Year: 2024

Attend the #WSUWeSupportU “Mental Wellness and Preventing Suicide in the LGBTQ+ Community” training from 3 to 5 p.m. Monday, June 3 in 262 Rhatigan Student Center, Herrman Room.

Learn about tools to support the community and assist someone in need. Students, staff and faculty are welcome to sign up for the training. Sign up on myWSU under the myTraining section. All participants will receive a free rainbow suspenders #WSUWeSupportU T-shirt.

The Wichita State University community is invited to attend the third OAK Supercomputing Conference from May 22-23.

On-site registration is available on the third floor of the Rhatigan Student Center, but please note that some sessions have limited capacity.

Shocker Printing has been awarded the prestigious Platinum Award for poster printing at the ACUP+ Annual Conference held in Rochester, New York, last month. The award-winning poster, titled “Wichita State Mural,” was designed by Annelise Muret, art director in the Office of Strategic Communications and Marketing.

Selected as one of six finalists, the poster was ultimately chosen by the board of directors of the Association of College and University Printers Plus (ACUP+), a testament to the team’s exceptional talent and dedication to excellence.

You can view the award and the winning poster on display in Morrison Hall, just outside the Shocker Printing Solutions print center.

Congratulations to Annelise and the entire Shocker Printing team for the achievement.

Have you heard of Access Now? It’s WSU’s digital course materials program. Access Now makes course materials more affordable, convenient and accessible.

Check out some of the Shocker Store’s Access Now numbers from the past school year, and learn more about the program.

Click on a session link to add it to your Outlook calendar or visit the May 2024 ARC webpage for direct meeting links.

Wednesday, May 22.

• 9 a.m.: Ultra Grab Bag: Groups, Feedback, and Peer Review – Rachel Bastian
• 10 a.m.: Mandatory Accessibility Training – John Jones
• 11 a.m.: AI is Scary to Me. What Do I Need to Know? – Carolyn Speer
• Noon: hybrid I Copied from Bb Original; Now What? Help Me Fix My Class! – Rachel Bastian
• 1 p.m.: LibreText, OER, and Other Ways to Lower Student Costs – Doug English, Carolyn Speer
• 2 p.m.: Ultra Labs (come and go) – OIR Staff
  Adding videos to announcements and feedback demo at 2:05

The Shocker Store is now offering a military discount to active duty and veteran military members. With a military ID, you can take 10% off your purchase at all Shocker Store locations. The Shocker Store thank military veterans for their service.

The Wichita State University community is invited to attend the fourth HPC Security Workshop at Wichita State University from May 20 through May 21.

On-site registration is available, but please note that some sessions have limited capacity. Registration is on the third floor of the Rhatigan Student Center.

NIAR staff Jeremy Sitz and Hunter Robertson, a senior in engineering, brought home Top Gun awards from the 2024 COExperience in Dallas last week.

Sitz placed first and Robertson took third. The Top Gun competition identifies the “Best of the Best” CATIA engineers and designers through a competition that tests their skills at developing the most accurate and correctly-structured three-dimensional model in the least amount of time.

NIAR staff have a history of bringing home honors in the competition. WSU student Dane Moorehead placed second in 2023.

Click on a session link to add it to your Outlook calendar or visit the May 2024 ARC webpage for direct meeting links.

Tuesday, May 21:

• 9 a.m.: Course Video in O365: Recording, Storing, and Sharing – Rachel Bastian
• 10 a.m.: Students and AI – John Jones, Carolyn Speer, Kyle Wilson
• 11 a.m.: How to Talk so AI Understands You – John Jones
• Noon: Blackboard Ultra’s AI Tools – Carolyn Speer
• 1 p.m.: Mindfulness for University Life – Carolyn Speer
• 2 p.m.: Ultra Labs (come and go) – OIR Staff
  Gradebook two ways: list and grid views demo at 2:05

Wichita State is one of 10 teams that advanced to the spring semester competition in the NASA SUITS (Spacesuit User Interface Technologies for Students) challenge. Teams are tasked to design and build an augmented reality heads-up display for astronauts on missions to Mars, as well as a web browser user interface for local mission control.

Yumi Kikuchi attended an information session in Devlin Hall for the NASA SUITS design challenge last fall. She considered passing on the opportunity.  

“I was like, ‘Wow, this sounds like a lot of work,’” she said. “I’m glad that didn’t discourage me.”  

Kikuchi, a graduate student in Wichita State University’s Master of Innovation Design (MID) program, is now co-leader of the nine-student group. She considers the experience an essential part of her time in the MID program.