Author: Abigail Klein

Wichita State University has joined the Age-Friendly University Global Network (AFU), a growing group of more than 90 higher-education institutions around the world that have committed to meeting the personal, educational and career needs of adults of all ages and to creating age-inclusive environments on their campuses.

WSU is the first institution in Kansas to become a member of AFU. Membership in AFU demonstrates WSU’s commitment to provide a full range of learning opportunities that include adults at all ages and stages in life, as well as to generate knowledge and innovations that address the second half of the lifespan through research.

Are you able to access all the medical and behavioral health services available at Wichita State? Let the Kansas Board of Regents know by taking the student Health Center Survey. This digital questionnaire is approximately five minutes and is completely confidential. The survey will be open until Monday, April 11.

All university libraries faculty and staff are invited to a town hall with President Rick Muma beginning at 9 a.m. Friday, March 25 via YouTube livestream. Interim Executive Vice President and Provost Shirley Lefever will also be a featured guest.

All university staff are invited to a town hall with President Rick Muma beginning at 3 p.m. Thursday, March 24 via a YouTube live stream. Interim Executive Vice President and Provost Shirley Lefever will also be a featured guest.

All College of Fine Arts faculty and staff are invited to a town hall with President Rick Muma beginning at 3 p.m. Tuesday, March 22 via Zoom. Interim Executive Vice President and Provost Shirley Lefever will also be a featured guest.

Further expanding its reach of access and affordability, Wichita State University has added 11 cities to its Shocker City Partnership — meaning eligible students from those cities are offered in-state tuition rates to attend WSU.

Those new cities include:

• Chicago
• Colorado Springs and Pueblo, Colorado
• Grand Island, Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska
• Des Moines and Ames, Iowa
• Fayetteville, Fort Smith and Little Rock, Arkansas

The next University Staff Senate (USS) meeting is schedule for 3:30 p.m. today, June 28 1 via Zoom. All USS meetings are open to the Wichita State campus community.

Usha Haley — W. Frank Barton Distinguished Chair in International Business and Center for International Business Advancement director — recently spoke with U.S. News and World Report about the rising prices of gas. In the interview, Haley discusses how high gas prices will get and how long this current situation last.

Two Wichita State researchers and a student group have been awarded the John A. See Innovation Award.

The award is given each year as a way to recognize novel ideas that have the potential to meet a market need and attract further funding once they have advanced through the early prototyping phase. Examples of supported costs are prototype development, design, product testing, and market analysis.

Things are shaking in Wichita with the Kansas Modification Center’s 777-300ERCF conversion program at Wichita State University’s National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR). The team at NIAR WERX completed ground vibration testing last month.

The ground vibration test, completed over the course of five days, helps characterize how the aircraft structure responds when subjected to stresses associated with landing and flight.