Author: Caelin Bragg

Periodically, information will be posted regarding Watermark’s Course Evaluations & Surveys (CES) tool to help users better understand Wichita State’s course evaluation tool.

Today’s focus is on results.

• Results will only be available at the end of the completed semester. It does not matter when your course took place during the semester. Holding results until the end of the semester complies with KBOR policy and allows for accurate norming.
• Results will become available the Friday after grades are due to the Registrar’s Office.
• The electronic results can be found through the Instructor Dashboard under Project Results.
• There are restrictions on results. If the response rate is 0% or if the number of respondents is lower than four, then there will be no results. This restriction includes both statistics and comments.
• Results will include the mean, standard deviation and median for the course. Reports will also show these statistics by university and division benchmarks. This benchmark data will be from the same semester as the evaluation and will not include any other data.
• The report option called “Results Home” incorporates all the report options under one roof. It also provides a quick glance at the results without creating a report. 
• Also included is a table of the “Mean of Means” by course and instructor questions. 
• There is a dedicated CES website that includes additional information.

For questions, contact Sandra Ranney at evaluations@ces.wichita.edu.

Stop by the Food Truck Plaza on campus to enjoy cuisines from local food truck vendors.

Tuesday:

• OurFolk Coffee: 7-9:30 a.m., 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
• Desi Fusion: 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Wednesday:

• Desi Fusion: 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Thursday:

• Carne Asada Jalisco: 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
• Desi Fusion: 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Schedule is subject to change. Visit the Food Truck Plaza website for the most up-to-date information.

Stop by the Food Truck Plaza on campus to enjoy cuisines from local food truck vendors.

Wednesday:

• Desi Fusion: 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Thursday:

• Carne Asada Jalisco: 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
• Desi Fusion: 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Schedule is subject to change. Visit the Food Truck Plaza website for the most up-to-date information.

Shocker softball completed its series sweep of Memphis on the final day of the team’s regular season with a 10-5 win May 2 at Wilkins Stadium and secured a share of the American Conference regular season title.

Wichita State (35-16, 21-6) will be the No. 2 seed in next week’s American Conference Championship after South Florida completed a sweep of North Texas. The Bulls will be the top seed after owning the tiebreaker. Wichita State will receive a double bye into the semifinals where the team waits to see its opponent. The Shockers will take the field at 2:30 p.m. Friday, May 8 on ESPN+.

The regular season championship is Shocker softball’s third as a member of the American and first since 2023.

Wichita State University has selected Wichita Northwest High School senior Dulce Torres Gonzalez as the 2026 recipient of the $34,000 Mark and Stacy Parkinson Scholarship.

The Parkinson Scholarship supports high-achieving incoming freshmen at Wichita State who are the first in their families to pursue higher education and come from immigrant or refugee backgrounds. The renewable scholarship provides significant financial assistance and access to mentoring, leadership development and student success programming. Established by Kansans Mark and Stacy Parkinson, the fund reflects their commitment to expanding educational opportunities and strengthening communities through higher education.

Tracee Friess, associate vice president Strategic Communications and Marketing, National Institute for Aviation Research, was recognized with a Wichita Business Journal 2026 Women in Business Award.

Dr. Jennifer Friend, dean, College of Education, was recognized with a Wichita Business Journal 2026 Women in Business Award.

Denise Sherman, director of the Center for Management Development and Executive Education, Barton School of Business, was recognized with a Wichita Business Journal 2026 Women in Business Award.

Dr. Greg Hand, dean, College of Health Professions, was featured in:

• “Wichita State dean to pitch more partnership at KU med school research forum” on AOL
• “Inside the Wichita Biomedical Campus, a $300 million work in progress” on KSN

On May 3, a solar detector prototype developed by Wichita State University will be launched by NASA into low Earth orbit, toward a potential future mission close to the sun. 

Integrated via Germany’s launch integrator Exolaunch, the CubeSat platform was built by NanoAvionics of Lithuania. It will carry and test the WSU-designed prototype solar neutrino detector into low Earth orbit to prove the detector can operate in space.

Dr. Nickolas Solomey, professor of mathematics, statistics and physics, leads the interdisciplinary project, which also includes Dr. Holger Meyer, professor of physics, Atri Dutta, associate professor of aerospace engineering, and Dr. Hyuck Kwan, professor of electrical engineering. Thirty-six graduate and undergraduate students, to date, have worked on the project since its start.

A watch party is scheduled for 1:30 a.m. Sunday, May 3 in 127 Jabara Hall. Students, faculty, staff and the public are invited to attend.