Category: Events and Recreation

Erin Cummings — a W. Frank Barton School of Business graduate, president of the Barton School’s Dean’s Alumni Advisory Board and owner of YESyoga — will hold a launch event for her first published work, “The Possibility Project: A Guided Journal for Creating What’s Possible,” at Wichita State. The event will be held from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Thursday, April 27 in the Woolsey Hall auditorium. RSVP is required to attend.

“The Possibility Project” is an evolution of a vision and goals workshop Cummings created for YESyoga, which offers specific prompts, honest questions, motivating statements and a simplistic, calming design to help readers who are “drowning under the weight of the promise of having it all.” The journal then guides readers to discover what they truly value and create what’s possible through productivity, creativity, movement and purpose.

The kickoff event will feature a fireside chat by Cummings titled “Moving With Purpose and Unlocking Possibilities” and will be followed by a book signing opportunity for attendees along with a networking reception. The Barton School is excited to offer the campus community an opportunity to meet Erin Cummings, learn about her journey and explore her thoughts on how to create what’s possible.

The Department of Psychology will hold its 19th Annual Research Roundup on Friday, April 14. Research Roundup is a department-wide annual event where graduate students and research labs in the three doctorate programs (human factors, clinical-community and community psychology) will present their research to a wide audience across campus.

Research Roundup will take place in the Rhatigan Student Center at the following times:

• 1:00-2:15 p.m. – Poster presentations in 305/306 Rhatigan Student Center, Beggs Ballroom.
• 2:30-3:30 p.m. – Oral presentations in 301 Rhatigan Student Center, Gridley Room.

For more information about the event, contact Dr. Quan Lei, assistant professor of psychology, at quan.lei@wichita.edu.

The Office of Diversity and Inclusion is partnering with Center of Daring and Spectrum: LGBTQ & Allies to host “From Allyship to Advocacy: Supporting Our LGBTQ+ Communities” from 11 a.m. to noon Wednesday, April 12 in 261 Rhatigan Student Center.

Learn more about the recent legislation updates affecting LGBTQ+ rights across the country, while understanding how to move from allyship to advocacy to support LGBTQ+ communities.

The Wichita State School of Performing Arts presents, “Compendium,” an anthology with four short films making up the bill at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 21 and Saturday, April 22 in Welsbacher Theatre. Each short film is set in an imagined world “where time and space collide into the uncertain threads of the future.”

Tickets are available for $10, and students with a Shocker ID can get in at no additional charge.

WSU’s Theatre Program produced “Compendium: as part of its season this year. The show was produced by Bret Jones, theatre professor and program coordinator of acting for digital arts. It is a collaborative project between the theatre and filmmaking departments. Three of the scripts were written by WSU Filmmaking students with the fourth being written by Jones.

The film features a cast of WSU student actors, including Carson Ediger, Emily Redfield, Ella Kempker, Drew Thomas, Renae Richmond, Steven Soetjoadi, Hayley Longacre, Ian Moore, Jo Smith, Ashley Grega, Morgan Holcomb and Trevor Andreason. And it also features a crew of WSU filmmaking students, including Mason Love, Ashlynn Farney, David Maher, Lainey Caldwell, Alyssa Pfeifer, Luke Schroeder, Molly Bazar, Triston Noler, Garrison Ummel, Jonathan Stanger, Jordan Devoy, Madalynn Wilson, Zachary McGuire, Zakary Aaron, Sofia Witt, Pablo Prado, Alicia Santos, Gregory Vieyra. Student Writers: Jesse Nightingale, Jillian Terrell, and Tina Truong. Student Directors: Mason Vietti, Jesse Nightingale.

The Department of Public Health Sciences is co-hosting a series of film fests for the National Endowment for the Arts’ (NEA) Big Read: Wichita alongside the Wichita Public Library and Tallgrass Film Association. The next event is a screening of the movie, “The Upside” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 13 in the Advanced Learning Library, 711 W. 2nd St. N.

Food and popcorn sponsors are Independent Living Resource Center and Wichita Urban Professionals. After the screening, join a discussion of the film at The Monarch at 579 W. Douglas Ave. with guest moderator Kyle Ellison from Heroes Academy Kansas. Food and beverage discounts are offered with a ticket stub.

Each week will feature a new film that, like “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?” by Roz Chast, the book chosen for this year’s NEA Big Read: Wichita, explores caregiving and the universal challenges experienced as one cares for someone with a chronic illness, injury, medical trauma or nearing end of life.

Student Activities Council will host a tailgate party from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, April 21 at Wilkins Stadium before the Shockers take on East Carolina. It will have food trucks, a sidewalk chalk competition and various games for attendees to play.

The event itself will be free and not require registration, but any food purchased at food trucks will not be covered and participation in the sidewalk chalk competition will require registration.

The Wichita State Sustainability Council is accepting abstract submissions for its the third Student Research Poster Showcase from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 22 in the Rhatigan Student Center. All students are encouraged to submit an abstract for the showcase. Intersectional research, specific projects, program evaluations and new ideas are all welcome.

Potential submissions can include the following sustainability research topics:

• Sustainable manufacturing
• Climate change
• Green infrastructure
• Waste/recycling
• Environmental justice
• Sustainability in education
• Water/wastewater
• Urban planning

The deadline to submit an abstract is Thursday, April 13.

Celebrate pride at Wichita State with the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and Spectrum: LGBTQ & Allies at PRIDE Prom.

The PRIDE Prom will take place from 7 to 10 p.m. on Saturday, April 15 in 233 Rhatigan Student Center. There will be food, a photo booth, music and more.

Join the night of fun in a safe space with friends and allies. Everyone is welcome to attend and prom attire is encouraged but not required.

Students are invited to attend a conversation with Roz Chast, author of “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?,” the book selected for this year’s NEA Big Read: Wichita, from 11 a.m. to noon Friday, April 14 in the CAC Theater.

This event is ideal for students in health professions, social work, art, graphic design, communication, pre-med, English, human resources, psychology, sociology or in the Honors College.

Faculty and staff are welcome to attend the student conversation as well, but the Big Read: Wichita keynote featuring Chast at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 15 is open to the entire Wichita community at the WSU Hughes Metroplex, 5015 E. 29th St. N.

Chast grew up in Brooklyn, and her cartoons began appearing in the New Yorker in 1978. Since then, she has published more than one thousand cartoons in the magazine and has written and illustrated many books.

Zach Gearhart, chief of staff, hosts biweekly updates for faculty and staff on legislative issues raised related to Wichita State from the Kansas state government.

This week’s session has been rescheduled for 10 a.m. Monday, April 10 in the Morrison Hall board room.