Wichita State University News

Instead of wanting her classmates to remember her as excelling in school, she said she wants them to remember her, "as the kid who stayed true to herself, was creative and had a good sense of humor," she wrote in a questionnaire provided to The Telegram.

The Stanton County graduating senior was valedictorian for her class, along with achieving high honors and being named a Kansas Honors Scholar.

Census figures have detailed the decline for years, most recently showing that 77 of Kansas' 105 counties lost population in the last decade.

A Wichita State University study projects that most of the state will continue to lose population for decades.

Royce Young plays his pipe organ at his Salina home on Wednesday, May 23, 2012. Royce Young admits he probably could have had decades of professional concert performances behind him and many more ahead had the past 38 years not been spent teaching music to middle school students.

Great Bend's Matt Moyd, left, races next to Hays' Adam Deterding, second from left, during Saturday's finals of the 110-meter hurdles at the Class 6-1A state track and field championships at Wichita State's Cessna Stadium.

Great Bend High School pole vaulter Chris Burley had his hands full on Friday in the Class 6-1A state track and field championships at Cessna Stadium on the Wichita State University campus.

Greeley County's Kennedy Schneider won the first of what she hopes will be the Triple Crown of Class 1A distance races on Friday evening at Cessna Stadium, as the opening day of the 2012 Kansas Track and Field Championship got under way.

Kiowa County sophomore Heather Melton might consider Friday's opening day of the Kansas Class 2A track meet a prelude of things to come.

FILE John Bardo has been named the new WSU president. Photographed at Morrison Hall on the WSU campus Friday.

Many have tried. None have succeeded in bringing football back to Wichita State University.

The engineering school at Wichita State University is treating its incoming freshmen to a week-long program of enrichment called the Bridge for Engineering and Engineering Technology Students.

The art museum at Wichita State University will use a $250,000 grant to repair a massive mosaic by Spanish artist Joan Miro.

Hoisington High School's Savannah Rose runs a drill during practice on Wednesday in preparation for the Class 6-1A state track and field championships on Friday and Saturday.

On one side of the spectrum, there's senior 110-meter hurdler/200 sprinter Matt Moyd, in quest of a gold medal.

After graduating from high school, Steven was the starting point guard at Wichita State University from 20042008 and served as an assistant women's basketball coach at Colorado State following her college career.

Koch officials say they've outgrown their million-square-foot HQ at 37th and Oliver, and are actively exploring expansion options on site.

CIBOR had been operating out of office space in northeast Wichita. The research institute is moving to the Wichita State University campus.

Administrators at the University ofA Kansas have submitted a proposal to the Kansas Board of Regents requesting stricter admissions requirements that would distinguishA KU from the state's other Regents system public universities.

On campus, the Advanced Networking Research Institute founded by Dr. Ravi Pendse is boosting a lot of buzz in the tech world.