Category: Events and Recreation

You’re invited to the fourth annual Chartwells Catering Grand Showcase 4-6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 23 at the Rhatigan Student Center Ballroom.

The event will feature samples from our upcoming, new Mingle + Nosh menu. To participate, register at the link below. Participants who donate a canned food item will receive a free drink ticket. There will also be a photo booth at the event.

Join Dr. Jens Kreinath at 7 p.m., Friday, Sept. 24 at Neff Hall on the second floor for an informative tour of “Remember Aleppo.” A discussion will follow at 7:30 p.m.

The tour and discussion will focus on the photo exhibit “Reimagining Aleppo Through Peace and Pain,” which opened at Neff Hall in 2019.

Please join us for our next Physics Seminar at 2 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 22 at Jabara Hall room 126. The talk features Dr. Zbigniew Celinski, from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. The title of seminar is “Ferrite Particles for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Thermometry.”

Delta Gamma Sorority will host their annual Pancake Feed 11 a.m.-2 and 8 p.m.-11 p.m. Oct. 1, and 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Oct. 2. at the Delta Gamma house on the Omega Court. All proceeds from the event will go toward the sorority’s philanthropy, Service for Sight. 

Tickets are $5 and can be purchased from Delta Gamma at the house or from a member. The price includes a choice of pancake, toppings and a beverage.

The next Meet the Firms, a bi-annual event hosted by Beta Alpha Psi for the W. Frank Barton School of Business students, will take place 1-2 p.m. Sept. 22 at the Rhatigan Student Center on the third floor.

There will be more than 20 businesses in at the event. Students are encouraged to bring their Shocker ID and resumes.

“Who Scammed Rajah Rabbit?,” a 30-minute film that documents one of the oddest events in Wichita history, will be screened at the Tallgrass Film Festival at 1:30 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 24 at the Orpheum Theatre. Virtual screenings at the festival will be announced at a later date. Sara Harmon, adjunct professor at Shocker Studios, co-produced the film.

The film documents a rabbit-related con that affected Wichita and other cities in the United States. After a salesman named Porter arrived in Wichita in 1929, he convinced everyone that his breed of rajah rabbits would produce luxury furs and premium meats. Farmers, business executives and children,  invested in Porter’s scheme.

By May 1930, Porter and the city’s investments disappeared, but 55,000 rabbits were left to fend for themselves. Wichita fell prey to one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in the Midwest.

Wichita State’s Graduate School at the W. Frank Barton School of Business will host a webinar on the topic of Researching for impact noon-1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 24, via Zoom.

Three WSU panelists will be featured:

• Dr. Usha Haley, Barton of Distinguished Chair in International Business, director of the Center for International Business Advancement and elected Chair of the World Trade Council of Wichita.
• Dr. Smita Srivastava, assistant professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship WSU Department of Management
• Dr. Coleen Pugh, Dean of WSU Graduate School

Each panelist will present different perspectives of scholarly and funded research impact. The discussion will be moderated by the Barton School director of Research, Dr. Atul Rai.

We thank Usha Haley for organizing this event and hope to see you at the webinar.

The Zoom link for the webinar is listed below. The password is 450313.

Dr. Edil Torres Rivera — Wichita State professor and Latinx studies director in the Interventions Service and Leadership in Education Department at the College of Applied Studies — will present “In search of a decolonized curriculum: Reimagining models for decolonization and critical consciousness” at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 28 at Jabara Hall (room 127).

Rivera is interested in multicultural counseling, group work, chaos theory, liberation psychology, technology, supervision, multicultural counseling, prisons, Puerto Rican studies, identity development and gang-related behavior. His primary research focuses on how indigenous healing techniques are a necessary ingredient when working with ethnic minority populations in the United States.

Rivera has additional interests in studying the implications of social injustice and oppression in counseling and psychotherapy with ethnic minorities, especially those involving school-age Latinos and Latinas in the United States.

Visit Wichita State’s Ablah Library to view it’s latest exhibit, “Crime Scene ICT,” located on the lower level of Ablah Library, outside of Special Collections. The exhibit was created by Sara Rue, WSU anthropology graduate student.

Crime Scene ICT is about the history of forensic science in Wichita and at Wichita State University.  It highlights O.W. Wilson’s creation of training schools, Dr. William Eckert’s International Organization for Forensic Medicine, and Dr. Peer Moore-Jansen’s current Skeleton Acres Research Facility (SARF).

Rue is pursuing her graduate certificate in museum studies and created the display as part of an independent study under the direction of her instructor, Rachelle Meinecke, WSU Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department of Anthropology museum director.

Graduate students, registration is now open for the fourth annual Three Minute Thesis Competition (3MT) 2 p.m. Nov. 12.

During the 3MT competition, each student summarizes the importance and impact of their research in just three minutes. Winners will go on to represent Wichita State at a regional competition in spring 2022.

Registration closes at 11:59 P.m. Nov. 1 at 11:59 PM. Find rules, tips, and other participant information at our website.