Author: Caelin Bragg

Professionals can learn new skills or enhance what they already know with Badges at Wichita State, such as with the Professional Writing series, which covers a breadth of topics to bring your writing to a higher level.

Badges are bite-sized, one credit hour or less courses that can be taken at your own pace using Open Educational Resources. Registering in the Professional Writing series can help you gain skills in areas such as creating your resume and cover letter or writing and editing for social media. Or you can learn more about presenting online, writing professional correspondence or developing researching grants.

To learn more about Badges, including how to enroll for the fall 2025 semester, visit wichita.edu/badges. And employees at Wichita State can apply for Tuition Assistance to cover the cost of Badges. The final application window for Tuition Assistance closes Aug. 4.

Wichita State has been a national leader in creating a standard for microcredentials, allowing employers to be confident that meaningful learning has occurred, so you can confidently list a badge from WSU on your resume.

Seven women’s tennis players earned Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar Athlete awards, and the team garnered an ITA All-Academic Team Award for their academic performance in the 2024-25 school year.

2025-26 Shockers Sati Aubakirova, Theodora Chantava, Anne Knuettel, Kristina Kudryavtseva, Giorgia Roselli and Xin Tong Wang all earned Scholar-Athlete awards, along with recent graduate Clara Whitaker.

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Help celebrate Dr. Linnea GlenMaye’s 27 years of service to Wichita State at a retirement celebration from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday Aug. 14 in 141 Woolsey Hall, Fidelity Bank Ballroom. Comments will start at 3:30 p.m.

GlenMaye, who announced her retirement earlier this year, has worked as Wichita State’s associate vice president for Academic Affairs since 2011. Before that, she served as the director of the School of Social Work starting in 2004.

The 2025 Fall Address for will be held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 13 at Miller Concert Hall in Duerksen Fine Arts Center. Doors will open at 2 p.m.

Join President Rick Muma and guest speakers Monica Lounsbery, senior executive vice president and provost; Kevin Saal, director of athletics; Jen Friend, dean of the College of Applied Studies; Ashlie Jack, senior associate vice president for Institutional Effectiveness and Strategic Enrollment Management; Chris Stone, Faculty Senate president and chair/clinical associate professor, Department of Management; and Jacob Mendez, assistant dean for Student Success in the College of Engineering; as they outline key focus areas for the coming year.

Following the address, refreshments will be available at 305/306 Rhatigan Student Center, Beggs Ballroom. Refer to the faculty/staff parking map for nearby lots.

Wichita State University was recently named a partner in a $14 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to join the NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Great Plains Hub.

The I-Corps program prepares scientists and engineers to extend their focus beyond the laboratory to increase the economic and societal impact of NSF-funded and other basic research projects. The first Wichita State cohort will begin Sept. 15.

“This partnership gives students, faculty, staff and the Wichita community at large the opportunity to explore their idea more practically and learn how to talk to potential customers,” said Sherry (Gegen) Whitson, program director for WSU Strategic Initiatives. “I believe it will help build on our innovation ecosystem.”

Professionals looking to boost their skillsets or retrain for new opportunities can enroll in the many Badge courses offered at Wichita State in the fall 2025 semester. With Badges, professionals can take bite-sized, one credit hour or less courses to learn or enhance their skills.

Wichita State has been a national leader in creating a standard for microcredentials, allowing employers to be confident that meaningful learning has occurred when you list the badge on your resume. Badges are developed with input from employers, government licensing agencies, trade associations and faculty.

One such series of Badges is the Human Resource Management series, which can enhance your capabilities of being an effective supervisor. Badges in this series cover designing jobs, recruiting, hiring and managing and mentoring employees.

To learn more about Badges, including how to enroll, visit wichita.edu/badges.

Professionals looking to boost their skillsets or retrain for new opportunities can enroll in the many Badge courses offered at Wichita State in the fall 2025 semester. With Badges, professionals can take bite-sized, one credit hour or less courses to learn or enhance their skills.

Wichita State has been a national leader in creating a standard for microcredentials, allowing employers to be confident that meaningful learning has occurred when you list the badge on your resume. Badges are developed with input from employers, government licensing agencies, trade associations and faculty.

One such series of Badges is the Human Resource Management series, which can enhance your capabilities of being an effective supervisor. Badges in this series cover designing jobs, recruiting, hiring and managing and mentoring employees.

Employees at Wichita State can also apply for Tuition Assistance to cover the cost of Badges. The final application window for Tuition Assistance closes Aug. 4.

To learn more about Badges, including how to enroll, visit wichita.edu/badges.

Construction on Phase 1 of the Wichita Biomedical Campus continues as work on floors eight and nine has begun, leaving only the roof left to be put up, nearly extending past the construction livestream.

Concrete pouring has been completed up to the third floor and will begin on the fourth floor this week. Steel will begin being placed on floors seven through nine for the remainder of the week, and the first floor has seen duct work installed.

Phase 1 of the Wichita Biomedical Campus — a joint venture of Wichita State, the University of Kansas and WSU Tech — is a $222 million, 350,000-square-foot joint health sciences center, located at the southeast corner of Broadway and William. Once complete, the Wichita Biomedical Campus will combine WSU’s College of Health Professions programs, including the Evelyn Hendren Cassat Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic, WSU Tech’s health care program and the Wichita campuses of KU School of Medicine and KU School of Pharmacy.

For Wichitan Janett Lerma-Reyes, a paid summer internship at Shuttlewagon has sharpened her technical skills and confirmed that she belongs in the world of manufacturing. 

The mechanical engineering sophomore at Wichita State University is spending 10 weeks as an operations intern at Shuttlewagon, a company based in Kansas City that designs and builds railcar movers, which are powerful vehicles used to move train cars in railyards, ports and industrial facilities.  

Getting paid during her internship has allowed her the ability to feel financially stable and maintain a work-life balance.