Category: Events and Recreation

The Student Activities Council, Black Student Union and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion will celebrate Black History Month with a special maker’s market dedicated to showcasing Black-owned businesses and entrepreneurs in the Wichita community.

Shop at the market from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 20 and Wednesday, Feb. 21 on the first floor of the Rhatigan Student Center to celebrate and promote the talented vendors.

Visiting author Brian Turner will read from his new trilogy of poetry books as part of the Writing Now Reading Now series at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 15 at the Ulrich Museum of Art in the Dr. Sam & Jacqui Kouri Collection Study Center.

Writer of the memoir, “My Life as a Foreign Country,” Turner has penned five collections of poetry. He’s the editor of The Kiss and co-edited The Strangest of Theatres and lives in Florida with his dog, Dene.

Writing Now Reading Now is cosponsored by the Department of English, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Watermark Books & Café and the Ulrich Museum. This event is open to everyone. A reception will be hosted starting at 5:30 p.m.

Celebrate love and creativity this Valentine’s Day at the new Makers & Masterpieces series from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 14 at the Ulrich Museum of Art.

Learn the printmaking process using linoleum blocks to create a card for someone you love with the help of WSU’s Tornado Alley Press. Take a photo with the Robert Indiana “LOVE” sculpture. Enjoy sweet and savory snacks and hot cocoa sponsored by the Office of Diversity & Inclusion. Enjoy a special viewing of love themed artworks in the Dr. Sam & Jacqui Kouri Collection Study Center. Purchase roses and handmade ceramics from these student organizations, Arts Exploration Association and the WSU Ceramics Guild.

The Department of Anthropology will host an open house from 1 to 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 16 in Neff Hall.

Those who have ever been interested in anthropology or wonder what it is like to major in anthropology can stop by and visit the Lowell Holmes Museum of Anthropology, the visual anthropology lab and an archaeology lab. Snacks will be available as well.

The Medical Laboratory Sciences Department is holding a virtual information session from noon to 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 23 via Zoom.

Those interested in learning about the medical laboratory sciences profession or have specific questions about the program can tune in to learn more.

Attendees will have a chance to learn about medical laboratory sciences as a career, the application process and chat with current faculty and students.

Lab tours and in-person appointments available by calling 316-978-3146 or emailing MLS@wichita.edu.

The Strengths, Assessment and Staff Experiences (SASE) office will have a Valentine’s card station for students from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 13 at the Rhatigan Student Center Groover Lounge.

Come pick a card for a friend or loved one while supplies last. There will also be a Valentine’s-themed photo booth for students. While supplies last.

Pi Delta Phi is hosting a Mardi Gras bake/book sale from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday Feb. 13 on the first floor of the Rhatigan Student Center, tables 24-26.

Come and try sandwiches, pastries, quiches and French-baked goods. The sale is sponsored by the French division of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures.

Dr. Tania Betancourt, professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Texas State University, will discuss applying for funding for, and directing, a large research center at a workshop at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 15 in 262 Rhatigan Student Center, Herrman Room or virtually via Teams.

Specifically, Dr. Betancourt will discuss the National Science Foundation’s Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) program as an example of a large research center.

Dr. Betancourt is a faculty member of the Materials Science, Engineering and Commercialization Program, and director of the NSF PREM Center for Intelligent Materials Assembly at Texas State. There will be opportunities for questions with WSU researchers at this hybrid session.

For more information or to receive a link to the virtual workshop, contact funding@wichita.edu. You may also register directly on myTraining through myWSU. 

Dr. Betancourt is also presenting a chemistry seminar, “Pulsatile Drug Delivery via Photothermal Modulation of Dynamic Covalent Poly(ethylene glycol)/PEDOT Hydrogels,” as part of WSU’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry colloquium series at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 14 in 224 McKinley Hall. She will also participate in a discussion of Latin-X and Women in STEM from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 15 in 261 RSC, Olive Room. RSVP to carol.mccall@wichita.edu if you plan to attend.

Faculty and staff are invited to attend an Implicit Bias Session with speaker Crystal U. Davis — a dancer, movement analyst and critical race theorist whose current research explores implicit bias in dance through a critical theory lens — There will be two sessions to choose from, at noon Tuesday, Feb. 20 or 9 a.m. Friday, Feb. 23 both in 233 Rhatigan Student Center, Santa Fe Trail Room.

The work of Davis, CLMA, has been renowned by a broad community of adjudicators and audiences from Donald McKayle to the royal family of Jodhpur, India.

Lunch will be provided for attendees on Tuesday, and a continental breakfast will be served at the Friday event. Be sure to register ahead of time as space is limited.

The session is coordinated by the Campus Climate Committee and sponsored by Academic Affairs, Student Affairs and the College of Fine Arts.

Share the love at the Rhatigan Student Center (RSC). Swing by starting at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 13 on the first floor of the RSC to grab some Valentine’s Day goodies to share the next day with family, a friend, loved one or yourself.

While supplies last. Sponsored by the RSC and WSU Dining.