Category: Events and Recreation

Stop by the food truck plaza for lunch with the Brazita Bites and Wheat Street Dogs 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today, April 7. Get a meal to go, or spread at the beautiful green space.

Join the Office of Diversity and Inclusion in collaboration with The Green Group for our Diversity Lecture Series featuring Leah Thomas, the Intersectional Environmentalist at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 14 on Facebook Live.

Leah Thomas is a celebrated environmentalist based in Santa Barbara, California. Coining the term eco-communicator to describe her style of environmental activism. She is a passionate advocate for exploring the relationship between social justice and environmentalism.

She founded and launched Intersectional Environmentalist in 2020, a resource hub and platform that aims to advocate for environmental justice, provide educational resources surrounding intersectional environmentalism, and promote exclusivity and accessibility within environmental education and movements.

Leah published the book “The Intersectional Environmentalist” in March 2022. Her writing also appeared in a variety of publications, including Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, and Highsnobiety; and she has been featured in Harper’s Bazaar, W Magazine, Domino, GOOP, and numerous podcasts.

Shocker Women’s Tennis is hosting Emporia State at 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 6 at the Sheldon Coleman Tennis Complex.  After the match (around 5 p.m.), players and coaches will host a free tennis clinic for all kids in attendance, with free pizza being provided by the Maureen Connolly Brinker Tennis Foundation of Kansas.  Bring your own rackets, or we will have rackets available to borrow.  For more info contact Colin Foster at cfoster@goshockers.com.

New month? It could only mean one thing: New Pee for Pizza event.

This Wednesday, April 6, at the Student Health Services, we will be having a Pee for Pizza event. Make an appointment through your Student Health Portal and we’ll see you on April 6.

Every semester, the International Student Union, in collaboration with several other student groups and Wichita State organizations, organizes an international food festival called InterFest. During this festival, international students prepare dishes from their home regions, countries, and cultures.

The 2022 InterFest will be celebrated between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Wednesday, April 13 at the Neff Hall courtyard. Everyone is invited.

The festival showcases ethnic cuisine, and for a small price, allows the WSU community and visitors to share and taste diverse food and delicacies. The InterFest has become a very popular tradition. It has also emerged as a fundraiser for participating student organizations.

Reach out to our team if you have any questions by sending an email to m923a942@wichita.edu.

Join the Criminal Justice Student Association at 2 p.m. on Monday, April 4 in the LETC third-floor conference room to hear a guest speaker present on the ROTC. CJSA is an organization that allows students of all majors to gain knowledge, resources, and insight on work fields related to criminal justice.

Dr. Netta Engelhardt will be presenting “The Black Hole Information Paradox: A Resolution on the Horizon?” at 2 p.m., April 7 via Zoom. Use the Zoom Meeting ID: 4179547349  and Password: Physics.

Dr. Engelhardt is the Biedenharn Career Development assistant professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She works on quantum gravity, primarily within the framework of the AdS/CFT correspondence. Her research focuses on understanding the dynamics of black holes in quantum gravity, leveraging insights from the interplay between gravity and quantum information via holography. Her current primary interests revolve around the black hole information paradox, the thermodynamic behavior of black holes, and the cosmic censorship hypothesis (which conjectures that singularities are always hidden behind event horizons).

The Watkins Visiting Professorship was created in 1974 by the Watkins Foundation. This grant is now provided through the Watkins fund, a part of the Wichita State University Foundation’s endowment. For more information about this lecture series, contact Dr. David Eichhorn at (316) 978-6659.

Join Kelly Rawlings (Adams) in the discussion of the autobiography by Girma Haben, “The deaf-blind Woman who Conquered Harvard Law” at 6:30 p.m. April 14 at the Advanced Learning Library.

Born with deaf-blindness, Girma grew up with enough vision to know when someone was in front of her and enough hearing to know when someone close to her was talking. However, she had difficulty reading facial features or distinguishing people in group conversations. Relying on her own problem-solving skills, Girma overcame roadblocks, while simultaneously obtaining her undergraduate and then a law degree.

Sarah Robins, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Kansas, will give two lectures, as part of the Department of Philosophy’s Distinguished Lecture Series.

She will speak on “The Memory Trace in Philosophy and Neurosciencez’ at  3:30 p.m. Thursday, April 7 in the Harvest Room (RSC 142). Then at 3:30 p.m. Friday, April 8 in 200 Clinton Hall, Robins will speak on “Why Philosophy Matters for the Mind-Brain Sciences.”

Both lectures are free and open to the public.

In addition, Robins will hold a seminar for students only from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday, April 8, on “Moral Motivation and Behavior. “Email susan.sterrett@wichita.edu for the suggested reading and details.

Wichita State’s Public Policy and Management Center has scheduled its Women in Public Service (WPS) Conference beginning at 9:15 a.m. April 28 at the Marcus Welcome Center. Cost for the conference is $50 for members and $75 for nonmembers. The registration deadline is 5 p.m. April 22.

Conference breakouts:

• “Overcoming Strategic Communication Challenges” — Shelly Coleman-Martins, Wichita State University’s vice president of strategic communications and marketing
• “The Person You Mean to Be” — Alicia Sanchez, Wichita State’s assistant dean of students and director of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion.
• “How to Be Innovative Within Confinement” — Sally Stang from the City of Wichita
• “Telling Stories and Sharing Space” — Claudia Amaro, community journalist

The lunch keynote will be “Activating Your Network” with Christina Long, from the CML Collective, and the closing session will be “Peer Coaching: What Will We Take Forward” with Teresa Schwab.