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DECA Team Readies for State Competition

Kansas Wesleyan’s DECA team will look for another quality performance Monday, Feb. 3 when the squad heads to Hillsboro for the annual state competition. The 16-student Coyote squad will face off against teams from around the Sunflower State, including Fort Hays State, Ottawa...

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Special Effects Makeup Artist to Deliver Seminar at KWU

Special effects makeup artist Amanda Wells will conduct a seminar and display on theatrical and cinematic special effects makeup on Friday, Feb. 7 at 7 p.m. The event will be held in Room 200 at KWU’s Sams Hall of Fine Arts, and admission is free.  Wells has over a decade of...

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KWU Announces Fall Honor Rolls

Kansas Wesleyan University announced its fall honor rolls Friday, Jan. 24, a listing of 235 students across two separate honor rolls.  Full-time students who accumulated a 3.75 grade point average or better during the fall semester were named to the President’s Honor Roll, while...

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Women’s Basketball’s Hinz Earns National Recognition

This story originally appeared on KWUCoyotes.com on January 21, 2020.  Kelcey Hinz's outstanding performance last week has not gone unnoticed. Just a day after earning Kansas Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Week honors, Hinz was announced as the NAIA Division II Women's...

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KWU to Co-Host Ecospheric Sound Art Event

Kansas Wesleyan University will host a special sound art performance, echoescape: learning a dead birdsong in ‘the place where you go to listen,’ by Dr. Julianne Warren on Thursday, Jan. 30 in Fitzpatrick Auditorium. The special surround-sound event gets underway at noon and...

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Jenkins Part of KUSports.com’s Women’s Basketball All-Decade Team

The below is a portion of a KWUCoyotes.com article that originally appeared January 10, 2020, discussing Carolyn Jenkins, women's basketball assistant coach. Carolyn Davis (now Carolyn Jenkins) had several college options when she graduated from George Bush High School in Houston....

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Showman Sets Women’s Basketball Coaching Wins Record

Kansas Wesleyan women's basketball routed Oklahoma Wesleyan, 85-62, in KCAC action Saturday in Bartlesville, Okla. The win was the 141st for head coach Ryan Showman ’04 at KWU, setting a new program record for career victories.  To read the full game recap, please visit www....

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Kranzler Selected to Kansas Music Hall of Fame

Kansas Wesleyan percussion instructor Dean Kranzler has been selected to the Kansas Music Hall of Fame, according to information released by the organization recently. The induction ceremony is set for May 2 in Lawrence.  Kranzler, a Salina native, spent 35 years as an instructor...

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Regional Painter to Display Work at KWU Beginning Monday

Regional painter Nicole Thibodeau will open an exhibit of her work Monday, Jan. 13 at The Gallery at Kansas Wesleyan University. Admission to the exhibit, which will run through Feb. 13, is free, and the exhibit will feature several works that were painted just outside Kansas State...

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KWU Announces Unique Format for February Music Festival

An exciting event is coming to Kansas Wesleyan Feb. 4-8, as “Fusion!: KWU Festival of Music,” is held at locations throughout Salina. All events are free and open to the public, and both KWU students and the public will have opportunities to participate during the nearly week-long...

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