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Women WSU students who have identified a problem people want fixed and have a solution are encouraged to apply for the Women for Women Innovation Fund.

This fund is awarded to aid women in moving forward varied ideas, including previous winners:

• A device meant to a wound vacuum device used following cesarean deliveries to mitigate surgical site infections (Chinello Ogogor, Wombcare)
• A product designed to provide menstruating individuals a more reliable means of predicting periods through continual hormone monitoring (XX Menstrual Monitoring)
• Customizable and sustainable breast prosthesis (Brittany Wojciechowski, Amulya Lomte, and Maria Jose Carrillo Munoz)
• A service connecting local businesses with more consumers (Devon Creasman)
• A symptom-tracking tool meant to aid people struggling with chronic illness (Madeline Shonka, CoVstat)

Applications close Friday, April 28.

Award for Research/Creative Projects in Summer (ARCS) round two proposals are due to the Office of Research no later than 5 p.m. Friday, April 28.

The ARCS opportunity provides funding of up to $4,000 to enable faculty to pursue research or creative projects during the summer. Proposers must work with a grant specialist in the Office of Research prior to submission, and all complete applications require an endorsement from the chair and dean. Incomplete or late applications will not be reviewed or considered. 

Contact proposals@wichita.edu to get started.

Faculty members with an interest in recruiting future Shockers should apply to become a Recruitment Faculty Fellow. Applications for the 2023-24 academic year are open through Friday, April 28.

Recruitment Faculty Fellows work in partnership with the Office of Admissions to recruit new students to the university. The Faculty Fellows engage in both in-person and virtual recruitment efforts and serve as an advocate within their college to inform others about admissions activities and operations.

For questions, contact Kayla Jasso, director of communications at Undergraduate Admissions, at kayla.jasso@wichita.edu.

Due to significant increases in the cost of Zoom licenses, Wichita State’s Zoom pro accounts will need to transition to a paid service in the new fiscal year starting July 1.

Microsoft Teams provides an equivalent videoconferencing service that is available to all faculty, staff and students. For most purposes, we encourage faculty and staff to transition from Zoom to Teams. Teams is available through the university’s Office 365 enterprise service at no additional cost to faculty, staff and students.

Zoom basic accounts can be used to hold meetings or classes for up to 40 minutes, and two-person meetings (one-on-one) without a time limit.

For those who need to continue Zoom pro service, the cost will be $35 per year per account to be paid by the department or unit requesting the account.

Next steps:

If a Zoom account needs to remain a pro account, please use the link below to provide the user ID and an org and fund number. At the start of the new fiscal year, all other accounts will be reduced to basic accounts.

• Zoom Pro Account Information form

In addition, all new pro accounts will require the org and fund to request an account.

For Teams training and support:

• If you need immediate assistance with a Teams issue, contact the Help Desk at 316-978-4357, option 1.
• Training is available in myTraining (provided by ITS look for “Virtual Meetings in Teams”) and in the LinkedIn Learning library (Microsoft Teams Essential Training).
• Get started with the Microsoft Teams Meetings Quick Start Guide.
• Instructors can get started with Using Teams for Class Meetings.
• Will be available at the August Academic Resources Conference (ARC).

Earlier this spring, Wichita State announced the newest recipients of the Koch Scholarship. The Koch Scholars have been awarded $30,000 for in-state students and $45,000 for out-of-state students each. The competitive program is based on high academic achievement, work, volunteer and leadership experiences, an essay and an interview process.

Three of the seven recipients have chosen to major in business, so the Barton School talked to each of them to learn more about their interests and excitement for the upcoming fall 2023 semester.

The annual update for the CourseLeaf CIM system will take place on Monday, April 10. During the time, access to the system will be closed including the “approve pages” for proposals currently in the workflow, so editors and approvers should refrain from trying to log into CIM on Monday.

Access to CIM will be restored by Tuesday, April 11.

Josh Cornett, a senior double majoring in art history and accounting, has been selected to present his paper “Shifting Sympathies: Thomas Nast’s Indian Cartoons in Post-Civil War America,” on Thursday, April 6 at the Pop Culture Association 2023 National Conference in San Antonio, Texas.

Cornett is currently the curatorial intern at the Ulrich Museum of Art and is primarily interested in the cultural exchange between indigenous groups and colonizing groups. While performing research in preparation for the Ulrich’s 2022 exhibition “Myths of the West: Narrating Stories of the Land and People through Wichita Art Collections,” Cornett found himself gathering an abundance of research about the German-born American political cartoonist Thomas Nast, as four of his works were displayed in the show, and Cornett went on to construct his paper from this research.

Cornett made the decision to submit his piece to the conference with encouragement from Brittany Lockard, associate professor of art history in the School of Art, Design and Creative Industries.

Departments planning for academic year end awards and gifts should place their orders now with RSC Engraving, located inside the Shocker Sports Grill & Lanes in the lower level of the Rhatigan Student Center.

RSC Engraving provides personalized products and gifts, offering customers thousands of choices for plaques, awards, name badges and more.

Don’t delay as most items take seven to 10 days to complete. For more information, visit the RSC Engraving homepage, call 316-978-3479 or email rsc.engraving@wichita.edu.

The Barton School of Business will host alumna Erin Cummings as she begins to showcase her first published work, “The Possibility Project: A Guided Journal for Creating What’s Possible.”

The kickoff event will be from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Thursday, April 27 in Woolsey Hall. It will feature a presentation by Cummings titled “Moving With Purpose and Unlocking Possibilities” followed by a book signing opportunity for attendees along with a networking reception.

Cummings is a Barton School graduate, president of the school’s dean’s Alumni Advisory Board and owner of YESyoga.

The Teacher Workshop Program, part of the NASA Kansas Space Grant Consortium, supports the development and implementation of STEM educator workshops. NASA is especially interested in helping teachers bring NASA-relevant material and content into middle-school classrooms.

Multiple awards between $15,000 and $50,000 each are anticipated. Proposers must identify a 50 cent commitment for every NASA dollar requested (use of federal matching funds is not allowed). The majority of activity should be planned for between June 2023 and March 2024. Follow-up activities, such as reporting and program evaluations, can take place within three months following a workshop.

For more information, email nasainkansas@wichita.edu or visit the KSGC homepage.