Category: Events and Recreation

A live university faculty and staff town hall will be held 3:30-4:30 p.m. Thursday, May 12 via YouTube. This event is an opportunity to listen to and interact with President Rick Muma and Executive Vice President and Provost Shirley Lefever. The event will be moderated by Gabriel Fonseca, University Staff Senate president; and Whitney Bailey, Faculty Senate president.

Faculty and staff who participate can ask questions during the live chat YouTube stream. For participants who don’t have a YouTube account, follow the link below to create one. Creating an account will help facilitate questions in the live chat section of the Virtual Town Hall.

The Shocker Neighborhood Coalition is teaming up with New Life Church and the Kansas Food Bank to provide a produce pantry 4:45-5:45 p.m. Friday, May 27 at the New Life Church back parking lot (1156 N. Oliver). Anyone in need of food assistance is encouraged to attend. Guests will check in with their ZIP codes and the number of people living in their households.

For more information, please contact Ken from the Kansas Food Bank at 316-265-3663.

Members of the Shocker and local community are invited to the City of Wichita’s weekly briefing at 10:45 a.m. Thursday, May 19 at the Redbud Trail head at Oliver and 17th Street to celebrate the project. The event will celebrate the new signage at the Redbud Trail walk and bike trail, which is part of the Redbud Trail Activation project. The signage was funded by Wesley Healthcare.

The Redbud Trail Activation project is a collaboration between Wesley Healthcare, Bike Walk Wichita, Wichita State University’s Office of Engagement, and the City of Wichita, through the Atwater Neighborhood Resource Center, to increase utilization of the Redbud Trail and to provide healthy opportunities for the university community and neighbors to get active and build relationships.

The wayfinding signs, etiquette signs and mile markers were designed and installed to help residents find connections to nearby services and businesses and to assist emergency services in locating people on the path.

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.