Year: 2024

Join HOPE Services for its last Mental Health and Movement Class on circuit training, Y 360 and keeping moving from 12:30 to 1:15 p.m. Thursday April 25 in the Steve Clark YMCA, where safe spaces are created for people to explore movement, the benefits of moving their bodies and how to use the resources at the YMCA.

The weekly class is open to anyone and sponsored by the YMCA and HOPE Services. Wear whatever clothing you prefer for this activity. Each week will have a different focus, and attendees can come to any or all.

Lot 41, the parking lot near Woolsey Hall, will be closed the morning of Tuesday, April 23 for an event in the building. Faculty and staff that typically park in this lot will need to park in other yellow lots in the area of the building. The YMCA lot is not available for faculty, staff or event guest parking and could result in a citation.

The purpose of lot reservations is to help accommodate large groups of guests visiting campus for events or the event itself. Lot reservations are not to be used for WSU affiliates. Remember, visitors to campus can park without an ePermit up to three times each semester.

Red reserved and ADA stalls are not subject to lot closures and proper use is permitted during this time.

Facility of language and the role of history during multigenerational missions to the stars will be discussed at Interstellar Seminar from 2:30 to 3:20 p.m. Wednesday April 24 in 104 Jabara Hall and online.

Communication is key for long-duration crewed missions. During multigenerational missions of 500 years or more, the languages brought will change as a new culture develops, very much different than Earth. Dr. Mythili Menon, director of linguistics at WSU, will join Interstellar Seminar to discuss the future of language, as humans travel to distant star systems.

Speeding away from home, the Earth will become a dot in space that eventually can no longer be seen. The history of the Earth will be preserved during an interstellar mission in some fashion, while a new history is being written. Dr. George Dehner, professor of history at WSU, will discuss the place history has for multigenerational missions that will never return to Earth.

Zoom details and an archive of previous seminars can be found on the Wichita Space Initiative website.

Health, Outreach, Prevention and Education (HOPE) Services is offering a substance use and mental wellness prevention course from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday April 22 in 256 Rhatigan Student Center, Edmiston Room.

The course aims to help students, faculty and staff develop tools to reflect on how they engage with substances, stigma related to substance use disorder and how to best support members of their community. Participants will receive a free Suspenders4Hope T-shirt on completion of the training.

Those interested in attending, students can register by submitting a form online and staff faculty can register on myTraining.

Chances are, you’ve mixed up a Betty Crocker cake mix, added Nestle chocolate chips to a batch of cookies or sprinkled Morton salt onto your popcorn.

But can you recall the last advertisement you’ve seen for any of these products?

The ubiquity of these household items goes unquestioned by most, but not by Lisa Parcell, Betty and Oliver Elliott associate professor for the Elliott School of Communication.

The Wichita State and University of Kansas interdisciplinary team won second place at the annual CLARION Interprofessional National Case Competition. Students presented “Pandemics Past, Present, and Future: Emphasizing Trust & Equity in Emergency Preparedness and Response” with their analysis and implementation plans that reflect how to prepare and respond effectively to an arising pandemic. Team members from the Wichita State College of Health Professions are Taylor Lipford, (speech-language pathology), Kristen Geiger (physician associate) and Taygen Altenburg (health administration).

The team competed at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and the competition included 11 teams from universities across the country, with 47 students representing different healthcare professions. The team was coached by Sarah Flora, assistant educator with the Wichita State School of Nursing, and Mary Koehn, education associate professor with the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita.

CLARION is a national competition dedicated to improving health care through interprofessional collaboration. Student teams are given a case and charged with creating a feasible 360-degree, interprofessional plan to address a specific health care issue. Students work as part of an interdisciplinary team and present their research to a panel of interprofessional judges.

The Shocker Store is headed to WSU West for a pop-up shop from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 24.

The Shocker Store will be set up in the main lobby of WSU West so guests can shop for some great Shocker gear and enter to win some Shocker prizes.

The School of Art, Design and Creative Industries will host “Activating Public Spaces: Panel Discussion with Artists of the Wichita Water Works” from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 22 in 210 McKnight Art Center.

Panelists include Jill Anholt, Sijia Chen and Joseph O’Connell, the artists chosen by the City of Wichita to add beauty and aesthetic improvements via public sculpture art to the grounds of the Wichita Northwest Water Facility.

Faculty are called to participate in shared governance at the general faculty meeting from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Monday, April 29 in 110 Woolsey Hall. The agenda for the meeting and items for faculty vote can be found on the Faculty Senate webpage. This meeting will be in-person only.

Direct questions to Jolynn Dowling, president of the Faculty Senate, at jolynn.dowling@wichita.edu.

The wait is over, and the migration of finance reports from Reporting Services to WSU Reporting is complete. New and experienced users are both encouraged to attend a WSU Reporting Demo in Microsoft Teams to learn best practices, tips and tricks.

The topics discussed during the session will include accessing WSU Reporting, locating and running reports, exporting and format options, managing saved searches and shortcuts, organizing the My Content page, and more.

Sessions are scheduled at least once every month and are available for registration in myTraining through myWSU. For more information about the WSU Reporting platform, including guidelines for requesting access to reports, visit the WSU Reporting Hub webpage.