Category: Events and Recreation

The Department of Biological Sciences’ seminar series continues with WSU alum Olivia Schouten, MS, of The Nature Conservancy from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13 in 231 Hubbard Hall.

Her talk will cover “Grazing a Prairie Restoration with Adaptive Management: Using data collection, monitoring, and observation to guide stewardship decisions at the Kankakee Sands Preserve in Indiana.”

The biology seminars are open to the public and students are encouraged to attend.

Join the Black Student Union (BSU) for a night of fun at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25 at the Carousel Skating Rink. Tickets are $12 for members and $14 for non-members.

Tickets are only being sold prior to the event during BSU tabling events in the Rhatigan Student Center on Feb. 13 and Feb. 14 and at all BSU events leading up to the event.

Students are invited to join a meeting with the Society of Manufacturing Engineers at 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16 in 264 John Bardo Center. At the meeting, participants can learn more about the organization, such as benefits for members and upcoming events. Students will also be able to participate in a fun toothpick tower-building competition to win prizes.

All majors are welcome and do not need to be current members of the organization to come.

Interested in local history? Join the Society of Public Historians at noon Wednesday, Feb. 15 in 258 Rhatigan Student Center for lunch and a discussion of the upcoming semester for the organization.

Any students, staff, faculty or general community members with an interest in history are encouraged to attend.

Join Tajahnaé Stocker, anti-hunger advocate, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 14 in 262 Rhatigan Student Center for a robust discussion on addressing campus hunger through policy.

Students will learn how to eradicate food insecurity and hunger in our community through policy, community mobilization and advocacy. They will participate in different conversations and learn how this can impact them and in the Shocker community.

The event is sponsored by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and Kansas AppleSeed.

Looking for a gift for a loved one? Wanting a treat in the spirit of self love? Love supporting local artists? The WSU Ceramics Guild and Tornado Alley Press, WSU’s printmaking guild, will have a Valentine’s Day sale in the Rhatigan Student Center from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13.

Gift sets including a cup, candy and hot cocoa mix will be offered for sale by the Ceramics Guild, while Tornado Alley Press will have beautiful and unique art prints available for purchase. Come support two of WSU’s guilds.

Zach Gearhart, chief of staff, will update faculty and staff on legislative issues raised related to Wichita State from the Kansas state government.

The meeting is open to all faculty and staff every other Friday in the Morrison Hall board room. The next meeting is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 10.

The Office of Engagement is excited to be involved in bringing the first Open Streets ICT (OSICT) to WSU and Shocker Neighborhood, from 1 to 4 p.m. April 16.

The purpose of OSICT is to elevate the quality of life and health of the Wichita community. It does this by promoting healthy and active living, enhancing community connectivity, and building community pride through interaction with local businesses and nonprofit organizations.

The community can help OSICT by becoming a vendor and sharing their department’s, college’s or student organization’s message, fundraising and selling merchandise, or putting together a spin wheel for prizes, raffles, collect information, face paint and more. Or create a fun engaging way to connect and share information with the community by hosting an activity like games, dunk tanks, Zumba, yoga, etc. Community members can also help OSICT by volunteering for the day.

The route is along 17th Street from Oliver Street to Volutsia Street. With access to Fairmount Park to enhance community connectivity and build community pride through interacting with local businesses, organizations and the university community in Shocker Neighborhood.

Counseling and Prevention Services (CAPS) will host “Stigmas, Stereotypes and Safety: A conversation about substance abuse and use in our community” at 1 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23 in 231 Hubbard Hall.

Dylan Dunn, assistant director of SAFE Campuses at SAFE (Stop the Addiction Fatality Epidemic) Project, will discuss how society views and approaches substance use and addiction while also teaching participants how to navigate and better understand the current realities of fentanyl. Through a mixture of reflective and practical discussion, participants will develop a greater understanding of the role they all play in supporting students impacted by substance use and how they can directly prevent overdose and empower recovery.

WSU Libraries is hosting Trademark Basics, the next workshop in its Entrepreneurship Research Series, at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14 in 217 Ablah Library.

In the series, WSU Libraries shows participants how to ensure their logo is trademarked and walk them through the application process, guaranteeing no one else can claim it.