Category: News

Celebrate Pride Month with new Pride Shocker gear at the Shocker Store. You can find a Pride T-shirt, stickers, lanyards and lion plush in both the Rhatigan Student Center store and through the online storefront.

Degree Works (degree audit) will receive a necessary software upgrade Tuesday, June 18. It will be unavailable starting at 8 a.m. and should be restored by 5 p.m.

Please plan accordingly. For questions, reach out to Sally Fiscus, associate registrar, at sally.fiscus@wichita.edu or 316-978-7279.

The Evelyn Hendren Cassat Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic at Wichita State is open all summer, offering services to the public and the WSU community. The clinic provides services to people across all ages who have communication difficulties, including speaking, hearing, swallowing and spoken and written language impairments.

The Speech-Language-Hearing clinic is located in the Hughes Metropolitan Complex at the intersection of 29th and Oliver. Call 316-978-3289 to schedule an appointment.

The Department of Political Science has announced that Dr. Alex Middlewood was elected to serve a three-year term as the chair of the department.

Dr. Middlewood is looking forward to serving Wichita State students and the Wichita community at-large.

Rachel Amerson, Ph.D., was promoted to training director of Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS). Rachel has been at CAPS for three years, starting as a trainee herself in her doctoral internship.

Since then, she has been passionate about supporting trainees and expanding the training opportunities at CAPS. Rachel has also taken over the training director position for the APA accredited Wichita Collaborative Psychology Internship Program (WCPIP), which includes internship opportunities at CAPS, University of Kansas Medical Center and Prairie View.

An Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) Operations and Maintenance Class will be held June 10-14 at the National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) on campus.

The newly developed training program teaches attendees how to operate and maintain an AFP machine using basic and advanced functions. There are still spots available for this four-day hands-on class, which includes instruction on compatible materials, machine limitations and challenges associated with performing a successful layup.

Attendees will also learn how to disassemble certain modules and parts on the machine. Learn more about this unique opportunity to take the first steps toward adoption of AFP technology.

The Evelyn Hendren Cassat Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic at Wichita State is open all summer, offering services to the public and the WSU community. The clinic provides services to people across all ages who have communication difficulties, including speaking, hearing, swallowing and spoken and written language impairments. The clinic offers hearing evaluations to faculty and staff at no additional charge.

The Speech-Language-Hearing clinic is located in the Hughes Metropolitan Complex at the intersection of 29th and Oliver. Call 316-978-3289 to schedule an appointment.

The Shocker Teaching Community of Practice is available for all who teach at WSU (tenured, tenure-track and non-tenure track faculty, adjunct faculty, GTAs, etc.). The Shocker Teaching Community of Practice, rooted in the Student Experience Project created by the Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities and the Coalition of Urban-Serving Universities, provides a monthly gathering space for community members to learn about, implement and reflect on the five core components of student success that can be implemented in teaching practices.

Monthly meeting times will be set based on availability of members of the Shocker Teaching Community of Practice. To join the Shocker Teaching Community of Practice for the 2024-25 academic year, fill out the online form.

For questions or more information about the Shocker Teaching Community of Practice, contact Brett Bruner, assistant vice president for Student Success & Persistence, at brett.bruner@wichita.edu.

The following faculty were approved for sabbaticals:

Suhair Abdinnour, professor — FREDS
Neal Allen, associate professor — Department of Political Science
Abu Asaduzzaman, associate professor — Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Amy Chesser, professor — Department of Public Health Sciences
Hussein Hamdeh, professor — Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics
Jens Kreinath, associate professor — Department of Anthropology
Hyuck Kwon, professor — Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chengzong Pang, associate professor — Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Atul Rai, associate professor — School of Accountancy
Nickolas Solomey, professor — Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics
Sam Taylor, associate professor — Department of English
Mary Waters, professor — Department of English

The Cohen Honors College invites the campus community to presentations from candidates for the director of Undergraduate Research and Creativity Hub on June 6, 7 and 11 in A1311 Shocker Hall, Honors Seminar Room or via Zoom.

Information about the presentation schedule, candidates and position description can be found on the director of Undergraduate Research and Creativity Hub page.