Category: Events

Come by the Food Truck Plaza 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2 for lunch from The Flying Stove at the Food Truck Plaza. The menu for The Flying Stove is available on Facebook. Grab a meal to go and enjoy it on the patio and green space.

Come by the Food Truck Plaza for lunch from The Flying Stove 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2 at the Food Truck Plaza. The menu for The Flying Stove is available on Facebook. Grab a meal to go and enjoy it on the patio and green space.

“The Voices from the Vault” series is back at 6 p.m. today, Nov. 30 at the Ulrich Museum of Art and via YouTube Livestream. There will be a reception before the event at 5:30 p.m. The event will feature Indigenous Artist Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds. His talk, titled “Spirit Citizen: Provocative Native American Public Art and Studio Practice,” will focus on his pieces in the  Ulrich’s permanent collection.

Heap of Birds is one of the leaders of the Tsistsistas (Cheyenne) traditional Elk Warrior Society and lives on the Cheyenne/ Arapaho Nation Reservation in Oklahoma. As an artist and an advocate for Indigenous communities worldwide, his work includes multidisciplinary forms of public art messages, large-scale drawings, Neuf Series acrylic paintings, prints, works in glass and monumental porcelain enamel on steel outdoor sculpture.

While representing Indigenous communities, his art focuses first on social justice and on the personal freedom to live within the tribal circle as an expressive individual.

To help ease the stress of finals week, the Student Activities Council (SAC) will offer students a self-care stop 11-1 p.m. Dec. 1 at the Rhatigan Student Center Atrium.

The event will feature massages and other activities while members of Wichita State’s Counseling and Prevention Services will offer tips on how to manage stress. Hot tea and cocoa will be offered to participants.

The next KMUW Literary Feast will take place 5-6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 15 via Zoom. Literary Feast is KMUW’s monthly book club, featuring selections made by KMUW staff. For December, KMUW has selected “The Lincoln Highway” by Amor Towles.

To join, reserve a free spot at the KMUW Literary Feast website the KMUW staff will email the Zoom link.

For more information about “The Lincoln Highway” and Towles, participants can listen to Beth Golay’s recent interview with the Towles.

A business continuity tabletop exercise is scheduled for Friday, April 15, 2022, at the Metropolitan Complex. This is a required exercise for all departments with a business continuity plan. During the exercise, the trainer will lead a simulated event to test the business continuity plan for each department. More details will be provided as we get closer to the event.

For more information, contact Ellen Abbey at 316-978-5864 or ellen.abbey@wichita.edu.

A Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace training will be available 2-4 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2 at the Rhatigan Student Center (Room 261). This interactive classroom training will highlight the benefits of diversity and inclusion in the workplace, social identities, recognizing and understanding microaggressions, understanding how to get past stereotypes and prejudices, addressing issues and how to report them. This training is designed to shape participants’ understanding of diversity and inclusion while providing an open forum for questions and concerns.

This training is free and available to all WSU employees (faculty, staff and student employees). Registration is required to attend. Members can log into myWSU and register through myTraining.

The Office of Disability Services (ODS) and Chartwells (Wichita State Dining Services) will offer a Food Allergy Awareness table 9 a.m.-2 p.m. today at Shocker Hall. The event is a collaborative effort between ODS, WSU Housing and Chartwells to provide information to WSU students about food allergies and other health issues related to food.

Food allergies involve the immune system and can be life-threatening. More than 170 foods are known to cause food allergies, but eight foods account for nine out of 10 reactions in the United States. These food include the following: milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, soy, wheat, fish and shellfish.

Food allergies are considered a disability. The following information describes what would be considered a person with a disability: an individual, who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity, has a record of such a disability or is regarded as having a disability. These life activities include but are not limited to learning, working, walking, breathing, hearing, and seeing, in addition to many other physical and sensory functions.

If you are a student with a disability that is interested in receiving possible accommodations, please fill an ODS Disability Services Intake Form. If you are a faculty or staff member interested in receiving possible workplace accommodations, contact the HR Total Rewards Team at totalrewards@wichita.edu.

A reception to celebrate Linda Starkey’s will take place at 3:30 p.m. Dec. 3 at the Wilner Auditorium Commons. Starkey, who worked as the director of the School of Performing Arts, has been a guiding light and driving force for the performing arts at Wichita State for more than 40 years.

Throughout her tenure, Starkey was inducted into the Mary Jane Teall Hall of Fame, awarded as the Mary Jane Teall Educator of the Year and received the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Gold Medallion. Her greatest accomplishment has been to teach and inspire students who have graced the stage from Wichita to Broadway.