Jun 18, 2009 — By мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±Íø News Services — мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±Íø School of Music faculty Robert Glasmann and Lynne Davis will perform free concerts as part of the American Guild of Organists' regional conference in Wichita.

Workers begin the groundwork for the new business district on Main Street in Greensburg, Kan., which was almost entirely demolished in a 2007 tornado.

Jun 10, 2009 — By Lainie Rusco — More than a dozen мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±Íø students recently returned from Greensburg, Kan., where they documented the rebirth of the small town that was 95 percent destroyed in a May 2007 tornado.

Jun 9, 2009 — By мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±Íø News Services — Norman Volz lost his wife Beverly and father-in-law Max McColm in the May 2007 tornado that nearly destroyed Greensburg. The only thing he didn't lose was his oil company west of town.

Jun 9, 2009 — By мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±Íø News Services — Two Wichita State baseball student-athletes have been named Freshman All-Americans by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association. Starting pitchers Jordan Cooper and Charlie Lowell were both named to the second team.

Kelly Stewart has a busy life, but she worked hard to complete her finance degree at мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±Íø.

Jun 10, 2009 — By Shae West — Unable to see a chance for advancement in her career, Kelly Stewart closed her daycare business and went back to school to get her bachelor's degree.

Jun 9, 2009 — By мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±Íø News Services — In honor of Father's Day, the Lake Afton Public Observatory is offering a new special. Friday, June 19, and Saturday, June 20, bring Dad or Grandpa to the observatory for the program "Celestial Favorites," and they will receive free admission when accompanied by a paying child.

Jane Rhoads, мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±Íø director of undergraduate success programs, drove around Kansas for about 17 years for her recently published book on Kansas opera houses.

Jun 18, 2009 — By Shannon Littlejohn — Jane Rhoads put a passion for theater and history into "Kansas Opera Houses: Actors & Community Events 1855-1925." Now her definitive resource has been named a 2009 Kansas Notable Book.

Jun 5, 2009 — By мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±Íø News Services — мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±Íø and мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±Íø director of bands Victor Markovich will host the Kansas Ambassadors of Music all-Kansas high school band, orchestra and choir students for three days of rehearsal and a free afternoon concert at 3 p.m. Wednesday, June 10, in Miller Concert Hall, Duerksen Fine Arts Center.

Jun 2, 2009 — By мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±Íø News Services — Jane Rhoads of мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±Íø learned a lot while visiting 432 Kansas towns during the past 17 years researching Kansas opera houses.

Kimberly Calaman

Jun 9, 2009 — By мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±Íø News Services — Three members of Wichita State Rowing have made the All American team.