Author: Caelin Bragg

The Department of Biological Sciences’ invited seminar speaker, Dr. Walter Meshaka Jr., will also present at Science Café on at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 11 at Social Tap Drinkery in Braeburn Square on the Innovation Campus. Meshaka will give the talk, “Exotic Amphibians and Reptiles of the United States: Colonization Processes and Processes.”

Meshaka is the senior curator of zoology and botany for the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg. He has studied amphibians and reptiles across the continent, and is particularly fascinated by the ecological interactions of native and non-native species.

Science Café presents a variety of science related talks oriented towards the general public on the second Tuesday of every month, August through May.

The Department of Biological Sciences’ seminar series continues with Dr. Walter Meshaka Jr., senior curator of zoology and botany for the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg, from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday, April 10 in 231 Hubbard Hall.

The biology seminars are open to the public and students are encouraged to attend.

Join the Kansas WISE Subcommittee on Personal Development Self-Care, and Wellness from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 11 via Zoom for a presentation and conversation on managing stress.

The presentation will cover “How to use the earth, pets and humor to manage your stress.” Registration is required and is open to all state of Kansas employees

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In partnership with Vet-to-Vet Support Command and the Veteran Providers’ Coalition of Sedgwick County, Suspenders4Hope will host a “Preventing Suicide” workshop for Wichita’s veteran community.

Join Suspenders4Hope for the training from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Friday, April 21 at First United Methodist Church, 330 N. Broadway. The first 100 registrants will receive a Suspenders4Hope T-shirt.

Registration is required due to space limitations.

Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ next Perspectives series will focus on pedagogy. This week’s Perspectives is “Student Perspectives on Teaching and Learning.”

At the receiving end of instruction are students, who provide feedback in personal meetings with faculty and through teaching evaluations. Undergraduate student panelists discuss what they find effective in the classroom and ways that faculty may engage them more productively. Dr. Andrew Hippisley, dean of the Fairmount College, will host, and Brien Bolin, professor of social work and associate dean for student success, will moderate the panel.

Each episode in the Perspectives series will be presented at 2 p.m. Tuesdays, through April 11 via Zoom. Recordings will be made available afterwards on the Fairmount College YouTube channel.

Wichita State Parking Services is in the beginning stages of pre-selling fiscal year 2023-24 ePermits to Wichita State departments, corporations and partners. If you are the contact for your department’s ePermits and would like to renew for the fiscal year, email the WSU parking office at wsuparking@wichita.edu to start the process, otherwise, Parking Services will be in contact with you shortly.

Your department will not be billed until the beginning of the 2023-24 fiscal year. However, Parking Services would like to make sure your account is up to date so there is not a lapse in ePermit coverage. Most current departmental ePermits expire on Aug. 31.

The joint Faculty Senate meeting will be held at 3:30 p.m. Monday, April 10 at the National Center for Aviation Training, 4004 N. Webb Road, and via Zoom.

The senators have been sent the meeting information. The meetings are held the second and fourth Monday of each month.

For more information or to join the meeting via Zoom, contact Lee Ann Birdwell at leeann.birdwell@wichita.edu.

Wichita State’s Staff Senate is hosting a walking tour of the university’s Innovation Campus partner NetApp beginning at 11:15 a.m. Tuesday April 11. The group will be led by Katie Dawes with NetApp.

The tour will focus on NetApp’s new building features and the work within. After the tour, participants are encouraged to stop by the Food Truck Plaza on Perimeter road.

On the day of the tour, plan to arrive 15-20 minutes early for registration on NetApp’s system. This just requires the name, phone number and email address for everyone on the tour. Everyone will also sign an NDA during registration. Though the process itself is fairly quick and easy, with a large group it can take a time to get through.

The Panhellenic Council invites students to register for primary recruitment.

Primary recruitment is the easiest way for students to find home in the Panhellenic community, and this year, it will be held from August 25 to August 28.

Questions can be directed to malaree.hood@wichita.edu or wsu.sorority.recruitment@gmail.com.

Students are invited to attend a conversation with Roz Chast, author of “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?,” the book selected for this year’s NEA Big Read: Wichita, from 11 a.m. to noon Friday, April 14 in the CAC Theater.

This event is ideal for students in health professions, social work, art, graphic design, communication, pre-med, English, human resources, psychology, sociology or in the Honors College.

Faculty and staff are welcome to attend the student conversation as well, but the Big Read: Wichita keynote featuring Chast at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 15 is open to the entire Wichita community at the WSU Hughes Metroplex, 5015 E. 29th St. N.

Chast grew up in Brooklyn, and her cartoons began appearing in the New Yorker in 1978. Since then, she has published more than one thousand cartoons in the magazine and has written and illustrated many books.