Category: Events and Recreation

Don’t forget to join the Shocker Neighborhood service providers panel from noon to 1 p.m. today, Sept. 29 via Zoom. The panel will provide an opportunity for participants to hear from organizations serving the surrounding university communities. The Shocker Neighborhood service provider panel part of Good Neighbor Week Sept. 28-Oct. 4. 

The annual remembrance of Memorial ’70 is set for 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 2 at the memorial sculpture at the university entrance at Alumni Drive and Hillside (18th and Hillside). The reception will be held immediately following the ceremony in the Shocker ’70 RSC (room 202). With potential rain in the forecast, there may be a change of location. Check https://wsu.news/memoriallocation for updates.

During an annual ceremony of remembrance, a wreath is placed at Wichita State’s Memorial ’70 each Oct. 2. The brief ceremony honors the Wichita State football players, administrators and supporters who died in a plane crash Oct. 2, 1970.

The WSU “Gold” plane, a Martin 404 carrying 36 passengers and a crew of four, crashed at approximately 3 p.m. on a mountain near Silver Plume, Colorado, while en route to Logan, Utah, for a game with Utah State University. Twenty-nine persons died at the scene, while two others died later after receiving medical attention for their injuries. The WSU “Black” plane landed safely in Utah.

The ceremony offers a time of remembrance to acknowledge the changes that the plane crash made in the lives of the victims, their families, their friends and the university.

University Libraries Savvy Scholar Workshop series continues with “Finding Social Data” from noon to 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 1 via Zoom. This session will cover how to unlock demographic and social data to better understand demographic groups, large populations and pressing social issues.

Registration is free for this virtual workshop, which can be accessed at the link below.

Wichita State’s Regional Institute of Aging (RIA) will sponsor a panel presentation and workshop on “Strategies for Promoting Intergenerational Teaching At WSU: Promoting Age-Inclusiveness,” from 4 to 6 p.m. Nov. 15 at the Rhatigan Student Center (room 142).

Panelists will include Dr. Joann Montepare, director of the RoseMary B. Fuss Center for Research on Aging and Intergenerational Studies; professor of psychology at Lasell University and Lasell Village, and Dr. Louis Medvene, WSU Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology. Three WSU students — Aliya Jankowski, Karl and Nancy Koenig — will present a student perspective of participating in intergenerational classes.

Refreshments will be served.

David Vuletich, senior director of Research Advisory Services with the Education Advisory Board, will provide a workshop presentation titled, “The Faculty Role in Retention and Student Success,” at 2 p.m. today, Sept. 28 at the Rhatigan Student Center (room 142).

David has earned Bachelor’s degrees in astrophysics and chemical physics from Michigan State University, a dual-title Ph.D. in biochemistry and astrobiology from the Pennsylvania State University, and an MBA from Indiana University.

Please contact carolyn.shaw@wichita.edu for a Zoom link.

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will host Dr. Andrew Gewirth from the University of Illinois 3:30-4:30 p.m. Sept. 29 at McKinley Hall (room 224). The event will also be available via Zoom. Dr. Gewirth will present his research results in a talk titled “Understanding and Controlling Interfacial Electrochemistry for Electrolyzers and Batteries.”

Please e-mail jian.wang@wichita.edu for the Zoom link.

“The Voices from the Vault” series is back at 6 p.m. tonight, Sept. 28, at the Ulrich Museum of Art. The event will discuss the art of the 1990s as examined by artist Nancy Davidson. There will also be a live stream of the program.
 
Davidson is a sculptor, installation artist and photographer who uses inflated weather balloons to challenge the notions of contemporary monumental sculpture while simultaneously repurposing comedic tropes of bodily mass, fleshiness, and beauty. Her piece, Buttress (pictured above), in the Ulrich’s permanent collection, will be temporarily displayed at the museum during the event and shortly thereafter.

Davidson will examine the social and political reverberations of important topics in the 1990s, namely third-wave feminism, which continues to resonate today. Her work has been exhibited at the Krannert Art Museum, Illinois; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Pennsylvania; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

Funding for “Voices from the Vault” is provided by Humanities Kansas, a nonprofit organization that connects communities with history, traditions and ideas to strengthen civic life.

Eric Pierstoff, program director of the  Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) at the National Science Foundation (NSF), will present an hour-long webinar about NSF SBIR and Small Business Technology Transfer Programs (STTR) from 11 a.m. to noon Oct. 12.

In addition to describing at NSF SBIR/STTR  program, Pierstoff will answer direct questions, cover the SBIR/STTR program’s goal, funding philosophy, topics, funded examples and the project pitch process. There will also be 10 minutes allotted for one-on-one meetings with Pierstoff.

This webinar is free of charge but registration is required.

Connect with the neighbors, businesses and organizations that make up our community during Good Neighbor Week Sept. 28-Oct. 4. The week will also include the following events:

• Sept. 28 — Good Neighbor Bingo all month
• Sept. 28-Oct. 4 — Third annual faculty versus staff Stock the Shocker Support Locker Challenge
• noon, Sept. 29 — Students United Service Provider Panel
• 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Sept. 27 and Sept. 29 — Sunflower making workshop at Atwater Recreation Center
• 6:30 p.m., Sept. 30 — Student Government Association Food Insecurity Panel
• 5 p.m., Oct. 1 — Riverfest Parade
• 8:30 a.m., Oct. 2 — Morning neighborhood walk
• Oct. 3 — Campus community discount bowling all week at Shocker Lanes
• Oct. 4 — Highlighting stories from our neighbors event
• Shocker Sports Grill and Lanes will give community the student and faculty rate if they mention Good Neighbor week

The Staff Senate has again challenged the Faculty Senate to a friendly contest: Stock the Shocker Support Locker. Participants can make a monetary donation to contribute items on the locker’s wish list or bring food donations to a collection site on campus through Oct. 15.

Collection sites are located at Ahlberg Hall (room 500), Clinton Hall (room 201), Jabara Hall (120), Jardine Hall 112, the John Bardo Center (room 162), Morrison Hall (room 010), the Rhatigan Student Center (room 219), and the reception desks at the Partnership 2 Building, the Ablah Library, the Marcus Welcome Center, and the Office of International Education.

Donors should identify their items with a sticker at the dropbox so that they can be counted properly for the  Faculty/Staff tallies. Donations can also be made outside the competition.

If your office would like to host a donation site, please email gretchen.holthaus@wichita.edu to participate.