Welcome to SOAR: Shocker Open Access Repository!

SOAR is the institutional repository of Wichita State University. The purpose of SOAR is to make the University's digital scholarship available to global audience and to serve as a reliable digital storage. SOAR has a dual function of a publication platform and a digital archive. University faculty and staff are invited to publish research works, data, or documents in SOAR. For more information contact: soar@wichita.edu.

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Academic Affairs [174]
Accreditation [754]
Applied Studies [520]
Business [218]
Commemoration of Significant Dates in History of Wichita State University [4]
Dorothy and Bill Cohen Honors [15]
Engineering [2620]
Faculty and Researchers [76]
Fairmount College and University of Wichita Research: historical collection [74]
Fine Arts [61]
Graduate School [3394]
Health Professions [956]
Liberal Arts and Sciences [4206]
Multivariate Experimental Clinical Research [0]
Office of Research [67]
Office of the President [43]
Office of the Provost [40]
Office of the Registrar [231]
Student Affairs [239]
University Libraries [207]
University Senates [778]

Recently Added

  • An act of faith 

    Witrogen, Melvin H.; Duell Denis C.; Skaggs, Jimmy M. (Wichita State University, 1984)

  • President letters to Shocker Nation 

    Golden, Jay S. (Wichita State University, 2020)

  • Basketball shooting aid 

    Boatright, Darron; Reuter, Kimberly M.; DeGarmo, Jason M. (United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2020-03-17)
    A basketball shooting aid includes a sidewall having an upper surface, a lower surface, an inner surface, and an outer surface. The upper surface of the sidewall defines an upper orifice and the lower surface of the sidewall ...

  • Apparatus and method for simulating machining and other forming operations 

    Madhavan, Viswanathan (United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2020-03-17)
    A method includes obtaining information associated with a forming operation involving a manufacturing machine having a tool that contacts material and simulating deformation of the material based on the information. ...

  • Provost letter to Academic Affairs, March 16, 2020 

    Muma, Richard D. (Wichita State University, 2020-03-16)
    In his letter, Provost Muma informs Academic Affairs' faculty, administrators, and staff that due to COVID-19 pandemic, the university has made the decision to continue online and/or remote instruction till the end of ...

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