Category: News

The Center for Entrepreneurship has funding dedicated to helping Shockers make their ideas rock the marketplace.

The Center for Entrepreneurship knows that building an idea can be challenging, especially when faced with financial constraints, and that’s why its excited to offer these opportunities to remove those barriers. It’s about encouraging students to explore their innovative ideas and take risks as they build ideas with commercial possibility.

Would you like to get involved in the 2024 election? The Shockers Vote delegation will lead the planning, implementation and facilitation of all Shockers Vote initiatives leading into the 2024 election.

Delegation positions consist of the following: president, marketing, deliberative dialogue and voter engagement. The Ambassador position will take place from January 2024 to December 2024. Interviews for the positions will take place in November, and applicants will be notified of their placement in early December. Delegates will be compensated for their work.

Learn more about available positions, and applications are due Nov. 10. For questions, email Loren Belew at loren.belew@wichita.edu or call 316-978-7016.

Learn more about the Psychology Department’s community psychology doctoral program at its virtual information session from 2 to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25 via Zoom.

Community psychology is a growing field that conducts social justice-focused, action-oriented research. There are only twenty community psychology doctoral programs in the U.S., and one of them is at Wichita State. Students are accepted at both a bachelor’s and master’s level and frequently come from a variety of undergraduate majors, including psychology, social work, criminal justice, public health, sociology, women’s, ethnicity, and intersectional studies, and more.

The Shocker Store is taking regalia rental orders from faculty and staff members who are planning on attending the fall 2023 commencement. The deadline to place an order is 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3.

Email Julie at shockerstore@wichita.edu or call 316-978-7021. Payment is due when the order is placed. The deadline to purchase a custom academic regalia is Friday, Oct. 20.

Student Engagement, Advocacy & Leadership (SEAL) is home to student activities, community service opportunities, leadership programs, fraternity and sorority life, student government, and over 200 student organizations.

The opportunities SEAL offers enhances the academic experience, builds personal and professional networks, strengthens citizenship, creates meaningful memories and provides students the skills they need for success in their future careers.

SEAL understands how important it is for students to get engaged on campus and encourages them to attend an event, serve the community, sign up for a leadership program, or even join a student organization.

Shocker Career Accelerator is excited to share the Class of 2022 First Destination Survey Report results. The report presents an overview of the Wichita State graduating cohort of 2022.

The data was sourced from the First Destination Survey, a nationwide initiative to encapsulate the early-career trajectories of recent college graduates within the first six months post-graduation.

University Libraries are excited to present an opportunity for students to expand their research skills at the next Savvy Scholar workshop.

Join WSU Libraries from 3 to 4 p.m. Nov. 1 in Ablah Library’s Digital Scholars Commons, or participate online, in the Reading Literature with Geographic Information System workshop with guest speaker Katie Lanning, assistant professor of English.

The workshop will focus on leveraging geographic information systems (GIS) to supercharge research endeavors. WSU Libraries encourages faculty and staff to share the workshop with their students to take advantage of the opportunity to bolster their research skills and enrich their projects.

The Widener Global Leaders Program (WGLP) has announced that Jamie Harrison, chief growth officer at Meritrust Credit Union, will be joining its advisory board. WGLP is led by the Barton School of Business in collaboration with the Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the College of Fine Arts. It is an interdisciplinary program designed to create, nurture and empower the next generation of global female leaders, and to provide a transformative multidisciplinary educational experience in business, communication and arts during college that enables these leaders to be ahead-of-the game upon graduation.

“As a female leader in the banking industry, the heart of the WGLP’s mission aligns so closely with who I am and what I believe in,” Harrison said. “I wish this program existed when I was in school at WSU. The participants in this program are changing the world and I am happy to be a small part of their personal and professional growth and development.”

Shocker Printing is pleased to announce that it now stocks a limited selection of supplies for the ImageQuest Xerox copier fleet. In the event that you have run out of toner and haven’t received a replacement from ImageQuest, you have the option to obtain toner from Shocker Printing.

To place an order, visit the Shocker Printing storefront. During the checkout process, instead of providing an org/fund number, input your ImageQuest printer ID number.

In addition to toner, Shocker Printing also carries a limited supply of waste toner containers and drums for the fleet. Note that quantities are restricted, allowing for a maximum order of one unit for each item.

The College of Engineering is searching for a new associate dean for research and invites the campus community to attend presentations from each of the candidates sharing their vision for the future of the college:

• Dr. Bayram Yildrim, professor of industrial, systems and manufacturing engineering – 2-3 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 17 in 123 Wallace Hall
• Dr. Ramazan Asmatulu, the Boeing Global Professor of mechanical engineering – 2-3 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 18 in A131 Partnership Building 2
• Dr. Anil Mahapatro, chairperson and professor of biomedical engineering – 4-5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 18 in A131 Partnership Building 2