Series on COVID-19 shares perspectives of faculty experts
Making sense of the issues surrounding the coronavirus can be challenging. Faculty experts in the Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Wichita State University are helping clear the confusion.
Presentations in the Perspectives of the Pandemic series, with one talk held each week, will feature a statistician, historian, public policy expert and chemist. Each event will be delivered via Zoom and hosted by Andrew Hippisley, dean and professor of linguistics.
Please join us for the following events, each held at 3 p.m. on Wednesdays, April 15-May 6. You will need to call the Fairmount College Dean’s Office at (316) 978-6659 for each talk’s password.
- April 15 “Modeling the spread of the Coronavirus,” by Adam Jaeger, assistant professor of mathematics and statistics
- Zoom Meeting ID: 946 577 627
- April 22 “A history of pandemics,” by George Dehner, associate professor of history
- Zoom Meeting ID: 529 143 580
- April 29 “COVID-19 and the impact on local public health practice and policy,” Panel discussion led by Melissa Walker, associate professor of public
affairs
- Zoom Meeting ID: 404 843 017
- May 6 “In search of a COVID-19 vaccine and therapeutics,” by Bill Groutas, WSU Foundation Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
- Zoom Meeting ID: 796 333 682