Whether their goal is to be Gollum in “Lord of the Rings” or a character in the next version of “Call of Duty,” Wichita State University students now have the option to specialize in motion-capture acting through a new concentration within the School of Digital Arts.
The School of Digital Arts (SODA) was founded in 2019 and is the fourth school within Wichita State’s College of Fine Arts program, which encompasses the Bachelor of Applied Arts (BAA) in Media Arts program. The BAA program already includes concentrations in animation, audio production, filmmaking, game design and collaborative design.
This semester, students enrolled in Integrated Marketing Communication Campaigns with Dr. Lisa Parcell have been working with Alce Su Voz, Riverfest and the Kansas Nonprofit Chamber to develop full marketing communication campaigns. Every semester, this applied-learning experience is offered to students with the opportunity to develop campaigns for three new clients.
This experience gave students the opportunity to network, discover their individual talents and develop their portfolios.Read more about
Two Wichita State University seniors have partnered with the McConnell Air Force Base Innovation Lab to help fight COVID-19 – by using robotics. Computer science majors Lucy Hoang and Lydia Melles are creating an autonomous robot that uses ultraviolet C-lights (UVC) to clean grocery stores.
The project is part of a senior design class taught by Andy Stallard, WSU College of Engineering Senior Design Experience lecturer and director.
The Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA) honored Dr. Richard Muma with an article recognizing him as the first physician assistant (PA) to be named president of a university. The PAEA is the only national organization representing PA educational programs and works to provide quality education by developing and distributing educational services and products designed for meeting the needs of PA programs, the PA profession and the health care industry.
According to the article, Muma sees his background as a PA and PA educator as a significant contributor to his success in higher education, and obvious parallels between health care and higher education.
In 2019, Trevor Cumpston — then just a high school senior at Aurora High School in Aurora, Nebraska — was awarded the prestigious Clay Barton Scholarship at Wichita State. Now in his second semester as a sophomore, Trevor says he’s enjoying the connections with his professors that the scholarship affords.
The W. Frank Barton School of Business at Wichita State University is creating online flexibility for three current majors in its degree program. International business, marketing and accounting majors will now be provided online and taught by the same Barton School professors who teach in-person classes.
Prospective team members will be expected to learn a variety of dance skills and styles through video tutorials. The video tutorials will be available at 9 a.m. June 1. The link will be shared with the dancers that have registered using the “Jumpforward” link. Dancers who plan to audition need to register prior to June 1.
All video submissions must be received by noon June 5. All sections of required choreography and skills must be included in the video. This will include across-the-floor skills, band dance, cheer, stinger and hip-hop combo.
The 2021-2022 Shocker Dance team will be announced by 3 p.m. on June 6.
If you’ve been by the Ulrich Museum of Art on the Wichita State University campus to see the exhibition “Solving for X=Identity: Sharing Matrilineal Memories at WSU,” you know that it’s full of powerful memories shared by members of the Shocker community about their mothers and maternal grandmothers.
As a part of that exhibition, students in sociology, dance and Honors College will present research and choreographed performances in response to those collected memories. The performances are on at 2:30 and 5:30 p.m. today (repeat performance). Both performances will take place outdoors on the front terrace of the Ulrich Museum where proper social distancing will be encouraged. Free and open to all.
“Solving for X=Identity: Sharing Matrilineal Memories at WSU” is on display at the Ulrich through May 8.
The TM1 Budgeting System is now open for Budget Officers to make changes for Fiscal Year 2022. As deadlines approach, specific budget and data entry questions often surface. Budget Officers are encouraged to bring their questions to the Open Lab where members of the Budget Office and Applications Training will be on hand to provide assistance with the budgeting system via Microsoft Teams.
There are currently two open lab sessions planned, the first from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on May 6, and the second from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. on May 11.
Registration for the Open Labs can be found through myTraining under the title “Fiscal Year Budget Open Lab – Remote Session.”
Please join us for our next physics seminar talk at 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 5 via Zoom. This talk features Professor Christian Bauer, Theory Group Leader of the physics division at the Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, and the title will be “Quantum Computing for Collider Physics using Effective Field Theories.” Go to the physics webpage to get more details.
