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Breanne Couch from Fredonia won the Emporia Entrepreneur Challenge on April 10, as part of the annual EEC Community Showcase.

The second of two initiatives on campus to provide professional clothing to Emporia State students will open Thursday with a ribbon cutting.

Kansas high school students interested in exploring careers that either are in education or begin with degrees in education have an extra few weeks to apply for the Kansas Future Teacher Academy.

An expert in domestic violence will present the the 2016-17 Pflaum Memorial Lecture on Thursday, April 20.

A transformational gift from the late Virginia Hagan Meeker will have a profound impact on current and future Emporia State University music education majors.

To commemorate the centennial of the United States entering World War I on April 6, 1917, Emporia State University’s Special Collections and Archives presents the film “War on the Wall: Allied Poster Propaganda of World War I.”

Two ribbon cuttings on April 12 will dedicate new installations of the first-of-its-kind Flint Hills Tallgrass Prairie map exhibit and educational program.

A former FBI explosives expert, hosted by Emporia State’s forensics program, will speak on the UNABOMer case and its investigation, presenting information that has never been seen by the public. Dr. Thomas Jourdan, in a free seminar titled “The Mind of the UNABOMer,” will share his expertise at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 6, in Science Hall 72.

Emporia State University is currently accepting applications for small business grants disbursed by the Kansas Department of Commerce for a program called “JumpStart Kansas Entrepreneurs.” Along with receiving the grant, awardees will be able to participate in the ESU JumpStart Incubator.

Teachers depend on a variety of methods and tools to help students learn. One of most important items in an educator’s tool box is writing — how to do it and how to teach others to do it. To that end, the Flint Hills Writing Project, based at Emporia State University, recently was awarded two grants totaling $35,000 from the National Writing Project.