EMPORIA — Scholarship funds are helping more than 1,400 Emporia State University students from Kansas, 23 other states and 31 foreign countries realize their educational dreams during the 2017-18 academic year.

Students from Hays and the scholarships they received are:

• Layne Downing, Lamar Markowitz Scholarship
• Ashley Haynes, H. W. Wilson Foundation Scholarships
• Bridget Heimann, McPherson Family Scholars Fund
• Rachel Muirhead, Emporia Theatre Guild Fund and Ronald Q. and Jeanne C. Frederickson Theatre Arts Scholarship
• Sara Schoenthaler, Martha Kruse Furbur Library Scholarship Fund
• Dustin Bittel, Ellis, Emil Babinger Theatre Scholarship Fund and Empowering ESU Scholars