Year: 2024

Join Interstellar Seminar from 2:30 to 3:20 p.m. Wednesday, April 3 in 104 Jabara Hall and virtually to hear Dr. Jay Lemery, professor of emergency medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, discuss space medicine for long-duration crewed missions.

Deep space is the ultimate wilderness environment for austere and remote medical care. Dr. Lemery is a leader in public health related to climate and in wilderness medicine. Dr. Lemery is the medical director for the NSF Polar Research program, a consultant for NASA’s Human Research program, a fellow at the Payne Institute for Public Policy and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Join the Retention Fellows for a Teaching Matters lunch and conversation about incoming freshmen students at noon Friday, April 5 in 233 Rhatigan Student Center, Santa Fe Trail Room. Lunch will be provided.

Local high school teachers will share what they have observed about the lasting effects of the pandemic on the class of 2024, which will help prepare employees to meet the students where they are.

The panelists for the event:

• Kathleen O’Brien, biomedical sciences, Derby High School
• April Taylor, Spanish, North High School
• April Pameticky, English, East High School
• Shaw Chastain, fine arts, Wichita Public Schools

RSVP to attend by April 2 by emailing aa.student@wichita.edu.

TRIO Disability Support Services (DSS) is pleased to announce that they have been recertified as a Level 1 tutor training program by the internationally recognized College Reading and Learning Association (CRLA). For more than thirty years CRLA has been a leader in learning assistance, reading and academic support programs with almost 1,300 members and over 2,000 certified training programs worldwide.

TRIO DSS has worked hard to develop a tutor training program that meets CRLA’s rigorous standards and has successfully maintained its certification since 2017. Achieving certification means that the TRIO DSS Peer Tutoring Program has met CRLA’s high standards for tutor selection, training, direct service and evaluation as an integral part of their overall tutoring program.

For more information about the TRIO DSS Peer Tutoring Program, contact Brooke Allen, tutor coordinator for TRIO DSS at 316-978-5949 or brooke.allen@wichita.edu. TRIO DSS is located in 158 Grace Wilkie Annex.

The College of Health Professions (CHP) has three patient-serving clinics that are open to the public. All clinics are accepting new patients and provide high-quality, affordable health care to the community.

• The Evelyn Hendren Cassat Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic provides speech-language and hearing services to people across the lifespan. The clinic faculty specialize in speaking, hearing, swallowing and spoken and written language impairments. The clinic offers a wide variety of audiology services, including hearing aid fitting and hearing aid repair of all makes and models.
• The Delta Dental of Kansas Foundation Dental Hygiene Clinic offers a wide range of low-cost preventative, therapeutic and educational dental hygiene services.
• WSU’s General Dentistry’s services include cleanings, fillings, teeth whitening and dental implants. The dental clinic provides services in periodontics, endodontics, oral surgery and prosthodontics. The WSU General Dentistry Practice offers a discount for dental care to WSU students and their spouses and children.

The WSU Art & Design Advocates present the seventh annual Emerging Artists Showcase, celebrating the work of up-and-coming School of Art, Design and Creative Industries student artists representing painting, drawing, ceramics, community and social practice, printmaking, photography, art education and graphic design. The opening reception will take place from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday, April 4 in McKnight Art Center.

At the opening reception, $1750 in cash prizes will be announced by this year’s judge, David Emitt Adams. Prizes are provided by the support of The Cotillion and the Art & Design Advocates.

David Emitt Adams, visiting artist, will present “Tintypes and Power,” a public lecture in which Adams discusses his work exploring contemporary issues through antique processes, at 12:30 p.m. Friday, April 5 in 210 McKnight Art Center.

Pizza will be provided prior to the lecture.

David Emitt Adams is a photographer based in Phoenix, Arizona specializing in the 19th century wet collodion and tintype processes. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including museum exhibitions at Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Phoenix Art Museum, Tucson Museum of Art, the Chrysler Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Portland Art Museum and the Wichita Art Museum.

Join the School of Performing Arts for the premiere of “Christmas Dish” at 7:30 p.m. April 5 and 2 p.m. April 6 in the Hughes Metropolitan Complex, Welsbacher Theatre, entrance F on the southeast side of the building.

Written and directed by Bret Jones, director of acting for digital arts, “Christmas Dish” follows two people that are secretly romantically interested in one another. They agree to share Christmas dinner together, just as friends, because a family holiday isn’t going to happen and all of their other friends are already busy.

Purchase tickets from box office online or call 316-978-3233. Students can receive a ticket at no additional charge with their Shocker ID thanks to the Student Government Association.

The Department of Biological Sciences’ seminar series continues at 4 p.m. Monday, April 1 in 218 Hubbard Hal with Dr. Jocelyn McDonald, Kansas State University, with her talk, “Group Activities: How Migrating Cell Collectives Organize and Move Together.”

Seminars are open to the public and undergraduates are encouraged to attend.

Student Health Services (SHS) is hosting its next Pee for Pizza event. It will take place noon-4 p.m. Wednesday, April 3 at the Student Wellness Center in the Steve Clark YMCA.

Pee for Pizza is a sexual health awareness event that allows participants to test for sexually transmitted illnesses such as gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, HIV and hepatitis C and know their status at no additional charge. Pizza is also provided to participants.

Co-sponsored by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Positive Direction and Shocker Sports Grill and Lanes, Pee for Pizza is by reservation only. No walk-ins will be accepted. Participants must not use the restroom at least one hour before testing.

For more information or to make a reservation, contact SHS at 316-978-4792. Other testing is available upon request.

For the first time, the Center for International Business Advancement (CIBA), the Barton School of Business, the International Business Studies Association (IBSA) and the World Trade Council of Wichita (WTCouncil) welcome the Federal Reserve Bank to Wichita to speak on the Economic Outlook. The program featuring Dr. Nicholas Sly, vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, will take place at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 11 at the Wichita Country Club.

Few organizations are better positioned to speak on the Economic Outlook than the Fed. The Federal Reserve System is the United States central bank and promotes the effective operation of the U.S. economy (the largest and most complex in the world) and, more generally, the public interest. The Fed conducts the nation’s monetary policy to promote maximum employment, stable prices and moderate long-term interest rates in the U.S. economy. It also promotes the stability of the financial system and seeks to minimize and contain systemic risks through, among many other activities, active monitoring and engagement in the U.S. and abroad and fostering payments’ and settlements’ safety and efficiency through services to the banking industry and the U.S. government that facilitate U.S.-dollar transactions and payments.

Late registrations after April 8 or walk-ins will not be accepted.

For a quick response, send all questions to wtcouncil@wichita.edu. Learn more about this and other programs on the WTCouncil webpage.