Category: Events and Recreation

Come and visit the Shocker Store’s mobile unit store 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesday, July 19, at the Fidelity Bank Farmers Market in downtown Wichita located on South Market and East English streets. For more information, visit the Fidelity Bank Farmers Market website.

The fall 2022 Academic Convocation will take place at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 8 at Wilner Auditorium. Academic Convocation is the official academic welcome for all first-year students. The event celebrates a new Shocker’s entry into higher education and inducts them into a community of learners.

This event will feature President Rick Muma and keynote speaker Kwame Onwuachi, author of the 2022 Common Read book “Notes from a Young Black Chef.” All 2022 University Faculty Award winners will also be recognized at the event.

A reception and book signing will follow the event at 10:20 a.m. on the second floor of the Ulrich Museum gallery. There will also be an informal question and answer session with Onwuachi featuring at live cooking session at 11:30 a.m. in Shocker Dining Hall.

Convocation is a free event open to the campus community, but space is limited. For more information and a full list of speakers, visit the convocation website.

Dr. Neal Allen — associate professor of political science, department chair, undergraduate advisor and Washington and Topeka internship coordinator — will speak on NPR’s “1A” at 10 a.m. today, July 13 on KMUW. During the program, Neal and a legal historian will discuss abortion and democracy in the United States.

The budget and accounting components of an SBIR/STTR application are one of the most error-prone parts of a typical SBIR/STTR application. Learn how to make sense of it at a virtual event from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 19.

• Make sense out of the perplexing world of the SBIR/STTR cost proposals.
• Learn how to keep records to the government’s satisfaction when you win an SBIR award.
• Determine how to develop an indirect rate, what to expect in the way of government audits, and assist you with government accounting terminology.

While aimed at SBIR/STTR competitors and awardees, this is a free one-of-a-kind workshop that has proven valuable for any applicant or recipient of government contracts and grants.

The Wichita State campus community is invited to a networking event that combines shopping, donuts and a chance to see the new offices in Partnership Building 3 on the Innovation Campus from 9 to 11 a.m. Thursday, July 14 at 4610 E. 18th St.

The event will also include a trunk show from Lawrence-based brand Spencer Jane, which sells casual-yet-polished career jackets for women. Spencer Jane was started by Logan Brown, a Kansas entrepreneur and Harvard Law School student. Brown worked closely with Wichita State’s Tech Transfer and Commercialization when she was launching her brand.

NetApp will host an E-waste and shredding event 11 a.m.-1 p.m. July Friday, July 29 at its location on Wichita State’s Innovation Campus. The event is open to all students, faculty, staff and innovation partners.

During the event, participants can bring the following items:

•  Personal documents accepted for secure shredding
•  All personal electronics, including appliances
•  Secure data destruction for E-Waste (hard drive shredder)
• On-site assistance available for larger loads

For more information, contact chris.hepner@netapp.com.

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Higgs boson discovery, Wichita’s State’s High Energy Physics (HEP) Theory Group will host a watch party featuring live video coverage of the national celebration Higgs@10 at 11 a.m. today, June 30 at 262 Rhatigan Student Center.

The Higgs discovery on July 4, 2012, at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, was a remarkable milestone in the history of Experimental and Theoretical Particle Physics.

Dr. Terrance Figy, Wichita State Department of Physics, Mathematics and Statistics assistant professor and theoretical physicist, has contributed to the modeling of the Higgs boson production. Dr. Nick Solomey, WSU professor of physics, spent seven years at the European Center for Nuclear Research, the Geneva Switzerland-based research facility where the Higgs boson was discovered.

Participants can also watch the event via Zoom.

Graduate students in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) speech-language pathology (SLP) program will host their fourth annual Aphasia Awareness Night from 3-5 p.m., Tuesday, July 19 at the Eugene M. Hughes Metropolitan Complex (5015 E. 29th St. North).

The event is geared toward health professions students, but anyone (especially within psychology, counseling and social work) is welcome to attend.

Come learn about working with patients who have aphasia. The event will feature a question and answer session with clients who have acquired aphasia and their caregivers. They will offer insight on the most beneficial techniques and support when working with various healthcare providers. The goal of the event is to foster a multidisciplinary approach to benefit these patients.

All attendants should enter through Entrance N located on the south side of the building (look for the awning). All attendants will then move through various stations throughout the event.

For more information, contact ashley.purdum@wichita.edu.