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Kansas Wesleyan University student Apryl Saunders, ’16, a Chemistry and Biomedical Chemistry double major from Harrah, OK, was accepted to a summer REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates, a program funded by the National Science Foundation) at the University of Oklahoma, a large public research institution in Norman, OK.

Kansas Wesleyan University student Kenny Diaz, ’16, of Hurst, TX, has been awarded a rare summer management position with the Texas Rangers Organization. Diaz said this internship did not come to him easily, as he was up against more than 1,000 applicants for the position. He has been assigned to the Double-A professional baseball Frisco RoughRiders, in Frisco, TX, as Director of Baseball Operations.

Kansas Wesleyan University student Ryan Thies, ’17, of Phoenix, AZ, found an internship opportunity in Palm Springs, CA, broadcasting most of the summer baseball games for the Palm Springs Power, a collegiate summer baseball team that plays in the Southern California Collegiate Baseball League (SCCBL). The league hosts NCAA Division I talent for the entire summer.

Taylor Klover, of Hiawatha, KS, a Graphic Design major who graduated from Kansas Wesleyan University with her Bachelor of Arts degree on May 9, 2015, has been accepted into graduate school at Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS, to pursue a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Graphic Design. There, she has received a scholarship and a Graduate Teaching Assistantship position. She teach two classes per semester in addition to her full-time studies.

Kelly Hopkins, of Salina, KS, who graduated from Kansas Wesleyan University on May 9, 2015, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology, has been accepted into the Master of Social Work degree program at Newman University in Wichita, KS.

Marci Forristal, 22, of Salina, KS, who graduated May 9, 2015, from Kansas Wesleyan University with a B.S. in Biomedical Chemistry, has been accepted to the four-year Pharm.D. Program in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Kansas. She will begin her graduate studies at the Lawrence campus this fall.

Kansas Wesleyan University students and faculty were among 160 students and media advisors representing 17 Kansas colleges and universities at the 2015 Kansas Collegiate Media conference held Sunday-Monday, April 12-13 at the Drury Hotel in Wichita.

KWU journalists received two awards for The Advance weekly student newspaper, and the Coyote Yearbook staff earned six awards and honorable mentions.

Resident Director Matt Broeckelman, MBA '15, and Kansas Wesleyan Development Officer Andy Fadenholz, MBA '14, loaded up Fadenholz's pickup truck with about 1,000 pounds of clothing and shoes collected from Broeckelman's Wesley Hall residents for delivery to Salina Rescue Mission on May 12, 2015.

Matthew Broeckelman, MBA ’15, of Mankato, KS, has been accepted into the Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program at Wichita State University in Wichita, KS. He began his first classes on May 25, just two weeks after receiving his Master of Business Administration degree from Kansas Wesleyan University.

Jessica Hauschild of Andover, KS, who graduated May 9, 2015, from Kansas Wesleyan University with a B.A. in Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude, has been accepted as a Ph.D. student in Statistics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.