kansas. Wichita State also released its 2013 Kansas Housing Markets Forecast, published by the WSU Center for Real Estate.
How do cancer cells spread and become fatal? That's the question Wichita State University assistant chemistry professor Moriah Beck hopes to answer through her research.
An exciting basketball game often generates deafening noise. That noise may not cause people to become deaf, but it most certainly can result in hearing loss, according to Wichita State University audiologist Ray Hull.
Aircraft manufacturer Airbus has donated aircraft structural parts and kits worth more than $800,000 to Wichita State University's National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) for use in its research laboratories and training classes. Airbus is donating an elevator for a horizontal tail and two APU change kits.
Wichita State University biochemistry professor Kandatege Wimalasena believes his studies will identify molecular causes and eventually lead to the development of effective preventive and therapeutic strategies for Parkinson's.
The flu is a year-round focus for associate professor Geroge Dehner, who teaches world and environmental history at Wichita State University. Dehner's research has resulted in the writing of two books "Influenza: A Century of Science and Public Health Response" and "Global Flu and You: A History of Influenza."
If you ask a young couple, “Where did you meet?,” don’t be surprised if they say, “We met online.” According to online dating statistics, 40 million people in the United States have tried online dating. Who better to discuss the pros and cons of online dating than someone who was once called “Dr. Love” by a Nevada radio station? Today’s Wichita State University podcast features comments by “Dr. Love,” aka Wichita State University’s Deborah Ballard-Reisch, who has researched the subject of communication and relationships for about 20 years.
The results of the 23rd annual national Airline Quality Rating (AQR) will be announced at 9:30 a.m. EDT, Monday, April 8, at a news conference at the National Press Club, Murrow Room, in Washington, D.C. The rating is a multifactor look at the overall performance quality of the airlines based on elements such as on-time performance, denied boardings, mishandled baggage and customer complaints. It is the only rating to include multiple criteria by which airline performance is measured in a quantitative and unbiased manner.
Building on the collaboration of academic and direct-practice human trafficking experts, Wichita State University will soon open the new Center for Combating Human Trafficking (CCHT).
Airline performance in 2012 was the second highest in 23 years that researchers have tracked the performance of airlines. The performance of the nation’s leading carriers in 2012 was nearly identical to the best year ever in 2011 (http://airlinequalityrating.com), according to the 23rd annual national Airline Quality Rating.
Coronary stents have saved a lot of lives over the years, but there is a growing interest in what happens when a stent stays inside the body for too long. With that in mind, Wichita State assistant industrial and manufacturing engineering professor Anil Mahapatro is focusing his research on the investigation of biodegradable metallic stents.
Leg and arm injuries sustained in the battlefield are made worse when splinting devices used by military medics don't provide ideal stabilization of the injured extremity. But a project under way by Wichita State University research engineer Kim Reuter aims to change that. Reuter is working on the development of novel materials for a fast-setting composite stabilization device.
The Flint Hills Media Project at Wichita State University helps students become well-rounded journalists by getting them out of the classroom to look for real stories. The Symphony in the Flint Hills (SFH) has been staged in a different pasture every year since 2006. This year's symphony takes place in historic Ft. Riley. Students will also cover the stories about current Army training and life at the fort.
Lisa Overholtzer, an assistant anthropology professor at Wichita State University, is researching whether the Aztecs who conquered the city of Xaltocan in ancient Mexico around the year 1435 changed the genetic makeup of those who lived there.
Barb Morrison is talking to anyone she can about something dear to her heart: kangaroo care. Morrison is a certified nurse midwife and associate professor in Wichita State University's Janice M. Riordan Distinguished Professorship in Maternal and Child Health in the WSU School of Nursing. Named for the similarity to how marsupials carry their young, kangaroo care is a technique practiced on newborns wherein the infant is held skin-to-skin by an adult.
Koch Industries Inc. has committed to provide the lead gift to create a trading center within the W. Frank Barton School of Business at Wichita State University, a crucial step forward for the privately funded project.
In July, the city of Detroit became the largest city in the United States to file for bankruptcy. Eight cities and towns have filed for bankruptcy since 2010, and an additional 28 utilities, water districts, hospital authorities and other municipal units have also gone bankrupt in the wake of the financial crisis. Ken Kriz, Regents distinguished professor and director of the Kansas Public Finance Center in the Hugo Wall School of Urban and Public Affairs at Wichita State University, explains why bankruptcy is such a difficult option.
For nearly 15 years, biologists around the world have been watching as millions of frogs succumb to an infectious fungus called chytrid. Now a group of Wichita State University students has discovered evidence of the deadly chytrid fungus in the Wichita area. This is the first report of chytrid in Kansas.
High passenger volumes and the possibility of bad weather are always part of holiday travel. Travelers on U.S. airlines during the days surrounding Thanksgiving and Christmas usually find that ticket prices are higher and seats are harder to find. With reduced capacity (fewer seats available) across the industry and increased demand by travelers, booking early is highly recommended, according to Dean Headley, Airline Quality Rating co-author and associate professor of marketing at Wichita State University.
Employment in Wichita, Kan., and the rest of the United States has remained stable, according to new research by Wichita State University's Center for Economic Development and Business Research.
Kansas home sales should rise by more than 5 percent in 2014 according to the 2014 Kansas Housing Markets Forecast series published by the Wichita State University Center for Real Estate.
An estate gift to the Wichita State University Foundation from the late Erach Talaty is believed to be the largest ever given to the university by a current or former faculty or staff member, said James J. Rhatigan, consultant to the WSU Foundation. Talaty was a highly regarded chemistry professor at WSU from 1969 until his death last June at the age of 86. His bequest to Wichita State will result in a gift approaching $2.2 million, Rhatigan said.
It started out as a small-scale effort to fight hunger in Haiti by feeding school children in 2010, but today Wichita State University's Hunger Awareness Initiative is a model of success that is spreading to college campuses around the world.
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