Category: Events and Recreation

The Arab Student Association (ASA) is a new student organization on campus, and it will sell homemade Arab sweets to fundraise. The fundraiser will take place 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Thursday, March 2 in the Rhatigan Student Center.

Visit the ASA at table 17 and choose from a variety of Arab sweets to choose from, including baklava, katayef and maamoul. All treats are under $3 and cash only.

The Student Ambassador Society (SAS) will be holding a fundraiser at the local boba shop Leaf Teahouse during its normal operating hours Tuesday, Feb. 28.

The store will open at 10 a.m. and close at 8 p.m., and 10% of all proceeds will benefit SAS. Leaf Teahouse is located at 1912 E. Pawnee St.

Any student who wishes to participate in this fundraiser can show a picture of the flyer at Leaf Teahouse to support SAS.

For any questions, contact Bri Pfeifer, external community engagement chair of SAS, at sasecechair@wichita.edu.

The School of Computing is hosting Mengfei (Angela) Ren, a Ph.D candidate from the University of Texas, at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 24 in 260 Jabara Hall.

Ren will present “Fuzz testing of Zigbee protocol implementation.” Students, staff and faculty are welcome to attend the talk.

The School of Computing is hosting Raiyan Abdul Baten, a postdoctoral associate from the University of Rochester, at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 23 in 260 Jabara Hall.

Baten will present “Fantastic Ideas and Where to Find Them: Boosting creativity in self-organizing social networks.” Students, staff and faculty are welcome to attend the talk.

Join Campus Recreation as it hosts this year’s Wellness Expo from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, March 1 in the Heskett Center.

Plan to join hundreds of fellow Shockers as they receive screenings and wellness tips from over 50 vendor booths from Wichita State University departments and around the community.

Those interested in being vendors for the event can fill out the vendor form here.

The Office of Strategic Communications will offer headshot photos to WSU faculty and staff at no charge. These opportunities are quick and walk-in only without needing to schedule an appointment.

The next headshot photo event is from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 1 in 266 Rhatigan Student Center.

Additional dates will be announced in the future.

For Wellness Week, Counselling and Prevention Services (CAPS) is promoting mental wellness by hosting its next #WSUWeSupportU preventing suicide training and a walk across campus to show support for suicide prevention.

The training will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday, Feb. 27 in 265 Rhatigan Student Center. The walk will be directly after the training and will go through the middle of campus from the RSC to the Student Wellness Center. Participants will receive a Suspenders4Hope T-shirt upon completion of the training and are encouraged to wear it during the walk.

The training is open to all participants. Students can register via the CAPS webpage, and staff and faculty can register on myTraining.

For any questions about the training or how to register, contact Rachael Gladden, CAPS outreach coordinator, at rachael.gladden@wichita.edu.

Join Counseling and Prevention Services (CAPS) from 4 to 5 p.m. Friday, March 3 in 262 Rhatigan Student Center to celebrate Dr. Selena Jackson and wish her well as she leaves Wichita State in March.

Dr. Jackson has worked at CAPS since 2018 and has served as training director since 2021.

Registration is now open for the 10th anniversary of the Kansas Gender & Sexuality Conference, to be held on March 10 in the Rhatigan Student Center. As always, the conference is free and open to all students, faculty and staff from all disciplines affiliated with a Kansas university or surrounding community.

The keynote this year, “Gender, identity and reproductive justice in a post-Roe world,” will be given by Dr. Leandra Hernandez, assistant professor and associate academic director for the Center for Social Impact at Utah Valley University.

Anyone planning to attend, even for part of the day or dropping in and out, should register in advance. Pre-registration will close at midnight on Sunday, March 5.

For any questions, contact either Dr. Jodie Hertzog or Dr. Jenny Pearson or email genderconference@wichita.edu.

Students, groups, faculty, staff, innovation partners and the public are invited to submit abstracts or proposals to present at the 2023 Diverse Women’s Summit (DWS), which is held 9 a.m.-noon Monday, March 20 and 1-4 p.m. Tuesday, March 21. DWS is a meeting of individuals and groups from different backgrounds on local, regional, national and global issues affecting women. The theme of the 2023 DWS will be diversity and belonging at Wichita State.

Proposals should include 100-200 words describing the presentation (type, subject, theme and purpose). Presentations that focus on the following topics will be given priority:

• Intersectional research
• Investigations into belonging
• Citizenship and special populations
• Women, gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality and ability
• Social justice and the future

Proposals and abstracts will be accepted until Friday, March 3 and should be submitted to robin.henry@wichita.edu. For more information, contact 316-978-3358 or joyce.dalporto-ward@wichita.edu.

This event is sponsored by the Department of Women’s, Ethnicity and Intersectional Studies, the Center for Women’s Studies, the Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion