Category: Education

Kansas City, Kansas, student Alana Bishop was named to the academic dean’s list at Azusa Pacific University for the fall semester.

Bishop is majoring in applied exercise science.

Students on the dean’s list have a grade point average of 3.5 or better. Azusa Pacific is an evangelical Christian university with more than 10,000 students located in Azusa, California, and seven regional campuses.

An accident on I-35 on Monday resulted in an injury, according to a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper’s report.

The accident at 4:30 p.m. Feb. 26 was on southbound I-35, just north of Lamar, according to the report.

Two vehicles were southbound on I-35 when a Honda passenger car struck the rear of a Honda van, the trooper’s report stated.

The driver of the Honda passenger car, a 37-year-old man from Prairie Village, Kansas, was not injured, according to the trooper’s report.

The driver of the Honda van, a 36-year-old woman from Kansas City, Kansas, was injured and taken to a hospital, the report stated.

Two students from Kansas City, Kansas, have been selected to be new student and family orientation leaders for the 2018 spring and fall semesters at Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas.

The two Kansas City, Kansas, students are Melanie Arellano, a senior majoring in social work; and Ricardo Zamora, a senior majoring in management.

They are among 75 FHSU students selected from a pool of 125 applicants to be new student leaders. They will be at the pre-enrollment sessions for freshmen and transfer students this spring and also during the fall orientation weekend.

The student leaders will help new students and their families become familiar with campus resources by creating a welcoming atmosphere, assisting in the pre-enrollment process and answering questions.