Year: 2024

Grab a $20 crew sweatshirt Sept. 20 during Fall Feature Friday at the Shocker Store. Today only, you can purchase the select sweatshirt for just $20 in the Rhatigan Student Center store and through the online storefront. Limited quantities available. Sale is not valid with other discounts or promotions and all sales are final.

Feeling overwhelmed by the idea of systematic reviews? Join a workshop on crafting systemic reviews at 3 p.m. Oct. 1 at the Ablah Library Digital Scholars Commons to take the stress out of understanding and using this powerful research method.

In this workshop, you’ll learn exactly what systematic reviews are and how they differ from regular literature reviews. Presenters will show you how to read and interpret them with confidence, and even guide you through the process of writing your own. By mastering these skills, you’ll make your research more effective and less stressful, giving you an edge in your academic work.

Join the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the Department of Mechanical Engineering for a seminar at 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20 in 211 Engineering Building. The seminar features Anne Dowling, Wichita State alumna and current Ph.D. candidate at the University of Notre Dame, speaking on “Tides: A Unique Contributor to the Fog Lifecycle.”

Marine sea fog is defined as regions of suspended water droplets over shallow oceans away from coastal influence that reduce the visibility to less than one kilometer. Even though highly prevalent and extensively researched, it remains an enigma to scientists and subsequently is difficult to predict with weather models. To that end, the Fog and Turbulence Interactions in the Marine Atmosphere (FATIMA) Project launched two field campaigns: the Grand Banks off the coast of Novia Scotia (FATIMA-GB) and the Yellow Sea off the coast of South Korea (FATIMA-YS). During FATIMAYS (June 20 to July 9, 2023) there was a long-lasting fog event from 9:21 p.m., UTC, July 2 to 11:04 p.m. UTC July 03. The seminar will focus not only on the atmospheric conditions that allowed for fog formation of this event, but also the contribution of tidal activity through turbulent mixing. It will also shine a light on how mechanical engineering and similar disciplines can provide a foundation for studying the world around us.

Research scientists and engineers from Wichita State’s National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) attended the Composites and Advanced Materials Expo (CAMX) in San Diego this week and returned home with coveted accolades.

Waruna Seneviratne, senior research scientist and director of NIAR’s Advanced Technologies Lab for Aerospace Systems (ATLAS), received the Pioneer Award from the American Composites Manufacturer’s Association (ACMA); and a combined team from NIAR ATLAS and KraussMaffei received CAMX’s Unsurpassed Innovation Award.

In partnership with ComPsych, join Kansas WISE from 2 to 3 p.m. Sept. 23 to discuss how to respectfully engage others to help them make change. How do you help someone who is stuck or ambivalent about making an important change? Do you give them advice, argue, or debate them to persuade them to make a change? Do you become frustrated when those strategies fail?

Registration is free and open to all State of Kansas Employees. Go to the HR professional development website to learn more and register.

The Shocker Career Accelerator will be closed from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19 to host the annual Fine Arts Career Mixer. Students are encouraged to attend the event, which runs from 10:30 a.m. to noon.

Attendees can enter the event through the second-floor skywalk at McKnight Art Center. Don’t miss this chance to help your students network and explore their career paths.

The College of Health Professions 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 repairs 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.

Join the Japanese Culture association at 1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20 outside the Rhatigan Student Center for an afternoon of traditional outdoor games commonly played by children.

Games include Daruma-san ga koronda (red light, green light), shiritori (word-chain game) and more. Participants will meet in 203 RSC, Lancelot Room, and move outside to the open space east of the RSC.

The Jo Zakas Musical Theatre Incubator Program presents, “Express,” an immersive musical by Arri Simon (composer) and Janine McGuire (lyricist), at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28 in the Welbacher Theatre at the Eugene M. Hughes Metropolitan Complex. “Express” is a transportive new musical that unfolds entirely within the bustling confines of the New York City subway on a real-time subway ride. Set against the backdrop of pivotal moments from World War II through the turn of the 21st century, the show traces the journeys of three generations of an American family navigating personal and cultural change.

Originally conceived as a triptych of site-specific musicals staged inside historic subway cars at the New York Transit Museum, the piece has been re-imaged as a unified 75-minute one-act which can be staged in any non-proscenium space. The original score, inspired by the eras spanned in the show, takes the audience on a musical journey from Golden-Era Broadway to ’60s folk and gospel to early hip-hop and millennial pop.

This ensemble-driven piece explores themes of family, identity and the transformative power of everyday moments. With a big heart at its core, “Express” invites audiences to immerse themselves in the heart of New York City’s subway system and reflect on resilience, connection and the shared experiences that shape our lives.

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

Encourage your students to explore the vast world of demographic and social data in the upcoming workshop from 3 to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 24 at the Ablah Library Digital Scholars Commons (in-person and online). And with the new attendance tracking system in place, offering extra credit for student participation is now simpler than ever. There is no cost to attend.

The session will guide them through accessing and utilizing key data sources to better understand demographic groups, large populations and pressing social issues. Empower your students with the tools they need for impactful research.