Category: Events and Recreation

Are you a Registered Nurse (RN) who wants to advance your career? Learn more about the RN to Bachelor of Science in Nursing online program at Wichita State through a virtual information session at 10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 29, or 4 p.m. today, Dec. 1. Topics will include program highlights, application process and requirements, course information and frequently asked questions. Members who wish to attend must register in advance.

Following the annual Red Dress Gala Nov. 13, Alpha Phi will host their King of Hearts pageant beginning with check-in at 8:15 p.m. at the Rhatigan Student Center Beggs Ballroom. During the event, men from the fraternity will compete in an interview round, fashion round and talent round to win the title of Alpha Phi’s King of Hearts.

Shockers, celebrate First-Gen Week at the following events:

• Visit the Cadman Art Gallery and enjoy “Identity,” a first-gen student art showcase. The exhibit will be on display Nov. 1-19.
• Join the First-Gen Coordinating Council (FGCC) as they kick off their First-Gen Celebration Week Monday, Nov. 8. Why celebrate? FGCC wants to elevate the success of first-generation college students, faculty, staff and alumni at Wichita State University.
• F1RST-GEN T-shirts are available in the Rhatigan Student Center Shocker Store for $12.

Student Involvement will host the next annual Songfest at 6 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 7 at the Orpheum Theater located in downtown Wichita Songfest is a lip-sync competition that is an engaging and energizing event.

Doors will open at 5:15 p.m. Tickets are $10 for general admission.

Wichita State’s Society of Public Historians will host David Taggart, director of Development at the Federal Hall National Memorial, located in New York City, at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov.11 at the Beren Gallery in the Ulrich Museum.

Taggart ‘s lecture, “The Ongoing American Constitutional Experiment,” will examine how politics, grassroots organizing, boycott, protest, litigation, war, and other individual and mass actions, have continuously challenged the United States to live up to our highest ideals.

Taggart is an alumnus of Wichita State University.

For more information, visit the Wichita State Society of Public Historians Facebook page or contact Dr. Jay Price at jay.price@wichita.edu.

Join the women of Alpha Phi for their annual Red Dress Gala at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 13 at the Rhatigan Student Center Beggs Ballroom. The event benefits Alpha Phi’s national philanthropy, the Alpha Phi Foundation. The Alpha Phi Foundation supports women’s heart health by providing Heart-to-Heart research grants. Tickets can be purchased until 11:59 p.m. Nov. 8.

Paperwork. Money. Language barriers. These are just a few challenges international students face when applying to universities in the United States. To help the Wichita State community better understand these challenges, WSU’s Office of International Education will host ACIREMA (America spelled backward) workshops Friday, Nov. 12 at the Intensive Language Center.

ACIREMA is an interactive workshop that walks you through the challenges international students experience as they seek an American education. Join us on this international journey and see if you will make it to WSU.

The workshops are available at the following times:

• 12:30-2 p.m.
• 12:45-2:15 p.m.
• 1-2:30 p.m.
• 1:15-2:45 p.m.

For more information, contact fai.tai@wichita.edu.

Literary Feast is KMUW’s monthly book club, featuring selections made by KMUW staff. For November, we’re reading “The Book of Form and Emptiness” by Ruth Ozeki.

This month’s meeting is at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 17 via Zoom.

High school students have a lot of choices when it comes to life after graduation. College application season is in full swing, but life after high school could also mean joining the work force, trade school, or even a gap year. Join us for this month’s Digital Democracy on Tap: “Senioritis: What’s Next for Young Wichitans?”

Stream the conversation live starting at 5 p.m. Nov. 9 at engageict.org or on KMUW’s Facebook page. To submit a question, email info@kmuw.org or comment on the live Facebook video.

The Lecture Series in the Mathematical Sciences presents Dr. Chi-Wang Shu from Brown University.

Please join us for a public lecture titled “High order numerical methods for hyperbolic equations” at 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 19 in room 372 Jabara Hall. Refreshments will be available at 2:30 p.mm in room 353 Jabara Hall.