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A business school dean and professor at the University of Mary Washington will begin her new role as interim dean of Emporia State University's School of Business and Technology on July 20.

Emporia State University is once again a featured destination in the Sunflower Summer program offered to Kansas residents by Kansas Tourism.

Emporia State University is offering students more opportunities to attend exciting, hands-on STEM camps this summer.

Emporia State University invites the public to campus on Saturday, July 4, to watch the community fireworks display.

The third and final production of the 2026 Emporia State Summer Theatre season features a musical who cast is area elementary- and middle-school students.

Emporia State University’s Summer Theatre presents the second show of 2026 this weekend with William Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing.” The show, which will be staged outdoors, opens Thursday, June 25.

Emporia State University will celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Prophet Aquatic Research and Outreach Center at a special Science Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 27.

The National Memorial to Fallen Educators will be rededicated at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 20, in Emporia, Kansas, to honor four educators who lost their lives in service to their students and to remember all others engraved on the Memorial who made the same sacrifice. The ceremony, hosted by the National Teachers Hall of Fame, will take place in the Jack Skillett Atrium of Visser Hall on the Emporia State University campus and will conclude outdoors at the memorial, weather permitting.

June 17, 2026: Emporia, Kansas, turns into Teacher Town, USA, in late June to honor the five career educators selected for the National Teachers Hall of Fame’s Class of 2026. This is the 34th year for the NTHF induction ceremonies.

The first show of the 2026 season of Summer Theater at Emporia State University will be “Cabaret,” which opens Friday, June 12.