Year: 2024

Do you need a ride to your polling location on Election Day? The Shockers Vote coalition has you covered and wants to celebrate with you along the way. Stop by the Rhatigan Student Center between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. to get a ride to the polling location at the Atwater Community Center.

While you’re there, stop by the Shockers Vote table for games, food and raffles throughout the day. For questions about the Party to the Polls, reach out to the Shockers Vote coalition at CivicEngagement@wichita.edu or call 316-978-3022.

Wichita State Opera Theater will present the world premiere of Lance Hulme’s new opera “December Night” at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 7 at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, 430 N. Broadway. A second performance will take place at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8 in Wiedemann Hall.

The one-hour opera is based on Willa Cather’s “Death Comes for the Archbishop.” The Bishop of Santa Fe is suffering from a “dark night of faith” and becomes inspired by the great devotion of Sara, an old Mexican slave.

The composer will conduct these performance which will be under the direction of WSU Opera Theater director, Alan Held. Admission to the Nov. 7 performance is free. Tickets are available for the Nov. 8 performance at the College of Fine Arts Box Office or by calling 316-978-3233. Students can get a ticket at no additional charge with their Shocker ID, thanks to the Student Government Association.

The season might be spooky, but applying for scholarships shouldn’t be. Visit the Office of Financial Aid & Scholarships at its table in the Rhatigan Student Center from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31 to learn more about ScholarshipUniverse, which connects Shockers to scholarship opportunities.

The next Faculty Senate meeting will be held 3:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28 in 211 Hubbard Hall. To learn more, visit the Faculty Senate webpage or email the Faculty Senate.

Students are invited to a virtual town hall with university and Student Government Association leaders from 2 to 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31.

You can access the streamed town hall at this link. Students interested in submitting questions for consideration can email sga.president@wichita.edu before or during the town hall.

Are you interested in studying abroad? The Study Abroad office will have its last in-person study abroad information session of the semester Nov. 15.

The first step to study abroad would be to attend one of the information sessions or watch an info session video. The last study abroad information session of the fall semester will be at 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15 in 256 Rhatigan Student Center, Edmiston Room.

Join mathematics and statistics for a public lecture by Distinguished Professor Michael Stein from Rutgers University. The lecture, titled “Spatial Interpolation with Estimated Covariance Functions” will take place at 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1 in 372 Jabara Hall. Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in 353 Jabara Hall.

Faculty and staff are invited to a virtual town hall with university leaders from 1 to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29.

You can access the streamed town hall at this link. Staff and faculty interested in submitting questions for consideration can email townhall@wichita.edu before or during the town hall.

Vincent Huang, professor and founding director of the School of Computing at Southern Illinois University, is the first candidate for the associate dean of research position in the College of Engineering.

He will be on campus for an open forum at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28 in 262 Rhatigan Student Center, Herrman Room and for a meet and greet at 4:30 p.m. later that day in 264 RSC, Spencer Room.

Jeff Hayton, associate professor of history, likes to study punks: the agents that produce social friction and disrupt normative values.

“Those individuals and communities upset society,” Hayton said. “And in so doing, they speak to those societies and teach us. That disruption requires an enormous amount of energy and bravery, and that should be celebrated.”

In 2022, Hayton published his first book, “Culture from the Slums: Punk Rock in East and West Germany,” which explored the emergent punk scenes on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Intersecting cultural production with political and economic theory, Hayton explains the differences in state reactions to the rise of punk.