Category: Events and Recreation

Are you always looking for reading recommendations but have trouble finding the type of book you want to read? The next Savvy Scholar Workshop “Finding Books to Read for Fun!” will introduce participants to online resources for finding book recommendations noon-1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 18 via Zoom. The workshop will also provide participants tools for keeping track of what they’ve read or want to read.

Faculty and staff are invited to watch the next edition of the Disaster Resilience Analytics Center Seminar Series featuring Dr. Alison Specht noon-1 p.m. Feb. 18 via Zoom. The presentation is titled “Achieving Open Science Outcomes with Multi-Faceted Teams: Learning from the Coalface.” Specht is an environmental scientist with broad expertise in research, teaching and community engagement.

In the past 10 years, Specht has focused on facilitating interdisciplinary groups to tackle complex environmental problems using existing data. Specht’s major interests, apart from her domain activities, are to enhance collaboration between scientists, policy-makers and managers to improve environmental outcomes and improve data management and preservation, data sharing and re-use.

During the presentation, Specht will discuss how a researcher can identify good quality data and code for use, give examples of the use of infrastructures of various sorts that may assist a research team to achieve their goal, how a project can be best presented within the academic community to ensure commentary and uptake, and how the participant can most benefit from engaging in the open-access world.

In the next steps toward the creation of the University Village, Wichita State University is seeking public feedback and engagement on the lead proposals.

Public meetings will be on Wednesday, Feb. 23 in the Shirley Beggs Ballroom of Wichita State’s Rhatigan Student Center. These sessions will be offered in-person and virtually via Zoom (Meeting ID: 956 5059 0889, Password: 598259). There will be three meetings:

• 2 to 3 p.m. for Wichita State students, faculty and staff
• 4 to 5 p.m. for everyone on Wichita State’s main campus and Innovation Campus
• 6:30 to 8 p.m. for the Wichita community

Please join the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) for a come-and-go event featuring hors d’oeuvres and speakers celebrating Dr. Raymond (Ray) Hull at 4:30 p.m. March 22 at the Rhatigan Student Center (Room 233). During the event, Students and colleagues will be present to share stories of his time at WSU.

Hull served as a professor in the CSD department at Wichita State for 27 years before retiring in 2020. Before coming to WSU, Hull was a professor and chair of the Communication Disorders Department at Northern Colorado University. Since retiring, he continues to write books and contribute to newspaper columns.

All participants must RSVP by March 15 to attend. Click the registration link to RSVP by March 15. Please include total number of attendees, so we have an accurate count for catering purposes.

For more information (or if you encounter online form issues), contact csd@wichita.edu.

The Ulrich Museum of Art is hosting artist Lesley Dill at 6 p.m. tonight, Feb. 15 via Zoom. The talk is part of the Ulrich’s “Voices from the Vault: The 1990s” series. Registration is free and open to the public.

Dill will deliver a visual exploration of her artistic practice, and the American visionaries, writers, artists and abolitionists who inspired her current exhibition, “Wilderness: Light Sizzles Around Me.” The “Voices from the Vault: The 1990s” series is made possible by funding from Humanities Kansas, a nonprofit cultural organization that connects communities with history, traditions and ideas to strengthen civic life.

Are you a Wichita State student in search of an audience? Consider signing up for Pass the Mic, a new open mic night at the Ulrich Museum of Art 7-9 p.m. Feb. 24. All WSU undergraduate and graduate students are invited to take the stage with performances in poetry, music, dance, stand-up, theatre and art.

For more information, contact Jana Erwin.

Join the Student Engagement, Advocacy, and Leadership group for a free coffee and donut 9:30-11:30 a.m. Feb. 16 at the Rhatigan Student Center (first floor). The offer is in honor of Random Acts of Kindness Day. This offer is while supplies last.

Wichita State’s Mu Delta Alpha (MDA) time is hosting its rush week Feb. 14-19. To be considered for membership in the sorority, students must attend at least one informational and one social. The following information and social events are available during rush week:

• Sisterly Love: Learn more about MDA at an informational session 10-11 a.m. or 5-6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 14 at the Rhatigan Student Center (RSC) (Room 313).
• Match Making: Find out if MDA is for you 10-11 a.m. or 5-6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 15 at the RSC (Room 313).
• Sweetheart Trivia: Play trivia games with MDA and win  prizes 5-6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 16 at the RSC (Room 313).
• You’re a Charcutie: Build your own charcuterie board and get to know the sisters of MDA 2-3 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 17 at the RSC (Room 313).
• It’s a Date: Join Interviews with the MDA executive Friday, Feb. 18 (by appointment only).
•  Secret Admirer: Join MDA for brunch 10-11 a.m. Feb. 19 (by invite only).
  10am-11am

For more information, contact wichitamda@mudeltaalpha.org or direct message MDA on their social media accounts.

Come by the Food Truck Plaza and grab lunch from Funky Monkey Munchies 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. today, Feb. 15. The menu for Funky Monkey Munchies is available online. Grab a meal to go and enjoy it on the patio and green space.

Join KMUW’s next Engage ICT virtual event at 5 p.m. today, Feb. 15. This edition will feature a discussion about mental health and homelessness in Wichita.

The number of people experiencing homelessness in the Wichita area has increased during the last few years. This challenging issue affects many parts of the community. A panel of experts will discuss the problems and possible solutions. The panelists include:

• Lacey Cruse, Sedgwick County Commissioner
• Brenda Dietzman, Wayfinder Consulting
• Regina Hafner, Comcare
• More to be announced