Graduate School dean candidate to visit today (Wednesday, April 24) and Thursday, April 25
Coleen Pugh, professor, Department of Polymer Science, College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, will visit Wichita State University as a dean candidate for the Graduate School today (Wednesday, April 24) and Thursday, April 25.
Faculty, staff and students are invited to a public forum at 3:30 p.m. today (Wednesday, April 24), in 204 Clinton Hall. Information is also available on the Academic Affairs website.
Opportunity for Quality Matters training on campus
Instructional Design and Access is offering “Applying the QM Rubric” training from 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. tomorrow (Thursday, April 25), in 258 RSC. The training cost is sponsored in full by the Office of Online Learning, so there is no cost to participants. This all-day training will introduce participants to the new QM rubric and the fundamental ideas behind creating a Quality Matters course. This is the first training in the Quality Matters sequence, and participants who successfully complete it can move on to the Peer Reviewer course.
To sign up, please go to myTraining. The training will include an hour break for lunch on your own.
Service-Learning Showcase is today (Wednesday, April 24)
The Service-Learning Showcase will be held from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. today (Wednesday, April 24), in 233 RSC. It is a unique opportunity for students who participate in service-learning through applied learning opportunities to showcase their experience through a research or reflective poster about the application of their course work to current community issues.
The showcase is an open forum for students to interact with faculty, staff, community partners and other students to engage in conversation about WSU’s commitment to the public good. Awards are presented in the following categories: Overall Service-Learning, Community Impact, Innovation and Creativity (i.e., problem solving), and Collaboration/Leadership.
Panel to discuss ‘Food Insecurity in Wichita’
You are cordially invited to an open panel on “Food Insecurity in Wichita” from 10:30-11:20 a.m. today (Wednesday, April 24), in 210 Neff Hall. We are happy to have three community leaders from the Shocker Support Locker, Kansas Food Bank, and the Lord’s Diner to talk about food insecurity in our communities. This will be an interactive presentation and open to all students and staff! The panel is being hosted by the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition course.
Tulip giveaway continues
It's time to dig and give away our spring tulip bulbs and start planting floral beds to make campus beautiful for commencement! Giving the tulips to the WSU community is a longstanding tradition, so you can have a piece of WSU in your yard.
The tulip giveaway continues today (Wednesday, April 24). Landscape services will start digging around 8 a.m. in the area of Ablah Library before moving to the Beggs Hall south planter.
A lot of the flower beds were dug yesterday (Tuesday, April 23) near the Fairmount entrance, and there may still be some tulips at that location because of the rainy morning.
And like last year, if anyone wants to donate canned goods when picking up tulips, we will provide blue containers and deliver to the Food Locker which supports WSU students, faculty and staff.
Accessibility Tip of the Week: Options for captions
Tip: Ensure all online video content is properly captioned. Captions help a wide variety of students learn. Thankfully, adding captions to your own videos is getting easier than ever before.
- WSU provides Panopto for video creation and hosting. This system has easy to use automatic captioning that is easy for professors to edit before deploying the video.
- You can also use the Automatic Speech Recognition captions in YouTube if you prefer, and it is equally easy to edit those.
- It is easiest to edit captions if you script your video ahead of time. Your script can be uploaded into either Panopto or YouTube and used to generate accurate captions.
‘Developing Budgets: How to Avoid a Budget Battle Before a Grant Goes Out’ workshop on April 25
Please join the Office of Research to ask all your research budget questions (Allowable costs vs Unallowable Costs; WSU Rates, Travel questions; How to Build Flexibility into Grant Budgets; What is cost match and where can I find it; What is indirect cost recovery?).
The workshop “Developing Budgets; How to Avoid a Budget Battle Before a Grant Goes Out,” will be held from 3-4:30 p.m. tomorrow (Thursday, April 25), in 405 Jardine Hall. It will be presented by Fran Cook senior grants / contracts administrator and training manager, and Megan White, grants / contracts specialist.
For more information, contact Kendra Nguyen at kendra.nguyen@wichita.edu or 978-3285.
WSU TV app launch
WSU TV is proud to announce the launch of the WSU TV Streaming app, which is available on leading Over-The-Top (OTT) and mobile devices. We invite the campus to come out and see them in action from 9 a.m.-noon tomorrow (Thursday, April 25), in 142 RSC.
The new apps are on iOS and Android mobile devices and on Roku, Apple TV, and Amazon TV apps. They feature video content from video producers across campus, including WSU TV, Strategic Communications, the Ulrich Museum, and more.
Come try out the app on the various platforms and see what’s available!
WSU Weekly Briefing to feature Shocker New Venture Competition
The WSU Weekly Briefing will begin at 10 a.m. Thursday, April 25, in the Marcus Welcome Center. The featured speaker will be Nancy Kersenbrock talking about the Shocker New Venture Competition.
Kevin Harrison, community engagement coordinator, Diversity and Community Engagement, will give the overall university update.
The briefing will be livestreamed and available later that day at WSU Weekly Briefing. There will be time for questions following the briefing.
Future Now at the Ulrich this Friday, April 26
FUN/Future Now at the Ulrich is a series of pechakucha-style presentations featuring campus-wide research. The next event will be from 4-5 p.m. Friday, April 26, at the Ulrich Museum, with a reception to follow. Admission is free.
The program is an extension of Solving for X – a series of exhibitions organized by the Ulrich Museum of Art in collaboration with university scholars across campus. The objective is to explore the potential for the museum, as a WSU public access point for the community, to make accessible the fascinating and essential research taking place on campus.
RSVP for the Shocker Pride Celebration
The President's Distinguished Service Awards and the unclassified professionals' Wayne Carlisle Distinguished Service Award will be presented during the Shocker Pride Celebration from 9-10:30 a.m. Thursday, May 9, in the Shirley Beggs Ballroom, Rhatigan Student Center.
Join in the celebration to congratulate the honorees and celebrate the life of Dr. John W. Bardo. Continental breakfast refreshments will be served. Black and yellow dress encouraged, and bring your Shocker spirit!
For questions about the ceremony please contact carmen.hytche@wichita.edu or 978-3142. Please RSVP by Thursday, May 2 at Shocker Pride.
See award honorees below.
2019 PRESIDENT'S DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD HONOREES
FACULTY SENATE - President's Distinguished Service Awards
Mark Vermillion
chairperson and professor
Sport Management
College of Applied Studies
Elaine Bernstorf
professor
School of Music
College of Fine Arts
Gary Brooking
chair and teaching professor
Engineering Technology
College of Engineering
UNIVERSITY SUPPORT SENATE - President's Distinguished Service Awards
Jeannie Hernandez
senior administrative assistant
Department of Philosophy
Fairmount College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Michael Turenne
WSU Police Department
Finance & Administration
Lisa Wood
senior administrative assistant
Department of Political Science
Fairmount College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
UNCLASSIFIED PROFESSIONAL SENATE - Wayne Carlisle Distinguished Service Award
Grady Landrum
director
Office of Disability Services
Diversity and Community Engagement
UNCLASSIFIED PROFESSIONAL SENATE - President's Distinguished Service Awards
Corey Herl
operations captain
WSU Police Department
Finance & Administration
Carmen Hytche
director of community relations and special events
Office of Strategic Communications
Division of Strategic Communications
Justin Rorabaugh
director
Shocker Studios
College of Fine Arts
Stressed? Keep Calm and Breathe On
Join the Counseling and Testing Center again for Keep Calm and Breathe On. Drop in to build structured relaxation time into your life and learn techniques to do relaxation on your own. You will be led in meditation, mindfulness and relaxation practices. The meetings are from 12:15-12:45 p.m. every Wednesday in 257 RSC. Drop in or contact the Counseling and Testing Center for more information at 978-3440.
Invitation to SGA Administration Inauguration and Installation Ceremony
Please join the Student Government Association for the 62nd Administration Inauguration and Installation Ceremony from 12:30-1:30 p.m. tomorrow (Thursday, April 25) at the Grace Memorial Chapel. Light refreshments will be served.
Prenatal Hope accepted into national grant program
Congratulations to student team Prenatal Hope, which has been accepted into VentureWell's E-Team Grant Program. The national program provides grants and training to help move early-stage innovations forward.
WSU’s team is one of only 21 in the country. The WSU team also completed last summer in the Shocker I-Corps program, which nurtures and supports WSU entrepreneurial teams interested in transitioning their ideas to the marketplace. Read more about Prenatal Hope.
‘Improving Strategies Through Storytelling’ presentation
GoCreate, WSU Strategic Initiatives and the U.S. Small Business Administration will present a workshop “Improving Strategies Through Storytelling” by Whitney Proctor, from noon-1:30 p.m. Friday, April 26, in the Experiential Engineering Building.
Registration required, but no fee charged. Sign up here.
Proctor is an experienced business development and HR consultant with a passion for connecting people to what matters to them. She is an advocate for businesses in Kansas and hopes to one day see the Greater Wichita Area listed as the #1 place to work in the country. She thinks that we can get there by telling a story that matters and being consistent to live out that story every day in our organizations.
Proctor is a K-State alum and is finishing her MBA with three small children at home between the ages of 3 and 7. When she's not shaking the dust on business plans or company policies, she enjoys traveling with her husband and children.
If you are not telling your own or your company’s story in a clarifying, moving way, you’re losing potential customers, hires and employees to others who have well-told stories. Learn how to tell your story in this power-packed session to attract, retain and develop top talent. Entrepreneurs, employers and employees can benefit from this workshop.
WSU South announces two new classes for fall 2019
WSU South is now offering a brand new, exciting history class, McConnell Through the Ages, and a foreign language class, Elementary Arabic I, for the Fall 2019 semester. These classes will be offered only at WSU South for the fall ’19 session. Simply enroll as you do with other classes online, and search for those classes.
The McConnell Through the Ages history class will meet from 7:05-9:45 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays.
The Arabic class will meet from 2:30-4:50 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Holmes Museum of Anthropology to host spring 2019 exhibit openings on April 29
The Lowell D. Holmes Museum of Anthropology will host the spring 2019 exhibit openings from 2-5 p.m. Monday, April 29. The Museum Exhibition class has transformed the Jackman Gallery into “Journey Around the World,” featuring 11 different exhibit areas highlighting various artifacts, textiles and clothing from cultures around the world.
Associate Professor of Anthropology Jens Kreinath will give a talk about the Aleppo Exhibit at 5 p.m. in 117 Neff Hall.
On the second floor of Neff Hall will be the photo exhibit "Reimagining Aleppo through Peace and Pain." The photo exhibit was created by Associate Professor of Anthropology Jens Kreinath and museum director Rachelle Meinecke.
Kreinath created a photograph journal on a visit to Aleppo in 2010 during a time of peace. These photos starkly contrast the photos of photojournalist, Narciso Contreras's work of the bombings during the war for Aleppo in 2013-16.
There will also be a smaller accompanying exhibit entitled "Remembrance from Antakya to Aleppo." This exhibit displays photographs by Kreinath that capture moments of brief encounters with Boulos Yazigi, the Metropolitan Bishop of Aleppo, at the 2010 and 2012 celebrations of the St. Peter and Paul Festival in Antakya.
On April 23, 2013, Yazigi and his companion, Bishop John Ibrahim of the Syriac Orthodox Church, were abducted on a return trip from Antakya by an Aleppo-based battalion—with the driver reportedly killed. With his location still being unknown, the Greek Orthodox community in Antakya continues to commemorate its charismatic and cherished leader.
Celebrate Public Service Recognition Week
Celebrated the first week of May, Public Service Recognition Week (PSRW) is a national week-long celebration to honor those who serve our communities as federal, state, county and local government employees.
As part of PSRW, WSU’s Public Policy & Management Center invites you to a free event at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 7, at the Experiential Engineering Building, as we explore ways to build, grow and enhance talent retention, advancement and diversity. The evening will feature recognition of outstanding public servants, networking opportunities, the chance to connect with professional organizations, and a panel discussion with local public and private sector leaders. For more information, go to wichita.edu/psrw.
Double Star Day today at Starbucks in the RSC
Today (Wednesday, April 24) is Double Star Day at Starbucks in the RSC! Double Stars on almost all your purchases means getting to free drinks and food extra quick. Grab an extra shot or a bite to eat, and watch the stars roll in.
RSC Unplugged: Poke Salad Orchestra
Stop by the Rhatigan Student Center every Wednesday for the live music series, RSC Unplugged. Poke Salad Orchestra will be featured from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. today (Wednesday, April 24) in the RSC’s Starbucks Lounge. Grab a cup of coffee and relax with some great music!
Free donuts at Ablah Library for "'Donut' Stress Out @ your Library" event Monday, May 6
Do not stress over finals! Stop by Ablah Library foyer starting at 10 a.m. Monday, May 6, for a free donut and coffee while supplies last! Also come inside to enjoy our De-Stress @ your Library tables that include Play-Doh, coloring books, puzzles, and more.
For more information, go to University Library events.
De-stress @ your Library during Finals Week!
Don’t stress out over finals! Take a break Saturday May 4-Friday, May 10, with Play-Doh, origami, coloring books, Sudoku, crosswords, table games, jigsaw puzzles and other activities during all library hours at several locations throughout Ablah Library.
For more information, go to De-stress@yourLibrary.