WSU News

Oct. 21, 2026 — “Parents need to know there is support and they’re not alone,” said Pamela O’Neal, associate director in the Office of Online and Adult Learning at Wichita State University. The Parents and Caregivers Community is designed to help adult learners make those choices and succeed with a community of people in similar family and work situations.

Oct. 20, 2026 — Wichita State University has announced that its new tennis facility will be named the Regine Feilmeier Tennis Complex, recognizing Regine and the Feilmeier family's longstanding commitment to Shocker Tennis and their continued investment in Wichita State's future.

Oct. 19, 2026 — WSU students Reese Willbanks and Izzie Licata are among the roughly 100 actors at Field of Screams Kansas, a long-running haunted attraction at Prairie Pines in Maize and loaded with connections to Wichita State. The lore of the murderous Spurlock family, the attraction’s theme, started with a class paper at WSU by Kip Scott, owner/operator of the attraction.

Oct. 7, 2026 — What began as a student job at Wichita State's Walter H. Beech Wind Tunnel has grown into a 20-year career fueled by curiosity. Now a research manager at NIAR, Kevin Kelly has played a key role in the facility's evolution while mentoring others and continuing to ask the question that drives every engineer: "Why?"