Category: Events and Recreation

Hippodrome has been canceled twice since it began: once during WWII and the most recent during the coronavirus pandemic beginning in 2020. This year, Hippodrome returns to in-person skits and live performances with the theme of children’s books.

Featuring the creative talents of on-campus organizations and Wichita State Shockers, Hippodrome 2022 is sure to be a good one. 

This celebration of the arts will start at 7 p.m. April 8 in the Campus Activities Center Theater.

The University Community Innovations for Positive Aging is scheduled from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. April 15. Participants can attend online or in-person at the Eugene M. Hughes Metropolitan Complex, 5015 East 29th Street North.

The UPICA’s purpose is to promote positive aging and combat ageism within Wichita State and the broader community. Students, faculty, staff, or community members interested in working with or conducting research with older adults should plan to attend. Attendees will work together to shape research activities and projects that broaden our knowledge of aging and seek to make the university a more age-friendly campus.

Conference participants will learn cutting-edge strategies for promoting positive aging and methods for promoting successful aging programming, and interact with knowledgeable experts and leaders in the field of aging research. There will be keynote addresses from Dr. Joann Montepare and Dr. Marcia Ory.

Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees. The virtual conference will be live-streamed via Zoom. This event is sponsored by the Carl and Rozina Cassat Regional Institute on Aging.

University Libraries annual Edible Book Festival is set for this Friday, April 1 in Ablah Library. Students, faculty, staff, and community members are encouraged to submit their culinary creations for a chance to win awesome prizes.

There is no-cost to sign-up, and contestants must be signed up by noon Thursday, March 31. The event takes place in-person, and participants must bring their entry to the library for voting. Please read the rules and regulations at the link below.

Everyone is invited to vote for your favorite between 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Friday, April 1 at the library.

Please join us for a public lecture by Dr. Hung Tran from Texas Tech University. The lecture, titled “Geometry and Topology: A Tale of Rigidity,” will take place at 3 p.m. Friday, April 8 in room 372 Jabara Hall. Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in room 353 Jabara Hall.

Please join us for a public lecture by Dr. Ricardo Mendes from the University of Oklahoma at Norman.  The lecture, titled “Symmetric convex subsets of Euclidean space,” will take place at 3 p.m. Friday, April 1 in room 372 Jabara Hall.  Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.m. in room 353 Jabara Hall.

Join us for the next physics seminar talk at 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 30 via Zoom and in Clinton Hall 126.  The speaker this week will be Dr. Eric Huff, from the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California. The title for this talk is  “Dark Energy Survey.”

Join Lydia Humphreys for their thesis exhibition “Changing the Narrative: A visual investigation into victim blaming, and a call to action” at Groover Labs, 334 St. Francis in Wichita.

The exhibition will be on display from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through March 25, and there will be a closing reception at 6 p.m. Friday, March 25.

The World Trade Council of Wichita, Center for International Business Advancement and the International Business Studies Association are hosting the first dinner program in the COVID era on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its aftermath on Friday, April 8. Reservations are required and can be made with the link below.

The issue is both evolving and topical with relevance for local, regional, global and grand strategy. Our panel consists of experts that will bring diverse points of view to the debate; please note that Dr. Mark Wilcox will not present as a member of the US Army Command, but as a retired Army officer and his views are personal/unofficial.

We have not reopened WTCouncil membership for the year.  For paid attendees, we offer a social hour with wine and a three-course dinner for $45.  Should you wish to attend with no social hour or dinner, attendance is free. Students can register at WTCouncil’s subsidized student rate of $25. For information on IBSA membership, please contact Denis Orwaru at dgorwaru@shockers.wichita.edu.

Student Success will host the annual Orientation spring update meeting at 2 p.m. today in Hubbard Hall room 208.

During the meeting, we will review the highlights from the Orientation feedback sessions, the purpose of Orientation, and the program agendas for new students entering in the summer and fall 2022.

Please note, these programs are designed for new, degree seeking, domestic undergraduate students. Presenters are encouraged to attend.