Jayme Thompson

  The Purple Note Project is an outreach program by the Say His Name Foundation that was developed as a resource for suicide prevention.  The project provides handwritten letters to...

Jaedon Blocker, sophomore early education major, expresses his passion for poetry as he becomes a published author at the young age of 21.  “It was actually first through music, listening...

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Student hunger is prevalent across the nation, and Washburn has started several programs to combat this issue and to provide food access for its students. “We know from national data that about 51% of college students, before COVID, experienced food insecurity. Obviously, COVID had huge ramifications on access to food across the entire world,” said

The Washburn Psychological Services Clinic is looking for students interested in participating in group therapy centered around self-compassion and mindfulness. “The whole purpose of the self-compassion approach is to challenge some of those [negative] thoughts and beliefs and literally cut ourselves a little bit of slack and give ourselves permission to realize that we’re human,”

Every year, Washburn University honors Kansas’ birthday by having a guest speaker come to campus. This year, the speaker was Davis Hammet, activist and founder of Loud Light. On Jan. 29, 2024, about 30 members of the Topeka community gathered in the Shawnee room of the Memorial Union to listen to Hammet speak. When conversing

Washburn University inaugurated JuliAnn Mazachek as the first female president of the university Friday, Oct. 27, in Lee Arena. She became the 15th president of Washburn University as she was...

At Washburn there are numerous opportunities for coaches and people interested in this career. The university has positions as a head coach, assistant coach and student assistants. “Back when I first started coaching, it was about winning and losing. Now it’s about the relationships you build with your players,” said Chris Herron, head volleyball coach.

One of Washburn’s newer faculty members, Bill Fiander, lecturer political science, has started to pave his way here at the university. He started with Washburn two years ago and in...