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The Shocker Leadership Experience (SLE) is a free five-day, four-night overnight retreat experience at Rock Springs 4-H Camp in Junction City, Kansas from Jan. 8 to 12, 2024.

SLE engages participants in leadership knowledge and skill development facilitated in both small and large groups, as well as through numerous interactive activities. The program is great for all students, regardless of leadership experience. Topics include:

• Dynamics of followership
• Building community/belonging
• Leadership power and influence
• Living and leading on purpose

Transportation, food, lodging and a T-shirt are all included at no additional charge. Applications are open until 11:59 p.m. Dec. 3. For questions, email lead.grad@wichita.edu.

Utilizing the Innovation Hub in the John Bardo Center, College of Engineering students created approximately 70 plaques for the Memorial ’70 ceremony held Oct. 2 at the memorial site on campus. The annual ceremony of remembrance occurs every year to honor WSU football players, administrators and supporters who died in the plane crash Oct. 2, 1970.

At this year’s ceremony, attendees such as survivors and loved ones of the former football players, were gifted with the plaques. The plaques are composed of salvaged aluminum seating from the east side of Cessna Stadium, the same stadium where the WSU football team practiced and played from the 1940s until the 1980s, as well as stained oak wood. Within a few days, the students participated in prototyping, testing and producing 140 parts and laser etching approximately 70 aluminum plaques.

Happy 75th birthday to Shocker Nation’s own WuShock! Wu, who has been Wichita State’s mascot since 1948, is a friend to every Shocker fan and is the number one supporter of all things Wichita and Wichita State.

Stay tuned to WSU’s social media accounts Saturday, Oct. 7 for a celebratory video from the campus community, and join us by sharing your own birthday wishes to Wu with the hashtag #ShockersUp.

Visit the Reuben Saunders Gallery, 3215 E. Douglas Ave., in October to experience a thoughtful variety of built and thrown clay works juried by ceramicist Chotsani Elaine Dean in support of the Empty Bowls fundraiser to benefit HumanKind Ministries and the ICT Community Fridge Project.

The Empty Bowls Chili Cook-Off fundraiser, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 21 in Woolsey Hall, is presented by Empty Bowls Wichita with support from the Ulrich Museum of Art, WSU School of Art, Design and Creative Industries, and the WSU Ceramics Guild.

The Office of Student Success and First-Year Programs are looking for nominations of students that you believe will make an outstanding transition mentor (TM). TMs play a vital role in guiding, supporting and motivating incoming Shockers throughout summer orientation programs and in the fall semester.

Nominations will be accepted until Oct. 31 and applications will open Nov. 1.

The Office of Student Success and First-Year Programs is inviting faculty and staff to nominate undergraduate students they believe will make outstanding transition mentors (TM). TMs play a vital role in guiding, supporting and motivating incoming Shockers throughout summer orientation programs and the fall semester.

A nomination holds the potential to significantly impact the academic journey and future success of new Shockers. Nominations will be accepted until Oct. 31 and applications will open Nov. 1.

WSU Fire Safety will conduct required annual fire alarm testing during October. Testing will be accomplished between the hours of 7 p.m. and 3 a.m. for most campus buildings. Buildings with evening classes will be tested after 10 p.m.

Persons utilizing any evening study spaces may be interrupted by fire alarms. No testing will be done in any residence hall, Rhatigan Student Center, CAC Theater, partnership buildings or Braeburn Square facilities.

Any questions or concerns can be emailed to scott.murray@wichita.edu.

Faculty and staff, don’t miss this opportunity to refresh your closet. Find everything you need for a professional wardrobe. Visit JCPenney Towne East from 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 8 to receive a 30% off coupon on select career wear at the JCPenney Suit-Up event. Shocker ID is required for coupon.

Want to shop online? Text SHOCKS to 67292 to get a 30% off coupon.

There are major changes and improvements coming to the 2024-25 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form. As a result, the new form will be available in December 2023, not the usual Oct. 1 date.

The launch date will apply only for the 2024-25 FAFSA form.

The changes to the FAFSA form for the 2024-25 aid year include:

• Expanded eligibility for federal student aid
• A more streamlined application process

For more information, visit studentaid.gov

WSU Math Circle resumes meetings for the fall semester. The next meeting is at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 1 in 101 Lindquist Hall. Math Circle is a program for middle school students. Sunday’s speaker is Dr. Mai Dao, who will discuss the innerworkings of QR and bar codes, along with guiding students on how to make their own during the discussion.

Math Circles are education enrichment and outreach groups that bring mathematicians and mathematical scientists into direct contact with pre-college students. These students meet with math professionals in an informal setting, after school or on weekends, to work on interesting problems or topics in mathematics. The goal is to get the students excited and passionate about mathematics.

Middle school students should bring a completed registration and consent form from the website.