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Wichita State has installed new parking signs to clear up confusion about where students, faculty, staff, and visitors can park.

The signs feature prominent block letters: “V” for visitors; “S” for students; and “F” for faculty and staff. Reserved lots and parking spaces are still marked with red signage as before. For the first time, the signs will include lot numbers, allowing for easier wayfinding.

Visitors to WSU may park without an ePermit three times each semester before an ePermit is required. ePermits are only required during the enforcement period: 7 a.m. – 5 p.m. on weekdays when school is in session.

The inauguration ceremony for President Muma is set for 2:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 29, in the Hughes Metropolitan Complex, located at 29th Street N. and Oliver. The event will also be livestreamed on YouTube and on campus television monitors. The theme for the event is “Inspired by the past. Focused on the future.”

The Kansas Board of Regents appointed Muma as the 15th president of Wichita State University in May. He had been serving as interim president of Wichita State since September 2020.

To save the date or for more information, call 316-978-3258 or email inauguration@wichita.edu.You can also visit the link below.

U.S. Army Capt. Scot Mullis is the next Wichita State University Army Reserve Officers’ Training (ROTC) military department chair and assistant professor.

Mullis has been an APMS with Wichita State ROTC since September of 2020. He is a 2010 graduate from the University of Missouri with a Bachelor’s Degree in history and he is currently pursuing his Master of Arts in education.

Multidimensional support systems are the key to preventing bullying and cyberbullying and can help lessen the psychosocial side effects of being a victim of bullying, according to a study done by one Wichita State researcher.

“To prevent school bullying and cyberbullying, teachers, parents, siblings, peers, neighbors, community, job status, religion and school policy must be involved in the prevention program,” said Dr. Jeoung Min Lee, assistant professor in Wichita State University’s School of Social Work.

Aliphine Tuliamuk is in Japan with her daughter. She is sharing her biggest athletic moment with Zoe, born on Jan. 16, while breastfeeding.

Tuliamuk had to fight for this moment, to run the Olympic Marathon in Sapporo while caring for Zoe.

An ancient Wichita Indian town recently rediscovered by Dr. Donald Blakeslee — Fairmont College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department of Anthropology professor and archeologist — is being excavated with help from Shocker students. The town, called Etzanoa, may have been the second-largest settlement on the continent at the time.

For the first time in Wichita State history, the Barton School of Business has awarded three, multi-year scholarships to transfer students committed to joining the business program, in association with the Phi Theta Kappa honor society.

WSU remains committed to providing educational opportunities at no or low cost to senior citizens.

The recently announced change in fee structure will not impact the cost to senior citizens who audit WSU courses. The letter sent to seniors last week can be disregarded. We regret the confusion caused by that.

Individuals 60-plus years of age will continue to not pay course fees. Occasionally, as has always been the case, a course will have incidental costs for supplies needed to participate in class activities. In those cases, students will be responsible for those expenses.

WSU will be sending a letter of clarification to the seniors who received the previous letter.

Dr. Anthony Muscat has been named dean of Wichita State University’s College of Engineering, effective July 25.

Muscat is a professor and chair of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Arizona, where he has been since 1998.

His career history includes administrative appointments as Department Chair of Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Acting Department Head of the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, both at the University of Arizona. He received a bachelor’s in chemical engineering from the University of California-Davis and a master’s and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Stanford University.

Rower Gianluca Gabriele loves the moments past the finish line when he looks at his teammates and savors their cohesion and spirit.

“The thing that sets you apart is how you worked together,” he said. “There’s that gratification of, after a race, looking back and forward at everybody and knowing you raced.”