Category: News

The University Libraries’ annual Edible Book Festival takes place from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday, April 1 in Ablah Library. All are encouraged to vote for their favorite entry in-person or online via the survey that will be sent out on all the University Libraries’ social media channels:

• Twitter: @wsulibrary
• Instagram: @wsulibrary
• Facebook: @wsulibraries

Wichita State University’s College of Engineering has named the latest group of high school seniors to join the Wallace Scholar program.

The 13 Wallace Scholarship recipients will receive $28,500 each to attend Wichita State for four years. In addition, two students receiving other major university scholarships will be designated as Wallace Scholars.

It’s that time of year to honor your best. Graduate School annual awards nominations are open. Each program may nominate one student who is enrolled in the fall 2022 term for each of the following awards:

• Tillford Fellowship
• Delano Maggard Jr. Research Grant
• Dora Wallace Hodgson Outstanding Graduate Student — Master’s
• Dora Wallace Hodgson Outstanding Graduate Student — Doctoral

Information on each award and nominations process is available at the Graduate School awards website. Simply complete the nomination form for your program by the deadline for consideration. The nomination period closes at end of day April 18.

The 2022-2023 Wichita State University Undergraduate and Graduate Catalogs are now live and online. Links to both catalogs can be found at wichita.edu/catalog.

Be sure to check out everything that’s new at WSU! Look on the degrees and academic majors page to browse through all of WSU’s undergraduate or graduate degrees, programs and certificates. Click on any of the column headers to sort the list the way you want it, or click on the name of the program and go right to the program information.

Curious about admission? Financial aid? Advising? Commencement ceremonies? Links to all this information and more are available in the catalog.

The catalogs are accessible from your desktop, tablet and smartphone.

Links to download PDFs of the full Undergraduate and Graduate Catalogs are located at the bottom right of every page next to links creating PDFs of individual catalog pages.

Robert M. Gates, U.S. secretary of defense from 2006-2011 and former director of the CIA, will kick off Wichita State University’s inaugural Craig W. Barton Speaker Series this spring.

Gates, who grew up in Wichita, will be the featured speaker in the moderated discussion at 6 p.m. April 27, in WSU’s Wiedemann Hall.

Thanks to a generous gift from Meritrust Credit Union, students in WSU’s Barton School of Business will now have greater access to career readiness tools and connections. Learn more about the launch of the business school’s Office of Career and Professional Development.

The School of Nursing at Wichita State University has received a $35,000 endowed scholarship gift from retired faculty member Shirley Hazen through the Shirley E. Hazen RN-BSN Endowed Nursing Scholarship.

The Office of Diversity and Inclusion will close at 3 p.m. Friday, March 25 to celebrate the 14th annual Phenomenal Women Awards Reception.

Graduate students are strongly encouraged to submit their proposals for the 2022 University Community Innovations for Positive Aging Graduate Student Poster forum to be held in conjunction with the UCIPA conference on April 15.

This is a free event, but registration is mandatory. Students who submit their posters are also required to register for the conference separately.

The Student Activities Council is now on the search for students who are creative, motivated, and driven to create the premier college experience for the student body.

Apply now to become a part of the 2022-2023 Executive Board to build lifelong skills, friendships, and community. Want to know more? Please join us for a panel of our current Executive Board members at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 31 in RSC 264. We will provide insight into our roles, responsibilities, and answer any questions you might have.