Author: Karlee Cooper

KMUW’s free calendar stickers are back for the 2025-26 academic year. To request a calendar, send your name, campus box number and the quantity requested to cooper@kmuw.org. KMUW has limited quantities, so only order what you need.

Calendars available while supplies last. Remember to include the campus box number in your email.

KMUW’s monthly book club features selections made by KMUW staff. For May, participants will read “Dream Count” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Participants will meet for a group discussion over dinner from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 28 at KMUW, 121 N. Mead St. Dinner is provided by Public, guests are invited to bring a beverage to share with the group.

KMUW’s monthly book club features selections made by KMUW staff. For April, participants are reading “The Antidote” by Karen Russell. To learn more, listen to Beth Golay’s interview with Russell on KMUW.

Participants meet for a group discussion over dinner from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 30 at KMUW, 121 N. Mead St. Dinner is provided by Public, and guests are invited to bring a beverage to share with the group.

KMUW and the Wichita Public Library are partnering to present a special edition of Wichitalks as part of the 2025 NEA Big Read: Wichita at 7 pm Friday, April 18 at the Advanced Learning Library.

Wichitalks is an eclectic and insightful event series featuring lightning-fast, five-minute talks with 20 slides auto-advancing every 15 seconds. The event brings together passionate individuals and an active audience for an evening of diverse presentations.

For the latest special NEA Big Read Edition of Wichitalks, KMUW invites presentations on the theme of breaking barriers. This year’s NEA Big Read selection is “Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body” by Rebekah Taussig.

This year’s speakers are:

• Holly Terrill
• Atziri Campos
• Tony Mai
• Iris Wigley
• Josh Rathbun
• Audra Dinell
• Krista Reed
• Courtney Price-Dukes
• Ivonne Conover
• David Akao

Wichitalks will have an ASL interpreter.

KMUW’s monthly book club features selections made by KMUW staff. For February, participants are reading “Rosarita” by Anita Desai.

Participants will meet at KMUW for a group discussion over dinner from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 26. Dinner is provided by Public, guests are invited to bring a beverage to share with the group.

KMUW will host a bond issue forum from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 18 at KMUW, 121 N. Mead St., suite 200, ahead of the Feb. 25 election, when voters will decide on a $450 million bond issue proposed by USD 259 Wichita Public Schools. The money would finance school construction and fund other improvements.

The discussion will be guided by KMUW education reporter Suzanne Perez with representatives from groups on both sides of the proposed bond issue participating.

• Bradley Dyer Jr., a senior business development officer with Credit Union of America, is leading the “Yes for Wichita Kids” campaign. He will speak in favor of the bond issue.
• Ben Davis, a Republican strategist, formed the political action committee “Wichita United for Better Education.” He will speak in opposition to the bond issue.

An opportunity for questions from the audience will be available at the end of the forum.

KMUW’s monthly book club features selections made by KMUW staff. For January, participants are reading “The City and Its Uncertain Walls” by Haruki Murakami.

Participants will meet at KMUW for a group discussion over dinner from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 29. Dinner is provided by Public, and guests are invited to bring a beverage to share with the group.

KMUW, Wichita’s NPR station, has been named Large Market Radio Station of the Year by the Kansas Association of Broadcasters. This is the 11th consecutive year that KMUW has received top honors.

Highlights include three categories in which KMUW swept all three places. All awards went to KMUW in the Spot News category. Rose Conlon received first place for her story on the police raid of the Marion County Record. Conlon also received second place for her look at a Wichita Mennonite protest over the war in Gaza. Rounding out the honors is Suzanne Perez with her coverage of the Wichita school board voting to close six schools.

Another category swept by KMUW was Editorial/Commentary. Tom Shine was awarded first place for his reflection on receiving a text from his daughter during a shelter-in-place scare. Fletcher Powell received second place for his movie review of “Poor Things.” And Perez was honored for her review of the novel, “Come and Get It.”

The final category swept by KMUW was for Public Service Announcement, with first place going to Kylie Cameron and Fletcher Powell for the Substance Use Resource Page, second place to Jessica Treadwell for the Documenters program and Perez for the Wichita ReadICT Challenge.

KMUW received several more first-place awards for features, including recognition for Suzanne Perez for her story on a Wichita teacher hurt while breaking up a fight, Celia Hack with her look at one woman who pulled her family out of homelessness, Carla Eckels for her story on the timelessness of Emmett Till’s story and finally Tom Shine for his feature: “Was Wichita State really the first college to throw a forward pass in football?”

The entire list of awards can be found at kmuw.org/awards.

Join KMUW for a listener appreciation event at Brickyard from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28 from at the Brickyard for free ice cream from Hiland Dairy Foods and live music from Charlie Wilks. The event is free and open to the public. It’s KMUW’s way of saying, “Thanks for listening.”

KMUW’s monthly book club, Literary Feast, features selections made by KMUW staff. For September, members are reading “The History of Sound” by Ben Shattuck.

Members meet at KMUW for a group discussion over dinner from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25. Dinner is provided by Public, but guests are invited to bring a beverage to share with the group.