Wichita State to celebrate grand opening of Wayne and Kay Woolsey Hall
Sept. 28, 2022
By WSU Strategic Communications
Contact for News Reporters: Emily Mullins, WSU Foundation director of communications, 316-978-3407 or emily.mullins@wichita.edu.
The Wichita State University Foundation invites members of the media to the grand
opening celebration of Wayne and Kay Woolsey Hall, the new home for WSU’s Barton School of Business, at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30,
in the Woolsey Hall atrium.
Special remarks from WSU President Rick Muma, Barton School of Business Dean Larisa
Genin, Marc Woolsey and others will begin at 2:30 p.m.
Limited parking is available in front of the building. Additional parking can be found
in front of the Marcus Welcome Center.
Wichita State University is Kansas' only urban public research university, enrolling
more than 16,000 students on its main campus and 9,000 students on its WSU Tech campuses
from every state in the U.S. and more than 100 countries. Wichita State and WSU Tech
are recognized for being student centered and innovation driven.
Located in the largest city in the state with one of the highest concentrations in
the United States of jobs involving science, technology, engineering and math (STEM),
Wichita State University provides uniquely distinctive and innovative pathways of
applied learning, applied research and career opportunities for all of our students.
The Innovation Campus, which is a physical extension of the Wichita State University main campus, is one
of the nation’s largest and fastest-growing research/innovation parks, encompassing
over 120 acres and is home to a number of global companies and organizations.
