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Richard Biever. Assistant Professor of Musical Theatre. Fall 2022. “We are thrilled to have Richard join us in the School of Performing Arts, Musical Theatre Program at WSU! His expertise in music, passion for directing, creative and collaborative nature, and his allyship will be an incredible addition to our school and most importantly our students’ training and experience at WSU and beyond.” Amy Baker Schwiethale, Professor & Program Director of Musical Theatre

Richard Biever joins School of Performing Arts

The School of Performing Arts is excited to announce the latest addition to our faculty: Richard Biever. Richard will begin teaching, directing, and sharing his passion with our students in fall 2022.

Richard Biever has been creating theatre for most of his life — starting at his hometown community theatre in Nappanee, Indiana, doing children’s shows; several seasons of summer stock; music directing national and international tours; directing off-Broadway, regionally and with his own theatre companies, Richard has been an actor, music director, composer, and director, sometimes wearing multiple hats.

Richard attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, received a bachelor’s of music education from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, and an MFA in directing for the Musical Theatre from Penn State University, working primarily with Broadway director Susan H. Schulman.

Matchmaking Program gives entrepreneurs a chance at commercializing WSU technologies

The Office of Tech Transfer and Commercialization at Wichita State University has launched a program designed to connect experienced entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs with cutting-edge technologies and the opportunity to commercialize them.

The new Matchmaking Program links entrepreneurs, investors and businesses with technology, ideas and opportunities developed at Wichita State – paired with the guidance and support necessary to commercialize these marketplace-shaping technologies.

The University Libraries' annual Edible Book Festival takes place today (Friday, April 1) from 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. in Ablah Library. All are encouraged to vote for their favorite entry either in-person or online via the survey that will be sent out on all of the University Libraries' social media channels - Twitter: @wsulibrary; Instagram: @wsulibrary; Facebook: @wsulibraries. For all other information, visit the event website here.

Vote for your favorite Edible Book Festival entry

The University Libraries’ annual Edible Book Festival takes place from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday, April 1 in Ablah Library. All are encouraged to vote for their favorite entry in-person or online via the survey that will be sent out on all the University Libraries’ social media channels:

Twitter: @wsulibrary
Instagram: @wsulibrary
Facebook: @wsulibraries

WSU College of Engineering awards $313,500 in Wallace Scholarships

Wichita State University’s College of Engineering has named the latest group of high school seniors to join the Wallace Scholar program.

The 13 Wallace Scholarship recipients will receive $28,500 each to attend Wichita State for four years. In addition, two students receiving other major university scholarships will be designated as Wallace Scholars.

Graduate School annual awards nominations are open

It’s that time of year to honor your best. Graduate School annual awards nominations are open. Each program may nominate one student who is enrolled in the fall 2022 term for each of the following awards:

Tillford Fellowship
Delano Maggard Jr. Research Grant
Dora Wallace Hodgson Outstanding Graduate Student — Master’s
Dora Wallace Hodgson Outstanding Graduate Student — Doctoral

Information on each award and nominations process is available at the Graduate School awards website. Simply complete the nomination form for your program by the deadline for consideration. The nomination period closes at end of day April 18.

https://www.geron.org/programs-services/education-center/age-friendly-university-afu-global-network

The WSU 2022-2023 Catalogs are now available

The 2022-2023 Wichita State University Undergraduate and Graduate Catalogs are now live and online. Links to both catalogs can be found at wichita.edu/catalog.

Be sure to check out everything that’s new at WSU! Look on the degrees and academic majors page to browse through all of WSU’s undergraduate or graduate degrees, programs and certificates. Click on any of the column headers to sort the list the way you want it, or click on the name of the program and go right to the program information.

Curious about admission? Financial aid? Advising? Commencement ceremonies? Links to all this information and more are available in the catalog.

The catalogs are accessible from your desktop, tablet and smartphone.

Links to download PDFs of the full Undergraduate and Graduate Catalogs are located at the bottom right of every page next to links creating PDFs of individual catalog pages.

Craig W. Barton Speaker Series Robert M. Gates Secretary of Defense (2006-2011)

Former Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates to speak at Wichita State speaker series

Robert M. Gates, U.S. secretary of defense from 2006-2011 and former director of the CIA, will kick off Wichita State University’s inaugural Craig W. Barton Speaker Series this spring.

Gates, who grew up in Wichita, will be the featured speaker in the moderated discussion at 6 p.m. April 27, in WSU’s Wiedemann Hall.

$540,000 gift helps WSU Barton School launch Student Career Development Office

$540,000 gift helps Barton School launch Student Career Development Office

Thanks to a generous gift from Meritrust Credit Union, students in WSU’s Barton School of Business will now have greater access to career readiness tools and connections. Learn more about the launch of the business school’s Office of Career and Professional Development.

WSU School of Nursing receives endowed RN to BSN scholarship

The School of Nursing at Wichita State University has received a $35,000 endowed scholarship gift from retired faculty member Shirley Hazen through the Shirley E. Hazen RN-BSN Endowed Nursing Scholarship.