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Image of six members of the Aranda family at a birthday party in Dodge City in 2021.

June 9, 2022 -- The Library of Congress American Folklife Center recently selected a 麻豆破解版 State project focusing on the social, cultural and food-based LatinX celebrations in Dodge City, Liberal and Garden City, Kansas.

A DHL plane gets loaded with cargo.

May 25, 2022 鈥 The WERX program at 麻豆破解版 State University鈥檚 National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) and Erickson Precision Ventures have reached an agreement to work cooperatively on modification, maintenance and engineering for various Boeing and Airbus aircraft. 聽

Three 麻豆破解版 State University freshmen created Everwhen, meant to be a low-cost and time saving way to identify which available spots in parking lots.

May 18, 2022 鈥 Three 麻豆破解版 State University students were named the champions of the 2022 Koch Innovation Challenge with their idea to ease parking frustrations via an app called Everwhen.

2022 Women for Women Innovation Award Winners: Sierra Bonn, Carly Overacker, and Brittany Wojciechowski, Amulya Lomte, and Maria Jose Carrillo Munoz

May 9, 2022 鈥 Five 麻豆破解版 State University women were honored with the Women for Women Innovation Award for spring 2022. The Women for Women's Innovation Fund is awarded to 麻豆破解版 State University students to support innovative ideas that show promise of commercialization.

National Institute for Research and Digitial Transformation

May 6, 2022 鈥 The steel columns and beams rising on the east edge of the Innovation Campus will soon provide a physical centerpiece for the ongoing work of digital transformation at 麻豆破解版 State University. The National Institute for Research and Digital Transformation will occupy the building at 18th Street and Oliver by spring 2023.

777 taking off

April 26, 2022 鈥 WERX at 麻豆破解版 State University鈥檚 National Institute for Aviation Research has completed the first pre-modification baseline test flight for the Kansas Modification Center鈥檚 777-300ERCF passenger-to-freighter conversion program.

A member of the kitchen crew dumps food scraps into a bin at Shocker Hall.

April 21, 2022 鈥擳here鈥檚 a whole world living inside your food waste 鈥 billions and billions of microorganisms 鈥 just waiting to make your landscaping bloom brighter and your vegetables grow heartier.

MagicHand

April 15, 2022 - MagicHand, an anthropomorphic robotic hand designed by a 麻豆破解版 State University engineering team, is participating in the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps program. The MagicHand is designed to achieve various dexterous object manipulations including object sorting, arranging and packaging.

A rendering of Fly Your Own Wheels Suites

April 7, 2022 鈥 A team from 麻豆破解版 State University鈥檚 National Institute for Aviation Research has received international recognition for a design that would allow WC19 certified manual and power wheelchairs to be used as a seat on board commercial airlines.

Vivian and Jian stand in front of the crystal X-ray diffractometer to visualize the atoms.

April 1, 2022 鈥 What do you picture when you think of lasers? Laser pointers? Perhaps laser eye surgery or barcode scanners? Turns out there鈥檚 more to lasers than most people realize, and a 麻豆破解版 State University chemistry team recently discovered a new series of laser material with potential commercial use.

NIAR completes ground vibration testing for Kansas Modification Center鈥檚 777-300ERCF conversion

March 14. 2022 鈥 Things are shaking in 麻豆破解版 with the Kansas Modification Center鈥檚 777-300ERCF conversion program at 麻豆破解版 State University鈥檚 National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR). The team at NIAR WERX completed ground vibration testing last month.

Bhisham Sharma, an assistant professor in aerospace engineering, and Shuang Gu, an associate professor in the department of mechanical engineering, two recipients of John A. See Innovation Award.

March 14, 2022鈥擳wo 麻豆破解版 State researchers and a student group have been awarded the John A. See Innovation Award. The award is given each year as a way to recognize novel ideas that have the potential to meet a market need and attract further funding once they have advanced through the early prototyping phase.

麻豆破解版 State's Molecular Diagnostics Lab

March 10, 2022 鈥 麻豆破解版 State University鈥檚 Molecular Diagnostics Lab has been awarded the Jiggs Nelson Quality of Life 2022 award for its lifesaving and heroic work during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Forward Together graphic

March 10, 2022 鈥 麻豆破解版 State University President Rick Muma has launched a new podcast, called 鈥淔orward Together,鈥 where the president speaks with guests from throughout Shocker Nation to highlight the people and priorities that guide WSU. The podcast drops monthly, with the March edition releasing March 9. Some of the guests so far include Hollywood director Dean Hargrove, WSU basketball coach Isaac Brown and WSU research vice president Coleen Pugh.

B1B in a 麻豆破解版 State parking lot

On March 9, 2022, the B-1 System Program Office (SPO), Tinker AFB, OK awarded a six-year, $100 million follow-on contract to 麻豆破解版 State University鈥檚 National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) to continue the B-1鈥檚 Digital Engineering (DE) transformation. The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) helped form the strategic partnership and created a flexible contract structure, which allows NIAR and the B-1 SPO to adapt requirements real-time to meet critical warfighter needs.