Category: Events

The May edition of Engage ICT will take place at 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 17 via the Engage ICT website and KMUW’s Facebook page. Panelists for the event will include the following:

• Steve Maack, IB English teacher at East High School
• Suzanne Perez, KMUW education reporter and book reviewer
• Jaime Prothro, Wichita Public Library director of libraries

The May sessions of Wichita State’s Academic Resources Conference will take place May 23-27 via Zoom. All sessions are free. Instructors of any rank and student-facing staff should find sessions of interest.

You can access the ARC schedule at the May 2022 ARC Events website, and all session links include Outlook Calendar invites with the Zoom link Here are some highlights to look for:

• President Muma will discuss a campus freedom of expression update at 10 a.m. Wednesday, May 25.
• Each day at noon, a different panel discussion will take place. Check out the Student Panel on Monday, May 23.
• Special evening sessions will focus on technical training for Ultra.
• Two Chronicle of Higher Education articles will be highlighted at “Article Club” at 2 p.m. Wednesday and at 1 p.m. Thursday.

Faculty and staff speakers from across the university as well as vendor representatives will provide training and helping to lead discussions.

The next KMUW Literary Feast will take place from 6-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 18 at KMUW. Dinner will be provided. Literary Feast is KMUW’s monthly book club, featuring selections made by KMUW staff. For May, the staff has selected “Take My Hand” by by Dolen Perkins-Valdez.

As part of graduation requirements, students take a capstone design course during their senior year under the supervision of a faculty advisor. They will present their projects from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, May 6 in the John Bardo Center.

Senior Design is the culmination of an engineering or computing education and is where students put into practice all their design engineering skills in order to develop a prototype solution to address an identified need. Many projects are interactive and almost all have real-world applications and are applicable to local industries and companies.

The Wichita State community is invited to join the Women of Wichita State for their annual Scholarship Bash to raise funds for scholarships through May 7. The funds will be used to award four WSU students with a scholarship for the 2022-2023 academic year.

Anyone can participate in the fundraiser by bidding on an item or items in the online auction,  purchasing the chance to win a jackpot in the 50/50 drawing, making a one-time donation and becoming a sustaining donor with a payroll deduction.

In celebration of National Prevention Week, May 8-14, Wichita State’s Community Engagement Institute’s (CEI) Prevention Initiative and the Kansas Prevention Collaborative are hosting an event that will highlight prevention efforts at the campus, from 10-11:30 a.m. May 10 in the CEI Harvester Room (#127) at 238 N. Mead. There is also a virtual option.

The conversation will provide attendants insight about how suicide, substance misuse, underage drinking, and overdose prevention happens at the campus while discussing what prevention efforts are in place, what measures success, what gaps need to be identified, and other possible ways to offer support. For more information, contact patricia.houston@wichita.edu. 

The Center for International Business Advancement (CIBA) at the Barton School of Business will host a virtual a panel organized by Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) and Aalto University about corporate sanctions against Russia 6-8 a.m. May 19.

Guests can ask questions and provide comments at the live discussion. The panel will be moderated by Sofia Villo Aalto University, Finland, doctoral candidate, and Natalya Turkina RMIT vice-chancellor’s postdoctoral fellow.

The panel consists of Stephen Brammer, University of Bath, United Kingdom School of Management dean, Usha Haley, professor and Barton chair, Arno Kourula, University of Amsterdam associate professor, Jukka Mäkinen, Estonian Business School professor, and Guido Palazzo University of Lausanne, Switzerland, professor.

To attend, participants must register to get the link or a recording of the event.

Late Night Breakfast returns at Shocker Dining 9-11 p.m. Thursday, May 5 from 9-11 p.m. The breakfast is hosted by WSU Dining, Housing and Residence Life and Student Activities Council Shocker Dining will close at 7 p.m. to prepare for the event.

The School of Nursing is hosting virtual info sessions to help prospective students learn more about the Registered Nurse (RN) to Bachelor of Science in nursing (BSN) program at Wichita State. The following dates are available:

• 9 a.m. May 3
• 4 p.m. May 6

Register for RN to BSN info sessions at wichita.edu/rnbsninfosession.