Category: News

In observance of the Independence Day, the Rhatigan Student Center (RSC) and its departments will close temporarily Monday, July 4. For regular building and department hours of operation, please visit the RSC Hours website.

The Rhatigan Student Center Shocker Store will close for year-end inventory at noon June 29-July 4. They will reopen at 8 a.m. Tuesday, July 5. Web orders placed during this time may be delayed. The Braeburn Square Shocker Store will remain open during this time.

The Office of Strategic Communications in Morrison Hall will be closed for staff development on Thursday, June 23. The office will reopen at 8 a.m. Friday, June 24. For immediate issues contact 316-978-3045 or shelly.coleman-martins@wichita.edu.

Wichita State Parking Services has reached out to all departments, corporations and partners on campus to renew parking needs for fiscal year 2023. There are still reserved, non-reserved and visitor parking ePermits available for purchase.

If your work center was not contacted, or if your organization has updated parking needs for the new fiscal year, please contact wsuparking@wichita.edu.

The Office of Academic Affairs will interview two director candidates for the Ulrich Museum. Students, faculty and staff are invited to attend a public presentation featuring the second candidate, Joseph Yates, at 2:30 p.m. June 27 at the Ulrich Museum, Beren Gallery.  The presentation will also be streamed live on YouTube.

Joseph Yates is the curatorial director at the KMAC Museum located in Louisville, Kentucky. He will be on campus June 27 and 28.

For more information, visit the Academic Affairs website.

Campus Credit Union is now open on the first floor of the Rhatigan Student Center. The location’s hours of operation are 7:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. For more information, visit Campus Credit Union website.

Faculty and staff are invited to attend a press conference introducing incoming Athletic Director Kevin Saal at 1 p.m. today in the Charles Koch Arena atrium.

Saal, along with President Rick Muma, will speak to the audience during the event. Because space is limited, the event will also be livestreamed.

The Office of Academic Affairs will interview two director candidates for the Ulrich Museum. Students, faculty and staff are invited to attend a public presentation featuring the first candidate, Vivian Zavataro, at 2:30 p.m. June 23 at the Ulrich Museum Beren Gallery. The presentation will also be streamed live on YouTube.

Zavataro is the director and chief curator at the John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art, located in Reno, Nevada. She will be on campus on June 23 and 24.

For more information, visit the Academic Affairs website.

The grand opening for NetApp’s new 168,000-square-foot facility took place June 15 at Wichita State’s Innovation campus. The facility will support WSU’s nationally recognized research programs such as the National Institute for Research and Digital Transformation and the National Institute for Aviation Research. The facility also features an on-site large-scale data center and an Artificial Intelligence SuperPOD/HPC Center of Excellence.

The locations will allow NetApp to partner directly with WSU on any future curriculum applying to NetApp’s core technology and provide WSU students with the opportunity for hands-on training and valuable lab experience before graduation. 

Wichita State University President Rick Muma is excited to announce the hiring of Kevin Saal as WSU’s new Director of Athletics.

Saal, who has been athletic director at Murray State University since March 2019, will take the reins of the Shocker Athletics program from WSU’s interim athletic director, Sarah Adams, effective mid-July.