As Art Department Chair and an Assistant Professor of Art at KWU, Lori Wright is never short on things to do. She attends workshops, schedules and maintains the gallery, teaches, and balances it all with her family at home, including her daughter, Ella, 2. Throughout the month of May and June, Wright will exhibit some [...]

Watch video of the final point of the KCAC Volleyball Tournament Championship match between KWU and Tabor and the crowd’s celebration by throwing streamers after the match.

Officials from Kansas Wesleyan, Oklahoma Baptist and Huston-Tillotson have met and start times have been set for the two NAIA National Championship Opening Round contests in Salina on Saturday. Kansas Wesleyan Men’s Soccer will host Huston-Tillotson (Texas) on Saturday afternoon at Noon at Salina Stadium. The KWU Volleyball team will host Oklahoma Baptist at 6 [...]

The Fine Arts department at Kansas Wesleyan is taking on a huge challenge this year. They are bringing a performance of the opera, Dido and Aeneas, to the Salina stage. The show is being directed by Prof. Leslie Mangrum and Prof. Ken Hakoda of Kansas Wesleyan University. Written by Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas is [...]

The Fine Arts Department at Kansas Wesleyan University kicks off another spectacular season with a production of The Odyssey. The playwright of this version of The Odyssey,written by Mary Zimmerman, is a professor of performance studies at Northwest University. The Odyssey is an adaptation based on Robert Fitzgerald’s translation of Homer’s poem, and is directed [...]

Kansas Wesleyan University’s Commencement Day activities concluded Saturday evening (May 14, 2011) with the annual Nurses Pinning Ceremony in Sams Chapel. New Nursing Education alumni gathered on the steps on the first floor of Pioneer Hall for a group photo prior to the ceremony. Thirty-one new KWU Nursing Education alumni received their nursing pins during [...]

Kansas Wesleyan University’s Commencement Day activities on Saturday (May 14, 2011) began with a formal procession across Claflin Avenue to University United Methodist Church for the Baccalaureate Service at 10:30 a.m., with Commencement following at 3 p.m. in Mabee Arena and the Nurses Pinning Ceremony at 7 p.m. in Sams Chapel. CAPTION: Lectionary Cross bearer [...]

Major General Vincent Brooks, Commanding General at Fort Riley, will be the speaker at Kansas Wesleyan University’s 2011 Commencement. “Major General Brooks is an outstanding man of character and will serve as a great role model for our degree candidates,” said KWU President Fletcher Lamkin. KWU’s Commencement Day activities are scheduled to begin with the [...]

Holocaust survivor Dr. Edith Eger will once again headline Kansas Wesleyan University’s Holocaust Remembrance Week activities. The University’s annual event is scheduled for April 18-22, 2011. “We are most fortunate to have Dr. Edith Eger returning as our guest survivor speaker. As many people will remember, she first visited us in 2009 and left a [...]

Get a sampling of various opera styles as Kansas Wesleyan University’s Department of Music presents Opera in a Box Saturday (April 30, 2011). The event is scheduled for 7 p.m. Saturday in Sams Chapel and is open to the public at no charge. According to Leslie Mangrum, Assistant Professor of Music, Opera in a Box [...]